David Spatholt

Emergency Medicine Research
& Software Development

// health services research · operations · LLM-powered tools

6+
NIH-funded studies
6+
Years in health services research
130K+
ED patients served annually
20+
Projects & apps built

Research Operations & Tool Building

Health Services Research

Strategic operations and data management for NIH-funded research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Ohio State. Supporting studies on pain, addiction, trauma recovery, and health equity.

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PH2S & HealthNow

Running research operations for the Population Health & Health Services program and HealthNow clinical program — ED-based screening, prevention, and linkage-to-care serving 130,000+ patients annually.

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Dashboards & Automation

Building real-time monitoring dashboards, automated grant radars, and LLM-enhanced data pipelines. HealthNow Opportunity Radar and HN Scheduler 2026 are live projects.

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LLM-Built Mini Apps

A growing collection of single-page HTML tools and toys built with Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs. Create a folder, drop in HTML, push — the gallery updates itself.

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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