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St. Paul

Manage over 2,000 annual hospitalized influenza disease reports and consult with both internal and external partners in processing more than 1,000 chart reviews to guarantee integrity of state database.•Collaborate on 3 joint MDH-CDC studies by critiquing protocols, coordinating providers, and interviewing cases to further study aims.•Executed over 15 daily Ebola surveillance monitoring calls in order to enhance the strength of an interdepartmental emergency response.•Diversified expertise at utilizing MDH’s laboratory, vaccine, and medical databases to enhance productivity at case entry.

Networked with both medical and research professionals to delegate, coordinate and perform study-specific data analysis activities in order to efficiently achieve study aims.•Coordinated literature review of stress management techniques on systolic hypertension to evaluate similar studies, models, and meta-analyses, etc. against our hypothesis.•Delivered timely R descriptive statistics and code documentation for 90 patients enrolled in 9-week randomized controlled trial to further the study’s progress to publication. •Drafted demographic and baseline tables to evaluate preliminary analysis and prioritize further inquiries.

Drafted and awarded grant to collaborate with SD State Demographer on exploratory analysis of an economic inequality measure (Gini Index Scores) of South Dakota’s 66 counties.•Oversaw the acquisition and evaluation of South Dakota’s international commodity export dataset with 44 trade partners and delivered timely reports to clients.•Executed prompt data extractions from both public and private databases like the Census, Dept. of Labor, and USDA in order to prepare and delegate datasets to content specialists for further investigation.•Recruited study personnel to expedite data entry of over 2,000 SD Community Surveys.

Master Of Public Health, Epidemiology

Minor in Geographic Information Science

Bachelor Of Science, Sociology

Minor in Mathematics and Criminal Justice