Nathan Madlansacay

In this psychiatry role, I supported clinical and administrative operations with a strong focus on scheduling efficiency and patient access to care. I worked closely with appointment systems to manage provider calendars, monitor scheduling density, and reduce bottlenecks that could delay treatment. Through this work, I saw firsthand how overly dense schedules can limit meaningful patient-provider interaction, increase clinician fatigue, and negatively impact continuity of care, while underutilized schedules can reduce access for patients in need. By analyzing appointment patterns, no-show rates, and visit durations, I helped identify opportunities to better balance workload and ensure patients received timely, effective psychiatric treatment. This experience strengthened my understanding of how operational decisions directly influence clinical outcomes in mental health settings.

A technician that managed wood-shop tools, welding equipment, 3D printers, and many other industrial tools. Certified using these tools, I would often teach upcoming Freshman how to operate these tools.

Through an inter‐college collaboration, the Computer Science and Statistics departments offer a cross‐disciplinary minor in Data Science — a rapidly evolving discipline that uses elements of statistics and computer science to gather, organize, summarize, and communicate information from a variety of data sources and data types. Job opportunities for data scientists are growing as the availability of data becomes ever abundant via the internet, consumer transactions, sensor arrays, medical records, embedded biometrics, bionformatics, etc.