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.

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 and.