Public Health Consultant Resume Example

Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Lupus Research Program at Northwestern University

• Leading 40 studies including, industry-sponsored clinical research studies, NIH funded and state-based epidemiological longitudinal, international cohort, retrospective analysis, and case report research studies using web-based reporting compliance systems.
• Directing multidisciplinary research team (MD's, PhD's, Post-Doctoral Fellows, NP's, Statisticians, Qualitative Researchers, Data Managers) 
• Negotiating industry clinical trial budgets for active and close-out lupus studies.
• Planning development of innovative academic-based research agendas on numerous lupus-specific topics with collaborative investigators which included execution of Material-Transfer Agreements (MTAs).
• Integrating specimen collecting strategies to streamline DNA banking, specimen processing, organization, and laboratory analysis. 
• Executing analysis of research data through data-driven statistical software.
• Creating the first Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health funded project directed to addressing Latino health disparities in the United States.
• Meeting with Illinois Congressional legislators to engage in decision-making to further policy development of chronic diseases affecting statewide constituents.  
• Adapting theoretical frameworks, work plans, logic models and federal CLAS standards, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and qualitative/quantitative evaluation methods to culturally-competent evidenced-based public health designed lupus programs. 
• Developing of continuous quality improvement reports for clinical and community-based initiatives impacting internal and external change-management decision-making.

• Monitored completion of baseline examination on 2000 Latino study participants
• Collaboration with community partners and the University of Illinois at Chicago in study recruitment/retention efforts.
• Leadership in clinic operations of two field centers. 
• Production of study-specific regulatory documents.
• Administration of 25 clinic and specialized staff in a six-day a week clinic.
• Partnered with field centers on enhancement of study-specific protocol, questionnaires, quality-control, and training components.

• Directed retention activities of 1000 study subjects in a multi-center trial of diverse ethnicities including African American and Chinese study participants. 
• Recruitment of 200 African-American participants in genetic ancillary heart study.
• Operated and directed environmental health assessment ancillary study incorporating industrial hygenists, environmental specialists, and technicians.
• Management of 15 study personnel members and training at the Northwestern field center. 
• Planning in the development of ancillary study manuscripts of field site outcome data.
• Member of study-specific evaluation team to assess appropriate monitoring and quality control compliance with protocol-specific requirements at three field centers. 

• Created tobacco cessation curriculum and health communication marketing campaign for at-risk Latino youth.
• Development of violence prevention curriculum for at-risk youth in the Pilsen community.
• Evaluation of CDC-funded breast cancer awareness AMIGAS evidenced-based model. 
• Programmed and evaluated HIV/AIDS educational programs targeting Latinos in the Cook and Lake County regions. 
• Application for CDC grants targeting evidenced-based intervention funding mechanisms.
• Engagement with local legislators to further lobby efforts conducted by the organization.

• Recruited study subjects for women's clinical trials in contraceptive care, hormone replacement therapy, incontinence, and genetics. 
• Organized grant writing efforts for funding of BRCA1 and BRCA2 community-based educational initiatives. 
• Budget oversight of all clinical trials and reproductive genetics program funded through the Illinois Department of Public Health.
• Development of community-directed breast cancer and genetics educational presentations.
• Engagement with community stakeholders in the creation of a breast cancer genetics initiative.