Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Division of Disease Control
500 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia,
PA
USA
19146
Biographical Sketch:
06/09 – 08/09 -- Epidemiology Intern, Erie County Department of Health, Buffalo, NY
1/13/09 – 1/14/09 -- Recorder/Reporter, Minority Health Disparities Summit, NYS Department of Health, Albany, NY
Analyzed dataset of gonococcal antimicrobial resistance outcomes and developed health alert for Erie County, recommending revised gonorrhea treatment in response to increased antimicrobial resistance (06/09-08/09)
Created PID surveillance process utilizing medical diagnosis, treatment, and physical exam findings to investigate underreporting of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) through medical record review in two Erie County Emergency Departments (06/09-08/09)
Transcribed events and discourse of one of five panel discussions at Minority Health Disparities Summit, capturing common threads of the presentations and delivered a PowerPoint summary to more than 150 public health and private healthcare leaders (1/14/09)
Presented oral presentation at North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecologists 2010 Annual Meeting, and poster presentation at 2010 National STD Conference (4/16/10, 3/12/10)
Complete statistical analysis projects and participate in disease investigation and interventions as part of Epidemiology and Acute Communicable Disease programs at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Division of Disease Control.