Physician Assistant Health
Resume:
Kara S. McGee
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EDUCATION:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Department of Maternal and
Child Health, Chapel Hill, NC
Degree: MSPH
Date of Graduation: August 2001
SUNY at Stony Brook, School of Allied Health Professions, Stony Brook, NY
Degree: B.S. in Health Sciences/Cum laude
Certificate: Physician Assistant
Date of Graduation: June 1994
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Degree: B.S. in Biology and Medical Technology
Date of Graduation: May 1991
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Current Positions:
Physician Assistant June 2005 - present
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Staff physician assistant in the Division of Infectious Diseases
Outpatient management of patients in Adult HIV Clinic
Diagnosis and management of acute HIV infection
Research coordinator for federally funded clinical research trials
Sub-investigator for clinical trials of treatment of HIV infection
Clinical preceptor for Duke University Physician Assistant Program
Physician Assistant February 2006 - present
Northern Outreach Clinic, Henderson, North Carolina
Staff physician assistant
Outpatient management of HIV infected patients
Administration of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program grant
Adjunct Assistant Professor January 2005 - present
Department of Maternal & Child Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health
Clinical Instructor January 2011 - present
Advanced Clinical Practice
Duke University School of Nursing
Public Health Professional Experience:
May 2004 June 2005
Senior Research Program Coordinator
University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Acting as the key liaison between UNC-IPRC and the Home Safety Council
Providing relevant summarized scientific information on home safety to partner organizations
Developing research ideas to extend current research on home safety practices
Identifying new sources of data to determine national trends in home injury morbidity and
mortality
October 2003 May 2004
Research Associate
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine,
Miami, Florida
Conducted research on youth violence in local community using medical examiner, hospital
discharge, and emergency department data
Assisted in the conceptualization and development of county-wide injury surveillance system
Participated in activities of a community coalition, The Partnership for the Study and Prevention
of Violence, including assisting communities in evaluating community-based youth violence
prevention programs
Grant writing
Provided lectures to nursing students on injury prevention epidemiology and research methods
October 2001 October 2003
Technical Officer
Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, World
Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Coordinated technical support for countries in South East Asia to plan, implement, and evaluate
injury surveillance systems
Developed and administered a training program on injury epidemiology and injury surveillance for
public health practitioners from low-income countries
Organized promotion of scientifically-based injury data collection methods
Designed and wrote advocacy documents
Analysis and management of global and country-level injury data
Development of training manual on conducting community surveys to assess injuries and violence
Representative to International Collaborative Effort in Injury Statistics
Member of technical committee assisting in the writing of The World Report on Road Traffic
Injury Prevention
Assisted with grant writing
Peer reviewer for Bulletin of the World Health Organization
August 2001 October 2001
Research Associate
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Washington, DC
Developed and executed analysis plans using SPSS for a study examining source of stolen
firearms used in crime
Summarized and reported findings on external research related to firearm policy, injury and
legislation
Assisted with grant writing
May 2001 August 2001
Research Assistant
Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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Assisted in the coordination of an evaluation of selected Indian Health Service injury prevention
programs related to fire safety
Tracked and maintained contact with grantees
Prepared reports on grantee activities
September 2000 May 2001
Graduate Research Assistant
Injury Prevention Research Center and Division of Community Pediatrics, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Assisted in data collection, management and analysis for the Emergency Room Injury Prevention
Study
Conducted literature reviews
Proofread unpublished manuscripts
Clinical Medicine Experience:
August 1995 August 2000; October 2003 May 2004
Physician Assistant
Miami Children s Hospital, Miami, FL
Staff physician assistant in the Department of Pediatric General Surgery
Managed patients in PICU, Emergency Department, Outpatient Center, Operating Room and
inpatient floors
Supervised medical students
Parent teaching on ostomy care, wound care, and post-operative care of children
January 1996 August 2000
Physician Assistant
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL
Staff physician assistant in the pre-admission testing and employee health departments
Cleared patients for surgical procedures
Conducted employee physical examinations and annual inoculations
Supervised physician assistant students
September 1994 July 1995
Physician Assistant
Mt. Sinai Services, Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica, NY
Staff physician assistant in the Department of General Surgery
Managed patients in Emergency Department, Operating Room, inpatient floors, and the Surgical
Intensive Care Unit
Supervised and taught rotating physician assistant students
PUBLICATIONS:
Guido Ferrari, Bette Korber, Nilu Goonetilleke, Michael K. P. Liu, Emma L. Turnbull, Jesus
F.Salazar-Gonzalez, Natalie Hawkins, Steve Self, Sydeaka Watson, Michael R. Betts,
Cynthia Gay, Kara McGee, et al. Relationship between Functional Profile of HIV-1
Specific CD8 T Cells and Epitope Variability with the Selection of Escape Mutants in
Acute HIVInfection.2011.PLoSPathog7(2):e1001273.doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1001273
Hurt, CB, McCoy SI, Kuruc J, Nelson JAE, Kerkau M, Fiscus S, McGee K, Sebastian J, et al.
Transmitted antiretroviral drug resistance among acute and recent HIV infections in
North Carolina from 1998 to 2007. Antiretroviral Therapy. 2009; 14:673-687.
Runyan CW, Johnson RM,Yang J, Waller AE, Perkis D, Marshall SW, Coyne-Beasley T,
McGee KS. Risk and Protective Factors for Fires, Burns, and Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning in U.S. Households. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
2005;28(1):102 108.
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McGee K, Sethi D, Peden M, Habibula S. Guidelines for conducting community surveys on
injuries and violence. Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 2004;11(4):303-306.
