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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, California

Sacramento, California Area

Co-managed a quality improvement strategy across 11 health plans impacting 1.4 million people with focus on hospital safety, value-based care and payment, promoting primary care, and decision support tools.Responsible for health and dental plan annual application, certification, and open enrollment preparation.Managed a public stakeholder group of system.

Sacramento, California Area

Account manager for health and dental plans representing ~ 450,000 members. Handled and triaged all aspects of business relationships including daily operations, contracting, IT coordination, eligibility and enrollment, member communication content, benefits, networks, tax reconciliation, claims submission, and the certification process.Lead meetings on.

Sacramento, California Area

Public interface for stakeholders within California’s rapidly changing health system during Affordable Care Act implementation. Cultivated relationships with advocates, trade associations, the California legislature, and other state agencies to ensure consumers were best served.Represented Covered California at events and gave presentations and.

Mclean, Virginia

On-site support to Federal agencies on topics of health and security.

Research and project support in areas of modeling and simulation for biological preparedness and emergency response; tradeoff analysis of emerging technologies; strategic planning for health disparity mitigation; additional topics as needed.

Washington DC

Contributed to OSTP Biosecurity website and initiatives in pandemic influenza preparedness/vaccine distribution, microbial forensics and information technology. Developed content, drafted/edited documents, helped organize and prepare information, and supported events/lectures.

Washington DC

Summarized health policy issues for California’s biomedical industry, with a focus on drug, device, and system innovation and health disparity mitigation. Wrote memos from Congressional hearings and testimony, non-profit events, and relevant media, represented CHI at legislative functions, and drafted correspondence to the California delegation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assistant to resident fellow researching a novel on the origins of western homeland security. Performed archival research at the Library of Congress on the topic of early U.S. and U.K. homeland security, as well as online research into historical newspapers and magazines. Drafted memos and helped form research agenda.

UCLA Psychology Department

Research assistant in cognitive psychology laboratory. Helped run experiments and train participants in a variety of initiatives testing human-computer interaction and study habits. Organized literature/results and analyzed data.

Bachelors, Political Science, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Undergraduate Research, Study Abroad

M.S., Biohazardous Threat Agents And Emerging Infectious Diseases

Coursework involved microbiology courses, as well as socio-behavioral and policy courses aimed at mitigating impact of disease outbreaks.