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December 13, 2012
Vaccine Refused, our new project to facilitate data collection from point of refusal, was released in the iTunes App Store for use by U.S. medical professionals.

November 9, 2012
Dr. Philip Polgreen and graduate student Jason Fries were featured on Iowa Public Radio discussing our research on hand hygiene in hospitals. http://news.iowapublicradio.org/post/hospital-acquired-infections

February 1, 2012
Our article The Use of Twitter to Track Levels of Disease Activity and Public Concern in the U.S. During the Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic has won the Robert Wood Johnson’s Foundation Most Influential Research Articles of 2011.

March 4, 2011
Check out our new PLoS One article on Twitter and the H1N1 pandemic.

April 21, 2011
A new iScrub article on Infection Control Today (ICT)! iScrub Phone App Pilot Project Boost Hand Hygiene Compliance

April 4, 2011
iScrub in the news! New iPhone application improved hand hygiene compliance

April 1, 2011
CompEpi presented some new research at the 21st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA 2011) in Dallas, Texas. Read more

December 1, 2010
Our group was well-represented at the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS 2010) in Park City, Utah. Read more

May 4, 2010
Do health care professionals perform hand hygiene? We’ve got an app for that! Read the press release.

March 17, 2010
The Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections advance press release features CompEpi research.

November 5, 2009
CompEpi graduate students Jason Fries, Donald Curtis, and Chris Hlady were winners in the Faculty/Staff/Graduate Assistant Business Plan Competition, hosted by the UI Business College’s John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, where they pitched the next generation iScrub system.

September 9, 2009
iScrub, our new iPhone/iPod Touch application for infection control professionals, is now available online at the Apple iTunes store.

June 18, 2009
Try our Maximal Coverage Calculator for near-optimal placement of sentinel surveillence sites.

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Jason Fries

Jason Alan Fries

jason-fries [at] uiowa.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Jason Alan Fries is a PhD graduate student in computer science at the University of Iowa. His research interests include computational epidemiology, natural language processing (NLP) approaches to disease surveillance, and data visualization.

Education

2009 - present The University of Iowa
MCS / Ph.D. Computer Science

2005 - 2009 The University of Iowa
B.A. Computer Science
B.A. English

Publications and Presentations

2013

Reply to Iroh Tam et al. J.A. Fries, A.M. Segre, P.M. Polgreen.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology , Vol. 34, No. 2 (February 2013), pp. 214–215

2012

Towards Linking Anonymous Authorship in Casual Sexual Encounter Ads. J.A. Fries, A.M. Segre, P.M. Polgreen.
11th Annual Conference of the International Society for Disease Surveillance, (December 2011).

Using Online Classified Ads to Identify the Geographic Footprints of Anonymous, Casual Sex-seeking Individuals. J.A. Fries, A.M. Segre, P.M. Polgreen.
2012 ASE/IEEE Forth International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom). September 2012.

Monitoring Hand Hygiene via Human Observers: How Should We Be Sampling?
J.A. Fries, A.M. Segre, G. Thomas, T. Herman, K. Ellingson, P.M. Polgreen,
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Volume 33, Issue 7, Page 689–695, July 2012.

2011

Who Should We Be Listening to? Applying Models of User Authority to Detecting Emerging Topics on the EIN [Oral Presentation]
J. Fries, D.E. Curtis, A.M. Segre, P.M. Polgreen
10th Annual Conference of the International Society for Disease Surveillance, (December 2011).

Monitoring Hand Hygiene via Human Observers: How Should We Be Sampling? [Oral Presentation]
J. Fries, S.L. Tolentino, G. Thomas, T. Herman, A.M. Segre, P.M. Polgreen
21st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, (April 2011).

iScrub: A Pilot Intervention with Feedback from a Companion Website [Oral Presentation]
C.S. Hlady, D.E. Curtis, J. Fries, M. Yang, A.M. Segre, P.M. Polgreen
21st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, (April 2011).

Using Craigslist Messages for Syphilis Surveillance [Poster]
J. Fries, A.M. Segre, L. Polgreen, P.M. Polgreen
International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, Vienna (2011).

2010

The Use of Craigslist Posts for Risk Behavior and STI Surveillance [Oral Presentation]
J. Fries, A.M. Segre, L. Polgreen, P.M. Polgreen
9th Annual Conference of the International Society for Disease Surveillance, Park City, UT (2010).

iScrub Online: A System for Standardized Hand-Hygiene Observation and Feedback
C.S. Hlady, J. Fries, D.E. Curtis, A.M. Segre, M.A. Severson, P.M. Polgreen
5th Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections, (March 2010).

2009

A Free iPhone Application for Recording Hand-Hygiene Rates
C.S. Hlady, M.A. Severson, D.E. Curtis, J. Fries, S. Pemmaraju, A.M. Segre, T. Herman, P.M. Polgreen
47th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, (October 2009).

Use of a Prediction Market to Forecast H5N1 Influenza [Poster]
P.M. Polgreen, F.D. Nelson, G.R. Neumann, A.M. Segre, J. Fries, L.C. Madoff
International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, Vienna (2009).

Vaccination Strategies for Healthcare Workers Based on Social Networks [Poster]
D.E. Curtis, S. Pemmaraju, C. Hlady, J. Fries, T. Herman, A.M. Segre, P.M. Polgreen
International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, Vienna (2009).

Comparing the Length of Isolation Periods to Prevent the Nosocomial Spread of Mumps [Poster]
C. Hlady, T. Tassier, A.M. Segre, T. Herman, S. Pemmaraju, J. Fries, P.M. Polgreen
International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, Vienna (2009).

Wireless Applications for Hospital Epidemiology
T. Herman, S. Pemmaraju, AM Segre, PM Polgreen, DE Curtis, J Fries, C. Hlady, M. Severson
ACM International Workshop on Medical-grade Wireless Networks, (2009).

Healthcare Workers’ Social Networks Display Small World Properties: Implication for Disease Control
D.E. Curtis, J. Fries, C. Hlady, G. Kanade, S. Pemmaraju, P.M. Polgreen, and A.M. Segre
SHEA ’09: The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, San Diego, CA, (2009).