Sam Celarek
Healthcare Data Analyst
Former Neuro ICU Nurse
Portland, Oregon
Portfolio
Eight years as a nurse, including five in neuro ICUs and four on a hospital Quality Improvement & Safety Council, two as chair. Then three years in data: I design databases, models and pipelines for healthcare questions, and I test them before anyone acts on them.
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Jul 2014 – Oct 2017 · Nursing
SSM Saint Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, MO. Charge nurse for staffing, acuity and escalations. Won a DAISY Award on the floor.
2015 – 2019 · Nursing
Member in 2015, secretary in 2016, vice chair in 2017, then chair in 2018–2019. Central line infections fell 41% (2.32 to 1.37 per 1,000 line days) and barcode scanning rose from 94.1% to 95.4%. Click a shade in the bar to see each role.
2015 · Nursing
Hospital-wide quality and patient safety work with pharmacy, physicians, infection control and Epic support.
2016 · Nursing
Second year on the QI & Safety Council, tracking the council's monthly outcome data against national patient safety goals.
2017 · Nursing
Third year on the council. The council's smart-pump guardrail work raised compliance from 70% in January 2016 to 90% by November 2017, against a 95% goal.
Nov 2017 – Jul 2019 · Nursing
Critical care for neurological patients. Won my second DAISY Award in the ICU.
2018 – 2019 · Nursing
Central line infections fell 41% (2.32 to 1.37 per 1,000 line days). Barcode scanning rose from 94.1% to 95.4%.
Oct 2019 – Aug 2022 · Nursing
Neuro critical care unit (NCCU), Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. Scheduling Committee chair; created the unit's Excel scheduling model.
2021 – present · Community
Portland Effective Altruism & Rationality. Won an EA Funds grant to grow it; now 1,166 members and community-funded.
Aug 2022 – May 2023 · Education & transition
Stepped away from the bedside to care for family.
May – Aug 2023 · Education & transition
Top of cohort (98%). Data analysis and data science projects, and the CovidCast forecasting capstone.
See education → Data analysis projects Data science projects CovidCast
Aug 2023 – present · Data
An IVF outcomes database of 3M+ cycles that compares 400+ US clinics, adjusted for the patients each one treats.
Oct 2023 – present · Data
Production SQL Server, SSIS and Python pipelines, model testing and client reporting. Contract data work since October 2026.
Featured · Cofounder & Data Analyst · 2023 – present · Portland, OR
Compares 400+ US fertility clinics on outcomes adjusted for the patients each clinic actually treats, so clinics that take harder cases aren't penalized.
Data Analyst · 2023 – present · Nerevu Group LLC, Peoria, IL (remote)
Production Python and SQL Server pipelines, financial data integration, model evaluation, dashboards and published reports. Cut lead prep from 30+ minutes to about one.
See the work →Critical Care Nurse · Oct 2019 – Aug 2022 · Portland, OR
Made treatment decisions from labs, assessments and live monitoring on a multidisciplinary NCCU team. Chaired the Scheduling Committee and created the unit's Excel scheduling model.
See nursing →Charge Nurse & QI Council Chair · Jul 2014 – Jul 2019 · St. Louis, MO
Four years on the QI & Safety Council, two as chair. Central line infections fell 41% after a house-wide rollout I led. DAISY Award winner twice, once on the step-down floor and once in the neuro ICU.
See the results →Organizer · Since 2021 · Portland, OR
Led Portland's effective altruism and rationality community since 2021: won an EA Funds grant to grow it, then moved it to community funding. 1,166 members, 547 events, a 4.6-star rating, weekly dinners and a book club.
See the community →May – Aug 2023
Top of cohort (98%).
Aug 2010 – May 2014
BSN, graduated as a Provost Scholar.
BrainStation · 2023
BrainStation · 2023
Capstone · BrainStation · 2023
Time series and epidemiological models forecasting COVID cases 14 days out.
See the capstone →“You can't actually feel the weight of the world. The human mind is not capable of that feat. But sometimes, you can catch a glimpse.”— Nate Soares, On Caring