sas programmer/researcher

DARYA LEYZAROVICH

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An experienced healthcare research professional with over seven years of

experience working with medical claims data. Demonstrated the ability to

function independently and collaborate with a team of researchers.

Leveraged strong SAS programming skills, to clean, organize and manipulate

data to answer research questions. Passionate about applying analytical

and technical skills to working with large amounts of data.

1 WORK EXPERIENCE

Towers Watson, Arlington, VA.

Research Associate

November 2005 - present

. Extracted raw data from various sources, cleaned and validated to

create SAS datasets for analysis

. Examined the characteristics of claimants across cost segments and the

extent to which claimants

change from one period to the next

. Identified Major Diagnostic Categories by cost segment groups

. Experience using Clinical Risk Grouping Software

. Produced excel reports with Dynamic Data Exchange(DDE) using

retirement and healthcare data

. Performed Difference in Differences estimation for the cost

effectiveness of bariatric surgery

longitudinal study

. Examined healthcare utilization and outcomes after bariatric surgery

. Matched control group to cases group using propensity scores

. Worked with Hedis measures and Hospital Quality Scores

. Calculated sepsis related age-specific incidence and compared costs

across populations

. Developed SAS Macros for data cleaning and reporting

. Ran descriptive statistics for the Current Population Survey (CPS)

. Worked closely with researchers to provide results from the data

. Advanced expertise in data manipulations by using SAS data step

statements such as SAS

Formats/Informats, Merge, Data _NULL_, Set, Append and Proc

Transpose

. Worked on Unix and PC operating systems

. Calculated benchmarks for healthcare and retirement data

Pennsylvania/MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC),

Pittsburgh, PA.

Research Assistant March 2003 -

December 2004

. Performed Data Manipulation, Statistical Analysis and Summary of the

data for HIV-infected people to assess whether the regional programs

reach the primary care provider audiences

. Assisted in presenting epidemiological estimates and discussed

projected consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic for the future

population trends in the United States and Russian Federation during

an International Conference in Russia

Statistics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Intern June-August 2000

and June-August 2001

. Wrote a program in C++ that calculates the new method of the test

statistic (normalized footprint) that was introduced by scientists

from University of Pennsylvania to analyze identical-by-descent gene

mapping procedure data.

EDUCATION

MS, Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh,

Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA,

BS, Majored in Statistics, Minor Business Administration,

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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