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Background:
Mark Miazga has been a coordinator with EpiCH since
November 2007.

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How did you end up here and what will you do here? 
(Interpret as you will.)
I have a background in survey research and have always enjoyed public policy in various forms throughout my undergraduate and law-school studies and professional and volunteer activities.  I accepted a position coordinating the Alcohol Systems For Young Adults study for Dr. Traci Toomey almost two years ago.

What is your main research or work area? 
(In other words, what do you do here?)
Coordinate studies focused on alcohol epidemiology.

What other positions/jobs have you held?
Data Collection Manager at Wilder Research Center, Law Clerk to Judge John T. Finley, Research Attorney with Thomson Reuters, and private practice attorney with Hoglund & Chwialkowski in bankruptcy and social security disability.

What job or profession, other than your own, would you like to try?
Geologist or Archaeologist.

What was the last, great book you read and why?
Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago:  Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922.  I never knew my paternal grandfather and I do a lot of genealogy.  This helped me better understand what his life was like as an immigrant working in the steel mills and foundries of Chicago during this period.

What’s the best way to spend a free afternoon?
Hanging out with my wife, son, and extended family outside playing sports and having something on the grill (especially if I don’t have to do the cooking).

Are you a 'morning' or 'night' person?
Night.

Tell us about a favorite event of your adult life or childhood.
Planning and having my Dad’s surprise 75th birthday party.  It was a great surprise to him with lots of camaraderie and happy reflections.  I still have great memories of it fourteen years later.

What are your interests outside of work?
Being a Dad, camping in the BWCA, doing genealogical research, travel, tennis, basketball, hanging out with family, and volunteering with my son’s school and through other civic activities.

What in your life are you most proud of, and why?
Balancing my various roles in my life well.  I think the most important thing we can do is to be good children, siblings, parents, spouses, professionals, neighbors, friends, and citizens and strive to do the best we can in whatever roles we take on in life.  That is extremely satisfying.

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