DIPEN MANGALESHBHAI PATEL

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SKILLS

Technical Proficiency: Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook) Data Collection

(Qualtrics, REDcap) Analytic Software (Base & Advance SAS, Python, SPSS) Data Visualization (Tableau, Power-Bi, ArcGIS) State-level electronic public health surveillance system

(CalREDIE, EPIC), Tennessee Immunization Information System (TennIIS) Interpersonal Skills: Oral and Written Communication Empathy Leadership Flexibility Judgment Other: Medical Terminology HIPPA Electronic Medical Record IRB WORK EXPERIENCE

Epidemiologist - Data Stewardship July 2022 - Present Tennessee Department of Public Health-Contractor Nashville, TN

• Monitor, collect, and analyze antibiotic use and resistance (AUR) data as reported by healthcare facilities into the National Health Safety Network (NHSN)

• Participate in the design, development and quality control process for SAS programs used to access, extract, transform, review, analyze and submit AUR & IQVIA data for all requested analyses.

• Development of study outputs including SDTM/ADaM datasets, tables, listings, figures and QC of requested output.

• Create data visualizations of statewide HAI/AR reportable conditions trends with Tableau

• Preparing and delivering reports, scientific articles, and presentations on HAIs and surveillance trends to local, state, and national partners

• Participate in drug diversion outbreak investigations as part of a multi-disciplinary team

• Participate in HAI- and MDRO-related projects, including an Emerging Infections Program (EIP) point prevalence study of HAIs and antimicrobial use, onsite and remote validation of HAI data, and other special projects as needed

• Participate in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements

Epidemiologist - Data Quality August 2021 – July 2022 Tennessee Department of Public Health-Contractor Nashville, TN

• Daily reginal report cleaning and maintain the electronic NBS database

• Perform various data analysis in SAS, including descriptive statistics, linear, SQL, and logistic regression

• Generate dashboard of data with Tableau for use in scientific publications, and presentations

• Maintain efficient and effective logistical functioning of vaccine quality for statewide Vaccines for COVID-19, Clean data and maintain Vaccine Strike Team Report (~5,000) into TennIIS, analyse with SAS Medical Quality Assurance Specialist May 2021 – July 2021 Public Health Data Analyst March 2021 – July 2021

COVID-19 Case Investigator December 2020 – February 2021 PROJECTS

Analysis of National Healthcare Safety Network Antimicrobial Use of Tennessee 2019–2022 Dipen M Patel, MBBS, MPH; Cullen Adre, PharmD; Callyn Wren, PharmD; Cari Simmons, MSN, RN, CIC; Christopher Evans, PharmD

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2023.04.014

• The Tennessee HAI/AR program aggregated monthly NHSN AU Option data to describe statewide usage of antimicrobial agents from January 2019–December 2022.

• AU rates defined as Antimicrobial Days of Therapy (DOT) per 1000 Days Present (DP) for facilities.

• SAS analysis described AU rates by year, TN regions, and bed-size categories.

• We used these data to identify the most used antimicrobial drugs across the state facilities. DIPEN MANGALESHBHAI PATEL

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Characteristics of patients infected with Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii complex and Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in Tennessee, 2016–2021 IDWeek 2023

Dipen M Patel, MBBS, MPH, MPM1; Glodi Mutamba, MD, MPH1; Raquel Villegas, PhD, MS1; Ashley Gambrell, MPH1; Cherlly Bailey, MPH RN1; Jacquelyn T Mounsey, BSC, RN2; Daniel B Muleta, MD, MPH1 1Tennessee Department of Health, 2Vanderbilt University Medical Center Tennessee’s Drug Diversion Investigation Team: A Collaborative Approach to a Growing Public Health Problem

IDweek 2023

Callyn Wren, PharmD BCIDP; Christopher Evans, PharmD; Simone Godwin, DVM MPH MS; Ashley Gambrell, MPH; Dipen Patel, MBBS MPH MPM; Michelle Nation, MHIA BSN RN CIC; Christopher Wilson, MD MPH; Pamela Talley, MD MPH

Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN

Determining Trends of RTI Cases in a LTCF Pilot Surveillance Project Cullen Adre, PharmD; Dipen M Patel, MBBS, MPH; Vicky Reed AAS, RN, CIC; Srilakshmi Velrajan, MPH; Christopher Evans, PharmD; Raquel Villegas, PhD, MS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2023.245

• long-term-care facilities (LTCFs) were recruited to perform prospective respiratory tract infections

(RTIs) surveillance for six consecutive months from October 2021 through March 2022.

• Data were collected for all residents meeting the RTI surveillance definitions and entered by facilities into a Redcap database with a prospective RTI LTCF event form.

• Descriptive statistics were used to analyze RTI data and analyses performed on SAS version 9.4.

• These data will be used to evaluate antibiotic appropriateness and guide future surveillance efforts in the LTCF setting.

EDUCATION

M.S. in Project Management

University of Cumberlands, Kentucky KY, USA

Area acquired: Agile Methodology, Project Planning and Evaluation, Risk management GPA-3.823 M.S. in Public Health

California State University, San Marcos San Marcos, CA, USA Area acquired: Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health care GPA-3.68 Bachelor’s in medicine and Bachelor’s in Surgery

Kranti guru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kachchh University Bhuj-Kachchh, INDIA

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