Stephen Walter Trusheim
MINNESOTA
Stephen Walter Trusheim, 18, of Chaska, engineered software that reduces the
cost of hospital surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) by accurately targeting at-risk patients for testing for his Intel
Science Talent Search bioinformatics and genomics project. He developed software
to identify high-risk patients, recommend optimal testing methods, assess the
hospital's overall cost for the MRSA surveillance program, and deliver public
reports about MRSA infections. By implementing Stephen's "predictive MRSA
surveillance" strategy, which uses more personalized test methods during patient
admission, he believes hospital costs can be reduced without decreasing the
quality of patient care. In conjunction with his research Stephen created a
public MRSA website to provide personalized risk analysis as well as an
up-to-date model of public MRSA outbreaks. The winner of numerous awards in
computer science and information technology, Stephen attends Breck School in
Golden Valley. The son of John Trusheim and Martha Nance, he plans to attend
Stanford. He hopes to contribute to efforts that map, monitor, and prevent worldwide epidemics.
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