Elise is a senior research scientist in the Health Sciences department at NORC. She primarily works on data review, processing, and delivery, data analytics and dissemination, and data visualization. She is well-versed in understanding complex data structures and data issue investigation and resolution with over six years’ experience managing data processing and delivery on the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS). She is an expert in implementing data quality checks in large-scale longitudinal surveys and identifying methods to streamline and automate ongoing data review and editing. She is an experienced data team leader, having led numerous teams for both annual MCBS data processing as well as rapid cycle supplemental MCBS surveys on topics like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Patient-Reported Indicators Survey (PaRIS). She is a skilled analyst and technical writer and regularly contributes her expertise to manuscripts, data briefs, and infographics for the MCBS. 

Elise currently leads the MCBS Analytics and Dissemination team, overseeing the production of data user’s guides, methodology reports, user tutorials, data tables, infographics, data dashboards, manuscripts, and white papers, along with other data dissemination and data user support activities. She also leads a landscape survey and needs assessment on health-related social needs data linkages and integration for the Vermont Agency of Human Service’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and serves as an analyst on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) Data Collection and Evaluation of Adolescent and School Health project. She provided data processing and visualization expertise for two CDC projects (the Women’s Health Needs Study [WHNS] and the Patient-Provider Communication [PPC] Study).