Mary Mesnard

Overview

Mary Mesnard is a certified oncology data specialist and a Principal Research Associate for Public Health with more than 35 years of experience managing cancer registries, clinical trials, and medical record departments. She has worked on many cancer surveillance projects and applies her quality assurance (QA) skills to projects for CDC, NCI, and state cancer registries. She has project management and budget oversight skills and provides guidance for Westat project tasks related to oncology and medical coding.

Mesnard’s responsibilities have included training, QA, oversight of day-to-day operations, consulting, management, and budgets. She served on an expert panel for reliability studies related to the abstracting and staging of cancer and frequently presented information to the state association. She has worked with many computer systems and provided oversight for the development of databases and forms.

Education

• BS (cum laude), Health Information Management, Western Carolina University