Scott Masten Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California Area

Lead HQI's analytics and data team in the continued development, improvement, and operation of the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (hospital encounters) and CHPSOData system (hospital safety event reports), which were created to receive, process, and standardize data from hospitals to provide them with direction for their quality and safety improvement opportunities, view their performance over time, and provide them state and customized comparisons to gauge their relative performance towards the goal of achieving zero harm. This includes supporting the expanded scope of these initiatives with a team of HQI, California Hospital Association (CHA), and Regional Hospital Association leaders to provide limited data sets for use by CHA and the Regional Associations for Public Health Improvement to inform policy and issue development for California hospitals. Providing these data analytic capabilities is exciting and important work that includes the help of strong industry partners. I am head of HQI's Analytics Team (The A-Team), and together with association colleagues and partnerships, bring forward data as a strong integrating strategy to advance a Federated One Team Culture.

Sacramento, California Area

Directed a team including project managers, informatics specialists, biostatisticians, and medical/hospital subject matter experts in designing, constructing, implementing, maintaining, and improving a statewide system for acquiring and combining hospital outcome and process data, and providing analytics and timely feedback to support hospital safety and quality improvement activities. Developed quality and clinical measures/indicators, and provided advanced analytics and created reports for purposes of accomplishing HQI objectives, meeting regional and state hospital association data analytics needs, and informing quality of care and policy initiatives. Development work included the Hospital Quality Intelligence Initiative (HQI²), a web application and back-end database for California hospitals and hospital associations offering access to integrated data and actionable intelligence for improving care including common MS-DRGs, healthcare-associated infections, mortality, readmission, patient safety indicators, maternal measures, low-volume cancers, nursing-related outcomes, and sepsis monitoring.

Sacramento, California Area

Collaborated to design, construct and maintain a system of data acquisition, analytics, and timely feedback to support hospital safety and quality improvement activities to improve patient care. This includes development of the Hospital Quality Intelligence Initiative, a web application and back-end data warehouse for California hospitals offering access to integrated data and actionable intelligence for improving care including common MS-DRGs, healthcare-associated infections, mortality, readmission, patient safety indicators, maternal measures, low-volume cancers, nursing-related outcomes, and sepsis. Provided advanced analytics of quality measures and indicators and measure development expertise for activities stemming from the work of HQI under projects with the Partnership for Patients Initiative, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS); Centers for Disease Control (CDC NHSN); as well as the work of HQI’s Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO), regional hospital associations, and the California Hospital Association.

Sacramento, California Area

California School of Forensic Studies (CSFS), Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law: FOR80060 Research Methods & Statistics I FOR80070 Research Methods & Statistics II FOR80140 Forensic Program Evaluation FOR99010-40 Dissertation I-IVCalifornia School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), PsyD in Clinical Psychology: PSY60510/PSY60210 Data Analysis, Research Design & Program Evaluation I/Advanced Statistics I PSY60520/PSY60220 Data Analysis, Research Design & Program Evaluation II/Advanced Statistics II

Sacramento, California Area

Data Analysis, Research Design & Program Evaluation I (Graduate)Data Analysis, Research Design & Program Evaluation II (Graduate)

Rocklin, California, United States

Psychology Department:PSYC390 Research Statistics for the Social Sciences (Undergraduate)PSYC392 Research Methods in the Social Sciences (Undergraduate)

Sacramento, California Area

Directed and managed all aspects of HIV case and incidence surveillance in California, including managing the activities of the Surveillance Quality Management Unit (SQMU) and the Data Management and Analysis Unit (DMAU). The SQMU had seven staff members who were responsible for working with California’s 61 local health jurisdictions (LHJs) to obtain HIV case surveillance data and enter it into the Enhanced HIV/AIDS Reporting System (eHARS). The SQMU was also responsible for training LHJ surveillance staff on all aspects of HIV surveillance, overseeing data security and confidentiality issues for the Surveillance Section and surveillance activities at LHJs; and implementing electronic data collection of case report forms. The DMAU also had seven staff members who focused on case surveillance data quality, data management, importation of data into eHARS, responding to routine case surveillance data requests; release of routine case surveillance data reports; and implementation of electronic laboratory reporting, geocoding, and molecular HIV surveillance. I also directly supervised 7 full time staff, including three senior epidemiologists who focused on analyzing surveillance data to improve prevention, care, and treatment programs in California, write dissemination products based on surveillance data, and complete complex data requests, ensuring that eHARS was used to achieve the public health goals of CDC, CDPH, and OA. Another direct report was the HIV surveillance laboratory coordinator, who worked with both SQMU and DMAU to ensure HIV laboratory data were complete, collected in a timely fashion, and disseminated to stakeholders.

Sacramento, California Area

Supervised, administered, and coordinated the development, design, implementation, conduct, analysis, completion, hiring, training, budgeting, publication, review, and presentation of large and highly complex multidisciplinary traffic safety research studies and program/policy evaluations related to injury epidemiology, program evaluation, psychometrics, driver behavior and psychology at both the state and national levels; provided research/statistical consulting and subject matter expertise for other agencies, national organizations, local task forces and committees, policymakers, editorial boards, and other local, state, and national and government agencies regarding laws and procedures, traffic safety issues, department policies, and scientific research developments; developed grant proposals, acted as a liaison and consultant for other private and public agencies and organizations; responded to media and public inquiries; presented summaries of legal issues, scientific literature, and study findings at local, state, and national meetings; coordinated grant budgets, travel, and other expenses; influenced legislation and policies; hired, trained, assisted, and managed technical and non-technical staff; and served as Chief of Research in absentia.

