Heng-Ming Sung, Mph Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Burlingame, California, US

• Conduct agile and sprint meetings to set up weekly programming goals and objectives, manage staff and resources, monitor and control project timelines
• Oversee quality of deliverables, document quality assurance activities with internal reports, and communicate with external clients to ensure company-wide compliance
• Design and implement observational, real-world evidence (RWE), and public health surveillance studies in support of federal clients and policy regulations
• Author analytical specifications for programming activities to ensure appropriate interpretation and implementation of protocol; review resulting deliverables for quality, accuracy, and completeness
• Provide senior level code reviews and SAS training for junior programmers
• Provide methodological and statistical programming expertise to inform study planning, development and delivery (e.g. reviewing protocol, creating statistical analysis plan (SAP), and developing study design, such as.

Burlingame, California, US

• Query, clean, and analyze Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) claims and encounter data, Medicaid MSIS/T-MSIS data, and CMS PECOS/NPPES provider database using SAS, SQL and R
• Build, maintain, and document end-to-end pipeline for reproducible reports, including querying, merging, and processing billions of claims across multiple large-scale datasets
• Prepare and standardize subject level analysis datasets for statistical modeling and population summaries
• Perform data management and data visualization in R (parallel, dplyr, data.table, ggplot2, plotly), generate summary statistics, and prepare complex client deliverables including interpretation of results and.
• Conduct casual analysis in health economic and outcome research (HEOR), including logistic regression, propensity scoring, and inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) to monitor vaccine effectiveness from.
• Develop and support the implementation of data modules and metadata required for web application in support of COVID-19 surveillance by federal government agency

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Cleaned, managed, and analyzed cross-sectional data from the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) Study, as a member of research project teams
• Applied statistical methods including descriptive analysis, logistic regression analysis, linear regression analysis, multivariate analysis, nonparametric analysis, and effect modification analysis using SAS and STATA
• Produced datasets, analyses, tabulations, graphics, evaluations and interpretations of epidemiological data, including demographic / anthropometric / biometric information
• Collaborated with researchers from different fields in the development of manuscripts and abstracts

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Managed large-scale healthcare claims data, created analytical database from DataBay Resources System, cleaned and extracted individual data into aggregated data along with US census using SAS
• Assisted with creating choropleth maps using ArcGIS with quantitative data stratified by zip codes
• Performed statistical procedures in analyzing data from “Quality and Health: Data Collection and Analysis”, a surveillance project investigating hospitalization and mortality rates in Allegheny County from 2003 to 2013
• Developed reports on cardiovascular hospitalization and mortality for 2003 to 2013, including a brief literature review, description of methods, results, and discussion
• Presented findings to Allegheny County Health Department in “Pittsburgh Summer Institute Student Showcase”

Taipei, Taiwan, TW

• Implemented research project “Association between tagging single nucleotide polymorphism of antioxidant defense genes, oxidative biomarkers and coronary heart disease”
• Coordinated with clinicians, research nurses, and student workers on a variety of tasks
• Assisted with IRB submission and progress reports to the university and hospital
• Scheduled and conducted interviews, and tracked eligible participants
• Supervised and trained undergraduate students in daily laboratory molecular experiments
• Managed blood/urine sample collection, shipment, preparation (processing/aliquoting) and storage

Taipei, Northern Taiwan, TW

• Coordinated and conducted research project “The Role of Nuclear Factor of Activated T Cells Signaling in Glomerular Disease” consigned by National Science Council of Taiwan
• Assisted the project investigator with expenditure administration and lab management
• Organized lab inventories and purchased supplies for Core Laboratory within the Division of Nephrology
• Conducted animal models, genotyping, cell culture, basic molecular biology experiments, and presented progress reports at lab meetings

• Rotated in the divisions of molecular diagnosis, hematology/microscopy, biochemistry, blood banking, microbiology, immunology/serology, pathology (cytology & histopathology)
• Provided phlebotomy services in outpatient department clinic
• Conducted specimen pretreatment, instrumental analysis, microscopy analysis, biochemistry analysis, cell culture, identification of clinical bacteria

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Epidemiology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Medical Laboratory Science And Biotechnology