SAS

Pooja Sharma

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Fort Worth, TX

Phone- 313-***-****

Email: **************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

5+ years of experience in Healthcare.

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Conceptually strong with an innovative and analytical approach to the work. Enriched

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with the ability to learn new concepts technology within short span of time.

Excellent ability to research, read, analyzes, and interprets large amounts of data and

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information.

SAS Certified Base Programmer.

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Advanced SAS Certified.

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SAS 9.3, SAS enterprise guide, SAS web editor with a comprehensive understanding &

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application of its procedures & contents like SAS/BASE, SAS/ODS, SAS/MACRO,

SAS/SQL, SAS/Graph, and SAS/Report.

2+ years of hands-on work experience in SAS/SPSS.

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Prepared reports using SAS report generating procedures like PROC PRINT, PROC

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REPORT, PROC FREQ, and PROC MEANS etc.

Experience with Descriptive statistics, Probability, Sampling, Statistical distributions,

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Estimation, Hypothesis testing, Chi-square test, Simple and multiple linear regression,

One-way ANOVA, Logistic Regression, Multinomial and ordinal logistic regression

models, Poisson regression and log-linear models, models for polytomous data and

generalized linear models, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Survival analysis: Kaplan-Meier

estimation, statistical principles and methods of clinical trials (phase I to IV clinical

trials), Applied Bayesian Inference,Epidemiological studies, Non parametric tests.

Writing the statistical methods and contributing to the results and discussion

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sections for manuscripts.

DATA analysis with SPSS, R- Studio :Inputting Raw Medical Marketing data into SPSS,

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Inputting data into data editor, creating /recoding variables, Sub setting observations,

Sort, split and collapsing data, merging and concatenating data, reshaping data, Analyzing

the data using appropriate model technique.

Programming experience with SQL.

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Public Health officer with over 2 years’ experience.

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Knowledge of Pharmacology, Biochemistry & nutrition, Microbiology, Human Anatomy,

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embryology & histology, Human Physiology and General pathology.

QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s in Biostatistics - Public Health (Texas) with 3.93 GPA

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Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Bhojia Dental College and Hospital - Himachal Pradesh

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University. (2003-2007)

AWARDS

Biostatistics Services and Training Center Scholarship (UNTHSC)

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Outstanding master’s student in Research (UNTHSC)

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Data Analyst: Cook’s Children Hospital (April 2014–

Present)

• Assistance in providing consulting service to research team, including identifying

problems in research design, statistical analysis and result interpretation, and proposing

solutions.

• Data cleaning and data manipulation.

• Writing program code to analyze data using statistical analysis software (SAS, SPSS)

• Prepare tables graphs to present clinical data or results.

(May 2013 - April

UNTHSC – Fort Worth, TX

2014)

Research Assistant & Data Analyst

Data Analysis: The National Health Interview Survey Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance

System (BRFSS 2012) Data.

• Extraction of SQL and Flat File data, conversion to SAS data sets, combining and

merging data sets.

• Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Logistics Regression, Stratified analysis.

• Project Objective: Investigate the association between menu-labeling usage and healthy

behaviors pertaining to diet (consumption of fruits, vegetables, sodas, and sugar-

sweetened beverages) and exercise.

• Develop, test and maintain the SAS program code to perform statistical analysis.

Data Analysis: National Health Interview Survey

Project Objectives: Examine the association between patient race/ethnicity and usual source of

safety net care.

• Support and assistance in preparation of Statistical Analysis Plans.

• Design tables, listings and figures for statistical reporting.

• Develop, test and maintain the SAS program code to perform statistical analysis and

generate analysis datasets.

• Analysis used: Descriptive analysis, Chi-square statistics, Multivariate logistic regression,

and multinomial logistics regression.

• Preparation of the Statistical Reports.

• Interpretation of the statistical results.

Technologies:

SAS 9.2, SPSS, SQL 2008

UNTHSC – Fort Worth, TX April2013-April2014

Teaching Assistant

• Assist professor with classroom instructions, exams, record keeping, and other

miscellaneous projects.

• Hand out assignments and grade papers.

• Record grades and inform students of their final grades.

• Create and write materials such as a syllabus, visual aids, answer keys, supplementary

notes, and course websites.

• Correspond with students on Blackboard or related inter-campus communication system.

• Meet with students during office hours.

• Lead discussion sections.

Technologies:

SAS 9.2, SPSS

Biostatistics Tutor: University of North Texas Health Science Center (2013).

• Provide individual and small group tutoring to students.

• Assist students in improving basic Bio statistical concepts.

• Assist students statistical software skills, such as SAS, SPSS

Dental Manager: Lenox dental care, Chandler (Arizona, 2011- 2012)

Research Assistant: HPU University (India, 2009 - 2011)

• Project objective: Effect of Eugenol and Non-Eugenol Periodontal Dressing after One-

stage full- mouth disinfection: Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Assisted Senior Biostatistician in providing consulting service to clinical research team,

including identifying problems in research design, statistical analysis and result

interpretation, and proposing solutions.

• Assisted in patient recruitments, Obtaining informed consent, Randomization of the

patients, collection of the data, data maintenance, consultation on exclusion and inclusion

criteria, calculation of sample size and power calculations, statistical analysis using an

appropriate test, preparation of statistical reports and interpretation of the results.

Dental Surgeon: Genesis Dental Care, Chandigarh (India, 2008-2009)

AFFILIATION

APHA

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ASA

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Member of the I.D.A. (Indian Dental Association)

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CETIFICATIONS

SAS base Certification.

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SAS Advanced Certification.

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CITI Program (The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative)

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AWARDS

Biostatistics Services and Training Center Scholarship (UNTHSC)

Outstanding master’s student in Research (UNTHSC)

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Proficiency in: SAS, SPSS, SQL, R, MS Office, Dentrix.

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