Our Team

Fiona Whelan

Senior Statistician

Email:fwhelan@mednet.ucla.edu

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Fiona Whelan, M.S., is a Senior Administrator and Statistician for the Semel Institute Statistics Core (SIStat) in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Ms. Whelan has over 25 years of experience managing database design, build, and implementation for NIH-, VA, FDA-, and university-funded projects, including data cleaning and harmonization across multiple complex sources. She performs data analysis and write-up, prepares reports for Data and Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs), and handles ClinicalTrials.gov submissions. She also contributes to journal articles, presentations, manuscripts, and grant proposals. In addition, she oversees the administrative and financial operations of the Core, drawing on a long history of managing grant submissions and human subjects protocol approvals.