# Scott McGrath (@smcgrath.phd)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/smcgrath.phd
Headline: Academic Program Management Officer at University of California, Berkeley
Location: Missoula, Montana, United States

## Experience

- **Graduate Student at University of Nebraska at Omaha** (2011 – 2013)
  Masters in Biomedical Informatics: Bioinformatics Dec. 2013
- **Academic Program Management Officer at University of California, Berkeley** (2021 – present)
  Program Manager for CITRIS ACTIVATE telehealth and remote health monitoring project.
- **Adjunct Professor at Ohio University Healthcare Continuing Education** (2017 – present)
  Clinical Informatics Intensive Continuing Education Workshop
  \- Course development and instruction for health professionals (nurses, physicians, and pharmacists)
- **Clinical Informatics Education Specialist at Providence Health & Services** (2020 – 2021)
- **Global Messaging Opperations Intern at Interpublic Group (IPG)** (2011 – 2014)
  Helped manage Cisco IronPort, Blackberry Enterprise,and Microsoft Exchange Servers for over 43,000 global employees as a member of the messaging team.
- **Adjunct Professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha** (2014 – 2021)
  Public Health Informatics course development and teaching
- **Sr. Process Technician at Intel** (2000 – 2003)
  P860 HDP thin films.
- **R&D Tech at Cree** (2005 – 2009)

## Education

- **University of Nebraska at Omaha** — Master of Science (M.S.) (2011 – 2013)
- **Nottingham Trent University** (1997 – 1998)
- **Bozeman High School** (1992 – 1996)
- **University of Nebraska at Omaha** — Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (2013 – 2019)

## Skills

- Data Science
- Java
- Python
- Research
- Perl
- R
- Health Informatics
- Public Health Informatics
- Data Analysis
- Precision Medicine
- Data Mining
- SPSS
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- JMP
- Troubleshooting
- Tableau
- Teaching
- Public Speaking

## Certifications

- R Programming — The Johns Hopkins University (https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/2PBSPXJSQE8Y)
- More Data Mining with Weka — The University of Waikato
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt Specialization — Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/specialization/QZXPPF9LE7AV)
- Six Sigma Green Belt Specialization — Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/specialization/5VC25ARA47KJ)
- Epic Credentialed Trainer - Inpatient Provider — Providence Health & Services
- Epic Credentialed Trainer - ClinDoc — Providence Health & Services

## Projects

- **Interpretation of Direct-to-Consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) results and genetic self-efficacy by medical professionals** — https://public.tableau.com/profile/scott.mcgrath2257#!/
  Purpose: Precision medicine is set to deliver a rich new data set of genomic information. However, the number of certified specialists in the United States is small, with only 4,244 genetic counselors and 1,302 clinical geneticists. We conducted a national survey of 264 medical professionals to evaluate how they interpret genetic test results, determine their confidence and self-efficacy of interpreting genetic test results with patients, and capture their opinions and experiences with direct-to- consumer genetic tests (DTC-GT). Methods: Participants were grouped into two categories, genetic specialists (genetic counselors and clinical geneticists) and medical providers (primary care, internists, physicians assistants, advanced nurse practitioners, etc.). The survey presented three genetic test report scenarios for interpretation. Results: The rates of correctly interpreting results were relatively high (74.4% for the providers compared to the specialist’s 83.4%) and age, prior genetic test consultation experience, and level of trust assigned to the reports were associated with higher correct interpretation rates. The self-selected efficacy and the level of preparedness to consult on a patient’s genetic results were higher for the specialists than the provider group. Conclusion: Specialists remain the best group to assist patients with DTC-GT, however, primary care providers may still provide accurate interpretation of test results when specialists are unavailable.

## Publications

- AI-PACE: a framework for integrating AI into medical education — npj Digital Medicine (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-026-02768-2)
- Innovation at the Intersection of Health, Climate, Food, and AI: Insights from a Collaborative Workshop (https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251336)
- Improving Hypertension and Diabetes Outcomes with Digital Care Coordination and Remote Monitoring in Rural Health (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19378)
- A comparative evaluation of ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 in responses to selected genetics questions — Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocae128)
- Predictions, Pivots, and a Pandemic: a Review of 2020's Top Translational Bioinformatics Publications — Yearbook of Medical Informatics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726540)
- Current Approaches and Trends in Graduate Public Health Informatics Education in the United States: Four Case Studies from the Field — OJPHI (https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/10703/9572)
- Educating patients on genomic results: a scoping review (Preprint) (https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.13799)
- Improving the Odds of Success for Precision Medicine Using the Social Ecological Model — AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium (http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85083755320&partnerID=MN8TOARS)
- Are providers prepared for genomic medicine: Interpretation of Direct-to-Consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) results and genetic self-efficacy by medical professionals — BMC Health Services Research (http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85075507758&partnerID=MN8TOARS)
- The Influence of ‘Omics’ in Shaping Precision Medicine — EMJ Innovations (http://emjreviews.com/therapeutic-area/innovations/the-influence-of-omics-in-shaping-precision-medicine/)
- Developing a concussion assessment mHealth app for certified Athletic Trainers. — AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5977696/)
- Building towards precision medicine: empowering medical professionals for the next revolution — BMC Medical Genomics (https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12920-016-0183-8)
- Precision medicine: how to get the hope without the hype — BMC Series Blog (http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2016/05/19/precision-medicine-get-hope-without-hype/)
- Comprehension and Data-Sharing Behavior of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Test Customers — Public Health Genomics (http://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/444477)
- DTC genetic testing and consumer comprehension — ACM-BCB (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2660559)
- Concept to Commit: A Pattern Designed to Trace Code Changes from User Requests to Change Implementation by Analyzing Mailing Lists and Code Repositories — IEEE Press (http://qnap1030.avt.com/icsews13dapse/p6-mcgrath.pdf)
- A Comparison of Computational Approaches in the Molecular Identification of Pathogenic Organisms — IEEE Press

## Honors and awards

- PKI Capstone and Research Fair
- PKI Capstone and Research Fair
- PKI Capstone and Research Fair
- UNO CSCI Graduate Research Fair 2013
- PKI Capstone and Research Fair 2013
- NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellow
- UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair 2011

## Languages

- English (native)

## Other profiles

- orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0065-726X
- website: https://smcgrath.phd