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Senior Associate on Network Performance Optimization team. Responsible for growth and maintenance of athenaCollector, a revenue cycle management product, through translation of healthcare policy, payer requirements, and industry standards into relevant rules logic and product updates. Conduct SQL queries and utilize reporting tools to synthesize trends for rules and product updates, enable client performance monitoring, and improve access to patient coverage information.

Provided research, analysis, and outreach support for the Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum, a community facilitating the translation and dissemination of promising methods and implementation approaches to improve health and health care for patients and populations.Managed EDM Forum Collaborative Projects, which bring stimulate creative strategies that address shared challenges and foster collaboration among a diverse set of national leaders, with the overall goal of improving health for patients and populations.

Served as Editorial Assistant for open access peer reviewed journal, eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), focused on using electronic health data to advance research and quality improvement, with the overall goal of improving health for patients and populations.Led the peer review process for all submitted manuscripts; assign senior editors, reviewers, and facilitate decisions and revisions. Conduct in-depth editorial reviews of submission for journal appropriateness, credibility, and innovation.

Maintained in-depth records of editorial data for a 15-journal portfolio in materials and physical chemistry. Conducted analysis of journal performance statistics, identifying areas for improvement; provided strategic recommendations on opportunities for growth of ACS journals into new research areas; assisted in research, data gathering, and drafting of new product proposals.Prepared new products for launch through daily interaction with the launch team and managed trademark and indexing tasks.

Processed and tracked a pipeline of 250+ manuscripts from submission through acceptance for the Journal of Geophysical Research and Water Resources Research.Supported editors and associate editors by serving as main point of contact with authors, reviewers, and readers; communicated significant information regarding status of submissions and reviews; communicated daily with authors and reviewers to ensure accurate and punctual submissions and reviews.Developed and updated publication policies exclusively with one senior member of publications department; tested and provided recommendations to the AGU publications committee for a newly acquired open access and open review journal.

Edited and formatted research documents for submission to the governmental and private transportation entities; maintained records of funded research reports; formatted and sent final reports to research-funding agencies; Worked with a five-member communications team to increase visibility of the Institute’s work and accomplishments in the local and national community.

Collaborated with team members to create and edit a manual for the Defense Environmental Restoration Program; analyzed and edited supporting narrative for the Defense Environmental Programs Annual Report to Congress.

Member of Strategic Communication Team; worked directly on communication campaign for the USDA National Animal Identification System; planned media training seminars, wrote press releases, monitored media for coverage of the program.