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Education

MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Expected May 2030
- Campus Involvement and Leadership: Peer Mentor: UpLIFT (2023-2024); Admissions Student Interviewer (2023-2024); CHOP Family Connects Volunteer (2024); CUT Hypertension Clinic Volunteer (2023-2024)
PhD - Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Expected May 2028
BA - Healthcare Structure & EMS Research, Biochemistry Minor, University of Vermont, May 2020
- Relevant Coursework: Public Health Communication; Statistical Methods I/II; Philosophy: Medical Ethics; Healthcare Structure; Emergency Medicine Research; Molecular Biology; Biochemistry; Biostatistics; Race & Racism in the USA
- Dean’s List: Spring 2017; Fall 2018; Spring 2019; Fall 2019; Spring 2020
- Honors: Graduated with College Honors; Elmer Nicholson Achievement Prize for Outstanding Student Leadership; Nu Gamma Outstanding Community Advocate Award; Andrew “PJ” Kaspirin Service Award; Boulder Honor Society; Order of Omega Honor Society; Gamma Sigma Alpha Honor Society
- Campus Involvement and Leadership: President and Co-Founder: Peer Aid Network (2018 – 2020); Emergency Medicine Student Research Associate (2017 – 2020); Phi Mu Delta Fraternity (2016 – 2020); Student Admissions Representative (2019 – 2020); Senator and Chair: Student Government Academic Affairs Committee (2016 – 2019); Student Representative: Board of Trustees (2016 – 2020); Resident Advisor: Cultural Crossroads (2017 – 2018)

Work experience

LARNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: RESEARCH SPECIALIST (Burlington, VT)
- Departments of Radiology, Surgery, Medicine
- October, 2020 – June, 2023
  - Proactively aided in department research management in conjunction with the Vice-Chair for Population Health
  - Took an active, co-leading role in the design, analysis, presentation, and dissemination of over twenty Acute Care Surgery research projects, including health equity, trauma system evaluation, and clinical practice studies
  - Evaluated the impact of network healthcare delivery models and health policy using focus group, discrete choice experiment, retrospective cohort, and randomized controlled trial research methodologies
  - Developed cross-department research programs for accelerated machine learning and public health research projects
  - Observed operative and non-operative interventions in General and Acute Care Surgery, and Interventional Radiology
WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC: ADVANCED EMT (Waterbury, VT)
- Perhospital Care Provider, Crew Chief, IT Coordinator
- August, 2015 – August, 2023
  - Advocate for enhanced training and preparedness for pediatric patients, serving as the district’s Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator, and provide advanced life support patient care on 9-1-1 calls
  - Launched and continue to support HIPAA compliant email, patient payment and crew scheduling systems, computer systems, and emergency response equipment
JAMIE BENSON CONSULTING: FOUNDER (Waterbury, VT)
- Founder and Sole Proprietor, IT Consulting Company
- August, 2009 – June, 2023
  - Repaired electronics, designed business scale networks, and provided IT solutions for over 500 clients worldwide.
VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH: PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIALIST (Burlington, VT)
- Emergency Management Intern & COVID-19 Medical Logistics Staff
- August, 2015 – May, 2023
  - Conducted primary research into safety and efficacy of VTEMS patient care protocols, and collaborated with hospitals, state agencies, and other researchers to disseminate results
  - Assisted in the evidence-based revision of VTEMS protocols and created tools which facilitate this process
  - Coordinated the distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) to Vermont healthcare providers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

Skills & Interests

Technical: Statistical programming (R, SAS, STATA, Python, Bash, Ngene); Geographic Information Systems (GIS); web development; data visualization (Tableau, R, Plotly, PowerBI); systems administration; process improvement
Clinical: FEMA ICS 200-700, EVOC, WFR, and AEMT Certified; HeartSafe VT Advisory Board; UVMMC Trauma Simulation Assistant; VTEMS Protocol Revision Committee - Trauma Team Lead
Language: Limited working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, and native English speaker
Interests: photography; skiing; hiking; rock climbing; reading; cooking; home automation; playing with my rescue cats

Publications

Geographic Coverage and Verification of Trauma Centers in a Rural State: Highlighting the Utility of Location Allocation for Trauma System Planning.

