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Kari A Kraemer

Chicago,IL

Summary

Data Driven and forward-thinking professional with a strong background in leading analytics of healthcare data. Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams through the project development cycle to a successful final product. Demonstrated expertise in using extremely large, complex data sets to draw conclusions and effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences. Proficient in using SQL/SAS for accessing, manipulating, and analyzing database systems.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Data Analytics

Walmart
Chicago, IL
07.2022 - Current
  • Built and maintained loyal, long-term relationships with business partners through collaboration and reliable delivery of solutions.
  • Delivered exceptional reporting solutions through hands-on leadership of associates.
  • Recruited, interviewed and hired qualified staff to build a skilled Epic reporting team.
  • Conducted regular meetings with department heads to review progress on strategic initiatives.

Manager Analytic Consulting

HCSC - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Chicago, IL
07.2021 - 06.2022
  • Led an analytic team in delivering project requirements, developing solutions and meeting deadlines.
  • Worked with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services.
  • Leveraged data from multiple sources to deliver clear, concise and data-driven insights to both internal stakeholders and client facing teams.
  • Partnered with data science team to integrate predictive modeling into care management program outreach.

Associate Director of Data Science

OptumRx, Clinical Analytics And Reporting
Chicago, IL
11.2019 - 06.2021
  • Led an analytic and web development team in the build-out and delivery of a self-service tool that can be used to model changes in Benefit Design. Required close cooperation among team members to share information and develop solutions to meet broad array of deliverables, as well as collaboration with various business segments to gather requirements
  • Participated in the Analytics Leadership team meetings and contributed input on decisions regarding the top priorities for the department and what can be done to address any issues team members are facing
  • Lead regular meetings with Clinical leadership to keep them updated on the status and progress of our largest projects

Online Course Instructor

Des Moines Area Community College
West Des Moines, IA
01.2013 - 08.2020
  • Teach introductory statistics to business majors online using BlackBoard and Pearson's MyStatLab (25-75 students per semester)
  • Build online content and develop homework and exams

Manager Of Data Science

OptumRx, Clinical Analytics And Reporting
Chicago, IL
06.2018 - 11.2019
  • Led an analytic and web development team in the build-out and delivery of a self-service tool requiring close cooperation among team members to share information and develop solutions to meet broad array of deliverables
  • Oversaw the annual CMS reporting of MTM, which ultimately results in our CMS star-rating. For 2018 data, we were able to successfully submit all measures during the first submission window
  • Provided support to end-users of our existing self-service tools and ensured all issues were resolved in a timely manner
  • Managed the ongoing maintenance of our self-service tools by working with business owners to make sure data sources were kept up to date and any necessary enhancements were made
  • Provided support to end-users of our existing self-service tools and ensured that all issues were resolved in a timely manner

Analytic Advisor

OptumRx, Clinical Analytics And Reporting
Chicago, IL
11.2016 - 06.2018
  • Developed a member-level opioid abuse predictive model and presented it to the business. The model identified members who were at high risk of abusing opioids, defined as having a high daily morphine equivalent dose (MED)
  • Developed an opioid prescriber model that identified prescribers whose opioid prescribing habits were unusual compared to prescribers in their same specialty. The model was used for outreach and education around best practices in opioid prescribing
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with clinicians, business, and leadership to build-out reporting on various clinical products
  • Prepared data analyses to support requests from leadership
  • Developed SQL queries to obtain complex data from tables in remote databases

Statistician

American College Of Surgeons
Chicago, IL
09.2012 - 11.2016
  • Performed statistical analysis for the Pediatric National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP-P) and produced Semiannual Reports that were distributed to participants
  • Presented statistical results at conferences
  • Provided participant support for the statistical analyses and Semiannual Reports
  • Consulted with surgeons and other clinical personnel on how best to collect and analyze data to answer specific research questions

Course Instructor

Iowa State University, Department Of Statistics
Ames, IA
08.2011 - 05.2012
  • Taught introductory statistics course for non-majors (100 students)
  • Responsible for preparing and administering lectures and exams

Education

Ph.D - Statistics

Iowa State University
2012

M.S - Statistics

Iowa State University
2008

B.A. - Mathematics, Economics

College of Saint Benedict
St Jospeh, MN
2005

Skills

  • Team Building
  • Leadership
  • Project coordination
  • People Management
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Data Management
  • Healthcare data/analyses
  • Presentations to business/leadership

Publications and Presentations

  • Saito, J. M., Chen, L. E., Hall B. L., Kraemer, K., Barnhart, D. C., Byrd, C., Cohen, M. E., Fei, C., Heiss, K.F., Huffman, K., Ko, C. Y., Latus, M., Meara, J. G., Oldham, K. T., Raval, M. V., Richards, K. E.,Shah, R. K., Sutton, L. C., Vinocur, C. D., Moss, L. R. Risk-adjusted Hospital Outcomes for Children's Surgery. Pediatrics. 2013 August
  • Cohen, M. E., Ko, C. Y., Bilimoria, K. Y., Zhou, L., Huffman, K., Wang, X., Liu, Y., Kraemer, K., Meng, X., Merkow, R., Chow, W., Matel, B., Richards, K., Hart, A. J., Dimick, J. B., Hall, B. L. Optimizing ACS NSQIP modeling for evaluation of surgical quality and risk: Patient risk adjustment, procedure mix adjustment, shrinkage adjustment, and surgical focus. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2013 April
  • ACS NSQIP National Conference, July 2014, New York, NY. Presentation titled "ACS NSQIP Pediatric Semiannual Report Overview."
  • ACS NSQIP National Conference, July 2013, San Diego, CA. Presentation titled "ACS Pediatric NSQIP Participant Use File (PUF) Overview."
  • Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2010, Vancouver, BC. Presentation titled "Confidence Intervals for the Amount of Heterogeneity in Meta-analysis: Small- sample Properties and Robustness to Non-normality."

Timeline

Director, Data Analytics

Walmart
07.2022 - Current

Manager Analytic Consulting

HCSC - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
07.2021 - 06.2022

Associate Director of Data Science

OptumRx, Clinical Analytics And Reporting
11.2019 - 06.2021

Manager Of Data Science

OptumRx, Clinical Analytics And Reporting
06.2018 - 11.2019

Analytic Advisor

OptumRx, Clinical Analytics And Reporting
11.2016 - 06.2018

Online Course Instructor

Des Moines Area Community College
01.2013 - 08.2020

Statistician

American College Of Surgeons
09.2012 - 11.2016

Course Instructor

Iowa State University, Department Of Statistics
08.2011 - 05.2012

Ph.D - Statistics

Iowa State University

M.S - Statistics

Iowa State University

B.A. - Mathematics, Economics

College of Saint Benedict

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