Provide solutions aimed to mitigate healthcare-acquired and community-acquired infectious diseases in all healthcare settingsReduce Hospital Readmissions due to infectionsNational speaker Provide virtual and on-site infection prevention and control trainingInfection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship “Deep-Dive Assessment” CMS committee member for the Development and Maintenance of Quality Measures for Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP) Technical Expert PanelProvide NHSN (National Healthcare Safety Network) training and support for enrollment, set-up, and data reporting

Provide technical assistance to hospitals in reporting Health Care Associated Infections such as CLABSI, CAUTI, CDI and MRSA into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare and Safety Network (NHSN) data base. Actively engaged in the National Centers For Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) initiative along with the CDC to track and ultimately reduce the incidence of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) in Long Term Care Facilities (LTCFs). Collaboratively assisted in the development and usage of resources to assist LTCFs enroll into NHSN; such as, the development of a dynamic tracking tool, development of 3 YouTube training video series, training through national webinars and one-on-one coaching calls with healthcare providers. Provide consultation, training and hands on assistance for QIN-QIO, resulting in over 460 LTCFs enrolling into NHSN. Provide LTCFs with ongoing CDIFF surveillance education and technical assistance. Provide weekly updates to Executive Management regarding project status, barriers, and suggested strategies for success. Provide CMS and the CDC with barriers that LTCFs face with completing enrollment and the "Top 10 Tips" for success.

Develop SAS programs querying CDC hospital data for 5 U.S. states per CMS Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) and Quality Improvement Network (QIN).Validate hospital acquired infection (HAI) data for reporting prior to internal approval and external submission.Analyze Medicare claims data for 5 U.S. States. Participate in hospital led meetings with community health care administrators identifying strategies and solutions to reducing 30 day readmissions.

RESEARCHER/STATISTICIAN: Statistical analysis identifying the adherence to Gastrointestinal Bleeding quality indicators compared with Medicare reimbursements for all Arizona hospitalsCompleted IRB processData set containing 100 variables and 85k+ observationsDescriptive/Statistical analysis conducted utilizing Excel, SAS, and SQLChi-Square analysis evaluating the differences in proportions for Quality Indicators met among Arizona counties and hospital groupsIDECIDE:Assisted in the development of a novel Diabetes insulin dosage equation that accounts for personal preferences: exercise and alcohol consumptionAssisted in the development of a mobile application prototype, iDECIDE, utilizing prototype platform Proto.io Deployed iDECIDE prototype using the new insulin dosing equationCreated a relational database using a public-domain software package, SQLite, to store the output from iDECIDE into large tables, thus allowing for future generation of reports and data summariesAssisted in the development of an Ontology Web Language (OWL) with the software Protégé, a semantic based language to further tailor treatment recommendations for patient preferences and goalsDIEGO LAB:Evaluated text mining tools such as GATHER and DAVID Bioinformatics Resource tools that extract biological information from large gene and protein listsMERG LAB:Conducted literature search and research regarding the epidemiology and immunization practices for Rotavirus and Human papillomavirus infection (HPV)Developed a stochastic, Susceptible, Infected, Recovered (SIR) model from ordinary differential equations, ran simulations describing the transmission of HPV in women and men in a populationSoftware: MatlabGenerated Scientific Poster and presented Nationwide: Infinite Possibilities Conference, MGE@MSA/WAESO, SACNAS National Conference, ASU New College Student Research, Arizona-Nevada of Science Annual Meeting

Coordinated the high- level, efficient operations of a 25 bed General/Cardiovascular Intensive Care unitMaintained all patient paper and electronic chartsManaged supply chain for the unitTranscribed all patient physician orders, ordered all labs and medicationsCollaborated directly with the House Supervisor for all unit admissions and dischargesCollaborated with a team of health care professionals during emergencies such as code blues by answering busy telephone lines, printing and recording cardiac monitor strips and retrieving emergency suppliesMonitored and interpreted the cardiac rhythm patterns of patients as well as reported any irregularities or variationsInstructed colleagues as a Super-User for the go-live Mckesson Portal electronic health record softwareTrained new employees, volunteers and RN students regarding the daily operations of the unitCollaborated with hospital management to develop and implement the operations of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU); including assisting in the development of Physician order setsAssisted the medical/surgery and telemetry units as needed, adjusting rapidly to the units specific needs and providing them with excellent direction and unit coordination

Assisted in the organization and opening of the novel pre-operative surgical clinicParticipated in hospital and medical clinic weekly management meetingsObtained all pre-operative paperwork from every medical department and physicians for 100+ surgical patients per weekEnsured that all pre-operative diagnostic tests and labs were completeVerified that all patients were medically cleared for surgeryScheduled all pre-operative appointments with a designated Registered NurseCreated a training manual for employees that included detailed clinical operations

Coordinated the high- level, efficient operations of the medical/surgical unit in a busy teaching hospitalCommunicated with a team of Physicians, Nurses, Interns and Ancillary staff to ensure total patient careTranscribed all physical ordersOrdered all labs and scheduled proceduresOrdered all dietary and patient suppliesCollaborated with the House Supervisor for all unit admissions and dischargesWorked, as needed, on the Oncology and Telemetry units with the aforementioned responsibilities