Programmer Analyst

What they do :

Programmer Analysts are the driving force behind the biggest changes in healthcare today. From networking to server management and from database management to application programming, many Programmer Analysts use a variety of web-based programming languages such as SQL, JavaScript, CSS, etc., and coding principles to help translate data into innovations in cutting-edge biomedical applications. The future for this field is quickly expanding into “precision health” initiatives, which help identify individualized treatments for each patient based on their DNA sequence, or genome.

Licenses/Certifications :

  • None

Education needed :

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related field (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, etc.)

Local schools offering this program :

  • UCLA
  • USC
  • CalTech
  • DeVry
  • Cal State System

Organizations :

Orientation and Training