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.
Consultant, Utah Department of Health, Utah Health Service Delivery Plan, Phase I: Report and Recommendations from Inventory Sessions. 2005-2006.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/National Library of Medicine Public Health Informatics Fellow, University of Utah, 2004-2008
Researcher, Center of Excellence in Public Heath Informatics, DSIDE 1, 2006-current.
Consultant, Utah Health Information Network, DEA Notice of Proposed Rule Making e-RX of Controlled Substances Review, Salt Lake City, Ut., 2008.
Consultant, ACCESS: Patient-Centered Informatics Systems to Enhance Health Care in Rural Communities, AHRQ funded study, 2008-current.
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
Commissioner, 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, D.C.
Snow LA. Presentation: Public Health’s Role in Community-wide Electronic Clinical Data Exchange, International Partnership in Health Informatics Education, Master Class, Bad Wimpfen, Germany, August 2005.
Turner D, Snow LA, Froerer K. Utah Department of Health, Utah Health Service Delivery Plan, Phase I: Report and Recommendations from Inventory Sessions., Salt Lake City, Utah. April 2006.
Snow LA. Poster: Notifiable Disease Reporting: Can the Personal Electronic Health Record Contribute, American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress, Phoenix, Az., May 2006.
Snow LA. Presentation: Electronic Reporting of Notifiable Diseases, Public Health Informatics Symposium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Ut., 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, Washington, D.C., Fall 2006.
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.
Haggard L, Snow LA, Nangle B. Report: Utah Network for Electronic Public Health Information (UNIFY) Project Report and Implementation Plan, Utah Department of Health, March 31, 2007. Supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: 053517-InformationLinks: Connecting Public Health with Health Information Exchanges.
Richards J, Karras B, Hersh WH, Snow LA. Panel Presentation: Building Expertise in Public Health Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress, Orlando, Fl., May 2007.
Snow LA, Drews FA, Samore M. Poster: Information Collection for Strategies for Communicable Disease Control, American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress, Orlando, Fl., May 2007.
Mahamaneerat WK, Snow LA, Shyu CR. Paper Presentation: 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, Hong Kong, China, July 9-10, 2007.
Snow LA. Samore M, Drews FA, Kramer HS. Panel Presentation: Notifiable Disease Decision Making: Learning from Dynamic Information Board Search Strategies, Public Health Information Network, Atlanta, Ga., August 2007.
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, Atlanta, Ga., August 2007.
Snow LA. Presentation: Examining Decision Making by Public Health Workers in their Natural Work Environments, NLM/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Health Informatics Training Meeting, Chicago, Il., 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.
Snow LA, Kramer H, Norris J, Drews FA, Samore M. Poster Presentation: Examining Front-Line Decision Making, Public Health Information Network, Atlanta, Ga., August 2008.
Kramer, HS, Snow LA, Drews FA, Samore M. Presentation: Decision Making in Public Health, 2008 APA Convention, 116th Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, Ma., August 14-17, 2008.
Snow LA, Kramer H, Drews FA, Samore M. Poster Contest: Examining Front-Line Decision Making in State and Local Communicable Disease Control Programs- A qualitative analysis of semi-structure interviews, NLM/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Health Informatics Cohort Training Program, Washington, D.C., November 8, 2008. (Poster won first place.)
Snow LA, Bowlden V, Dickson S, Lusty R. Minson K. Poster Presentation: Collaboration to Protect the Public’s Health, West Nile Virus National Meeting – 2009, Co-sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Mosquito Control Association. Savannah, Ga., February 19-20, 2009.
Hersh WH, Snow LA, Xu W, Jackson D. Workshop: Public Health Informatics at the Front Line: What You and Your Boss Should Know, Utah Public Health Association, Midway, Ut., May 18, 2009. Accepted.
Snow LA, Risk I, Sommers J, Bowlden V, Dickson S, Lusty R. Poster Presentation: Protecting the Public Against Mosquito-borne Infectious Diseases: Collaboration between Public Health and Mosquito Abatement Agencies, Utah Public Health Association, Midway, Ut., May 18-20, 2009. Accepted.
Massoudi BL, Snow LA, Beitsch LM, Krist A, Bateman K. Panel Presentation: Fostering Collaboration between Public Health and Healthcare through Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress, Orlando, Fl. May 28, 2009. Accepted.
Edmunds M, Baylis G, Greene M, Fanberg H, Snow LA. Panel Presentation: Bridging the Trust Gap: Collaboration and Innovation in Health Information Exchange, American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress, Orlando, Fl. May 28, 2009. Accepted.
Kramer HS, Snow LA, Samore M, Drews FA. Structuring the Puzzle: Protocol Use in Disease Outbreak Investigations. Presentation, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, Tx., October 19-23, 2009. Accepted.
Book Chapters
Melton AR, Snow LA. The State Public Health Agencies, Chapter 9, Principles of Public Health Practice, third ed., Scutchfield FD and Keck CW, Eds., Delmar, Cengage Learning, Clifton Park, NY, 2009.
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
University Teaching:
Snow LA, Families, Consumers and Health, Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah.
Williams S, Snow LA, Sims S. Public Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah.
Huefner R, Snow LA. Public Policy: Health Political Science/Public Administration, University of Utah.
Samore M, Snow LA. Public Health Informatics Research in Progress, Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah.
Samore M, Snow LA. Public Health Informatics Journal Club, Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah.
Zick, Cathleen, Snow LA. Family Economic Resources, Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah.