Welcome! Arcus is an initiative of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Research Institute that links clinical and research data to accelerate science. Arcus Education provides training and guidance to empower the entire CHOP community.
Arcus Education educates learners across multiple contexts:
- Training for Arcus customers using Arcus Labs environment
- Open workshops and resources for data science community at CHOP
- Specialized trainings and consultations for specific groups/labs/trainee programs
- Individual learner consultations (as team bandwidth allows)
Contact Arcus Education
If you’d like to explore how we may assist you/your group, feel free to email the Arcus Data Education team to learn more or set up a consultation. (We also recommend you take some time with the Quick Start Guide to Data Science)
Core Arcus Education Team
Joy Payton
Supervisor of Data Education. Joy joined the Arcus team at DBHi in late 2017. A longtime IT generalist, Joy has coded websites, communications protocols, operating systems, analytics pipelines, and more. Before joining DBHi, she worked at the Center for Autism Research (CAR), a research center at CHOP, where she provided data science and digital project management services and led a team of data analysts. Alongside her career as a developer, Joy has always been an educator, from teaching children how to write their first line of code to speaking at conferences and creating curricula for PhD level researchers. She holds a degree in philosophy and mathematics from Agnes Scott College, a divinity degree from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (Madrid), and a Data Science MS from City University of New York (CUNY).
Elizabeth Drellich
Elizabeth joined DBHi as a Data Instructional Specialist with the Arcus Education team in 2022. Prior to joining the team, Elizabeth was a visiting professor at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges where she taught mathematics, statistics, and computer science courses. She has worked as a researcher in both theoretical mathematics and biomathematics, and was part of team modeling RNA folding. She is passionate about helping learners of all backgrounds to understand complicated mathematical ideas and apply them to active research. Elizabeth holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and International Affairs, and earned her PhD in Mathematics from UMass Amherst in 2015.
Rose Franzen
Rose joined DBHi as a Data Instructional Specialist with the Arcus Education group in 2021. Prior to joining DBHi, she worked in CHOP’s Lurie Family Foundations MEG Imaging Center as a research assistant, where she spearheaded efforts to improve the lab’s data management processes and increase the reproducibility of their analyses. She brings with her a variety of instructional experience, from providing a socioemotional and life skills curriculum to autistic teenagers, to providing one-on-one tutoring in mathematics and statistics. She is passionate about the utility of data science skills for streamlining the workflows of researchers and research staff at all levels. Rose holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Hollins University.
Rose Hartman
Rose joined DBHi as a Data Instructional Specialist with the Arcus Education group in 2021. With nearly a decade of experience in applied data analysis and statistics pedagogy, she is excited to bring her skills to the team at CHOP. Rose worked as a researcher herself in the social sciences, graduating with a PhD in Developmental Psychology in 2016. While in graduate school, she taught a range of statistics and research methods classes, helped form and lead the University of Oregon’s R Club, and was eventually hired onto a team of statistical consultants on campus — a role she transitioned into her own consulting company after graduation. Since then, she’s been looking for ways to apply her analysis and teaching skills in the non-profit sector. Supporting researchers at a strong, mission-driven organization like CHOP is her dream job.
Meredith Lee
Meredith joined the Education team as a Data Instructional Specialist in 2020. She has many years of experience at the bench as a research technician with Mike Robinson’s lab here at CHOP. She is passionate about the intersection of science and technology, and brings researcher expertise to the Arcus Education group, allowing for an important perspective as Arcus further develops its Data Instructional platform. Meredith holds a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.
Arcus and DBHi Experts
Ene Belleh
Supervisor of Library Science. Ene Belleh joined the Arcus team at DBHI in early 2022. Before joining CHOP, she was the Clinical Information Librarian at Penn Medicine – Pennsylvania Hospital, a University of Pennsylvania Health System division, where she managed all aspects of the medical library functions. She also spent ten years at Christiana Hospital as a Medic Librarian, providing evidence-based reference and instruction. Ene is a published author and participates in national and regional professional development conferences. She served as curator for the ‘Spotlight on Scholars’ project that recognizes published authors for an institution. In addition, she mentored middle school students for the ‘What in the world Program’ in the Delaware area. Ene holds a Bachelor of Art (Mass Communications), a Master of Library Science (Library and Information Studies), a Master of Business Administration, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy in General Psychology with an emphasis in industrial organization.
