So You Want to Build a Chatbot: Lessons from Prototyping a Large Language Model Application for Consumer Health

Yuki Waka
Application Developer

Yuki Waka is an application developer at Klick Applied Sciences. She brings extensive software-development expertise to her role, focusing on web and mobile applications. Her career includes contributions at Alpha Laboratories, where she enhanced doctor-patient portals, managed structured user data, and built automated testing tools. Yuki’s proficiency extends to managing health-record data and implementing innovative features like one-time codes with barcodes in patient portals. Her work at Klick showcases a blend of technical acumen and creative problem-solving, advancing healthcare technology solutions.

Andrew Lee
Lead Software Developer

Andrew combines his background in informational technology and game development with years of experience supporting research projects to enable Klick’s Applied Sciences team in tackling technical challenges in their research. Completely engaged in healthcare focused app development since 2011, Andrew has built solutions supporting medical education via immersive Oculus Rift experiences as well as HealthVoyager, an application for Boston Children’s Hospital that helps young patients with gastrointestinal issues dive into a simulation of their intestines and see how their condition affects them, helping them learn what is happening to them in an engaging and enlightening way. Throughout his career, Andrew has been entrenched within scientific research teams, bringing a rapid, yet extremely precise and disciplined approach to prototype development, resulting in code that is not only stable and efficient, but also accurate and performant.

Peter Leimbigler, MS
Data Scientist

Peter is a data scientist with academic training in physics and medical imaging. He brings over a decade of scientific computing and quantitative analysis to Klick's Consulting team to derive evidence-informed business insights and answer questions at the intersection of computing and medicine. Peter's interest in noninvasive disease biomarkers inspired his master's research at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children, where he investigated the use of magnetic resonance imaging to assess pulmonary arterial hypertension. Since joining Klick in 2017, Peter has co-authored research work about forecasting blood glucose levels in people with diabetes, and analyzing how these forecasts change under real-world conditions of incomplete data.