Dr. Lakshika Tennakoon is a Clinical Epidemiologist in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University. Her work focuses on improving trauma systems and outcomes for injured patients. Her research spans epidemiology, injury prevention, biostatistics, bioinformatics, health services research, and machine learning. She contributed as a Psychiatry domain expert to the NIH National Database for Autism Research and received the Senior Scientist Award from the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. Dr. Tennakoon has extensive international experience, having worked at King’s College London and the University of Melbourne, Australia. She holds dual Doctoral Degrees in Public Health and an MPhil in Epidemiology, with a background in Internal Medicine. She serves as a Scientific Reviewer on the PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) Addressing Violence and Trauma panel and is the Associate Editor for Statistics at the Journal of Surgical Research.