I Connect Consulting INC
Contractor to the Association of Public Health Laboratories
153 23rd Avenue
San Francisco,
CA
USA
94121
rmerrick@iconnectconsulting.com
Biographical Sketch:
2006 to current - Public Health Information Specialist - Contractor to the Association to Public Health Laboratories, Silver Springs, MD
2005 to 2006 - Public Health Information Specialist - University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA
2005 to 2006 - Research Scientist - Sutter Health Systems, Sacramento, CA
1993 to current - Real Estate Management - San Francisco and Sacramento, CA and Spokane, WA
Advisor regarding standards and terminology implementation in public health laboratory realm and liaison to several Standards Development Organizations on behalf of APHL (2006-current).
Outreach to public health and hospital laboratories and standards mapping of their test catalogs and result values in California (2005 - 2006).
Design, planning and report on educational effect of flyers in stroke patients, including development of educational material (2005 - 2006).
Purchase, restoration and management of investment property in several cities in US (1993 - current).
Dissertation research including collection of samples and lab work up on intestinal spirochetes in HIV-positive patients (1990-1992).
Co-author of article about Community-driven standards-based electronic laboratory data-sharing and author or co-author of several articles relating to Intestinal Spirochete research in Germany.
Author and co-author of several posters and presentations at scientific meetings.