Demonstrated success in public health project and team management, including epidemiology, statistical analysis and literature reviews. Skilled in technical writing, surveillance and field research. Results-driven and proactive with a diligent, responsive and resourceful nature.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Epidemiologist
Center For Drug Evaluation And Research, FDA
05.2021 - Current
Used advanced statistical software tools including R and SAS (including SAS SQL and SAS Macros) to evaluate trends in nonmedical drug use in National Poision Center Data (NPDS), NVSS-M mortality data, National Electronic Injury Surveillance System – Cooperative Adverse Drug Event Surveillance Project (NEISS-CADES), National Survey of Drug Use on Health (NSDUH)
Created data visualizations in R and Excel to represent findings of large literature reviews
Evaluated published studies and study protocols for epidemiologic accuracy and completeness
Epidemiologist
Center For Tobacco Products, FDA
09.2013 - 05.2021
Automated basic statistical reports for monthly delivery of Nielsen sales data using SAS macros and SAS programming langauge to create accessible PDFs for center review
Reviewed contractor's data delivery, statistical and data analysis proposals for the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH), a nationally representative complex survey weighted study
Described population trends in tobacco use patterns through basic and advanced statistical modeling techniques, leading to multiple publications
Used SAS software to write program codes to analyze data with data visualizations in R
Fellow
National Center For Health Statistics, CDC
09.2011 - 09.2013
Utilized advanced statistical software tools to analyze complex survey data and draw meaningful insights.
Answered outside inquires on weighting, imputation, variance estimation to produce reliable survey estimates in NHANES, NHIS and other nationally representative weighted surveys
Prepared statistical analysis plans and provided statistical interpretation for graphs, tables and charts.
Reviewed statistical output to ensure confidentiality of Medicare, Medicaid and mortality linked datasets
Education
Certificate -
FDA-University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. - Epidemiology
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Baltimore
06.2011
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish
The Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA
05.2005
Skills
Attention to Detail
Analytical Skills
Analytical Thinking
Excellent Communication
Literature Review
Statistical analyses (Descriptive Statistics, Logistic and Linear Regression)
Familiar with propensity score analysis and nested case-control studies
Certification
MedDRA coding basics, MedDRA Maintenance and Support Services Organization (MSSO)- March 2024
Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions, EdX- July 2023
Data Science: Visualization, EdX- April 2023
Data Science: R Basics, EdX- October 2022
Pharmacoepidemiology, University of Pennsylvania-October 2022
Various SAS, SUDAAN, R and other statistical trainings available upon request
Languages
Spanish
Professional Working
Arabic
Elementary
Chinese (Mandarin)
Elementary
Publications
6 first author peer-reviewed publications (primary data analyst on all)
Coauthor on over 20 peer-reviwed publications, including 3 as primary data analyst
1 first authored government publication, co-author on 5 additional publications
Experienced epidemiologic review writer, memo author and public speaker
Timeline
Epidemiologist
Center For Drug Evaluation And Research, FDA
05.2021 - Current
Epidemiologist
Center For Tobacco Products, FDA
09.2013 - 05.2021
Fellow
National Center For Health Statistics, CDC
09.2011 - 09.2013
Certificate -
FDA-University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. - Epidemiology
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish
The Pennsylvania State University
MedDRA coding basics, MedDRA Maintenance and Support Services Organization (MSSO)- March 2024
Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions, EdX- July 2023
Data Science: Visualization, EdX- April 2023
Data Science: R Basics, EdX- October 2022
Pharmacoepidemiology, University of Pennsylvania-October 2022
Various SAS, SUDAAN, R and other statistical trainings available upon request
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