Amato, Stas S. MD, MS,*; Benson, Jamie S. BA; Murphy, Serena MD; Osler, Turner M. MD, MS, FACS; Hosmer, David PhD; Cook, Alan D. MD, MS, FACS,f; Wolfson, Daniel L. MD, FACEP; Erb, Andrew MD; Malhotra, Ajai MD, FACS; An, Gary MD, FACS. Geographic Coverage and Verification of Trauma Centers in a Rural State: Highlighting the Utility of Location Allocation for Trauma System Planning. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 232(1):p 1-7, January 2021. | DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.08.765

The Effect of Unobserved Preferences and Race on Vaccination Hesitancy for COVID-19 Vaccines: Implications for Health Disparities

Van den Broek-Altenburg, E. M., Atherly, A. J., Hess, S., & Benson, J. S. (2021, September 27). The effect of unobserved preferences and race on vaccination hesitancy for covid-19 vaccines: Implications for health disparities. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, 27(9-a Suppl). doi:10.18553/jmcp.2021.27.9-a.s2

Administration of Epinephrine by Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians for Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest in a Rural Emergency Medical Services System

Bomba, JJ, Benson, J, Hosmer, D, Wolfson, D. Administration of epinephrine by advanced emergency medical technicians for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a rural emergency medical services system. JACEP Open. 2021; 2:e12521. https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12521

The Path Towards Herd Immunity: Predicting COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake Through Results From a Stated Choice Study Across Six Continents

Stephane Hess, Emily Lancsar, Petr Mariel, Jürgen Meyerhoff, Fangqing Song, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Olufunke A. Alaba, Gloria Amaris, Julián Arellana, Leonardo J. Basso, Jamie Benson, Luis Bravo-Moncayo, Olivier Chanel, Syngjoo Choi, Romain Crastes dit Sourd, Helena Bettella Cybis, Zack Dorner, Paolo Falco, Luis Garzón-Pérez, Kathryn Glass, Luis A. Guzman, Zhiran Huang, Elisabeth Huynh, Bongseop Kim, Abisai Konstantinus, Iyaloo Konstantinus, Ana Margarita Larranaga, Alberto Longo, Becky P.Y. Loo, Malte Oehlmann, Vikki ONeill, Juan de Dios Ortúzar, María José Sanz, Olga L. Sarmiento, Hazvinei Tamuka Moyo, Steven Tucker, Yacan Wang, Yu Wang, Edward J.D. Webb, Junyi Zhang, Mark H.P. Zuidgeest, The path towards herd immunity: Predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake through results from a stated choice study across six continents, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 298, 2022, 114800, ISSN 0277-9536, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114800.

Tradeoffs in Triage of Motor Vehicle Trauma by Rural 911 Emergency Medical Services Practitioners

Benson, J. S., Wolfson, D., & Van den Broek-Altenburg, E. (2023). Tradeoffs in triage of motor vehicle trauma by rural 911 emergency medical services practitioners. Medical Decision Making. doi:10.1177/0272989x221145677

Current Patterns of Trauma Center Proliferation Have Not Led to Proportionate Improvements in Access to Care or Mortality After Injury: An Ecologic Study

Amato, Stas MD, MSc1; Benson, Jamie S. BA1,2; Stewart, Barclay MD, PhD3; Sarathy, Ashwini BS4; Osler, Turner MD1; Hosmer, David PhD5; An, Gary MD1; Cook, Alan MD, MSc6; Winchell, Robert J. MD7; Malhotra, Ajai K. MD1. Current Patterns of Trauma Center Proliferation Have Not Led to Proportionate Improvements in Access to Care or Mortality After Injury: An Ecologic Study. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery ():10.1097/TA.0000000000003940, March 7, 2023.

Community Health Teams: A Qualitative Study about the Factors Influencing the Decision-Making Process

Natkin, L.W., van den Broek-Altenburg, E., Benson, J.S. et al. Community Health Teams: a qualitative study about the factors influencing the decision-making process. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 466 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09423-6

Violence against Women in the United States: Trends, Risk-Factors, and Outcomes from the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB)

Ashwini Sarathy, BS*; Caitlin Marassi, BS; Nina Feinberg, MD; Jamie Benson, BS; Stas Amato, MD. Violence against Women in the United States: Trends, Risk-Factors, and Outcomes from the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB). J Clin Med Surgery, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1110 (2023). https://jclinmedsurgery.com/articles/jcms-v3-1110.pdf

Examining Alignment of Community Health Teams’ Preferences for Health, Equity and Spending with State All-Payer Waiver Priorities: a Discrete Choice Experiment

Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, PhD; Adam Atherly, PhD; Jamie Benson, BA. Examining Alignment of Community Health Teams’ Preferences for Health, Equity and Spending with State All-Payer Waiver Priorities: a Discrete Choice Experiment. HSR, (2023). 10.1111/1475-6773.14257

Presentations

Evaluating Rural Trauma Transport Times and Destination Care Level with Rural Urban Commuting Areas

April 01, 2019

Poster Presentation at Academic Surgical Congress, Houston, TX.

