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Physician Scientist | Medical Writer | Clinical Research & Machine Learning in Healthcare | Manuscript Editing

Profile Summary

I am a physician and clinical researcher with expertise in medical writing, scientific editing, and health data analytics. I hold an MD and an MSc in Health Data Analytics and Machine Learning from Imperial College London, and I am currently a Pediatrics Resident Physician at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. My work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine, data science, and scientific communication. I have authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in journals including Nature Communications, npj Digital Medicine, and BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, and have served as an editorial fellow at BMJ Innovations. In addition to clinical practice, I work as a data scientist and honorary research fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, where I develop machine learning tools for pediatric clinical decision support and electronic health record data analysis. My goal is to help researchers, clinicians, and healthcare organizations with: • Scientific manuscript editing and journal submission preparation
• Medical and scientific writing
• Literature reviews and systematic evidence summaries
• Clinical research design and methodology
• Machine learning and health data analytics
• Healthcare AI consulting and clinical validation I combine clinical expertise with data science and editorial experience to deliver rigorous, publication-ready scientific work.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Data Analysis
• ★ Pediatric Medicine
• ★ Medical Sciences
• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ SQL
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ R
• ☆ Primary Care/Family Medicine
• ☆ Human Biology
• ☆ Learning Disabilities
• ☆ Dyslexia
• ☆ E-Health & Telemedicine
• ☆ Perinatology
• ☆ Medical Terminology
• ☆ Neonatal Medicine

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Medical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Healthcare Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Cleaning

Work Experience

Resident Physician

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

June 2023 - Present

Biomedical Data Scientist

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

December 2022 - May 2023

Editorial fellow

BMJ Innovations

January 2022 - May 2023

Education

Masters of Science

Imperial College London

September 2021 - September 2022

Medical Degree (MD)

American University of Beirut

August 2017 - June 2021

Bachelors in Science (Biochemistry)

Boston College

August 2014 - May 2017

Certifications

• Basic Life Support Certification

  AHA

  December 2025 - December 2026

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Shivangi Ganeshan, Kimberley R. Zakka, Arash R. Zandieh, Manuel B. Torres, Lewis P. Rubin (2026). Navigating the Twist: An Atypical Presentation of Malrotation . American Journal of Perinatology Reports.

Jingteng Li, Kimberley R. Zakka, John Booth, Louise Rigny, Samiran Ray, Mario Cortina-Borja, Payam Barnaghi, Neil Sebire (2025). Discovering patient groups in sequential electronic healthcare data using unsupervised representation learning . BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

Kimberley Zakka, Alexander Capstick, Francesca Palermo, Nan Fletcher-Lloyd, Chloe Walsh, Tianyu Cui, Samaneh Kouchaki, Raphaella Jackson, Martin Tran, Michael Crone, et al. (2024). Digital remote monitoring for screening and early detection of urinary tract infections . npj Digital Medicine.

Kimberley Zakka, Lina Reslan, Nischay Mishra, Marc Finianos, Amanda Azakir, Cheng Guo, Riddhi Thakka, Ghassan Dbaibo, W. Ian Lipkin, Hassan Zaraket(2021). The origins of G12P[6] rotavirus strains detected in Lebanon . Journal of General Virology. 102. (3). Microbiology Society

(2021). SARS-CoV-2 and Obesity: "CoVesity"-a Pandemic Within a Pandemic . Obesity surgery.

(2020). Electrocautery, Diathermy, and Surgical Energy Devices: Are Surgical Teams at Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic? . Annals of surgery.

BOOK CHAPTER

Kimberley Zakka (2023). Kaposi Sarcoma . Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide.

ONLINE RESOURCE

(2021). Cutaneous presentations of breast cancer . VisualDx.

(2021). Acne Fulminans . VisualDx.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACT

(2020). IBD in Lebanon: An Observational Descriptive Study . The American Journal of Gastroenterology.