David Spatholt

Strategic Operations & Data
Team Management

// directing research operations · building systems · leading teams

13+
Years in program management & operations
6+
Years in clinical research
10+
Roles across govt, academic & clinical research
3
Peer-reviewed articles

Research Operations & Tool Building

Strategic Operations & Data

Directing budgeting, grant management, data systems, and team leadership for NIH-funded emergency medicine research at Ohio State. The operational backbone of a multi-million-dollar research program.

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What I'm Building

2025–2026

HealthNow Opportunity Radar

Automated grant and funding opportunity monitoring with LLM enrichment. Scrapes sources, enriches with AI, presents on a live dashboard. Cron-scheduled with email delivery.

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2025–2026

HN Scheduler 2026

Nurse scheduling system with OR-Tools CP-SAT optimization, MS Shifts Excel round-trip, and interactive Colab UI with ipywidgets. Shift coverage enforcement and ML integration hooks.

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2025–2026

Sectograph Pebble Watchface

Calendar visualization watchface for Pebble smartwatches (PbT2). Phone-side ICS parsing via PebbleKit JS + AppMessage. Supports 5 hardware platforms.

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2026

RDD Orchestration

AI-powered orchestration of research data documentation — automating metadata extraction, study documentation, and data management workflows.

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Deep Research

Research areas, publications, grants, and ongoing projects in opioid decision-making, trauma recovery, SUD prevention, and health equity.

Professional Experience

Career timeline, roles at Ohio State, education, certifications, and links to my LinkedIn and resume.

Blog

Notes, deep dives, and things I'm thinking about — research methods, tool building, and lessons learned.

About Me

Who I am, my background, what drives my work at the intersection of health services research and software development.

HealthNow Radar

Automated grant opportunity monitoring system. GitHub

Hermes Agent

AI agent framework powering much of my automation. Docs · Config