Uei Lei

Experience

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  Provena Covenant Professional Ambulance Service

  May 1996 - Jul 2000

  Paramedic
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  OSF St. Anthony Medical Center NIEMS

  Aug 2000 - Jun 2002

  EMS Educator
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  Cook County Department of Public Health

  Feb 2004 - Sept 2005

  Emergency Response Coordinator
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  Loyola University Medical Center

  May 2006 - Feb 2012

  Emergency Preparedness Coordinator

  Provided overall planning and liaison with Illinois EMS Region 8 hospitals for regional disaster preparedness and emergency response in accordance with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) / Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), various state, local, and Joint Commission guidelines to include the following: With respect to governance, policy, and planning:Authored Illinois EMS Region 8 disaster preparedness and emergency management governance policies;Conducted Region 8 hazard vulnerability analysis to identify relative risk and gaps for all hazards natural, man-made, technological, and medical;Conducted analysis of Region 8 capacities and capabilities;Coordinated, authored, and updated Illinois EMS Region 8 emergency operations plan in accordance with FEMA CPG-101;Led and facilitated all Region 8 Regional Medical Disaster Preparedness and Response Committee meetings consisting of twenty hospitals, public health, emergency management, public safety, and private agencies;Authored and executed project / program management plans for preparedness and response effort;Served on the Suburban Cook County First Responder Crisis Action Team and Task Force; andServed on the Cook and DuPage County Technical Advisory Group.With respect to operations and training:Authored operational manuals for the Meridian VOIP, Starcom21, communication systems;Liaised and coordinated with local HF / HAM radio groups to provide backup communication to hospitals;Authored operational manuals for the Regional Medical Emergency Response Team (RMERT) and Regional Mental Health Support Teams (RMHEST);Conducted and coordinated training to include FEMA IS series, Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP), International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) CISM, HAZWOPER training; andCoordinated and set up a 5000 square feet mobile surge facility Show less

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  Loyola University Chicago

  Jan 2011 - May 2011

  Lecturer

  Developed and delivered education material on applying emergency management tenets to the health care environment

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  Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment

  Feb 2012 - Jul 2013

  Public Health Preparedness, Division Director

  Conducted agency and regional public health emergency preparedness in conjunction with partner public health agencies, emergency management, and other response agencies; executed the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Grants; designed and conducted training related to emergency response; served as regional liaison with Northern Colorado Public Health group; serve as ESF #8 Lead; and conducted other duties as they relate to public health preparedness. The major accomplishments are listed below:With respect to planning:Redeveloped relevant policies and plans, to include agency emergency operations plan, Strategic National Stockpile, Points of Dispensing, and other responses for resubmission and achieved NACCHO PPHR recognition;Liaised with Weld County Office of Emergency Management;Participated in Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment task force on crisis information;Participated in Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment task force on rapid dispensing;Chaired and reframed the approach to planning of the ESF#8 and Healthcare Coalition;Reactivated the Weld County Medical Reserve Corps;Participated in the Healthcare Coalition led by Larimer County; andIntroduced to the executive team alternative dispensing methods to include medical / non-medical hybrid system.With respect to operations:Advised the agency director (incident commander) and performed technical specialist and Planning Section Chief functions for multiple disease outbreak investigations and responses. Show less

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  The Tauri Group

  Aug 2013 - Sept 2014

  Senior Public Health and Preparedness Analyst

  Served as Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to the BioWatch Program Office (BPO), Office of Health Affairs (OHA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the principal functions of conducting and writing analyses addressing public health and preparedness concepts of operations. Other duties included producing guidance material, plans, and procedures associated with internal response, served as interagency agreement liaison (contract management) to support federal lead, and participated in numerous work groups with both federal and local stakeholders. Specific achievements to include the following:With respect to systems engineering:Developed revised concepts of operations to accommodate immediate decision making post BioWatch alert;Developed a framework for post-alert situational and threat assessment and response in line with FEMA principles to include continuity of operations / government for the BPO; and Developed expedited response frameworks to improve situational assessment with national laboratories charged with performing aerosolized particulate modeling.Led internal preparedness team activities;Led content development, coordinated speakers, and oversaw logistics planning for NACCHO Summit 2014 presentations; Supported teams charged with risk, crises and stakeholder communication; and Supported stakeholder exercise program. With respect to interagency collaboration:Liaised and collaborated with DHS NOC OHA Watch Officer with respect to response operations, exercises, and training;Collaborated with the CDC, FBI, HHS ASPR, US EPA, as well as local / state agencies for response action planning; andCollaborated with Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs as interagency agreement liaison and contract management. Show less

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  Multnomah County Health Department

