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Nada Hammouda, MB ChB, MSCR is a PhD candidate in Applied Clinical Research at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW). Nada completed her medical degree from Alexandria Univesity Faculty of Medicine in 2010, followed by 4 years of post-graduate training in epidemiology and public health from the High Institute of Public Health. After moving to the United States, she completed her master’s in clinical research at Mount Sinai hospital, New York in 2019. While working on her master's thesis in geriatric emergency medicine, Nada trained in Markov-based decision-analysis which would eventually set the stage for her PhD dissertation work at UTSW, where Nada has proposed a new clinical research method by leveraging the perpetual heterogeneity of critically ill patients. Currently, she is training as a research methodologist and critical care trialist, with a focus on trial design, simulations and applied decision theory. For her dissertation project, Nada is leveraging patient and disease heterogeneity characteristics to optimize timing of continuous renal replacement therapy, which is currently a hotly debated topic in critical care medicine. In addition to her dissertation work, Nada joins multiple trial investigator meetings to learn first-hand what goes into designing, initiating, and successfully troubleshooting clinical trials in critical care medicine. Finally, Nada is also designing her own clinical trials for future grant ideas with critical care groups interested in novel research methods and their application in various critical care topics such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and pediatric critical care. As with her previous training, Nada keeps up to date with the latest advancements in data science and has spent the past 6 months learning multiple programming languages like Python and R, in addition to her SAS knowledge. She is also exploring advanced statistical topics like Bayesian analysis and Heterogenous Treatment Effects (HTE) analysis.