CURRICULUM VITA
W. Andre Walker, Ph.D., MPH
*** ******** *****, ********, ** 29212
803-***-****(H)
acqmr7@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
* Medicaid Managed Care policy implementation and management
* Health Services Researcher with 8 years of research experience conducting and project managing research studies in academia and government.
* Effectively collaborated with various multidisciplinary teams which included; clinicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, and policy developers.
* Statistical skills in longitudinal, quantitative and qualitative survey data, and claims database analyses including mixed models using SAS statistical software package.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Consultant - South Carolina Department of Health Human Services. Columbia, SC 29201 July 2013- Present
* Serves as a technical expert in Medicare and Medicaid Managed Care policy and as a resource to agency leadership in the area of Medicare and Medicaid Oral healthcare policy.
* Serves as a lead team member in Medicaid Managed Care policy and assists in planning, controlling, managing and leading Medicaid Managed Care policy meeting discussions.
* Directs oral health policy activities for various oral health programs including planning, developing, implementing and coordinating strategies for effective and efficient accomplishments of agency and program objectives
Post-Doctoral Fellow - Institutes for partnerships for Eliminate Health Disparities/Office of Public Health Practice University of South Carolina-Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, South Carolina 29208
May 2012-July 2013
* Developing and submitting grant proposals for funding for extended research interests
* Designing and Implementing research manuscripts for future journal publications
* Assisting with collection of data for the community transformation grant
* Creating manual of best practice for community engagement and empowerment, community capacity building, and social inclusion
Contractual Consultant-MEE Productions Inc. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131
February 2012-April-2012
*Served as independent contractor with the execution of univariate and bivariate procedures and analyses of collected data and articles for research project funded by The William Penn Foundation entitled : “Perception vs. Reality: Media Images of Black Males in Philadelphia”
Project Director -National Institutes of Health -Adolescent HIV Prevention Trial-University of South Carolina-Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, South Carolina 29208
January 2006-September 2010
*Served as the overall project coordinator and manager of the day-to-day operations a 1.2 million dollar federally funded 5 year research project
*Coordinated study development and implementation of the manual of procedures at the University of South Carolina
*Assisted in hiring and supervising all professional and student project employees
*Coordinated all training for intervention and measurement staff
*Worked directly with Principal Investigator in managing project expenditures
*Performed specific research activities independently and in collaboration with the investigative team including monitoring, collecting, and reporting of data related to:
a) Recruitment and retention of study participants
b) Fidelity of study protocols
c) Fidelity of measurement protocols (psychometric and biological)
d) Implementation of process evaluation procedures
*Coordinated the proper transfer of data from offsite collection to project headquarters
(Penn for psychometric and Emory for biological)
*Organize all staff meetings and participate in conference calls with multi-site colleagues for adherence to protocol objectives (Penn, Brown, Emory, Syracuse and USC)
Intensive Outpatient Treatment Coordinator - Lexington/Richland Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council, Columbia, South Carolina 29203
January 1995- December 2005
*Responsible for training and clinical supervision of part-time staff members
Evaluations benchmarks for part-time Managed and monitored client’s progress, needs and maintenance of all clinical records
*Completed bio-psychological assessments, treatment planning, case management and utilization review of Medicaid eligible clients and crisis intervention
*Facilitated individual, intensive outpatient, relapse prevention and special needs counseling groups
*Coordinated community-based outreach programs with mental health clients
*Coordinated weekly audits and case consultation on clinical records
*Developed performance staff and clinical care procedures
Interventionist- National Institute on Drug Abuse- Clinical Trial Network - Lexington/Richland Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council, Columbia, South Carolina 29203
October 2003-October 2005
*Responsible for presentation of educational material specific to the study protocol, focused on the reduction of HIV/STD risk behaviors
*Assisted in recruitment of members on the national multi-site clinical research study for men in drug abuse treatment
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy, Health Services Policy and Management, 2011, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
Thesis: An Analysis of Emergency Department Visits for dental care services in the United States
Abstract: Approximately, 41% of all dental related visits occurred among the uninsured. Multivariate logistic regression results indicated that the adjusted odds of presenting to the ED for a dental complaint compared to other problems were significantly elevated for visits in which government or self – pay was listed as the payer relative to those with private insurance.
Masters of Public Health, Health Promotion and Education, 1995, Arnold School of
Public Health, University of South Carolina
Bachelor of Arts, Media Arts/Communications, 1993, University of South Carolina
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH
Published Abstracts/Oral Presentations/Posters
Abara W, Walker A. Assessing Use of Dental Health Services by Young Adults in the United States: Implication for National Mortality and Morbidity Rates. American Public Health Association Conference, Washington, DC, October 2011
Huggins S, Kerr J, Walker A, Massey D, Farber N, Valois RF, Diclimente R & the Project iMPPACS Team. Preliminary Analysis of Risk Behavior of African American Adolescents: Project iMPPACS- Columbia, SC. American Public Health Association Conference, San Diego, California, October/November 2008
Kerr J, Huggins S, Walker A, Massey D, Farber N, Valois R, Diclimente R & the Project iMPPACS team. Neighborhood Stress and its relationship to risk behaviors: Preliminary findings from Project iMPPACS - Columbia, SC. American Public Health Association Conference, San Diego, California, October/November 2008
Published Manuscript
Walker A, Probst J, Martin A, Bellinger J, Merchant A. Analysis of Hospital Based Emergency Department Visits for Dental Caries in the United States in 2008. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 2013
MILITARY EXPERIENCE
Hospital Corpsman-United States Naval Reserves
August 1987-August 1995
Responsible for providing primary medical treatment and assistance to active duty military personnel and their dependents
*Honorable Discharge in 1995
* National Defensive Service Medal Recipient - Operation Desert Storm, 1991
LEADERSHIP
1993 Ronald E. McNair Scholarship Recipient, University of South Carolina
Phi Beta Lambda, Fraternity Officer 1993
Princehall affiliated F&AM, Blue Hills Lodge, Hartford, Connecticut
Vice President, Black Graduate Student Association, University of South Carolina 1994
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., Columbia (SC) Alumni- Life Member
Dean Student Advisory Council Committee Member, University of South Carolina 2008-2010
PROFESSIONAL LICENSE
South Carolina Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (SCAADAC) - Certified Addictions Counselor II 1995
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE
SAS 9.1 – 9.3
Stata
Sudaan 10.1