  Sept 2014 - Mar 2017

  Program Manager I Emergency Preparedness & Rresponse

  Conducted public health emergency preparedness in conjunction with partner public health agencies, emergency management, and other response agencies; managed the Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Cities Readiness Initiative, and Medical Reserve Corps Grants, initiated alignment of preparedness work with the overarching vision of public health with respect to equity and disparity; instituted amalgamation of Faciltiative Leadership techniques with FEMA incident planning process. The major accomplishments are listed below:With respect to program / project management:Initiated and established team project goals and timelines; Redirected scope of work to capacity and resilience building; andAligned CDC preparedness metrics with internal quality improvement process.With respect to partnership and coordination:Served on numerous committees and leadership groups;Chaired Mass Care and Sheltering Medical Task Force;Chaired Mass Care and Sheltering Behavioral Health Task Force;Served on the Oregon Coalition of Local Health Officials Budget Subcommittee; andServed on the Oregon Coalition of Local Health Officials Preparedness Subcommittee.With respect to exercises and operations:Served as Incident Commander in Ebola person-under-monitoring response, October – November 2014; Served as Agency Liaison for S. sonneii outbreak, December 2015;Served as ESF #6 for flooding and landslides, December 2015;Served as Logistics Section Chief for Clackamas County for Hepatitis A exposure clinics, February 2016;Served in Unified Command with Oregon Health Authority and Department of Environmental Quality for Air Quality (Heavy Metals), March – May 2016;Served as Incident Commander for RSS Warehouse exercise, April 2016;Served as Incident Command advisor to Needle Exchanges Incident, May 2016;Served as Logistics and Operations to 5 Lead Testing Clinics, June 2016; andServed on Cascadia Rising exercise design team as well as ESF 8 Lead and Evaluator, June 2016 Show less

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  Chicago Department of Public Health

  Mar 2017 - Mar 2019

  Projects Administrator

  Provided oversight and management of several community preparedness, resilience, and recovery projects; served on the health intelligence team; applied syndromic surveillance as part of incident decision support; operationalized non-pharmaceutical intervention, biological incidents, nuclear / radiation incident plans and others; adapted preparedness and response planning to health equity and social connectivity lenses; and other associated tasks related to overall public health preparedness. With respect to critical infrastructure, threat, and risk analyses: Applied Bayesian analyses to bioterrorism incidents;Applied Set Theory to syndromic surveillance analyses;Conducted annual health impact risk analyses as part of THIRA process; Contributed to the Heat Response Plans Technical Report for CDC; andIncorporated social vulnerability index to risk analyses and operational decision support.With respect to community engagement and response:Served on collaborative planning with UI Labs, NASA, Mayor's Office, on urban heat island effects and conducted consequence and impact analyses on socially vulnerable population;Served as Domain Lead for Community Preparedness, Recovery, and Resilience; Served on Functional and Access Needs planning team with State;Served as incident command system adviser to the Immunization Medical Director during hepatitis A outbreak; Devised and constructed “origin-to-destination” map of opioid-related EMS calls for Chief Medical Officer;Served as planning team and health lead for Multi-Agency Resource Center in response to Hurricane Maria evacuation; andAligned principles of health equity with public health preparedness and developed a comprehensive mitigation, preparedness, and response plan to address equity through preparedness. Show less

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  Sinai Urban Health Institute

  Mar 2019 - May 2020

  Research Manager / Epidemiologist

  Led and contributed to several projects including data design, data management, evaluation development, grant management and reporting, and other aspects; developed visualization concepts for senior epidemiologists using tableau; and managed cost centers and budget.Specific achievements:Managed several projects / studies involving community health worker interventions to include CDC diabetes prevention program, lead assessment, social determinants of health in emergency department intervention, and home health collaboration;Consulted with the Chicago Coalition for Bullying and Suicide Prevention on metrics, data collection, and analyses;Developed data visualizations using Tableau and R to complement traditional epidemiological data exhibits to include Sankey diagrams, chord diagrams, and sunburst charts;Examined and normalized several databases and transitioned to the REDCap system;Extracted, transformed, and loaded (ETL) datasets from electronic medical record into REDCap for studies purposes; andConsolidated over 50 cost centers and employee information into a dashboard for improved budget management. Show less

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  Sunbelt Staffing

  May 2020 - Feb 2021

  Providing direct COVID-19 response support to Chicago Department of Public Health. Currently performing ETL on test result data, providing visualization support for situational awareness, and redesigning REDCap database for outreach. Other accomplishment are listed below:Established quality assurance for COVID-19 testing kits;Operated a walk-up testing site for first responders;Completed a dot density maps of COVID test clients for comparison with racial / ethnic distribution map to better identify gaps and inform strategies. Show less

  • Epidemiologist

    Aug 2020 - Feb 2021

  • Clinical Program Manager

    May 2020 - Aug 2020
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  Freedom Healthcare Staffing

  Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  Epidemiologist

  COVID 19 contract support to Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as epidemiologist.

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  U.S. Department of Homeland Security

  Feb 2021 - Feb 2024

  Health Analyst
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  U.S. Department of the Interior

  Feb 2024 - now

  Data Scientist