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Using Big Data to Predict Health Problems Before They Start | Lincoln Sheets | TEDxMU

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Lincoln Sheets' research focuses on combining evidence-based medicine with information technology and business strategy, to improve health outcomes in underserved rural and minority communities of the United States and around the world. 

Lincoln Sheets is a physician and medical researcher, currently completing a doctorate in clinical informatics at the University of Missouri. His research focuses on combining evidence-based medicine with information technology and business strategy, to improve health outcomes in underserved rural and minority communities of the United States and around the world. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees and 20 years of experience in software engineering before medical school, and has volunteered in public advocacy and legislative lobbying locally and nationally. As a medical student, he organized medical missions in Africa and Latin America, and helped found a student-run free clinic in Columbia, Missouri. His free-time interests include the Romance languages, triathlon, mountaineering, cinema, and spending time with grandkids and family in his hometown of Springfield, Missouri.

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