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2016 CSTE Annual Conference

Mastering the Data Haystack: Unifying Data Across Silos for New Insights Surveillance / Informatics III Tuesday, June 21 7:30am-8:15am Egan Convention Center Summit Hall 6

Sponsored by Bitscopic, Inc.



Panel Moderators: Payam Etminani Farshid Sedghi



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Panelists Jim Collins, MPH, RS [email protected] Jim is the Director of the Communicable Disease Division of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). This Division includes traditional surveillance and infectious disease epidemiology, a contingent of Regional Epidemiologists, and staff working in support of a broad spectrum of novel surveillance initiatives. In leading the development of the Michigan Disease Surveillance System and the implementation of Michigan’s reportable disease and syndromic surveillance initiatives, he has helped facilitate the creation of a new model for communicable disease surveillance in the State. His experience in this realm of public health and informatics has led to his inclusion on several national workgroups involved in projects that are defining future public health informatics and workforce initiatives. These include the Public Health Community Platform, Biosense and electronic case reporting. Jim has also been appointed as a Director on the Michigan Health Information Shared Services Board, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing health informatics in Michigan. He received his Bachelors of Science in Biology from Alma College, and a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan.

Bryant T. Karras, MD [email protected] Bryant Karras, MD, is an engineer, a physician and public health informatician. He is Public Health Chief Informatics Officer (Senior Epidemiologist) at the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) which he joined in 2008. He has a background in Biomedical Engineering (University of California San Diego), Internal Medicine (University of Wisconsin), and Medical Informatics (Yale). Dr. Karras was a founding faculty member of the University of Washington's Biomedical & Health Informatics program as well as its Center for Public Health Informatics. As Public Health Informatics Officer, he supports the informatics needs of Epidemiology, Health Statistics and the Public Health Laboratories. He leads the DOH cross-divisional efforts to prepare public health for meaningful use and changes to public health practice that the statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) will bring. Dr. Karras represents public health on the Washington Health Care Authority's eHealth Collaborative Enterprise committee, OneHealthPort's HIE Leadership Group, and the Community HIE Oversight Board. He specializes in informatics methods to improve public health via prevention, health promotion and disease surveillance. 2

Panelists Stacey Hoferka Jensen, MPH, MSIS [email protected]

Stacey Hoferka is the Surveillance and Informatics Epidemiologist at the Illinois Department of Public Health and has held that position since 2012. She leads the implementation of several informatics projects including syndromic surveillance and electronic case reporting for Meaningful Use. She is the current chair of the BioSense Governance Group and serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society for Disease Surveillance. She has a Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Science in Information Science from University of Pittsburgh.

Cynthia Lucero-Obusan MD, CIC [email protected] Dr. Lucero-Obusan joined the VA as a medical epidemiologist in 2008 and is a Medical Epidemiologist at the VHA Office of Quality, Safety and Value, Public Health Surveillance and Research Group. Prior to this time, she was a Lieutenant Commander, USPHS, serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her work and interests include Public Health Surveillance & Informatics, Healthcare-associated infections, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Influenza and Outbreak Investigations. Dr. Lucero-Obusan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Integrative Biology and Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her MD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by a residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Infection Prevention and Control and completed the VA-AMIA 10x10 Health Informatics Certificate Program in 2014. She lives with her husband, Oliver and daughter, Lizelle in her hometown of San Jose, CA.



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Panelists Gina Oda, MS, CIC [email protected] Gina Oda began her career in clinical laboratory microbiology and has worked for the last 28 years in the fields of hospital infection prevention and public health epidemiology. Currently, she is the Associate Director of Public Health Surveillance and Research within the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Quality, Safety and Value, in Palo Alto, CA. Since beginning her VA career at the VA Boston Healthcare System, and later moving to the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System she feels privileged to be able to combined her love of microbiology, epidemiology and data systems with her interest in advancing healthcare for Veterans within the VA’s unique integrated health system.

Julie Pavlin, MD, PhD, MPH [email protected] Julie Pavlin is the Research Area Director for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance and Deputy Research Area Director for HIV at the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences through a cooperative agreement with the Henry M Jackson Foundation. Prior to her current position, she was the Deputy Director of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. She is a retired Colonel in the US Army and previously served as Chief of the Global Emerging Infections Department at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand where she developed surveillance programs for infectious diseases in Asia and the Chief of the Field Studies Department at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where she played a pivotal role in developing the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), the Department of Defense real-time surveillance system. Dr. Pavlin received her AB from Cornell University, her MD from Loyola University her MPH from Harvard University and her PhD in Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Uniformed Services University.



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