Jacob Barhak is an independent researcher/developer specializes in chronic disease modeling with emphasis on using Computational Technological solutions. The Reference Model for disease progression was self developed by Dr. Barhak as a freelancer. He is the developer of the Micro Simulation Tool (MIST). Dr. Barhak has diverse international background in engineering and computing science. Dr. Barhak is an advocate of non-blind public scientific review. He is active within the python community and runs the Austin Evening of Python Coding meetup.

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