2018 NSP Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2018 New SAS Professional Award!

Recipients must have been employed using SAS in a job for three years or less at the start of the conference. Recipients may receive the award a maximum of two years. To be eligible for the second year, recipients must submit an abstract and be selected for an oral or poster presentation. This award includes complimentary registration for the conference and a half-day class.

Lisa Abramovitz
Henry M. Jackson Foundation, San Diego, CA

Elizabeth Alden
Blue Shield of California, El Dorado Hills, CA

Matthew Almario
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA

Anthony Arce
Napa County Public Health, Napa, CA

Elyse Bevers
Washington State Department of Health, Shoreline, WA

Felicia Carey
Henry M. Jackson Foundation, San Diego, CA

Sean-Paul Claypool
Synteract, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

Pallabi Deb
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Aaron Gettel
Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Phoenix, AZ

Clinton Hall
Henry M. Jackson Foundation, San Diego, CA

Keith Johnson
Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Bhargav Koduru
Seattle Genetics Inc, Bothell, WA
How sensitive is your analysis? A case study on addressing it at ADaM level

Janet Li
Pfizer, San Francisco, CA
Something Old, Something New: A little programming management can go a long way

Elise Mara
San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA

Michael Mudgett
California Rural Indian Heatlh Board, Inc., Sacramento, CA

Cecine Nguyen
HMSA, Honolulu, HI

Denis Nyongesa
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR

Rachel Perry
Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ
Using a lookup table to transform electronic laboratory results into standardized case-specific information to manage a record-breaking flu season

Alexandra Peterson
Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ

Lingjiao Qi
Statistics and Data Corporation, Tempe, AZ
Formatting outputs for clinical trial data to aid in readability
Defensive programming techniques for ongoing clinical studies

Matthew Ringel
Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, MT

Kim Roenfeldt
Henry M. Jackson Foundation, San Diego, CA
Better than Average: Calculating Geometric Means Using SAS®

Ekaterina Roudneva
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA

Matthew Slaughter
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR
A Simple Method for Colorizing Saved Log Files
Everything is better with friends: Executing SAS code in Python scripts with SASPy

Han Tun
Los Angeles County, Department of Public Health, Alhambra, CA

Carolyn Zambrano
California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA