Jessica Hamilton

AI Researcher

Columbus, Ohio, United States16 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Secured $65K in grant funding for health initiatives.
Automated reporting measures, improving accuracy and efficiency.
Extensive experience in disease surveillance and epidemiological analysis.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare Data Analyst with strong epidemiological expertise.

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Public health analyst with 3 years of experience • Support epidemiological projects including grant writing (securing $65K of funding), literature searches, survey design, data collection/ management/ analysis/ interpretation, result presentation, disease surveillance, and implementing health programs • Two years of experience monitoring, preventing, and/or stopping national/international disease spread using surveillance systems: o Statewide surveillance applications: Ohio Disease Reporting system, National Outbreak Reporting System, Epicenter (Health Monitoring), and Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance o Department of Defense Armed Services surveillance applications: ESSENCE and Disease Reporting and Surveillance Internet (DRSi) • Over 4+ years of experience with SAS, Stata and Excel for statistical testing, data manipulation, and visualization of data • Over 2 years with EpiInfo to create surveys • Over 1+ year of experience with GrassGIS and ArcGIS for mapping.

Experience

Agilon health

3 roles

Sr. Clinical Data Scientist

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Supporting Agilon Critical Capabilities and solving complex analytical problems.

Sr. Encounters Analyst

Aug 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

Worked collaboratively with the Electronic Data Interchange team, developers, and external vendors to create, validate, and submit encounters and supplemental data submissions to health plan partners.
Identified business requirements to receive, load, and ingest MMR, MOR, RAPS, RAPS Return, EDPS, MAO-004, Coding vendor files, NP vendor files, hospital data files and other ancillary data files via sFTP set-up and web-based warehouse services (AWS).
Determined root cause and resolved errors within data pertaining to financial impacts and risk-adjustment by communicating with the finance team and developing reconciliation reports.

Medical Economics Analyst

Jul 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Initiated, standardized and automated reporting measures and procedures of health plan Authorization Files across the entire company which reduced time spent by about 80% and improved reporting accuracy.
Created and maintained market-specific dashboards to help physicians in our partner groups access information on admissions, discharges, and transitions of care for their patients. This allowed market operations and primary care physicians better identify areas of opportunity for care coordination to provide better care.
Run monthly analysis on COVID-related claims cost and utilization to track spend and care across the central region
Built out large data tables for clinical analytics in order to measure and track performance initiatives. The idea is to combine multiple health measures per patient and market in order to provide summaries and analysis for cost savings down the line.
Respond to frequent ad hoc requests from enterprise, market level, and partners across agilon which seek to understand and visualize trends, areas of opportunity, needs for further analysis, and performance of care management initiatives for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Fee for Service patients
Work collaboratively across teams within the company to continually improve and streamline projects, identify gaps, and seek opportunities for creating healthcare initiatives

Ssi (sts systems integration, llc)

Epidemiologist

Aug 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Wright-Patterson AFB

Federal defense contractor embedded with the Epidemiology Consult Service at the US Air Force (USAF) School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright-Patterson Air Force base supporting multiple concurrent USAF public health missions
o Hearing Conservation Program:
 Reduced SAS processing time for DoD required reporting by 80% by writing new SAS code to complete calculations for key performance indicators
 Rework, update, and manage datasets with over 50 million observations for the Hearing Conservation Program
o DRSi (Disease Reporting Surveillance internet):
 Perform ongoing analysis of Reportable Medical Events Disease Reporting across all active Air Force bases using SAS to merge and clean multiple datasets, including HL7 medical data
 Use DRSi, medical records, and passive surveillance to identify and respond to multiple outbreak investigations by ensuring cases meet WHO and Air Force case definitions, providing guidance on testing/identifying pathogens, and mitigating further propagation
 Provide analytical and technical support on Congressional, DHA, and DoD epidemiological requests using SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, and R
o Epidemiology Consult Division:
 Perform data analysis and respond to consults across all levels of the US Air Force as requested. Examples of consults conducted include:
As requested by an Air Force General, provided in-depth analysis of mental health diagnosis and sleep disorders in active duty members over a decade based on location and policy changes
Responded to a Majcom Level inquiry, prompted by a Reuters’ study, about Blood Lead Level reporting in the Air Force as compared across other services to determine lack of reporting.
o Public Health Officers Class:
 Teach “Principles of Epidemiology” on a quarterly basis at the Air Force Institute of Technology to USAF Public Health Officers
 Engage a classroom of adult learners in different class formats including a Community Health Workshop and a Public Health Management Course

