Experience

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  OUHSC School of Medicine

  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

  • Patient Advocate

    • Feb 1999 - Present
    • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

    I love teaching, and my favorite things to do are a) teaching people about the importance of voting and b) teaching 2nd year medical students about my form of scleroderma one afternoon every year. The latter has been curtailed by Covid-19 which is sad because I love talking about myself.

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  Integris Baptist Medical Center

  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

  • volunteer

    • Feb 1989 - Present
    • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

    Work in gift shop area.

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  self employed

  • Expert

    • Jan 1901 - Present

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  Oklahoma Arthritis Network

  • Oklahoma

  • Chair

    • 1999 - 2009
    • Oklahoma

    http://digitalprairie.ok.gov/cdm/ref/collection/stgovpub/id/6209The OAN was a coalition of the Arthritis Foundation, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the CDC and several hundred individuals, organizations and businesses to increase awareness of the 100+ forms of arthritis and to educate Oklahomans on science-based methods and exercises to help relieve the pain and disability arthritis causes.

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  National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), a NIH institute

  • Bethesda, MD

  • Medical Advisory Council member (appointed by Secretary of HHS)

    • 2001 - 2005
    • Bethesda, MD

    This is a four year appointment by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services. The council is made up of world-reknowned medical researchers, lay persons who have headed organizations directly affected by NIAMS research, and patients. I was the patient. Most of the time I was too tired to think after 8-12 hours of travel and didn't know what we were talking about.

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  American College of Rheumatology

  • Patient advocate

    • 1995 - 2005

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  various companies

  • Oklahoma

  • Accountant, CPA

    • 1973 - 1985
    • Oklahoma

    Number work. Financials, audits, tax, fraud investigations

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  High schools

  • California, Massachusetts

  • Teacher

    • 1901 - 1972
    • California, Massachusetts

    Long, long ago I was a high school teacher. I taught English and Earth Science. I believe I learned more than my students, but I still miss them.