Alexandru-Dan Corlan, MD, PhD

Research interests

Apparent discordances in the results of separate clinical studies might be clarified with unifying stochastic models of broader populations. I am developing such models and validation methodology, with current applications in electrocardiography and malignant arrhythmia prediction as well as in pharmacodynamics, particularly that of coumarinic derivatives.

I have a related interest in high performance computing and programming in R, Ada and CommonLisp.

I have a wish, for a recent Linux distribution, perhaps Debian 7/Ubuntu 14.04, to be supported forever.

I am also concerned with the enculturation of science and the dynamics of paradigm adoption along generations and across cultures.

Formal publications

Projects

• Corlpack R-like data structures in Ada, as well as assorted I/O, EXTUUID and numerics functions; also a related project using the IEEE-754 NaN objects.
• Stochastic calculator for the glomerular filtration rate and the probability of renal failure given serum creatinine, using the CKD-EPI formula.
• More information on clinical models in general
• GRIXEC minimalistic middleware for running and documenting simple batch jobs on a network of friendly computers.
• Danotation strightforward language for handmaintained datasets such as logs.
• Warfarissimo an online simulator for the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of oral anticoagulants, such as Warfarin or Acenocoumarol.
• Ada binding for the netcdf library.
• Niliada: a native Ada-95 library of lisp-like objects with a runtime garbage collector.
• Quick benchmark of some popular programming languages and their Linux implementations (Fortran, C, Ada, Java, Common-Lisp, Perl, Python, Ruby, R).
• Medline trend find out how frequently a phrase was used, over the years, in the medical literature, Some example results.
• Common Lisp interface to Unix shells (and in particular to bash)
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