Max Hemmerich

About

Research operations professional with experience improving data quality, reporting, and workflow efficiency in regulated health research.

My work has spanned clinical study coordination, operational reporting, data-quality workflows, dashboarding, and practical automation in a regulated research environment.

Experience

Study Lead

CAMH · Toronto, ON · Sep 2023 – Sep 2026

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) · Sep 2023 – Sep 2026 · Toronto, ON

Programs: Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder (CYBD) · Toronto Adolescent & Youth (TAY) Cohort Study

Built a Power Automate flow to scan a shared calendar and automatically surface research visits (3,000–4,000/year) with no staff assigned.
Automated EEG lab scheduling with a recurring Power Automate flow, replacing manual weekly availability-block creation for 4 technicians.
Built and independently shipped a multi-tab HTML recruitment dashboard for the VIBE study, enabling self-serve monitoring for leadership.
Maintained data quality across 3 concurrent study arms using REDCap and Excel in a regulated research environment.
Built Python- and Power Automate-supported ingestion and validation workflows for longitudinal datasets with 3,000–4,000 annual event records.
Conduct structured diagnostic interviews (KSADS, SCID) and contribute to consensus diagnoses with psychiatry teams.
Collect biosamples and perform retinal imaging to explore biomarkers related to brain health and mental illness.
Lead MRI and cognitive assessment visits and support EEG acquisition and quality assurance.
Managed REDCap databases across concurrent studies under GCP-aligned practices.
Study lead for VIBE, a retinal-imaging study, coordinating across clinical, technical, and ethics stakeholders with responsibility for recruitment targets and regulatory reporting.

Clinical Research Coordinator

UBC Brain Lab · Vancouver, BC · Sep 2022 – Aug 2023

UBC Brain Lab · Sep 2022 – Aug 2023 · Vancouver, BC

Coordinated CAPU RISE, a non-therapeutic clinical trial on cannabinoid effects on stress response, including scheduling, fMRI coordination, and biosample collection.
Supported data integrity through reconciliation and adverse-event management.
Assisted with the design and submission of a Health Canada clinical trial application.
Led study start-up work including REB documentation and site-readiness tasks.

Projects

Distill

AI reading interface that turns articles or pasted text into hierarchical, sectioned summaries. Next.js App Router and TypeScript, using the OpenAI API in a three-pane reading layout that preserves footnotes and references.

distill.wiki

Anna Hemmerich

Portfolio site for a painter: twenty works, one page each, on a static build with no JavaScript.

annahemmerich.com

Publications

Conference posters

Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Traumatic Brain Injury in Youth with Bipolar Disorder. Hemmerich M., et al. Presented at the CAMH World Bipolar Day Symposium, Toronto (Mar 2024); the AACAP Annual Meeting, Seattle (Oct 2024); and University of Toronto Psychiatry Research Day (Mar 2025).
Validation of the Maudsley Addiction Profile Health Symptoms Scale as a Measure of Physical and Psychological Symptom Severity in Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Inpatients. Hemmerich M.H., Thiessen K.A., Schutz C.G. Presented at the Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Conference (2022).

Manuscripts in preparation (first author)

Pain Sensitivity among Youth with Bipolar Disorder during a Naturalistic Experimental Paradigm. Hemmerich M.H., Dimick M.K., Timmins V.H., Goldstein B.I. Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Traumatic Brain Injury in Youth with Bipolar Disorder. Hemmerich M.H., Rajamani V.H., Barton J.S., Mio M., Dimick M., Goldstein B.I. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Validation of the Maudsley Addiction Profile Health Symptoms Scale as a Measure of Physical and Psychological Symptom Severity in Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Inpatients. Hemmerich M.H., Thiessen K.A., Schutz C.G. Addiction.