Alix Lahuec

MedOps Worker, Open-Source Programmer

In April 2021 I joined Dialogue, where I support the daily activities of the Mental Health and EAP programs.

I was previously a member of Dr. Phyllis Zelkowitz’s research team. Our studies addressed questions of interest in perinatal and reproductive psychiatry. Projects I’ve been involved with have investigated the perinatal mental health of women, the coping mechanisms used by infertility patients, as well as the potential of mHealth apps to support access to fertility-related information.

I graduated from McGill University in Spring 2020, where I gained exposure to methods in neuroscience, psychiatry, health services research and computational models. My thesis project explored pathways to mental healthcare for Canada’s youth and discussed the potential of system-level interventions.

If you’d like to chat, feel free to buy me a (virtual) coffee or reach out !

Education

BSc. (Hons.) Neuroscience, minor in Psychology, 2020

McGill University

Interests

Healthcare Transformation
Service Interventions
Equitable Systems

Experience

I have worked for several years in healthcare and research environments, with additional experience in data science, customer service, and programming. I’m currently learning about JavaScript, Datalog and open-source systems.

Mental Health & EAP Case Manager

Dialogue

Since April 2021 Montreal, QC

Research Assistant

Lady Davis Research Institute

May 2019 – Dec 2020 Montreal, QC

Acting as technical lead on varied aspects of data pipelines, from online surveys to weekly reporting, with additional administrative responsibilities. Projects I’ve contributed to include :

The design and management of a multi-site perinatal mental health databank, collecting information to improve care and best clinical practices for women who are pregnant or have recently given birth
The evaluation of user engagement in a mHealth application providing information and peer support to infertility patients
The qualitative analysis of coping strategies reported by patients in fertility treatment

Honours Thesis Student

ACCESS Open Minds Project - Douglas University Institute for Mental Health

Sep 2019 – Apr 2020 Montreal, QC

I spent my senior year researching how young Canadians (under 25) seek care for their mental health, and evaluating the impact of the ACCESS Open Minds project on simplifying these pathways. Thesis : Exploring pathways to mental healthcare of Canadian youth : a quantitative assessment of prior service utilization among youth accessing a pan-Canadian integrated service framework.

Undergraduate Researcher

Laboratory for Natural and Simulated Cognition - McGill University

Jan 2018 – Apr 2018 Montreal, QC

Completed an interdisciplinary term project on the emergence of collective dynamics from the interactions of individuals within a group, titled Competitive signaling in collective decision-making : Emergent properties of bounded rationality in swarm intelligence. I created arithmetic and visual simulations to understand how the implementation of simple behavioral rules by individuals can give rise to complex systems with remarkable properties of social efficiency.

Projects

zoteroRoam

An extension to connect Roam to Zotero’s Web API. Available through a GitHub open-source repository, with documentation on GitBook.

Roam Snippets

Personal repository of JavaScript extensions for Roam

Pocket2Roam

A Chrome extension to export Pocket highlights into Roam format. Available through a GitHub open-source repository & directly on the Chrome WebStore.

Exploring pathways to mental healthcare of Canadian youth

A quantitative assessment of prior service utilization among youth accessing a pan-Canadian integrated service framework

Competitive signaling in collective decision-making

Emergent properties of bounded rationality in swarm intelligence

syntaxr

A simple R package to generate bulk syntax for SPSS.

Publications

Research & Academic Works

'How did you cope with such concerns ?' : Insights from a monitored online infertility peer support forum

August 2021 Human Fertility

Paul H. Grunberg , Deborah Da Costa , Cindy-Lee Dennis , Siobhan O’Connell , Alix Lahuec , Phyllis Zelkowitz

10.1080/14647273.2021.1959952

Creating a Multisite Perinatal Psychiatry Databank : Purpose and Development

December 2020 Int J Environ Res Public Health

Wid Kattan , Laura Avigan , Barbara Hayton , Jennifer L. Barkin , Martin St-André , Tuong-Vi Nguyen , Hannah Schwartz , Marie-Josée Poulin , Irena Stikarovska , Rahel Wolde-Giorghis , Maria Arafah , Phyllis Zelkowitz

10.3390/ijerph17249352

Let’s Talk

If you have feedback or thoughts on my work, I’d love to hear it. If you have an idea you’d like to work together on, I’d love to discuss it. Collaborations and brainstorming requests are very welcome !