Adapting the Centers for Disease Control Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients to a Rural EMS System: the “50 Minute Rule”

April 01, 2019

Poster Presentation at University of Vermont Student Research Conference, Burlington, VT

Outcomes Following Interfacility Transfer: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis of Flight and Ground Transfers in a Rural State

March 01, 2020

Poster Presentation at American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Resident Competition, Zoom

Geographic Coverage and Designation of Trauma Centers in a Rural State: Highlighting the Utility of Location-Allocation for Trauma System Planning

October 01, 2020

Poster Presentation at American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Zoom

County Level Independent Predictors of COVID-19 Spread and Death in the United States

March 01, 2021

Poster Presentation at Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Zoom

Hard Lessons: The Impact of Population Education on COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States

March 01, 2021

Poster Presentation at Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Zoom

Losing Face: Mask Use, Partisanship, and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States

March 01, 2021

Poster Presentation at Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Zoom

Determining Provider Preferences for Communication of Imaging Reports to Patients in the Cures Act Era

May 01, 2021

Podium Presentation at American College of Radiology Annual Meeting, Zoom

The Effect of Unobserved Preferences and Race on Vaccination Hesitancy for COVID-19 Vaccines: Implications for Health Disparities

June 01, 2021

Podium Presentation at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Treatment Effect of Helicopter Trauma Transport: A National Propensity Score Matched Analysis

September 01, 2021

Poster Presentation at American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Clinical Congress, Atlanta, GA.

Optimizing Access to Trauma Center Care in a Rural State with a Trauma System: A Geographic Location Allocation Analysis

September 01, 2021

Poster Presentation at American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Clinical Congress, Atlanta, GA.

Understanding How Patients Define Value with Respect to Imaging Center Attributes and Radiologist Interaction

October 01, 2021

Poster Presentation at Radiologic Society of North America, Chicago, IL.

Helicopter Vs. Ground Trauma Transport: A National Propensity Score Matched Comparison

November 01, 2021

Poster Presentation at American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Chicago, IL.

A Comparison Of Statistical Power Among Injury Severity Scores Using The National Trauma Data Bank

November 01, 2021

Quickshot Presentation at American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Chicago, IL.

Access to Trauma Center Care and Its Impact on Injury Mortality in the United States

February 01, 2022

Quickshot Presentation at 17th Academic Surgical Congress Annual Meeting, Houston, TX.

Disparities in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes in a Rural Emergency Medical Services System

April 01, 2022

Plenary Presentation at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) New England Regional Meeting, Worcester, MA.

Disparities in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes in a Rural Emergency Medical Services System

May 01, 2022

Plenary Presentation at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

The Effect of Unobserved Preferences and Race on Vaccination Hesitancy for COVID-19 Vaccines: Implications for Health Disparities

May 25, 2022

Poster Presentation at International Choice Modelling Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland

Patient Preferences for Diagnostic Imaging Services: Blueprint for Value-Based Incentives Incorporating Individual Preference Heterogeneity

May 25, 2022

Poster Presentation at International Choice Modelling Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland

The Effect of Unobserved Preferences and Race on Vaccination Hesitancy for COVID-19 Vaccines: Implications for Health Disparities

September 06, 2022

Poster Presentation at 13th Meeting of the International Academy of Health Preference Research, Berlin, Germany

Patient Preferences for Diagnostic Imaging Services: Blueprint for Value-Based Incentives Incorporating Individual Preference Heterogeneity

September 06, 2022

Poster Presentation at 13th Meeting of the International Academy of Health Preference Research, Berlin, Germany

Identification of At-Risk Patients in a Statewide EMS “Naloxone Leave Behind” Program

October 01, 2022

Podium Presentation at American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, San Francisco, C.A.

The Impact of the Vermont All-Payer Waiver on Alignment between Community Health Teams and a statewide Accountable Care Organization

November 01, 2022

Poster Presentation at ISPOR Europe (Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research), Vienna, Austria

Disparities in Mammography Screening Among the Nepalese Minority Population in Vermont

January 29, 2023

Poster Presentation at Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research Network CO-OP Meeting, Stowe, VT.

Assessing the COVID-19 testing Landscape in Rural Northern New England through Community Engagement

May 03, 2023

Poster Presentation at National Institutes of Health 'Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics in Underserved Populations' RADx-UP 2023 Scientific Meeting, Zoom