Pete EF Camacho
Pete Joined CHOP’s DBHi in late 2018 as a Senior Analyst and ETL Programmer. Pete came from athenahealth (a start-up cloud based EMR system) where he developed code for the various state and regulatory reports that the clinic and hospital systems on the EMR were required to submit. Pete received his Master’s of Science in Mathematics from the University of Connecticut with a concentration in Actuarial Science. In his current role within DBHi he advises CHOP PIs and their research teams, working with them to flesh out their exact study questions and determining the best way to “pull” that information from CHOP’s various database archives. Pete uses his experience with Database and ETL work to create and present educational material related to these topics.
Marianne Chilutti
Marianne joined DBHi’s data reporting and management group as its manager in 2011 after serving in a clinical research data management leadership role at Sanofi-Aventis for 18 years. Marianne serves as the advocate for user-managed data management via DBHi’s implementation of the REDCap program and is responsible for both its daily operation and long-term strategic development. She leads efforts to incorporate other data sources into clinical research such as electronic health records. Marianne also helps to manage clinical data reporting for those researchers seeking access to patient record and aggregate data within CHOP’s electronic health record under the governance of IRB-approved protocols. She holds a master’s degree in medical engineering and instrumentation from University of Paris-Est Creteil.
Colleen Gaynor
Colleen joined the Arcus team as the Research User Experience Specialist in 2021. Prior to working with the Arcus team, she worked in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics as the Outreach Specialist for nearly a decade. In her role as Outreach Specialist she specialized in graphic design, communications, as well as event coordination. She was able to translate her experience developing communications and design for an audience of research scientists and clinicians into developing design concepts for Arcus with the same audience/user group in mind. Colleen has her B.S. in Biology from West Chester University and her Certification in Digital Media from Moore College of Art and Design.
Jeff Miller
Jeff joined DBHi in 2010 as a senior analyst and programmer. In his tenure with DBHi, he has worked on numerous clinical decision support applications and developed Proband, an iPad application for creating family history pedigrees for use by genetic counselors and clinicians. Jeff holds a bachelor’s in computer science and a master’s degree in applied statistics from Penn State University.
Jeff Pennington
Jeff joined CBMi (now DBHi) in 2007, serving as DBHi’s senior director of translational informatics, and leads a team of data integration analysts, programmers, and technology developers. Under his leadership, Jeff’s team develops solutions for laboratory and clinical trial management, mobile health, data capture and management, and multicenter data repositories. Prior to joining DBHi, he spent seven years at Gene Logic Inc. as a senior software engineer where he developed clinical and genomic data management and analysis software used by drug discovery and toxicology researchers at the world’s largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Jeff holds a bachelor’s in biology from Trinity College.
Dianna Reuter
Dianna Reuter started working with DBHi in late 2017 as a Research Data Security Analyst. Prior to CHOP, Dianna gained in-depth experience designing data security protocols and overseeing their implementation as the Executive Director of the Military Assistance Project, a legal services organization that served 12 states. Her primary role in DBHi involves designing and implementing procedures that protect the privacy of research participants and CHOP patients whose data will be stored in research databases. She also helps ensure compliance with applicable federal, state and local regulations and guidance documents pertaining to data-intensive research. Dianna holds her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers Law School and BA in History from James Madison University.
William Struebing
Will joined DBHi in the Fall of 2016 as a DevOps Engineer and was promoted to Supervisor of Scientific Computing in 2018. He came to DBHi from Ellucian, a higher education software company based out of Malvern, PA where he worked as a DevOps Engineer. Will’s role will help headline DBHi’s DevOps efforts, where he will be driving best practices, automation and enabling our cloud-first development efforts. Will graduated from Penn State, where he studied Information Sciences and Technology.