anna simon

* Seattle Children's Care Network (SCCN) * Manage implementation and delivery of enterprise population health and quality measurement applications for SCCN, including training and usability testing with community providers. * Provide strategic and analytical leadership to ensure the development, implementation, usage growth, and maintenance of the population health platform(s) as prioritized by senior leadership. * Collaborate with internal Quality, Operations, and Care Transformation teams to maximize the effective use of population health applications to support SCCN goals. * Lead the clinical and process quality measurement and reporting in coordination with the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Director of Operations to support value-based care improvement. * Define the measure reporting strategy that best fits the SCCN goals and best utilizes available data.

Office of the Assistant Commissioner for Health Care Administration As lead Project Manager for the state Medicaid agency, managed large-scale health reform efforts related to building a state-based Health Insurance Exchange with over 200 stakeholders across departments, agencies and vendors Organized and continually monitored the online content management workspace (using MS SharePoint 2010), improving the archiving of relevant research and communication across team members

* Office of Statewide Health Improvement Initiatives | Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) * Managed local vendors, with contracts up to $1M, to facilitate technical assistance and consultation to national grantees on implementing evidence-based health improvement initiatives * Coordinated a local media campaign with a marketing contractor to promote healthy living * Sought out and served in three roles, as a communications coordinator, evaluation specialist, and technical assistance contract manager, enhancing project quality and exceeding supervisors' expectations

Office of Statewide Health Improvement Initiatives | Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) Coordinated with a marketing firm and grassroots organization to develop a health improvement campaign targeting policy, systems and environmental change in Minneapolis and Olmsted County, Minnesota Wrote narrative summaries to educate policymakers, stakeholders, general public; monitored media coverage

Classes: Epidemiological Methods I; Fundamentals of Epidemiology Taught graduate-level epidemiology principles as sole instructor of lab section, including research methodology, surveillance, evaluating and interpreting measures of disease frequency, impact, rate, risk, bias, and confounding Student feedback was overwhelmingly positive, citing my ability to explain difficult concepts in layman's terms

* Community and Family Health Division | Child and Teen Checkups (C&TC) * Collaborated with state agencies to review, evaluate and recommend child developmental screening instruments for use throughout the state of Minnesota as part of the MN Interagency Developmental Screening Task Force * Summarized evaluation reports * assisted with training events * wrote articles for professional newsletters

* Department of Pediatric Research | Gopher Kids Study * Epidemiologic longitudinal cohort study researching childhood genetics as they relate to health and development * Served in a leadership role to organize recruitment, train volunteers, assist with data collection, monitor IRB approval

* Continuing Medical Education (CME) | HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention * Managed concurrent medical education projects from planning to closing, and assisted with event planning * Quickly learned HIV/AIDS prevention research in order to develop survey tools and clearly summarize results * Designed and implemented a project plan that accelerated workflow and increased productivity

* Classes taught: First-Year Writing, Fall, Spring (GI) * Communications Methods, Spring (TA) * Rhetoric, Fall (TA) * Taught undergraduate-level writing course as primary instructor * Created syllabus * designed and graded all course assignments * Student evaluations were unfailingly positive, including being nominated for an Outstanding Teaching Award

* National health communications publishing company * Concurrently managed multiple community health newsletters from inception to distribution for national clients * Expertly managed relationships with clients and diverse team of in-house editorial staff, and within the first nine months, individual client load increased by 40% to include 40 clients with biannual to quarterly publications * Monitored and strategized client budget for maximized return on investment

Apnea Positive Pressure Long-term Efficacy Study (APPLES) Longitudinal NIH research evaluating efficacy of CPAP machine and effects on psychomotor and quality of life, collaborating with top researchers and institutions, including Stanford University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Administered and evaluated tests in a clinical setting assessing neurocognitive functioning (attention/psychomotor, learning/memory, executive functioning) and psychiatric monitoring (DSM interviews)

* Apnea Positive Pressure Long-term Efficacy Study (APPLES) * Collected research data and double-entered into a large online database used by all five participating research sites * Learned intricacies of clinical research design and implementation from firsthand experience within the project

Division of Network Development Serve as program manager for the new Medicaid Health Home program, including reviewing state requirements, writing internal policies and procedures, coordinating subcontracts with a network of providers, managing and reporting across internal workgroups, and developing ongoing quality monitoring. Provide technical analysis, program evaluation and requirement reviews for innovative health care programs. Lead and participate on company-wide strategic initiative workgroups, including preparing for Accountable Communities of Health, and developing a corporate internal communications strategy.

Accountable Care / Seattle Children's Care Network (SCCN) - Serve as product lead for population health applications, including Wellcentive and MedInsight, utilized for quality improvement, care management, and total cost of care analytics across a network of 20 pediatric primary care practices in the Puget Sound region. Manage implementations of clinical interfaces using CCDA, 837, and ADT message formats across seven different EMR vendors as well as claims data from multiple payors. - Validate data and develop quality analytics and standard reporting package that integrates clinical and financial data for care improvement. - Develop training curriculum that leverages applications within current workflows, train users and provide technical support.

Expertise in health communications and translating and interpreting scientific information for various audiences * Master’s thesis (original research and qualitative analysis): "Investigating formal mechanisms for communicating clinical research to wider audiences: A case study"

Activities and Societies: Studied abroad in London, Willamette Dance Team (captain), Varsity Tennis, Women's Novice Rowing

Expertise in chronic disease prevention through policy, systems and environmental change; epidemiologic research methods, surveillance and analysis; program development and evaluation; and public health policy * Master's project (original research and multivariate analysis): "Prevalence of energy-dense snack foods and sugar-sweetened beverages in pharmacies and associations with neighborhood characteristics"