Ken Stewart Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Riverside, California, United States

The LifeSwitch Plan is a 90-day lifestyle modification program that can be implemented in a clinical setting or personal setting, designed to help individuals lose weight, however other benefits are associated with reducing the risk factors that are associated with the development of chronic disease.

My responsibilities consist of using four platforms (Epic, Secure Video, IDX and TouchWorks) to help facilitate the Healthier You 6-month program, the Living with diabetes 6-month program as well as focusing on individual lifestyle, behavior modification and goal setting using the SMART format in the areas of nutrition, exercise, stress management, and dependency behaviors such as smoking cessation.

I have been hired to enhance the health education department by employing online marketing tools to reach individuals and groups through webinars, podcasts and other means of point of contact. As a health educator, my focus will be on lifestyle management and behavior modification in the areas of but not limited to nutrition, exercise, and stress management. In addition, I address lifestyle related chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension.

Riverside, Ca

My responsibilities consisted of overseeing 2 stand-alone primary care clinics, 2 mobile RV clinics, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), data collecting and reporting, insurance billing, computer & software maintenance and support, project development/management, contracts & grants and fundraising. ● Credentialed 2 primary care providers and licensed 1 primary care mobile unit . ● Completed various applications for new site completion and audit purposes ● Established partnerships with Riverside and San Bernardino City Councils as well as various religious organizations ● Streamlined the medical billing department by hiring a medical biller and created policies & procedures to track patient encounters and insurance claims ● Awarded grants 42,000 (HRSA); $25,000 (Kaiser Permanente); $150.000 (CDBG City of Riverside), $75,000 (ESG City of Moreno Valley) ● Streamlined the human resources department by hiring a human resources coordinator as well as provided input on human resources policies and procedures ● Facilitated the contract for janitorial services to provide service on a consistent basis.

Through the years I have seen over 400 patients yearly addressing the topics of weight management, diabetes, heart disease, stress management and smoking cessation. I coordinated various programs/campaigns with the help of my staff which I hired and with a budget created: The Get Fit Challenge, an 8-week group lifestyle program that helps patients improves their health and achieves a healthy body fat percentage, The 5-day Basic Nutrition Training, a program that explores nutrition in a small-group setting to learn why and how to eat healthy, to debunk food myths and to create a nutritious, delicious meal plan; The Diabetes program, an individual program where patients are enrolled to help prevent, manage, or reverse the onset of Type 2 diabetes.

I was instrumental in teaching a 24-week curriculum to various groups (between 8-10 patients/group) on topics such as nutrition, stress and exercise to those who are in an insurance sanctioned gastric bypass program and needed to lose a certain amount of weight to qualify for the surgery.

As a health coach, I introduced families to the obesity prevention study, assessed their values and motivators for change and documented their goal setting progress. During the session I included a 60 minute research based Motivational Interviewing (MI) coaching session to promote dietary and physical activity change.

Creating and implementing a wellness curriculum that focused on nutrition, finance and physical activity for Operation Phoenix Standardize the physical activity/video gaming area to help keep track of the participant's health

Engaging approximately 75-100 adolescents and teens from the community to participate in exercise while playing video games, help perform research and taught the nutritional and exercise program.

Creating topical presentations that focused on physical activity/strength training, nutrition and stress management that was presented to Riverside County workersCounseling individual clients on engaging in a healthy lifestyle Creating a health/wellness manual for patients and staffObtaining and evaluating health appraisals for clients

Responsibilities included:Teaching nutritional and exercise modules to weekly classesCreating a cost-analysis document that compares different weight management clinics in the area Assessing gastric bypass patients before they engage in our programs Seeing clients one-on-one regarding their health and wellness

Responsibilities included: Providing nutritional and exercise counseling one-on-oneProviding nutritional dietary supplements to patients

Responsibilities included: Enrolling, testing and collecting data in a research study that looks at the psycho-socio-spiritual factors among the population of Loma Linda and the surrounding areas

Responsibilities included: Engaging adolescents to participate in exercise while playing video games, research, teaching nutritional and exercise programs

Responsibilities included: Presenting information on HIV/STDs Supervising and working with peer educators in helping them to develop activities for after-school centersResearching and writing grants to help fund programs at the organizationTaught Health classes at juvenile centers and neighboring high schools

Responsibilities included: Presenting information on HIV/STDsWorking in the Males Health Program, enlisting and work with males (18-30 years old) Working with Partnership Project Aid, a day laborers' office

Drph, Preventive Care

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Global Health