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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Serve as primary Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) Database Administrator for the Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness Division (CEDEP). Troubleshoot projects for end users across the division. Create, monitor, test, and maintain dynamic data pulls from the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) to REDCap. Develop Application Programming Interface (API) calls in SAS/R to export and import data to and from REDCap. Conduct onboarding of laboratory partners, including establishing transport, reviewing test messages, validating message batches (HL7), provide feedback to laboratory partners on message content and structure issues, and provide technical assistance or support. Utilize, test, and update message validation tools, including those in Rhapsody and SAS, according to the standard implementation guide and surveillance system requirements. Import messages into a Structured Query Language (SQL) database, maintain and develop the SAS code to evaluate those messages, and review and act on the error reports created by the SAS code. Write queries in SQL and SAS. Represent TDH and SSI on national calls with other jurisdictions and CDC; participated in writing grant progress reports and narratives, and support other SSI initiatives, such as public health surveillance and electronic case reporting. Contribute to disease surveillance and surge capacity across the state during infectious disease outbreak investigations.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Spearheads REDCap database for COVID-19 Centralized Investigation Team at the central office at TDH. Created and maintains large REDCap database for approximately 800 COVID-19 Xtend contract tracers, which is part of a project with a budget of $40 million. Collects, describes, and analyzes data using epidemiological methods and statistical software. Continually updating processes to make them more efficient, cost effective, and thorough. As a REDCap superuser: troubleshoots REDCap projects, processes, and external modules. Familiar with the role of API.Designed and implemented automated resources and FAQs to be sent to every interviewed case, as well as developed a survey to automatically send to each case who stated they have traveled on an airplane within their contagious period. This provides an additional way for cases to get important flight information to TDH if they do not have the information easily accessible, and a similar process was set for cases to add to and modify close contact information post-interview. Provides data used in the control of COVID-19 and in grant preparation. Assists in public health investigations of diseases and conditions, development of surveillance systems, and data needs assessments. Responds to public inquiries related to specific diseases and/or other health issues in their respective region. Software development, systems analysis, data analysis, professional engineering, and design implementation. Highly proficient in SPSS; familiar with SAS. Acts as point person the TDH state COVID19.info email inbox, Epi-X/CDC notifications, and the COVID-19 call bank on a weekly basis.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Develop and implement research infrastructure for the chief of pediatric craniofacial and plastic surgery. Prepare and process IRB submissions. Wrote and successfully received a grant ($24,000). Manages a team consisting of fellows, medical students, and undergraduates. Manages screening, implement recruitment procedures, consent, enrollment, and study conduct for prospective clinical studies from planning through study closeout. Write study protocols. Create NIH biosketches.

Cleveland, Ohio

Create final databases for studies and prepare them to be analyzed, conduct analyses for manuscripts and conference posters using SPSS, co-author manuscripts, write syntax, set up studies in RedCap, audit data and check for irregularities or inconsistencies, document information derived from informed consent forms and properly store them according to protocol, back up databases.

Cleveland, Ohio

Contribute to the authoring of scientific articles for publication, experience in technical writing, analyze data using SPSS, submit publications to journals, conduct and write literature reviews.

Cleveland, Ohio

Contribute to the authoring of scientific articles for publication, experience in technical writing, analyze data using SPSS, submit publications to journals, create scientific posters for national conferences, conduct and write literature reviews.

North Ridgeville, Ohio

Testing for social security benefits using the WAIS-IV, WISC-III, WMS-IV, WRAT4, and WPPSI-III.

Cleveland, Ohio

Master's thesis titled "Facial Affect Recognition Deficits in Undergraduate Students with Borderline Personality Traits," 2015.Completed prospectus meeting and received Cleveland State University and Tri-C IRB approval. Screened 203 subjects using the Borderline Personality Questionnaire (BPQ; Poreh 2006). Programmed experiment stimuli using SuperLab software and Cedrus input response boxes. Seventeen borderline subjects and 20 control subjects were tested according to the experimental protocol. Completed statistical analyses. Sucessfully defended thesis on April 2, 2015.

Score and maintain assignments for undergraduate statistics and research methods classes. Offer tutor service for students if needed. Act as a liaison between students and teacher.

Recruit and schedule participants for a study on lexical decision and word-perception. Administer experiments and debrief subjects. Gather data and prepare poster for professional conference. Obtain informed consent.

Master’S Degree, Research And Experimental Psychology

Activities and Societies: American Psychological Association, Midwestern Psychological Association, Psi Chi GPA: 4.0

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology, Gpa: 3.79, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi National Honor Society, Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society, American Studies Institute, American.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Broadcast Journalism

Activities and Societies: RTDNA, SPJ College news anchor (live daily primetime show), college sports anchor, college weather anchor. Was.