Benjamin Schram

• Feb 2020 - West Nile Surveillance Coordinator– Epidemiologist II
  • Epidemiologist focusing on Vectorborne diseases and Hospital Acquired Infections.
• July 2020 - COVID-19 Lead Epidemiologist and University Subject Matter Expert
  • Epidemiologist focusing on COVID-19 data analysis and College/University related topics
• November 2020 - Surveillance and Electronic Reporting System Coordinator – Epidemiologist III
  • Epidemiologist focusing on management and improvements to North Dakota Electronic Disease Surveillance System (Maven), as well as disease data collection, management and analysis.

Contracted for two maternal vaccine safety projects

• Conducted systematic reviews on 24 obstetric outcomes for the United States.
• As part of a team, conducted systematic review on obstetric outcomes in women who received influenza seasonal or pandemic vaccination during pregnancy.

Graduate GPH-GU 2106 Epidemiology Recitation

• Presented brief lectures to review readings and lectures
• Facilitated discussions on learning objectives and homework assignments
• Held office hours to review concepts with students
• Graded exams and homework assignments

Graduate GPH-GU 2225 Psychometric Measurement and Data Analysis in Public Health Research and Practice

• Assisted in setting up class exercises, technology, and grading

Undergraduate UGPH-GU 30 Epidemiology for Global Health

• Assisted in tracking attendance and grading

(Social Epidemiology And Research in Community Health) Program

• Co-authored chapter on stroke epidemiology; Wilson, R. (2018). Stroke Rehabilitation (1st ed.) Elsevier.
  • Conducted literature review on individual risk factors of stroke, on stroke statistics, and on stroke prevention to synthesize into the text; sourced and obtained permissions for tables and figures.
• Developed Codebook to accompany SWIFT (Stroke Warning Information and Faster Treatment) dataset
• Abstract and poster presenter at International Stroke Conference titled “Stroke Knowledge Over Time Among Multi-ethnic Stroke Survivors in New York City”
• Research Coordinator for Pilot of FURRThER (Families Understanding Risk Reduction Through Educational Reinforcement) educational clinical trial at NYU Langone Medical Center.
  • Assisted in development of survey, script, visuals, and recruitment materials for pilot
  • Assisted in recruitment of participants for pilot at hospital

• Developed a community-based intervention working to enhance water safety and sanitation in informal settlements of Kenya, Africa. Conducted field research to assess efficacy and need.
• Competed in Acara Challenge for chance to win a fellowship to fund further research
• Awarded Acara Innovation Fellowship by University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment to fund field research.

• Developed website templates for mass-produced customer websites.
• Provided technical support for implementation of, and updates on, these websites.
• Assisted in development of marketing materials for customers.

• Transfer of Electronic medical records from Centricity to EPIC EMR during a site-wide Go-Live event at the Clinic and Hospitals
• Provided tech support to nurses learning the new software.