Heinen M, McGee KS, Warner M. Injury questions on household surveys from around the
world. Injury Prevention. 2004;10:327-329.
Sethi D, Habibula S, McGee K, Peden M (eds). Guidelines for Conducting Community Surveys
on Injuries and Violence. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2004.
World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2004.
Kara McGee, Contributing writer Chapter 2, The global impact ; Kara McGee writer
Statistical Annex.
McGee KS, Coyne-Beasley T, Johnson RM. Review of Evaluations of Educational Approaches
to Promote Safe Storage of Firearms. Injury Prevention. 2003;9:108-111.
Peden MM, McGee K. The epidemiology of drowning worldwide. Injury Control and Safety
Promotion. 2003;10(4):195-199.
Heinen M, McGee K. Household Injury Survey Comparison. Proceedings of the International
Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics, Volume IV. Paris Meeting, April 2003. U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2003.
McGee K, Peden M, Waxweiler R, Sleet D. Injury surveillance. Injury Control and Safety
Promotion. 2003;10:105-108.
Coyne-Beasley T, McGee KS, Johnson RM, Bordley WC. The association of handgun
ownership and storage practices with safety consciousness. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.
2002;156:763-768.
Peden M, McGee KS, Krug E (Eds). Injury: A leading cause of the global burden of disease,
2000. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2002.
Peden M, McGee KS, Sharma G. The Injury Chart Book: A graphical overview of the global
burden of injuries. World Health Organization, 2002.
SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS:
Efficacy of NNRTI-based antiretroviral therapy initiated during acute HIV infection
C. Gay, A. Johnson, S. McCoy, J. Kuruc, K. McGee, L. McNeil, et al., XVII
International AIDS Conference 3-8 August, 2008 Mexico City, Mexico
Kara McGee, S Kim, A Johnson, J Eron, C Hicks. Diagnosing Acute HIV Infection in North
Carolina: Challenges and Opportunities. Poster Presentation at 15th Conference of
Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Boston, MA. February 2008.
JoAnn D. Kuruc, MSN, RN; Lisa B. Hightow, MD, MPH; Sandi I. McCoy, MPH; Cynthia
Gay, MD, MPH; Donna Pittard, RN; Kara McGee, PA-C; Rhonda Ashby; Charles
Hicks, MD; Joseph J Eron, MD; Christopher Pilcher, MD; Peter A. Leone, MD.
Acute HIV Rapid Intervention and Entry into Care. Poster Presentation at American
Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. November 2006.
Casteel C, McGee KS, Runyan CW. Leading causes of unintentional home injury in high-risk
age groups. Oral presentation at 2005 National Injury Prevention and Control
Conference, Denver, Colorado. May 2005.
McGee KS, Runyan CW, Casteel C. Prevalence of home safety practices among households
where a person with a disability resides. Oral presentation at 2005 National Injury
Prevention and Control Conference, Denver, Colorado. May 2005.
Casteel C, McGee KS, Runyan CW. Adequacy of data for assessing injuries at home. Oral
presentation at 2005 National Injury Prevention and Control Conference, Denver,
Colorado. May 2005.
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Appy MK, McGee KS, Adkins P. Home Safety Council s National Fire Safety Literacy
Project. Oral presentation at 2005 National Injury Prevention and Control Conference,
Denver, Colorado. May 2005.
McGee K, Tomijima N. Global Injury Data: What Does it Really Mean? Oral presentation at
World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control. Vienna, Austria. June 2004.
Waxweiler R, Sleet D, Peden M, McGee K. Injury Surveillance: Minimum Data. Paper
presented at Road Traffic Injuries and Health Equity Conference, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. April 2002.
McGee KS, Coyne-Beasley T, Johnson RM. Are home safety practices and safe storage of
firearms related? Paper presented at Pediatric Academics Societies Annual Meeting,
Baltimore, Maryland. April 2001.
McGee KS, Coyne-Beasley T. Do parents who employ general safety practices store firearms
safely? Paper presented at American Public Health Association Meeting, Atlanta,
Georgia. October 2001.
Hollands CM, McGee KS. Is single drug therapy adequate for appendicitis? Paper presented at
Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
September 1998.
Gerace TA, Smith JC, McGee KS. Elevated serum cholesterol in fire fighters: the Dade County
Fire Fighters Health Project. Poster presented at the 29th American Heart Association
Council on Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Washington, DC. June 1989.
TEACHING:
Research advisor and reader of Master s Papers for following Maternal and Child Health
students:
Title Master s Paper
Date Student
April 2007 Katie Boos A Descriptive Analysis Of a Rapid HIV Testing Program
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Clinical rotation preceptor for PA students enrolled in the Duke University Physician Assistant
Program
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified Physician Assistant, National Committee on Certification of Physician
Assistants (NCCPA),1994 - present
Licensed Physician Assistant, Florida Board of Medicine, August 1995 present (inactive)
Licensed Physician Assistant, New York State Education Department Divison of Professional
Licensing Services, January 1995 present (inactive)
Licensed Physician Assistant, North Carolina Medical Board, September 2004 present
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Recipient, Maternal Child Health Bureau Training Grant, 2000-2001
Recipient, Annual Student Scholarships granted by the New York State Society of Physician
Assistants, 1992-1994
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Proficient in French and Spanish
Certified Basic Cardiac Life Support
SPSS and SAS statistical software
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Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Powerpoint
Epi Info 6, Epi Info 2002
Reference Manager 10.0, Endnotes 4.0, and Procite
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