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Leverage analytics and insights to drive sustainable change and enable organizational transformation in support of the organization’s strategies and priorities.Serve as coach and internal consultant to Lurie Children’s Heart Center, Doctors, nurses and administrative staff to enhance their ability to develop, engage, retain, and deliver Our Promise to Employees fostering a great place to work.Working effectively in a highly matrixed and decentralized environment with the ability to navigate through ambiguity and demonstrated appreciation and support for diversity, inclusion and belonging in a constantly evolving healthcare environment.Fostering consensus and partnership with others without direct reporting relationships.Interpersonal, communication, and presentation.Skills with experience presenting recommendations to senior management.Prioritization skills and work within tight and often conflicting deadlines.

Consult with various EHR vendors (Cerner, EPIC, etc.) on the implementation of ECR.Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation and end user support for platform transitions.Conduct discovery calls with providers, clinicians, and other clinic staff to determine how to configure EHR, train on appropriate workflows, and explain the implementation process.Outline and Develop training materials and acted as subject matter expert for Cerner, EPIC, Salesforce software, SAS, Tableau, and Mulsoft.Created and executed SQL queries for problem-solving and investigation for clinics and management.Assist in the identification and development of reporting, documentation, and training.Coordinate meetings between site directors, health center managers, and project managers.Utilize Salesforce to develop and automate complex reports requested by client sites.Collaborate with application configurations team to develop and improve existing reports.Conducted implementation training sessions with clients (remotely and at client location) to facilitate interface set-up, application, and configuration.

Manage and analyze in-country needs and opportunities against CDC program strategic objectives and advise on how best to deliver in-country public health services that reflect international standards and policies.Completes trainer curriculum, including courses in training delivery, instructional design, training templates, eLearning and webcasting. Applies knowledge to meet training standards.Train new Cohort class on daily tasks, including entering data into surveillance systems, teaching the knowledge of surveillance and analytics standards.Immigration Health- Review migrant medical packets, identify points of contact for quality assurance issues and technical support, review and record records into QARSImportations- Evaluate importer compliance with CDC recommended disease control measures, assessing dog and cat vaccination records, analyzing data from air waybills, NHP shipments.Gathered information from incoming passengers to slow down spread of COVID-19 in an attempt to report any symptoms that may not have been shown at face value.Prepare spreadsheets identifying active surveillance of COVID-19 cases in a four state region (Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana).Served as a point of contact for various personnel regarding moderately complex epidemiological issues. Key Accomplishments: Led team to significant volumes of positive results to control the spread of COVID-19 in an attempt to obtain and sustain the virus at manageable volumes.COVID-19 Contact Tracing Certification – John Hopkins UNIV, August 2020

Manage and analyze in-country needs and opportunities against CDC program strategic objectives and advise on how best to deliver in-country public health services that reflect international standards and policies.Completes trainer curriculum, including courses in training delivery, instructional design, training templates, eLearning and webcasting. Applies knowledge to meet training standards.Train new Cohort class on daily tasks, including entering data into surveillance systems, teaching the knowledge of surveillance and analytics standards.Immigration Health- Review migrant medical packets, identify points of contact for quality assurance issues and technical support, review and record records into QARSImportations- Evaluate importer compliance with CDC recommended disease control measures, assessing dog and cat vaccination records, analyzing data from air waybills, NHP shipments.Gathered information from incoming passengers to slow down spread of COVID-19 in an attempt to report any symptoms that may not have been shown at face value.Prepare spreadsheets identifying active surveillance of COVID-19 cases in a four state region (Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana).Served as a point of contact for various personnel regarding moderately complex epidemiological issues. Key Accomplishments: Led team to significant volumes of positive results to control the spread of COVID-19 in an attempt to obtain and sustain the virus at manageable volumes.COVID-19 Contact Tracing Certification – John Hopkins UNIV, August 2020

Greets patients and their caregivers and records pertinent information into a computer databaseResponsible for providing clinical staff and patient representatives knowledge of EPIC EMR as they transition from Cerner EMR system. Establish strong rapport with EMR end users.Taught users with a hands-on teaching approach.Managed care cost with accounts above 250k.Closely collaborated with doctors, nurses and clinical staff to troubleshoot issues regarding EMR systems.Case management and project management for patient’s accounts. EPIC/ Cerner EMR system training and development knowledge.Ability to successfully collaborate with cross-functional departments.Records insurance information and obtains pre-approval for treatment if needed.Relays information between patients and other staff members, and provides them with updates as needed Works EPIC systems, Allegra Systems.

Training patients access representatives on EPIC EMR systems and patients flow upon arrival at a hospital or medical center, scheduling appointments, and entering new patient information into the EPIC database.Developed and maintained instructor guidelines for EMR workflows on respective applications. Conducted training sessions and one on one training of EMR systems. Developed workflows to coordinate effective intake, scheduling, and navigation of care for patients.Led a team of 10 to success with my abundance of knowledge and utilizing Epic EMR system and time management skills to ensure all procedures were done in a timely and professional manner.

PROGRAMMING (Safe Homecoming Week)1. Develop, coordinate and evaluate sexuality education programs, which are designed to promote healthy lifestyle decisions. This includes presentations to students in residence halls, Greek houses, academic guest lectures, club and ethnic group organizations, special events, displays and written materials.2. Coordinate the Peer Education programs within the Health Education Unit by facilitating ongoing communication between Health Educators and maintaining consistency with regards to marketing student recruitment, curriculum development and evaluation.3. Develop and coordinate programs on sexual health related issues including handouts, flyers, posters and other related materials.4. Coordinate and supervise the Health Advocate program and train teaching assistants for the Health Advocates and Sexuality/Peer programs.