Pam Driggers

530-***-****

ad31yd@r.postjobfree.com

Former Labor and Community Organizer; Twelve years’ experience in statistical analysis and epidemiologic research, including research with real world data.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Extensive experience as a Biostatistician and Epidemiologist in Healthcare including an understanding of business requirement, gathering data, performing many kinds of statistical analyses.

Worked extensively on creating reports and dashboards from different databases & sources.

Consulted with application development business analysts to translate business requirements into data design requirements used for driving innovative data designs that meet business objectives.

Writing complex technical specifications detailing data transformations, business rules, and workflows.

Designing distributed systems including defining interfaces between applications.

Flexible, innovative, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, growth-oriented, and time-critical environment.

Experience in data analysis, data visualization using Tableau, model building with machine learning algorithms for prediction and forecasting using data (historical or time series with regression techniques), using statistical/econometrics.

Provided live training and created training manuals on product applications procedures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Healthcare Compliance

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), HITECH (Health Information technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act, (ACA) Affordable Care Act, Medicare & Medicaid, MACRA (Medicare Access & CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) Reauthorization Act.

Statistical Data Analysis Skills

Have performed many kinds of statistical modelling to fit the data for analysis.

Reporting/BI

SAS, STATA, Microsoft Power BI

Office Tools

MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Developed and maintained an understanding of customer workflows and business needs to support.

Gathered business requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping, and observation from account managers, finance managers, and independent advisors and got an accurate understanding of their needs.

Assisting users with questions and issues using Tableau. Working with various infrastructure teams and Tableau support teams to help improve dashboard response time.

Worked within the project team to identify and interpret state Medicaid and Medicare policies as applicable to customer-defined algorithm research as well as assist with the internal development of new healthcare analytics.

Experience in Scientific Writing, Data Analytics, BI products, Power BI, Tableau, and several analytics tools.

EMPLOYMENT

PerCor

Statistical Consultant

Performed Analysis on Data mapping between different data models Conducted extensive epidemiologic research in biomedical technologies, developed and tested hypotheses for ongoing research. Predicted multiple outcomes using SAS.

Wrote technical reports for industries.

Pursued use of medical device claims (Real World Evidence) for analysis.

LA County Department of Public Health

Epidemiologist and Programmer

Assembled and analyzed real world data for analysis of Covid-19 cases from facilities and other settings.

Conducted sessions with various users to analyze and discuss project scope, identify the business flows, and determine whether any current or proposed systems are impacted by the new development efforts.

California Department of Pesticide Regulation

Research Scientist

Contributed to manuscripts submitted to professional journals.

Wrote technical reports to the State.

Performed study of Cholinesterase Poisonings using outcomes data from medical records claims and physician first reports.

Conducted the study of Rates of Agricultural Pesticide Exposure and resultant Cholinesterase Poisoning, using medical records and Physician First Reports and prepared the paper for submission to the journal American Industrial Medicine.

Contribute to air and soil sampling study protocol for examining effects of Chlopyrifos and Inerts.

Analysed irrigators’ exposure to soil fumigants using mixed models and prepared and submitted report to Stakeholders and members of the Board.

Analysed Sulfuric Acid rebound levels for rooms in homes, using repeated measures analysis and wrote and presented the study, results and inferences.

David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA

Biostatistician and Research Consultant

Performed all statistical analyses for experimental and clinical studies, RCTs.

Consulting and mentoring on the design and analysis of research studies and statistical analysis for all investigators (including the use of RWE.

Authored Safety MOPs and SOPS.

Designed and analysed medical devices in human and animal subjects.

Designed and analysed Bio-Flow external catheter device for its use in flight/Airmen.

Designed and evaluated wound healing material, MedicHon and designed randomized clinical trial (three arms).

Wrote DGMC research grant for IRB submission/approval, “Evaluation of an Injury Reduction Program: An Ecological Study” focused to reduce risk for occupational injuries.

Wrote DGMC research grant proposal for IRB submission/approval, “Healthcare Worker Injury Incidence Study”, focused to measure incidence and risk for musculoskeletal injuries among healthcare workers.

Department of Health and Environmental Control

Epidemiology Research Advisor

Performed large, quantitative study comparing population characteristics of Medicaid recipient population to members of Best Chance Network (BCN) and provided results to the State of South Carolina.

Prepared full report to the State about leading causes of certain cancers in SC using vital statistics- morbidity and mortality.

Conducted study of child overweight and obesity by area using GIS and prepared written and oral reports to Stakeholders.

Worked on enhancement & rescoping of system requirements suited to operate on the new platform.

Horton Bay Systems- Detroit, MI and Naples, FL

Research Consultant and Statistician

Conducted extensive research in biomedical technologies, developed and tested hypotheses for ongoing research.

Wrote technical reports for industries.

EDUCATION:

PhD: Public Health Science with minors in Epidemiology and Biostatistics - University of Texas Health Science Center

MPH: Epidemiology - Tulane School of Public Health - New Orleans, LA

MS Psychology - University of San Francisco - San Francisco, CA

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