Ms. Hansen is Chief Information and Administrative Officer at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC. She joined the Center in 2004 and assumed responsibility for strategic planning for and management of the Center’s information, technology, and administrative support systems. Since then, she has defined the Center's policies, procedures, and staffing for information systems management, electronic publications, and administrative support.
Ms. Hansen serves as Director and Managing Editor of the Center’s web sites, and in that capacity, she led the redesign of the sites, including the development of enhanced functionality and multiple new web features, and she directed the restructuring and expansion of the Center’s web and communications systems.
Before joining the Center for Biosecurity, Ms. Hansen worked for the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) as the Publications and Grants Administrator for the Center for Technology in Education from 2002–2004, and as the Manager of Print and Electronic Publications for the Division of Infectious Diseases and AIDS Service in the School of Medicine from 1996–2002.
While with the JHU Division of Infectious Diseases, Ms. Hansen was Managing Editor of The Hopkins HIV Report, a newsletter published 6 times per year for a subscriber base of more than 17,000. She was also the Managing Editor of Medical Management of HIV Infection and the Abbreviated Guide to Medical Management of HIV Infection, two highly respected guides to AIDS clinical care that were published annually and distributed to more than 70,000 people in 70 countries. Ms. Hansen was also Managing Editor of the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service web site, one of the first web sites in the JHU School of Medicine designed to deliver educational materials to healthcare professionals. She directed the web casts of numerous JHU Infectious Diseases conferences and events, and was introduced to the Center when she led the web casts of the first and second National Symposia on the Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism in 1999 and 2000.
Ms. Hansen has a BS in Psychology (1983) and a BS in English (1990) from Towson State University, and she has a Master’s degree in English (1995) from Morgan State University. |
