University of Utah
Department of Biomedical Informatics
26 South 2000 East
HSEB 5700
Salt Lake City,
UT
USA
84112-5750
Email:
laverne.snow@hsc.utah.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Employment History:
Assistant Speech and Debate Coach, Highland High School, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1978-1980
Speech and Debate Coach, East High School, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1981-1982
Full Time Legislative Intern to Senate Minority Leader Rex Black, Utah State Senate, 1981
Legislative Intern Coordinator, Utah Legislature, Hinckley Institute of Politics, 1982
Utah Department of Health: Senior Health Policy Consultant; Director of Strategic Planning; Director Organizational Development and Evaluation; Director Management Audit; and Medicaid Information Analyst, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1983-1998
Environmental and Public Health Alliance, Olympic Coordinator, 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999-2002
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Senior Director for Public Health Information and Infrastructure, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999
Public Health Informatics Institute, Senior Program Director, Atlanta, Ga., 2002-2004
Interests:
1. Public Health Informatics
2. Public Health Decision Making
3. Communicable Disease Control Decision Support
4. Public Health Participation in Community Health Information Exchange
5. Public Policy
Professional Memberships and Boards:
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
National Association of Public Health Information Technologists (NAPHIT)
American Public Health Association (APHA) Past Governing Council Member
Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) Past President
Board of Directors, South Salt Lake Valley Mosquito Abatement District, 2006 to current
Board of Directors, Founding Member, Utah Alliance Community Services, 2002 to current
Board of Directors, Great Basin Public Health Leadership Institute, 2003-2008
Advisory Board Member, Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, 2003 to current
Utah Chapter, Pi Alpha Alpha (Public Administration Honorary Society) Founding President
Publications, Presentations and Posters:
Zick CD, Mayer RN, Snow LA. Does the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission make a difference? An assessment of its first decade, Journal of Consumer Policy, 9(1): 25-40, 1986.
Snow LA, DuVall SL, Huff SM, Gardner RM. Poster: Clinical Data Exchange through a Looking Glass: A Gray-Box Approach to Record Linkage. National Library of Medicine, Informatics Fellows Training Meeting, 2005. Washington, DC.
Snow LA. Presentation: Public Health’s Role in Community-wide Electronic Clinical Data Exchange, International Partnership in Health Informatics Education, Master Class, August 2005, Bad Wimpfen, Germany.
Snow LA. Poster: Notifiable Disease Reporting: Can the Personal Electronic Health Record Contribute, American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress, May 2006, Phoenix, AZ.
Snow LA. Presentation: Electronic Reporting of Notifiable Diseases, Public Health Informatics Symposium, University of Utah, May 2006.
Richards J, LaVenture M, Snow LA, Hanrahan LP, Ross DA. Panel Presentation: Planning for Public/Private Health Data Exchange: A National and State-Based Perspective, American Medical Informatics Association Symposium, Fall, 2006, Washington, DC.
Sims SA, Snow LA, Porucznik CA. Surveillance of methadone-related adverse events using multiple public health data sources, Journal of Biomedical Informatics Special Issue on Public Health Informatics, 40(4): 382-389, 2007.
Snow LA, Haggard L, Nangle B. Panel Presentation: Business Planning for Exchange of Clinical Data with State and Local Health Departments: Utah’s InformationLinks Project, Public Health Information Network 2006, Atlanta, GA.
Richards J, Karras B, Hersh W, Snow LA. Panel Presentation: Building Expertise in Public Health Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress, May 2007, Orlando, Fl.
Snow LA, Drews FA, Samore M. Poster: Information Collection for Strategies for Communicable Disease Control, American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress, May 2007, Orlando, Fl.
Mahamaneerat WK, Snow LA, Shyu CR. Mining Associations from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Database to Assist Policy Making, Enhancing Healthcare Education, Research & Practice Symposium, A Special Track of the 2007 Int'l Conf on ICT in Teaching and Learning, 9-10 July 2007, Hong Kong, China.
Snow LA. Samore M, Drews, F, et al., Panel Presentation: Notifiable Disease Decision Making: Learning from Dynamic Information Board Search Strategies, Public Health Information Network, August 2007, Atlanta, Ga.
Snow LA. Panel Moderator: Moving Towards Electronic Case Reporting: Jones J, Chicago Health Event Surveillance System (CHESS); Johnson S, Leveraging Projects in a Complex World; Davidson A, McEwen, Converting from paper-based notifiable disease reporting to an electronic transmission; and Ladd-Wilson S, Magnuson JA, Case Notification Messaging. Public Health Information Network, August 2007, Atlanta, Ga.
Snow LA. Presenter, Examining Decision Making by Public Health Workers in their Natural Work Environments, NLM/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Health Informatics Training Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November, 2007.
Richards J, LaVenture M, Snow LA, Hanrahan LP, Ross DA. Panel Presentation: Looking into the Future: National and State-based Perspectives on Health Information Exchange, American Medical Informatics Association Symposium, Fall Chicago, Illinois, November, 2007.
Review Articles:
AMIA Student Newsletter, Dec. 2005 Vol. 2(7) AMIA Symposium 2005, Review of Early Detection of Rotavirus Gastrointestinal Illness Outbreaks by Multiple Data Sources and Detection Algorithms at a Pediatric Health System, James E. Levin, MD, PhD. http://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/st/newsletters/05-12.pdf
AMIA Student Newsletter Aug-Oct 2006 Vol. 3(4), Review of The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Preparedness Initiative, John W. Loonsk, MD, J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006; 13: 1–4. http://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/st/newsletters/06-10.pdf
Teaching:
Williams S, Snow L, Sims S. Public Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah.
Huefner R, Snow L. Public Policy: Health Political Science/Public Administration, University of Utah.
Samore M, Snow L. Public Health Informatics Research in Progress, Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah.
Samore M, Snow L. Public Health Informatics Journal Club, Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah.
Zick, Cathleen, Snow L. Family Economic Resources, Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah.