Diego Gil

health data insights @ USZ

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

About

I work as a Health Data Scientist & Project Manager at University Hospital Zurich, where I help turn clinical, microbiology and hospital process data into operational data products for infection prevention and control. My work sits at the interface between clinicians, infection prevention experts, laboratory informatics, IT/data engineering and hospital data platforms. I design and coordinate data pipelines, dashboards, reports and curated datasets that support surveillance of hospital-acquired infections such as HAP, CAUTI, CLABSI and SSI, as well as microbiology and antimicrobial stewardship use cases. A key part of my role is translating clinical surveillance requirements into robust, maintainable and quality-controlled data products: clarifying definitions, mapping source data, documenting assumptions, coordinating validation workflows and aligning technical implementation with clinical needs. This includes hospital-wide Power BI dashboards, recurrent data deliveries, longitudinal surveillance datasets and semi-automated review processes. In parallel, I work on applied AI and NLP use cases in clinical settings, especially the extraction of structured information from unstructured clinical text for retrospective analyses, semi-automated case review and future decision-support systems in infection prevention. I am currently pursuing an MSc in Data Science at Bern University of Applied Sciences, with a focus on data engineering, machine learning and health informatics. My goal is to build clinically meaningful data products that are not only technically robust, but also usable, governable and aligned with real hospital workflows.

Experience

  • Health Data Scientist & Project Manager | Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene at Universitätsspital Zürich
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Health data science and project management for infection prevention and control at University Hospital Zurich. Responsible for designing, coordinating and maintaining clinical data products, surveillance pipelines and analytics solutions for hospital-acquired infection surveillance, microbiology monitoring and antimicrobial stewardship. Coordinating a small data team and align operational data deliveries with longer-term automation, analytics and clinical data product development.

  • Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft BLW (Köniz, Berne, Switzerland)
    • Product Owner - DigiAgriFoodCH
      Mar 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr

    • Data Analyst (Hochschulpraktikant) - Fachbereich Agrarinformationssysteme
      Jun 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr

  • IT System Administrator / Support Specialist at Kunsthaus Zürich
    Sep 2021 - May 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • IT System Administrator / Support Specialist at Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
    Apr 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Ecommerce Business at Ecoreciclos
    Apr 2016 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Import and resale of reusable coffee capsules for the Brazil market.