Clark county combined health district

Epidemiologist

Mar 2017 – Aug 2017 · 5 mos

Prioritized research areas and identified gaps in the Community Health Improvement Plan and Community Health Assessment by focusing on health trends within the county that indicated a health risk to residents
Assisted with developing policies and procedures to align with the standards for the Public Health Accreditation Board, Community Health Assessment, and Community Health Improvement Plan
Prepared ad hoc reports to support the communicable disease staff and health educators using health statistics and data from the Ohio Department of Health data repository and software including Microsoft Office applications, Access, and Adobe
Responded to public health related inquiries from health professionals and stakeholders in the community related to: communicable disease, outbreak investigations, pathogen testing, mortality, births, public health surveillance, and environmental health
o Designed and created presentations and hand-out communications with graphs, data tables, and visualizations to respond to inquiries
Represented Public Health interests for Clark and Champaign County at multiple countywide and statewide conferences and periodic committee meetings:
o Participated in small-group sessions and represented the County
o Wrote and managed IRB protocols for approval to collect data from minors
o Created and administered a local Youth Risk Behavior Survey and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance survey using Microsoft, Adobe and Remark software
o Analyzed and interpreted survey results using R, Excel, and EpiInfo software
Supported grant applications:
o Secured $65K in grant funding for “Baby and Me Tobacco Free” funding by providing grant requested data management, statistics, and writing support
o Performed data analysis and provided results interpretation to 7 health district departments to aid in grant and policy requirements using R, Excel, GrassGIS, ArcGIS, OpenEpi and Epi Info

Prairie township community center

2 roles

Personal Trainer

Mar 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Columbus, Ohio Area

Design and prepare specialized fitness programs for clients to help clients accomplish goals.
Teach proper lifting, breathing, and movement techniques to clients.
Demonstrate knowledge of alternative exercises to accommodate all fitness levels.
Organized, created, and planned community events such as Health Fairs and 5k events. Also perform outreach activities to recruit vendors and event sponsors.
Collaborate with the supervisor to develop and introduce new fitness programs.
Responsible for planning youth programs, including: youth fitness classes, youth fitness orientations, and Buckeye Football camp. Responsible for planning adult and senior fitness programs, including: fitness classes, exercise instruction, incentive programs, Workout of the Week, and 5k training programs.
Communicate nutritional and exercise guidelines to members.

Group Fitness Instructor

Jul 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Columbus, Ohio Area

Communicate nutritional and exercises guidelines to members.
Design efficient classes to match the skill and fitness levels of all participants by using exercise science knowledge.

Hilliard city school district

Wellness Intern

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos

Developed data driven employee health incentive programs: incentivized employees to support their fitness activities by also focusing on nutrition and mental health activities with health-oriented prizes (tumblers, Fitbits, gym bags, fitness class passes)
Performed literature reviews and research per grant requirements for the Action For Healthy Kids program topics included: adolescent sleep needs, childhood nutritional needs and cafeteria interventions, and child physical activity
o Recommended possible solutions to wellness concerns of the HCSD based on literature reviews and interventions that had taken place in similar schools
Used Survey Monkey to design surveys and to collect data on HCSD employee health and health programs
o Analyzed data using Excel

Office of ehs at the ohio state uniersity

Environmental Health and Safety Intern

Oct 2012 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Focused on projects related to increasing health, safety, and wellness of OSU employees.
o Supported a 3-year Internal Air Quality (IAQ) investigation helped to create a baseline database of all buildings’ IAQ readings to determine if future changes in energy supplied to HVAC systems would reduce IAQ and pose health risks to employees and students
Performed Laboratory Compliance inspections on a regular basis to improve the compliance and safety of laboratory settings at the university and medical center laboratories
Completed EHS safety trainings, including: Biological Safety Training for BSL 2, Bloodborne Pathogens, Globally Harmonized System, Lab Standard, and Radiation Safety
Managed, trained, and supervised student employees by orienting them with ongoing projects and providing instruction on how to use safety and measuring devices
Researched safe biological laboratory practices and created environmental safety data sheets to keep laboratory practices OHSA compliant which helped to provide awareness of safe and unsafe exposures and practices
Assisted with the RAD safety program, including learning about health physics and measuring radiation in the OSU hospitals
Provided administrative support to develop new policies, programs, and procedures that reduced health risks and hazards to laboratory personnel