Dr. Nivedita Nadkarni

Education

• BSc, Statistics,Fergusson College, University of Pune, India (2000)
• MSc, Statistics, University of Pune, India (2002)
• PhD, Statistics with a minor in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States (2007)

Profile

Nivedita has been a practising statistician for over twenty years. She is currently a visiting statistical expert at the Department of Research, Singhealth Polyclinics, Singapore. She is involved in guiding and mentoring junior statisticians in their projects. Additionally, she conducts workshops on basic biostatistics for physicians and advanced statistical methodology ones for statisticians. She also regularly does consultation for industry based contract research organizations.

She was faculty at the Center for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore for six years prior to her current engagement. Her work there involved collaborative research with clinicians and health economists, mentoring medical students and doctors, and teaching Statistics from a medical and public health perspective. She was responsible for co-developing the curriculum for workshops for the Singhealth residency program that is mandatory for all resident doctors who work within the governmental healthcare system in Singapore.

Research Interests

• Biostatistics
• Health economics
• Public policy
• Econometrics

Publications

• Wong TH, Tan TXZ, Loo LM, Chua WC, Iau PTC, Ang ASH, Goo JTT, Chan KC, Nguyen HV, Nadkarni NV, Matchar DB, Seow DCC, Ng YS, Chan A, Fook-Chong S, Tang TY, Ong MEH, Malhotra R. Negative and positive experiences of caregiving among family caregivers of older blunt trauma patients. PLoS One. 2022 Oct 10;17(10):e0275169.
• Hu PL, Tan CY, Nguyen NHL, Wu RR, Bahadin J, Nadkarni NV, Tan NC. Integrated care teams in primary care improve clinical outcomes and care processes in patients with non-communicable diseases. Singapore Med J. 2023 Jul;64(7):423-429.
• Wong TH, Tan TXZ, Malhotra R, Nadkarni NV, Chua WC, Loo LM, Iau PTC, Ang ASH, Goo JTT, Chan KC, Matchar DB, Seow DCC, Nguyen HV, Ng YS, Chan A, Fook-Chong S, Tang TY, Ong MEH. Health Services Use and Functional Recovery Following Blunt Trauma in Older Persons – A National Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2022 Apr;23(4):646-653.e1.
• Lee JJ, Nadkarni NV, Teo I, Ozdemir S. The Effect of Social Norm-based Intervention with Observable Behaviour on Physical Activity among Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil. 2020 Aug 31;12:52.
• Soenjoyo KR, Nadkarni N, Koh MS. Comparison of exacerbation phenotypes among patients with severe asthma. Allergy Asthma Proc. 2020 Jul 1;41(4):e67-e79.