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• Cultivates strong working relationships with interdisciplinary acute healthcare teams, physicians and leaders to minimize risk and maximize quality and safety in patient care delivery.
• Gains collaboration with teams and leaders to develop, implement and measure patient safety and quality improvement initiatives to foster a culture of continuous system improvements.
• Provides education and builds capacity within interdisciplinary healthcare teams on diverse and complex issues, including technology, to improve clinical patient care delivery.
• Collects and analyzes data to provide regular and timely communications and recommendations to senior leaders to inform decisions about policy and procedures that directly impact patient care.

Canada

• Author of Formac-Lorimer Book’s “World Food for Student Cooks” now available at campus bookstores, independent bookstores and Indigo/Chapters.
• Provide independent and group nutrition therapy, both in person and online.
• Develop workplace wellness programs from assessment to evaluation.
• Provide evidence based obesity management nutrition therapy as part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team at Partners for Healthier Weight.
• Conduct individual nutrition assessments utilizing motivation enhancement techniques.
• Facilitate group nutrition education modules and discussion using principles of adult education and behaviour change.

Dartmouth, NS

• Managed a multidisciplinary team of 24 healthcare professionals and public health nurses implementing the Youth Health Center program in 25 schools across Central Zone, Nova Scotia Health.
• Identified vacancies, managed recruitment, hiring, onboarding and job performance management within program budgets and across three collective agreements.
• Advanced program and policy development, communications and operational and financial planning, as well as evaluation of the Youth Health program.
• Revised data collection processes and reports for improved communication of program usage details with school administration, provincial education and health departments, and the Public Health leadership team. These.
• Created and implemented a change management plan to shift health promotion programming upstream and under the framework of Comprehensive School Health to maximize the positive impact on health and education outcomes of.
• Built strategic community partnerships by collaborating and sharing resources that increased youth engagement in health and education-based programming.

• Headed an inter-professional clinical healthcare team in the implementation, delivery and evaluation of behavior change programming in a private clinic setting.
• Developed partnerships with various healthcare service organizations and community agencies to enhance the reach of participant recruitment through patient referrals.
• Integrated new knowledge and research by revising the educational approach of the program so that patients accessed the most advanced evidence-informed programming possible.
• Audited patient charts on clinical and administrative aspects of care, harnessing opportunities to improve patient care, programming, and administrative processes.
• Incorporated Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into programming resulting in team capacity building, increased participant motivation and research publications.

Bachelor Of Science, Applied Human Nutrition

• Introductory Nutrition Course Teaching Assistant (2009-10) • Recipient of the Doris M. Anderson Award, granted to top student from.

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology

• SARS Research volunteer to Dr Veronica Stinson (2003-04) • Completed Law and Social work electives at Carleton University in Ottawa ON.