Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Atlanta
GAUSA
30341
Biographical Sketch: Mr. Edwards has served his entire professional career performing statistical research and information systems development in the area of healthcare safety performance measurement at CDC. He has provided major contributions to the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) system for over 22 years. Currently, he supports the design and development of the web-based successor to NNIS called the National Healthcare Safety Network. He is the lead statistician for both the NHSN as well as CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. He has served on CDC’s Statistical Advisory Board and is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
For more than two decades, Mr. Edwards has advanced and supported the field of healthcare epidemiology through (1) statistical consultation to internal medical epidemiologists and external hospital epidemiologists performing statistical analyses from an array of study designs including those based on outbreak investigations; (2) teaching statistical methods to epidemiologists, microbiologists and infection control professionals both nationally and internationally; (3) the development of statistical methods for analyzing healthcare associated infection data and performing risk adjustment; and (4) the authoring of manuscripts, in addition to, oral presentations on comparisons and trending of healthcare associated infection and antimicrobial resistance rates.