Sacramento, California Area

Independently designed, implemented, served as principal investigator, and guided the work of others on highly complex demonstration projects and evaluations requiring knowledge of sophisticated epidemiological and behavioral research design principles. Manipulated and screened data from large databases and new data collection efforts, and performed advanced statistical analyses using techniques such as Poisson and logistic regression, and survival analysis, using SAS, SPSS, and other statistical software on mainframe and desktop platforms. Prepared scientific technical reports for publication as reports, issue papers, or in professional journals, and delivered oral presentations to technical and non-technical audiences. Responded to inquiries from department and outside entities on laws, policies, and research findings. Prepared critical reviews of research findings and legislative bills, wrote policy papers, and proposed legislative ideas for the department. Consulted with community agencies, the media, and policymakers. Represented the department and coordinated national and multidivisional task forces, committees, and working groups. Acted as technical and methodological consultant. Developed and submitted grant proposals.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Served as a senior statistical analyst for the Research Center and principal investigator on several publically- and privately-funded traffic safety injury epidemiology grants in different topic areas, including teen drivers, motorcyclists, drowsy driving, pedestrians, bicyclists, and safety belt usage. Wrote research grant proposals and RFP responses, both alone and with others, and received repeated funding. Designed, conducted, and completed highly technical and sensitive multi-state projects. Manipulated and screened data from large databases, including hospital discharge databases, national surveys, and multiple state and national crash systems. Performed analyses using advanced epidemiological statistical techniques such as conditional logistic regression, ARIMA interrupted time series analysis, and survival analysis with time varying confounders, using SAS, SPSS, and other statistical software on both mainframe and desktop platforms. Wrote technical monographs and scientific research papers for peer-review journal submission, and presented papers at conferences and seminars. Advised others regarding the application of complex statistical models. Served a subject matter expert and served on state and national research committees.

Sacramento, California Area

Independently designed, implemented, served as principal investigator, and guided the work of others on highly complex demonstration projects and evaluations requiring knowledge of sophisticated epidemiological and behavioral research design principles. Manipulated and screened data from large databases and new data collection efforts, and performed advanced statistical analyses using techniques such as Poisson and logistic regression, and survival analysis, using SAS, SPSS, and other statistical software on mainframe and desktop platforms. Prepared scientific technical reports for publication as reports, issue papers, or in professional journals, and delivered oral presentations to technical and non-technical audiences. Responded to inquiries from department and outside entities on laws, policies, and research findings. Prepared critical reviews of research findings and legislative bills, wrote policy papers, and proposed legislative ideas for the department. Consulted with community agencies, the media, and policymakers. Represented the department and coordinated national and multidivisional task forces, committees, and working groups. Acted as technical and methodological consultant. Developed and submitted grant proposals.

Sacramento, California Area

Designed, implemented, and completed multifaceted research studies, surveys, demonstration projects, and complex evaluations of traffic safety programs using epidemiological and behavioral research design principles. Manipulated and screened data from large databases, and performed advanced statistical analyses such as multiple regression and analysis of covariance, using SAS, SPSS, and other statistical software on both mainframe and desktop platforms. Prepared scientific technical reports of project findings for the review of management and eventual publication, and delivered oral presentations to technical and non-technical audiences at seminars and conferences. Developed expertise in traffic safety, driver licensing, and in research design and statistical analysis, and consulted on traffic safety matters with persons inside and outside the department. Wrote critical reviews of the relevant research findings and interpreted them for management and lay consumption, including the public, community agencies, the media, and policymakers. Prepared issue and policy papers. Represented the department on task forces and committees. Evaluated legislative bills and generated legislative proposals.

Sacramento, California Area

Designed and administered studies and surveys requiring knowledge of experimental and quasi-experimental research designs, along with behavioral research methodologies. Developed and monitored data collection plans and data processing requirements for research projects, including creating databases, data extraction programs, and data flow procedures. Wrote SPSS programs for processing and analyzing data; analyzed data using advanced multivariate statistical techniques such as ANCOVA and multiple regression. Prepared scientific reports of project findings for the review of management and eventual publication. Constructed and validated psychometric tests and surveys (including validity and reliability studies). Wrote critical reviews of the relevant research findings of other investigators and interpreted research findings for lay and management consumption. Developed advanced knowledge of traffic safety subject matter areas. Performed miscellaneous duties, such as presenting project reports at seminars and conferences, providing occasional consultation for management, writing project correspondence, answering queries for data from outside and inside the department, and developing new projects and project budgets.

Sacramento, California Area

Assisted with the design, analysis, and implementation of several research projects and surveys. Analyzed data using statistical techniques such as analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression. Created programs for data processing, cleaning, and analysis using SPSS. Wrote technical reports, including making professional tables and figures, using Microsoft Word and Excel. Created data entry databases using Microsoft Access for use on major department projects; supervised the entry of data by other staff and checked data entry quality. Also completed non-technical work such as screening, sorting, coding, and filing documents for data entry, making telephone call-backs to data providers, compiling descriptive statistics for information requests for department staff and outside entities, making data entry screens with checks of data entry integrity, writing short memorandums, and traveling to conduct field surveys.

Sacramento, California, United States

Psychology Department:PSYC101 Foundations of Psychological Research I (Undergraduate)PSYC8 Methods of Psychology (Undergraduate)

Sacramento, California, United States

PSYC4 Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology (Undergraduate)

Sacramento, California, United States

PSYC101 Foundations of Psychological Research I (Undergraduate)

Ph.D., Epidemiology

Injury Epidemiology

M.A., Psychology

Experimental Psychology

B.A., Psychology

Activities and Societies: Tau Kappa Epsilon Psi Chi Honor Society

Psychology

Activities and Societies: Tau Kappa Epsilon

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