• Work in conjunction with Senior Associate Athletic Director / Team Physician, Dr. Douglas Aukerman for Oregon State University Athletic Department to provide game coverage medical support.• Provide with intra-operative support for Hospital of Special Surgery Fellowship-trained Orthopedic Joint Reconstruction Surgeon, Dr. James Ryan; sterile field prep, wound closure, prescribe post-operative care.• Coordinate discharge planning with Case Management, Physical Therapy (PT) / Occupational Therapy (OT).• Prescribe individualized Home Exercise Programs (HEP) to promote physical rehabilitative care.• Mentor and educate Medical Assistants in clinic to enhance clinical exposure and continual education.• Medical Services: Non-operative Spine, Outpatient General Orthopedic, Outpatient and intra-operative Foot and Ankle Surgery, Outpatient, Inpatient, and Intra-operative Joint Reconstruction.• Surgical Procedures Support: Hip and Knee Joint Reconstruction, Below Knee Amputation, Orthopedic Hardware Removal, Bunionectomy, Incision and Drainage (I&D).• Diagnostic Imaging Interpretation: Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), X-Ray, Electromyography (EMG) / Nerve Conduction Velocity Study (NCV).• Injections performed: Myofascial Trigger Point, Glenohumeral, Knee, Hip, Subacromial / Sub-deltoid, Greater Trochanteric, and cervical / lumbar paraspinal.

• Provide support services and direct patient care to clients with developmental disabilities within the Department of Developmental Disabilities, as specified by the individualized Behavioral Support Plan. • Coordinate recreational activities, teach functional communication and implement approved behavior plans to facilitate delivery of care and client independence. • Establish client developmental goals and modify intervention plans, teaching financial literacy, nutrition awareness, vocational training, and aid mastery of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL).

• Volunteered at outpatient Primary Care clinic to stimulate medical knowledge, procedure skills, and professional experience as Certified Physician Assistant (PA-C), and mentored Physician Assistant students on clinical rotation.• Achieved high patient satisfaction rates by emphasizing interpersonal communications skills to build trusting patient-provider relationships and facilitated continuity-of-care to optimize patient healthcare outcomes. • Assessed and improved patient health literacy by identifying gaps in health knowledge, reviewing blood pressure and blood glucose home logs, establishing ideal health goals, and individualizing patient health counseling regarding healthy lifestyles, diabetes and hypertension management, and smoking cessation.• Independently evaluated, managed and coordinated medical care for acute and chronic medical conditions, completed annual health maintenance assessments, sports physical examination, pediatric wellness exams.• Administered flu shots and immunizations and intra-articular joint injections, suture repaired lacerations and performed various minor surgical procedures such as abscess incision and drainage (I&D), and lipoma excision.

• Led acute care patient triage and medical intervention in fast-paced 320-bed Level 1Trauma Center. • Utilized point-of-care ultrasound to evaluate medical conditions, assisted placing of arterial and central lines, performed advanced wound care management, and repaired complex face, hand, and abdominal lacerations with sutures and staples, and administered local anesthesia prior to incision and drainage (I&D) of 3 abscesses.• Directed Medical Student and Physician Assistant simulations for 2 cardiac arrests and status asthmaticus medical emergencies and provided peer-to-peer post-simulation training.

• Achieved high clerkship remarks by effectively augmenting Multidisciplinary Team collaboration for U.S News Best Hospitals - High Performing Advanced Heart Failure Program.• Showcased leadership and commitment to continuing education by consistently arriving as early as 4 am to obtain nursing staff overnight reports, review medical history and lab data, and interpret echocardiography, heart catheterization, electrocardiogram (EKG), and other cardiographic imaging results prior to patient rounds.• Interdisciplinary collaborated with nephrology, palliative care, structural heart disease, electrophysiology (EP), cardiac transplant surgery, and interventional cardiology sub-specialist to encourage a strategic and holistic approach to patient management. • Managed Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients with complex multi-system co-morbidities such as high burden arrhythmia, cardiac amyloidosis, pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular failure, post-renal transplant immunosuppression, cardiorenal syndrome, and various structural heart diseases.• Capitalized on the opportunity to support pre-operative medical evaluation and procedure medical education and performed peri-operative surgical preparation for Heart Transplant surgery patients. • Excelled as patient advocate by championing liaison duties to strengthen patient-provider interpersonal relationships and ensuring patients are well equipped with health knowledge to achieve a high degree of health literacy to comprehend the importance of adherence to medical plan-of-care.• Mobilized Public Health / Community Health skills to integrate patient discharge education with holistic health education and health promotion practices that enhance health-related quality-of-life measures.• Conducted patient needs assessment to identify social determinants of health and healthcare gaps detrimental to health and causing cardiovascular-related avoidable hospital readmissions.

• Completed first and second surgery assists duties for Trauma Surgeon, ensuring the sterile field is maintained, assisting with perioperative patient positioning, draping, and skin preparation, and intraoperative suction and irrigation, cauterization and hemostasis management, assisting with surgical site closure and supporting wound care.• Practiced implementing Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Basic Life Support (BLS) protocols during rapid response codes in the intensive care unit (ICU) and performed endotracheal intubation procedures.• Instituted process improvement training to improve student-operational efficiency, streamlining pre-round chart review, patient evaluations, and completed timely Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system documentation.

• Coordinated managed care for 35 Medicaid/Medicare enrollees, completing in-home patient need assessments with Interdisciplinary Health Care team of Medical Director, Social Workers, and Registered Nurses (RN).• Facilitated transition of care from inpatient settings such as hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and skilled nursing facilities until home, compiling health resources for patients, and coordinated provider follow-up.• Assessed and identified patients’ Social Determinants of Health and gaps in medical care that contribute to and exacerbate disease burden, reducing hospital readmission rates.

• Aided Manager of ProMedica Health Systems, Department of Mission Services, collecting and organizing health-related data for Lucas County needs assessment.• Drafted 60-page Greater Toledo community resource document, mitigating social determinants of health; compiled an exhaustive list of Detroit and Toledo free health clinics to disseminate to community members.• Expanded ProMedica’s school nutrition education platform by more than 30 schools by standardizing outreach communication strategies, building rapport with school district health officials, and healthy lifestyle coaching. • Independently negotiated and secured partnerships with 6 Toledo health agencies, health systems, and independent consultants to execute 2 preventive medicine and community engagement events.

• Organized community development events for faculty and student personal, professional and character development.• Mentored at-risk middle-school and high school African American male-student population.• Collected, inputted, and analyzed student-behavioral data and instituted student enrichment intervention plans.