BRAIN
MODULATION
LAB
MASS GENERAL
NEUROSURGERY

​JUNE 2023

• June 2023: Hezekiah joins the Brain Modulation Lab (BML) 

• June 2023: Creates data strategy for lab and begins building technology stack 

• June 2023: Launches Jira workspace for data management and project tracking 

• June 2023: Begins management of data governance and documentation for NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy

• June 2023: Launches Data Needs survey to build a backlog of all lab data needs 

• June 2023: Presents dashboarding vision with Tableau and Dash at BML Lab Meeting 

• June 2023: Ongoing restoration of BML Turbo in collaboration with neurosurgical resident Dr. Nathan Sisterson 

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JULY 2023

• July 2023: Tasked with scrubbing into operating room (OR) to build ongoing expertise of surgical procedures and protocols

• July 2023: Conducts discovery phase of functional neurosurgery data ecosystem 

• July 2023: Early prototypes of Airflow clinical data pipelines and data streaming in Apache Flink 

• July 2023: Creates PAS group and provisions access to Radiology Imaging and Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR) 

• July 2023: Start of pediatric epilepsy racial disparity project with neurosurgery 

• July 2023: Develops latent variable modeling approach to clinical neurosurgical data 

• July 2023: Attends the ROH Young Investigators Meeting at MIT

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AUGUST 2023

• August 2023: Launches automated review process for faster access to lab data and computational resources 

• August 2023: Tasked with clinical oversight of epilepsy intake and movement disorder cases 

• August 2023: Enables high-performance computing (HPC) for lab with ERIS collaboration 

• August 2023: Overseeing BML Turbo Taskforce dedicated to restoring outages on BML Turbo

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SEPTEMBER 2023

• September 2023: Adds new standard operating procedures (SOPs) for data management and introduction to HPC 

• September 2023: Deploys new pipelines for cluster health tracking and identity access management (IAM)

• September 2023: Presents review of CEBRA AI model at Kanwisher Lab meeting 

• September 2023: Appointed as lead on pediatric epilepsy disparity project by Dr. Mark Richardson 

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OCTOBER 2023

• October 2023: Leads BML collaboration with DABI USC for publication of human intracranial data

• October 2023: Configures private lab group on ERIS with data mapping and centralized storage for HPC

• October 2023: Creates data pipeline from REDCap API to internal patient-specific databases 

• October 2023: Hezekiah gives virtual talk with University College London (UCL) Medical students

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NOVEMBER 2023

• November 2023: Validation of latent variable modeling with pediatric epilepsy cohort 

• November 2023: Launches the Data Warehouse Taskforce for project management 

• November 2023: Finalizes cost optimization and strategy for migration to AWS

• November 2023: Implements new security protocols on all lab servers for data integrity

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DECEMBER 2023

• December 2023: Deploys new policies and pipelines for intracranial data sharing with MIT 

• December 2023: Begins pilot of automated data backups and derivatives to AWS 

• December 2023: Launch of quarterly project tracking with Qualtrics Reporting under direction of Dr. Mark Richardson 

• December 2023: Completed rebuild of remote Linux server for development of MMVT 

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JANUARY 2024

• January 2024: Creates InBRAIN Vision data repository for Kanwisher Lab on DABI containing human intracranial data

• January 2024: Begins cognitive neuroscience training at MIT through funding from Kanwisher Lab 

• January 2024: Start of intracranial category selectivity project with Kanwisher Lab 

• January 2024: Renews Epic certification, completes MGB training in interventional neurology and statistical genomics 

• January 2024: Attends the iEEG Data Blitz hosted by Mass General Neurosurgery

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FEBRUARY 2024

• February 2024: Major milestone in transforming lab data into BIDS format 

• February 2024: Begins design of MGH-MIT graduate intracranial seminar with MIT and HMS faculty 

• February 2024: Coordinates regular uploads to MGH and MIT data sharing repos on DABI

• February 2024: Populates private NoSQL databases for all patients enrolled in active research studies

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MARCH 2024

• March 2024: Conducts periodic code and documentation review with follow-up facilitated by Dr. Mark Richardson

• March 2024: Expansion of pediatric epilepsy cohort for neurosurgical disparity project 

• March 2024: Presents preliminary research findings from initial pediatric epilepsy cohort 

• March 2024: Deploys real-time data pipelines of clinical patient data from Epic for dashboarding

• March 2024: Presents functional prototypes of real-time clinical neurosurgical dashboards in Tableau

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APRIL 2024

• April 2024: Pilots new data pipelines for measuring post-op neurosurgical outcomes in DBS patients

• April 2024: Leads migration of on-prem setup to AWS On Demand for scaling clinical infrastructure 

• April 2024: Acquires Azure OpenAI Studio to integrate generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT) with precision medicine

• April 2024: Brainstorming session for MGH-MIT graduate intracranial seminar course 

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Future highlights will be posted below!