Experience

ERT

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Respiratory Overread Clinical Specialist

  • 2010 - Present

  Responsible for performing spirometry quality control and Best Test Review for spirometry clinical trial data and perform cardio-pulmonary Overreads. Responsible for performing spirometry quality control and Best Test Review for spirometry clinical trial data and perform cardio-pulmonary Overreads.



Emerson Hospital

• Clinical Exercise Physiologist

  • 2002 - 2012

  Responsible for leading group exercise for patients, patient evaluation for exercise ability, as well as creating and monitoring exercise prescriptions. Individualizing education for patients with diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, arthritis, obesity & cardiomyopathy. Also performed administrative duties and worked with primary care physicians, cardiologists and insurance companies as a liaison between them and patients. Hired and managed all interns that came through cardiac rehab department.



Fitchburg State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Jan 2003 - May 2006

  Adjunct Professor in their Exercise & Sport Science Department teaching undergraduate students “Exercise Testing & Prescription in Special Populations”. Adjunct Professor in their Exercise & Sport Science Department teaching undergraduate students “Exercise Testing & Prescription in Special Populations”.



Deaconess Waltham Hopsital

• Clinical Exercise Physiologist

  • 2000 - 2002

  Responsible for the daily operations of the Phase II and III Cardiac Rehabilitation programs, performing Cardiac Stress Testing including regulars, thalliums, persantines, cardiopulmonary and dobutamines. Also performed Holter Monitoring. Managed the Cardiac Treatment Center in the absence of the coordinator. Responsible for the daily operations of the Phase II and III Cardiac Rehabilitation programs, performing Cardiac Stress Testing including regulars, thalliums, persantines, cardiopulmonary and dobutamines. Also performed Holter Monitoring. Managed the Cardiac Treatment Center in the absence of the coordinator.



Veterans Administration Medical Center

• Clinical Exercise Physiologist

  • 1996 - 2000

  Responsible for all of the exercise stress testing in the hospital, which included regular, thallium, sesta-mibi and cardiopulmonary exercise tests. Performed Pulmonary Function Tests including flow volume loops and maximal voluntary ventilations. Worked in the Cardiac Rehab program monitoring telemetry and exercise prescriptions, lead group exercise, helped physicians choose target heart rates from the anaerobic threshold determined from the cardiopulmonary exercise tests and interpreted cardiopulmonary ETT’s. Responsible for screening individuals who would benefit from a pulmonary rehabilitation program, aided in 12 lead EKG graded exercise testing, both upper and lower extremity as well as developed and monitored the exercise prescription of the patients.