Michael J. Ray Phd Mph Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Gave lectures, facilitated small-group exercises, lead exam review sessions, conducted office hours, andgraded assignments for a first-year graduate-level epidemiology course (online and in-person)• Assisted with curriculum development, managed course website (Sakai), graded assignments andexams, performed lectures, provided assistance for concept development, analysis plan, datamanagement, analysis, and final written report using NHANES data

Chicago, Illinois

• Utilizing social network analysis to examine Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae spread in Illinois • Analyzing opioid prescribing patterns in Cook County to inform potential intervention • Lead analyst on a matched case-control study looking at probiotics as an intervention for c. difficile • Examining correlation between ICD-9 codes and antimicrobial administration • Exploring cluster detection methods for gun violence in Chicago and various other epidemiological projects

Chicago, Illinois

• The mission of the Health Systems Integration Program is to engage with the community to facilitate the integration of public health and clinical health systems• Working with hospital discharge data and disease registry information to improve situational awareness of the spread of extensively drug-resistant organisms in Illinois through cluster detection and risk modeling• Performing social network analysis to understand patient sharing characteristics among Illinois healthcare facilities to better understand how healthcare associated infections potentially spread• Make recommendations on which facilities should be prioritized for interventions such as automatic alerting capacities based on network analysis and facility-level modeling work

Greater Chicago Area

Utilized the Illinois XDRO Registry to examine and map the spread of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CREs) in healthcare facilities using SaTScan cluster detection software and Arc-GIS

Greater Chicago Area

Facilitated small-group exercises, lead exam review sessions, conducted office hours, and graded assignments for a first-year graduate-level combined epidemiology and biostatistics course

Tisovec, Slovakia

• Full-time teaching English grammar, writing, literature, and organic chemistry at a bilingual high school in rural Slovakia as part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Central Europe Teaching program• Facilitated after-school activities such as English club for third year students

Greater Seattle Area

• Preformed health history screening and blood collection procedures from volunteer donors to support the community’s transfusion needs as part of a mobile collections team• Provided care for donors with adverse reactions to the donation process

Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa

• Team Member- supported the HIV and AIDS outreach ministries through grant writing and research, support group facilitation, and major event planning in South Africa’s largest urban township• Upheld the ELCA’s accompaniment model of mission – walking together in a solidarity that practices interdependence and mutuality

Bellingham, Washington Area

• Assisted with transition from paper records to an electronic medical record system, data extraction and entry; tracked annual exam results and children’s immunizations for follow-up• Examined and graphed patient satisfaction survey results to track clinic’s quality improvement progress

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Epidemiology

Dissertation title: The Role of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Modifying the Epidemiology of Clostridioides difficile Infection

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Epidemiology, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Delta Omega Honor Society of Public HealthCoursework included advanced methods in epidemiology, infectious.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biochemistry, 3.5

Activities and Societies: President's ListCoursework and laboratory experience in General Chemistry, Organic, Biochemistry, Cell.