Experience

Utah Department of Health

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Surveillance and Data Management Program Manager

  • Dec 2015 - Present

  • Integrates surveillance processes across programs to use personnel and resources more effectively.• Serves as the Data Steward for Utah’s integrated communicable disease surveillance system and Utah’s electronic message processing system. • Serves as a data quality technical expert to senior informaticists and epidemiologists to ensure data and process quality is built into developing systems and surveillance processes.• Collaborates with and coordinates between the Bureau of Epidemiology, Utah’s Local Health Departments, clinical laboratories, hospitals, healthcare providers, and other healthcare facilities to ensure timely and robust communicable disease reporting to public health.

• Surveillance Informaticist

  • Mar 2014 - Dec 2015

  • Performed ongoing quality assurance on manual and electronic data entry for accuracy, timeliness, and algorithm deficiencies in UT-NEDSS and EMSA.• Streamlined data collection, entry, and analysis of surveillance data to increase data quality and timeliness, and improve process management. • Evaluated UT-NEDSS usage, tested system usability, developed system requirements for new functionality, trained users in new functionality, and troubleshot and resolved system errors.• Queried large databases and developed analytical programs to identify errors in data.

• Influenza Surveillance Epidemiologist

  • Nov 2009 - Mar 2014

  • Managed the Influenza Surveillance Program for the Utah Department of Health. • Worked with Utah’s Local Health Departments, schools, health care providers, hospitals, and laboratories to conduct comprehensive influenza surveillance throughout the State of Utah.• Utilized alternate surveillance systems (BRFSS, Vital Records Databases, BioSense) for assessment of communicable disease trends. • Conducted a program evaluation to ensure program effectiveness and sustainability and develop dynamic performance measures. • Served as Principle Investigator for the Influenza Hospitalization Population-Based Surveillance Project. • Coordinated enhanced surveillance efforts during 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1).

• Vaccine-Preventable Disease Epidemiologist

  • Aug 2006 - Nov 2009

  • Analyzed vaccine-preventable disease data to identify outbreaks and characterize disease trends.• Provided epidemiologic consultation and technical expertise to local health departments, physicians and laboratories.• Coordinated outbreak response and control with local health departments and the Utah Public Health Laboratory.• Liaison between the Communicable Disease Epidemiology Program and the Immunization Program.• Worked with the Utah Department of Health Public Information Office to respond to media requests for statements and interviews.