Public Health Services
Resume:
Pam Driggers
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Former Labor and Community Organizer; Fifteen years’ experience in statistical analysis and epidemiologic research and evaluation. Have done work on Covid-19 and recently about emerging infectious diseases.
Professional Summary
Extensive experience as a Biostatistician and Epidemiologist in Healthcare and Business--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, risk reduction matrices, model building with machine learning algorithms for prediction and forecasting using data (historical or time series with regression techniques), using statistics/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. Survey acquisition and analysis. Risk analysis for healthcare. Design of experiments.
Reporting/BI
SAS, STATA, Microsoft Power BI, Python (intermediate), Tableau.
Office Tools
MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
Developed and maintained an understanding of customer workflows and business needs to support businesses and organizations.
Use HP Quality Center to house all test documentation and report/track all issues and defects Defect Management.
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 statistical programs. Working with various infrastructure teams and 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 business analytics.
Experience in data mining, analytics, design of experiments, Power BI, and several analytics tools.
San Juaquin County Public Health Services
Epidemiologist
August 2024 to present
Prepared folders for data blending.
Preparing qualitative data for analysis and reporting of data collected from focus groups.
PerCor
Consultant
September 2021 to present
Responsibilities
Advise and mentor customers in achieving analyses of their data.
Perform data mapping for different data models
Data mining for data from biomedical and health literature, developed and tested hypotheses for ongoing research of communicable illnesses. Predicted multiple outcomes using SAS forecast.
Writing technical reports for industries.
Performing analysis of emerging infectious diseases.
LA County Department of Public Health
Epidemiologist
April 2020 to July 2021
Responsibilities
Introduced data dashboards to the research team as an improved means for sharing dat.
Assembled and analyzed real world data for analysis of Covid-19 cases from schools and health facilities.
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.
Data mining for cases of Covid and more emerging infectious diseases.
California Department of Pesticide Regulation
Research Scientist in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Feb 2016 to April 2020
Responsibilities
Designed and analysed surveys for commissioners to obtain use of pesticides, contributed to manuscripts submitted to professional journals.
Wrote technical reports to the State and diverse audiences.
Conducted study: the study: Rates of Agricultural Pesticide Exposure and Resultant Cholinesterase Poisoning, using medical records and Physician First Reports and prepared the paper for submission to the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
Presented my studies of cholinesterase poisoning to the Western Conference of Epidemiologists.
Contributed to air and soil sampling study protocol for examining effects of Chlorpyrifos and Inert ingredients; and presented results to stakeholders including the executive board and occupational medicine physicians.
Conducted risk analysis for sulfuric acid levels in homes, performed repeated measures analysis, and presented study results with ongoing study recommendations.
David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA
Biostatistician and Research Consultant
July 2013 to February 2017
Responsibilities
Performed all statistical analyses for survey, epidemiologic, evaluation and clinical studies.
Designed and implemented animal experiments leading to human studies.
Consulted and mentored on the design and analysis of research studies and statistical analysis for all resident and physician and allied health investigators.
Presented in-service trainings on data collection and data analysis for medical research.
Designed and evaluated wound healing experimental material, MedicHon and designed randomized clinical trial (three arms).
Designed and conducted safe patient handling, dosing and charting of medications given to patients, developed patient information and healthcare worker information materials.
Awarded and managed an NIH R-25 research grant: Evaluation of an Injury Reduction Program: An Ecological Study focused to reduce risk for occupational injuries (survey with questionnaire study).
Awarded and managed an NIH R-10 for “Healthcare Worker Injury Incidence Study, focused to measure incidence and risk for musculoskeletal injuries among healthcare workers and causes including staff shortages due to early retirement (survey with questionnaire study).
Statistician
February 2011 to December2013
Department of Health and Environmental Control
Performed large, mixed methods study comparing population characteristics of Medicaid recipient population to members of Best Chance Network (BCN) and presented the results to the State of South Carolina and to local and state politicians to raise funds for research.
Prepared full report to the State about leading causes of certain cancers in SC using vital statistics. Predicted and compared costs of treatment and non-treatment using SAS proc forecast.
Worked on enhancement & rescoping of system requirements suited to operate on a new platform.
Statistics Consultant
May 2011 Aug 2013
Horton Bay Systems- Detroit, MI and Naples, FL
Researched biomedical technologies and tested hypotheses.
Created Risk Analysis templates.
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
Service
Committee for Social Justice, Congregation Bet Haverim-member
Black Lives Matter- Political Action Committee-member
Publications
Graham, Zeiss, Driggers from American Chemical Society: Managing and Analysing Pesticide Use Data and Pesticide Management, 2021: “Pesticide Use and the Distribution of Acute Illness Episodes, pp 431-460.
Parker, G., Williams, B. and Driggers, P. Sun Exposure Knowledge and Practices of Maintenance Squadrons. Military Medicine, 180, 1:1:26: 2015
Cherpitel, C. and Driggers, P. (2009). Alcohol and Injuries: A Review of International Emergency Room Studies Since
1995: A Report prepared for the World Health Organization.
Driggers, P. Cognitive Mechanisms Applied to Immigrant Worker Health and Safety. Dissertation Study:
School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2007.
Driggers, P. Poster Presentation: Profile of Men Who Participate in Prostate Cancer Screening at a Major Cancer Center. American Society of Preventative Oncology, No. 10 Houston, TX. 1999.
Driggers, P. Orders for Protective Custody in Orleans Parish presented to the American Medical Association, 1999.
Driggers, P. Poster Presentation: The Effect of Implementation of Infection Control Intervention on the Frequency of
Improper Respiratory Isolation at LSU Medical Center. Infectious Disease Society of America, No. 333, San
Francisco, CA. 1999.a
Additional publications available, upcoming.
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