Geer Ma Profile Picture

Geer Ma

MEng, BSc

Positions

Software Developer

Cumming School of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development

Full Stack Software Developer

Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Contact information

Web presence

Research

Areas of Research

Software Development
  • Onavii - Engineering a cross-platform mobile application for Android and iOS that serves as a personalized companion for patients with rare conditions, simplifying access to specialized medical information and features an LLM chatbot that pulls context from a curated healthcare knowledge base. Built using React Native, TypeScript, Python, LangChain, MongoDB, and AWS.
  • Don't Misuse my Blood: Reducing avoidable transfusions in patients admitted to Critical Care and High-Risk Surgical Units in Alberta - Spearheading the development of a Python data pipeline to automate dynamic HTML report generation from 2 million rows of healthcare data, saving 40 hours/month and $1M / year for the provincial healthcare system (AHS) by reducing non-essential blood transfusions 
  • Let's Talk Cholesterol - Development of a cardiovascular disease risk calculator web application using React.js that was integrated into provincial lipid lab reports and is visited by 1,000 users/month; based on the Framingham Risk Score (FRS)
  • e-Learning Platform - Enhancing the user experience of an e-learning platform with 25,000+ users by developing new JavaScript web interfaces, facilitating a database migration process, and integrating 3rd-party payment providers via Shopify and webhooks

Projects

Don't Misuse my Blood: Reducing avoidable transfusions in patients admitted to Critical Care and High-Risk Surgical Units in Alberta

Appropriate Prescribing of Sedating Medications to Seniors

Let's Talk Cholesterol - Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator