Gunner O'Brien, MPH

Experience

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  DICK'S Sporting Goods

  Apr 2013 - Sept 2013

  Team Sports Sales Associate

  Responsible for organization of team sports merchandise, equipment fitting, customer service, and sales.

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  Total Hockey

  Feb 2014 - Oct 2018

  • Provided skate sharpening services of high quality with rapid turnaround times.• Performed equipment fitting services to players of all ages to ensure both safety and comfort when on the ice. • Engaged customers to deliver a positive experience from start to finish. • Assisted managers on register and inventory counts. • Created and reworked merchandise flows to display product in a visually appealing manner. Responsible for merchandise flows, sales, customer service, equipment fitting, and stringing services.

  • Sales Associate

    Aug 2016 - Oct 2018

  • Sales Associate

    Feb 2014 - Aug 2016
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  St. Louis County

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Seasonal Engineering Intern (Department of Public Health)

  • Enforced environmental health codes by inspecting outdoor/seasonal public swimming pools, hot tubs/spas, and other water recreation features. • Communicated with stakeholders including owners and managers of public and private institutions that oversee maintenance of pools and spas to ensure compliance. • Performed testing of chemicals levels, enforced safety codes, and managed data collection and paper/electronic filing.• Operated independently; responsible for creating and mapping driving routes/schedules to ensure that site visits for all locations were completed within the mandated timeframe. Show less

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  The Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics

  Aug 2017 - Jun 2019

  Graduate Assistant

  • Identified trending hot-topics of interest, proposed ideas to board for consideration.• Assisted with planning and execution of large-scale educational events with major speakers representing institutions such as the Department for Health and Human Services (DHHS), Express Scripts, Centene, Kaiser Health, SSM Health, and Insitome. • Presented research “Who Selects Quality Measures in the 21st Century?” at American Society for Bioethics and Humanities national conference in Anaheim, CA (2018). This project examined the potential ethical conflicts of interest existing between the development and subsequent mandate of quality measures in a clinical setting. Show less

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  BJC HealthCare

  Sept 2019 - Dec 2019

  Intern - Occupational Health & Emergency Preparedness

  • Created and disseminated Exposure Management Guide (EMG) for infectious diseases - Varicella (chickenpox) and Hepatitis A. • Created Master Scenario Events List (MSEL), Exercise Plan, and SimCell Inject documents in planning phase for functional exercise in BJC system responding to a Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack (CCTA) resulting in a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI). • Developed and presented infection prevention policies and emerging infectious disease surveillance data at occupational health system meetings. • Coordinated BJC SimCell during full-scale exercise.• Shadowed Barnes Jewish Hospital Emergency Department to expand knowledge base of ED function, patient flow, triage, and admitting processes.• Participated in Ebola Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) training for proper donning and doffing procedures. Show less

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  Pure Hockey

  Nov 2019 - Mar 2020

  Sales Associate
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  BJC HealthCare

  Mar 2020 - Feb 2021

  Intern - Emergency Planning & Recovery / Occupational Health

  • Served in the Operations section of the BJC Incident Command Center in response to the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic. • Executed tasks expeditiously and adapted strategies to respond to continually evolving challenges in the pandemic response. • Performed outbreak investigations and partnered with local-level hospital occupational health departments to identify trends and mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within BJC facilities. • Created and disseminated scheduling information for SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in the employee population. • Audited scheduling software to ensure reliability and maximize efficiency in vaccination clinics. • Organized a multidisciplinary team to address adverse event identification and reporting related to the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination program. Show less

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  Premium Retail Services

  May 2020 - Sept 2020

  Public Health Specialist

  • Consulted to assess existing infrastructure capacity for retooling to perform contact tracing services in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. • Drafted proposals with business operations to submit RFIs for contact tracing services for local health departments throughout the country. • Researched contact tracing training and developed educational curriculum for call center employees.

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  Missouri Baptist Medical Center

  Mar 2021 - now

  Infection Prevention Specialist

  • Responsible for identifying, investigating, monitoring, and reporting healthcare-associated infections.• Collaborates with teams and individuals to create and sustain infection prevention strategies, provide feedback, and identify areas for improvement. • Provides education to staff and contractors on best practice to prevent nosocomial infections.• Continually updates electronic file management systems to promote collaboration and ease of access to technical documents pertinent to infection prevention practice. Show less