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Becker
#3 Casa Verde • Austin, Texas 78234 • Tel: 512/608-9906 Cell: 512/576-6152
email: mbecker5@austin.rr.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Over thirteen years experience as an Epidemiologist for State of Texas
• Degrees: Master’s – Disease Control / Bachelor’s - Microbiology
• Extensive Research, Data Analysis, & Medical Statistics
• Supervisory, Presentation & Health Education skills
• Project Management training and experience
• Awarded Research Grant from Center for Disease Control & Prevention
• Managed & Coordinated contracts and groundbreaking HIV research
PhD level classwork, all but dissertation (in progress)
Medical Technologist clinical and laboratory expertise
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
01/08 – Present TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES (DSHS)
Austin, Texas
Epidemiologist III
Duties: Responsible for assisting with policies for the Texas Trauma Registry,
responding to concerned citizens request for data or investigations, medical research,
disease investigation, collaborations with stakeholders, data analysis and
writing/reporting on branch data and surveillance projects.
Accepted to present surveillance/research data to stakeholders at Texas conferences
(Seton Clinical Research Forum, 2008 and 2009)
Accepted to present injury data to stakeholders at National STIPDA conference
Conduct field epidemiologic studies related to injury
Coordinate and organize educational opportunities for branch epidemiologists
Participate in the development of epidemiologic annual reports
Work with the Texas Flash Flood War Council to prevent flood deaths
Conducted community emergency assistance following hurricane IKE
Work with the Texas Poison Center Network to research and publish findings
Work with the Texas Trauma Registry and stakeholders to research and
publish findings
8/80 — 05/83 M.D. ANDERSON HOSPITAL AND TUMOR INSTITUTE, Houston, Texas
Medical Technologist
Duties: Responsible for assisting physicians with bone marrow transplant procedures for
Cancer/solid tumor patients at bedside and in the laboratory.
• Conducted laboratory tissue cultures of patient stem cells to support transplantation
• Conducted cryopreservation procedures for patient stem cells for transplantation
• Conducted hematologic separation techniques and assessment
• Assisted physicians with bone marrow infusions at the patient bedside
8/77 — 8/78 Diagnostic Laboratories, Inc Medical Technologist Charlotte, North Carolina
Duties: Responsible for clinical virology laboratory procedures
• Conducted laboratory tissue culture of patient specimens and viral identification
• Assisted physicians at the patient bedside and at autopsies for viral collection
• Conducted serologic procedures for viral identification and hemagglutinin for rubella
• Conducted viral diagnostic testing with direct and indirect immunoflourescent staining
• Initiated ELISA testing for viral serologies
Marcia Becker
Resume
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EDUCATION
SKILLS
• Computer Software (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel,
Harvard Graphics, SPSS, Access, Outlook )
• Laboratory Equipment (Safety hoods, Centrifuges, Incubators,
Scales, Water baths, Freezers, Pipettes)
• Office Equipment (Phones, faxes, computers)
• Project Management
• Health Education/Health Promotion
AWARDS
Merit Award (4X)
CDC Grant for Behavioral Surveillance – HIV Infection Testing Survey (HITS)
Awarded Management Essentials Training Program for Texas DSHS
Offered Teaching position for Epidemiology and Public Health at University of Texas in Austin, Texas
(Undergraduate Students, 2009 semester class)
PUBLICATIONS
“Pattern of Chlorine Gas Exposures Reported to Texas Poison Control Centers, 2000-
2005”. Texas Medicine;104(3):51-57. (Marcia Becker, MPH, CHES, and Mathias
Forrester, BS, 2008).
“The Association Between Sense of Coherence and Health Status”, Masters Thesis,
UTHSCH-School of Public Health, 1991. (Advisors: Carl H. Slater, M.D., M.Ed., and
Irvin A. Kraft, M.D.)
“Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Texas Indigent Populations,” Disease
Prevention News, January 1994. (With Lucina Suarez and Jack Sims)
“Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS,” 1997 Texas Legislative Report, Division of STD/HIV
Prevention, Texas Department of Health, 1998. (also for 1998, 2000)
Epidemiology and Public Health Classes in fulfillment of the Masters of Public Health Degree
(MPH) awarded 12/1991 from University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas (all
pass):
REFERENCES
Sharon Melville, M.D., MPH
Division Director, Bureau of HIV/STD Prevention
Texas Department of State Health Services
1100 W. 49th St.
Austin, Texas
Tel: 512 458-7111