Scott Troppy, MPH

MA Department of Public Health
Office of Integrated Surveillance and Informatics Services
305 South Street
Boston, MA
USA 02130
scott.troppy@state.ma.us

Biographical Sketch:
Troppy, S., Kazis, L., Ren, S., Skinner, K., “Health Related Quality of Life for the SF-36 Project: Social Support in the Veteran - Population with Diabetes, American Public Health Conference”, Panel Discussion - American Public Health Conference, Boston, MA 1999. Troppy, S., Gunn, J., Ellingson, A., McCarthy, T., Barry, A., “Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Influenza Pandemic Planning”, Communicable Disease Control Division, Boston Public Health Commission, Oral Presentation -American Public Health Conference, Boston, MA 2003. Troppy, S., Covington, L., Montrond, S., Martorell, C., Dickenson, J., Gunn, J., Barry, A., “A Family Legacy of Tuberculosis (1990-2004)”, Communicable Disease Control Division, Boston Public Health Commission, Oral Presentation - American Public Health Conference, Boston, MA 2005. Tian, Y., Troppy, S., Dripps, W., Chalfoiux, D., “An exploratory spatial analysis to identify the appropriate scale and potential risk factors for understanding obesity distributions”, Geocomputation Conference Series, 2005, http://www.geocomputation.org/2005/Tian.pdf Morris, V., Cook, J., Melfi, K., Neault, N., Troppy, S., Agrawal, T., Richmond, A., Horton, K., “GIS mapping in the assessment of food resources in low income Boston neighborhoods”, Growth and Development Program, Boston Medical Center, Oral Presentation - American Public Health Conference, Boston, MA 2006. Troppy, S., Haney, G., Beaudoin, M., Caten, E., Church, D. Elson, F., DeMaria, A., “Spatial Analysis of Hepatitis A Vaccine Program in Massachusetts”, Oral Presentation - ESRI Health GIS Conference Proceedings 2007. Troppy, S., Haney, G., Kludt, P., Heisey-Grove, D., LaPorte, T., Daniel, J., DeMaria, A., “Real time sharing of critical health Information at a state health department”, Massachusetts Department of Public Health , Oral Presentation - Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologist Annual Meeting, 2007. Troppy, S., Heisey-Grove, D., Malenfant, J., Haney, G., DeMaria, A., “How do you train 351 towns to use a web-based surveillance system?”, Massachusetts Department of Public Health , Oral Presentation - Public Health Information Network, CDC Annual Conference, 2008. Troppy, S., Haney, G., DeMaria, A., “Mandating hospital and commercial laboratories to report notifiable conditions electronically in Massachusetts”, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Oral Presentation - Public Health Information Network, CDC Annual Conference, 2008. Troppy, S., Heisey-Grove, D., Malenfant, J., Haney, G., DeMaria, A., “Training and Proficiency Testing for Local Health Partners On a Web-Based Surveillance System”, Oral Presentation - Public Health Information Network, CDC Annual Conference, 2009. Malenfant, J., Haney, G., Etkind, S., Troppy, S., DeMaria A., “Lessons learned from implementing a web-based case management and surveillance system for Tuberculosis for state and local public health in Massachusetts”, The National TB Controllers Meeting, 2009. Sotir, M., Ewald, G., Kimura, A., Higa, J., Sheth, A., Troppy, S., Meyer, S., Hoekstra, R., Austin, J., Archer, J., Spayne, M., Daly, E., Griffin, P., “The Salmonella Wandsworth Outbreak Investigation Team Outbreak of Salmonella Wandsworth and Typhimurium Infections in Infants and Toddlers Traced to a Commercial Vegetable-Coated Snack Food”, The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal: December 2009 - Volume 28 - Issue 12 - pp 1041-1046. Malenfant, J., Haney, G., Etkind, S., Troppy, S., DeMaria A., “Lessons learned from implementing a web-based case management and surveillance system for Tuberculosis for state and local public health in Massachusetts”, American Medical Informatics Association Conference, Poster, 2010. Malenfant, J., Haney, G., Etkind, S., Troppy, S., DeMaria A., “Lessons learned from implementing a web-based case management and surveillance system for reportable diseases in Massachusetts for state and local public health”, American Medical Informatics Association Conference, Group Panel Presentation, 2010. Caten, E., Troppy, S., Haney, G., “Exploring Improvements in Disease Surveillance Quality In Massachusetts”, Oral Presentation - ESRI Health GIS Conference Proceedings 2010.