Experience

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  American College of Surgeons

  • United States
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Manager, Surgical Patient Education

    • Apr 2011 - Jan 2023

    Focused on all Peri-operative concerns for surgical patients. Ongoing design, development and production of Home Skills Kits including manuals, instructional videos, and practice models to improve surgical outcomes and support home self-management for patients and caretakers. Successful launch of the Feeding Tube Home Skills Kit and the Home Wound Management Program. Ongoing development of the "Surgical Patient Education for a Better Recovery" brochure series. Co-author of " It pays for your patients to Quit Smoking before surgery: Outcomes, Interventions and Reimbursement" CME e-learning program and numerous smoking cessation initiatives. Ongoing development of the Surgical Cancer series and launch of Your Breast Cancer Surgery Program. View all the Patient Education resources at www.facs.org/patienteducation and the Patient Education Toolkit at https://www.facs.org/education/patient-education/medical-professionals/resources/toolkit

  • Senior Manager

    • Apr 2011 - Dec 2022

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  Benedictine University

  • Lisle, Illinois

  • MPH Graduate Internship Advisor

    • Jun 2012 - Aug 2013
    • Lisle, Illinois

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  MCM/Solutions for Better Health

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Director of Disease Management & Population Health and Wellness

    • Nov 2005 - Feb 2011
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Director/ Population Health, Wellness and Disease Management:Responsible for all training, operations, budget, and programmatic aspects of predictive modeling and health risk assessment and team of telephonic health coaches. Improved outreach to members to increase from 10,000 to 100,000 enrolled. Lead committee member for IT conversion and training. Provided sales, marketing and reporting to clients, as well as writing and publishing the quarterly newsletter, initiated online enrollment portal and development of performance guarantees.

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  Robert Morris University

  • Chicago, Illinois

  • Faculty and Curriculum Chair/Health Studies

    • Feb 1999 - Aug 2005
    • Chicago, Illinois

    Curriculum Chair and Faculty, Fitness and Exercise: 2004-2005Curriculum development for all courses; responsible for instructing full course load; supervision, development and evaluation of full and part-time faculty at three campuses; internship site recruitment and development. Faculty, Certified Medical Assisting and Healthcare Management: 1999-2005Instructed 13 courses in Health Studies, Health Care Management and Professional Certification standards; assisted with the expansion of the Health Studies program from two to seven campuses; Externship and Student Club Advisor.

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  Bradbury School, Hong Kong

  • School Nurse

    • Sep 1995 - Jul 1996

    Provided general and emergency healthcare to 750 primary age children and 50 staff members.Conducted healthcare education for students; published monthly parent newsletter; supervised school immunization campaigns, hearing and sight screening.

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  Loyola University Health System

  • Cardiovascular/ICU Nurse

    • Jun 1990 - Jan 1995

    Primary care of cardiovascular, transplant, trauma and neurosurgical intensive care patients.

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  Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Training and Development Director

    • Jan 1986 - Apr 1990
    • Greater Boston Area

    Designed and presented the training program for over 400 utilization review nurses and customer service representatives in a Managed Care environment. Responsibilities included strategic planning, quality assurance and production and direction of a training video for new employees.

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  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Burn & Trauma/ICU Nurse

    • Jun 1984 - Nov 1985
    • Greater Boston Area

    Primary care of critically injured burn and trauma patients.

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  Baylor Scott & White Health

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Charge Nurse; Surgical Intensive Care

    • Jun 1980 - Jun 1984
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    Pre and postoperative critical care of general surgical, cardiovascular and oncology patients.