Experience

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  University of michigan

  Aug 2013 - May 2015

  Graduate student
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  The ecology center of ann arbor and healthystuff.org

  Sept 2013 - May 2014

  Intern

  The Ecology Center is a nonprofit environmental organization based in Ann Arbor,Michigan. HealthyStuff.org is a consumer safety branch of The Ecology Center focused onconsumer product testing for harmful chemicals. Duties included product testing,background research, and producing content for reports, websites and press releases.

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  Alaska department of health

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Intern

  Interned at the epidemiology department within the public health division of the AlaskaDepartment of Health and Social Services. Duties included disease surveillance, recordingoccupational health injuries and deaths, heroin deaths, and investigating associationsbetween reduced air quality and public health.

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  Medical mutual

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2018

  Senior healthcare analyst and policy writer

  Senior Healthcare Analyst and Policy Writer at Medical Mutual of Ohio researching and writing corporate medical policies. In this capacity, I work extensively with medical billing codes (ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS) and healthcare claims data to understand the level of utilization of numerous medical procedures. With this knowledge, I help draft medical policy in order to define appropriate healthcare usage.

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  The democracy collaborative

  Jul 2015 - Mar 2016

  Volunteer research assistant

  Created a Tableau dashboard mapping all instances of hospital programs that contribute to community wealth-building and fit within the Hospital Anchor Alliance's (HAN) goals.

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  Contract

  Sept 2018 - Nov 2019

  Healthcare consultant

  Utilized SQL to query a Hadoop data lake and R Shiny data visualization tool to build an internal-facing web application that allowed non-technical colleagues (executives, utilization nurses, Etc.) fast and accurate access to company claims data, allowing for real-time investigation of utilization questions.

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  State of alaska, department of health, division of public health (dph)

  Sept 2018 - now

  Epidemiology specialist ii

  Program manager and epidemiologist of the Alaska Birth Defects Registry, responsible for leading a small team to perform public health surveillance and reporting over 50 congenital abnormalities detected in Alaska.Utilized ICD-10 CM diagnosis codes from provider and payor data sources to detect potential target cases.Collected and analyzed surveillance data and coded dozens of Markdown reports in R to disseminate Alaska birth defects data to stakeholders and the public.Wrote proposals and was awarded federal grant funding to perform special investigations on specific conditions of interest like Critical Congenital Heart Disease, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and congenital syphilis, resulting in novel findings, peer-reviewed publications, and presenting at national meetings.Wrote R scripts to perform text mining/natural language processing on various open-ended response survey questions, creating an automated analysis of previously unexamined data. Show less

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  The alaska native tribal health consortium

  Nov 2021 - now

  Senior research associate

  Work on the Research Services team. Responsible for facilitating clinical research on COVID-19, RSV, and Hib-Disease vaccination through electronic health records (EHR/EMR) review and data abstraction.