Marci D. Thompson, Des Email & Phone Number

United States

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Provide strategic direction for the future of member engagement and learning. With focus on growing the Society's revenue through membership, professional development, continuing education and credentialing.

Provide strategic direction for the future of member engagement and learning. Positioning the organization as the center of business growth through marketing strategies and leadership. With focus on growing the Society's revenue through membership, professional development, continuing education and credentialing.

APIC is the leading professional association for infection preventionists (IPs) with more than 15,000 members.At APIC, I worked with senior leaders, to plan the annual budget and to fiscally-manage its member-education offerings. With cross-departmental colleagues (with education, marketing, communications, and membership departments), I cultivated and retained the membership by providing well-received professional development programming.Accomplishments included guiding $500,000 in new live and online courses (with 135 webinars), used by hospitals and private medical practices all over the world, to train certified infection control and epidemiology professionals. As well, I secured APIC's first industry partner licensing deal and created the related e-learning content.Among the regional and national conferences and seminars for which I developed content and planned logistics (complete with seminars and vendor exhibitions), were: the inaugural Ambulatory Surgery Center Training Course in Dallas; Infection Prevention Training for Critical Access Hospitals, in Kansas City (for the Department of Health and Human Services); and the Managed Long-Term Care Conference in Chicago.

AWHONN works to empower and support nurses caring for women, newborns, and their families through research, education, and advocacy. It was here that I began to focus on developing adult-learning materials and delivery (later, I would earn my e-Learning Instructional Design Certificate while working at APIC).Accomplishments included generating $1 million in member product and service sales and successfully managing volume-discounts for large hospital systems.Two of the adult-learning programs I developed and managed (using integrated learning media such as video, web, text and case studies) were: the first Neonatal Orientation and Education Program (NOEP) and the second edition of their Perinatal Orientation & Education Program (POEP) course. I also launched the Fetal Heart Monitoring Knowledge Review and Assessment (KRA), which was the organization’s first fully-online offering.

SmithBucklin is the leading management and services company for associations across the US. There, I provided organizational development, and operations management services, to one of their largest clients: the International Society for Experimental Hematology, a global healthcare association.Accomplishments included developing and implementing policy at ISEH, by collaborating with other departments at SmithBucklin, and with its board of directors, volunteers, committees, and vendors. My membership management role for ISEH included monitoring the budget, and heading inventory and dues invoicing, as well as recruiting new members via the website, email campaigns and outreach programs.

AGA is a medical association, of 16,000-plus scientists and physicians in the field of Gastroenterology. This was my first position in the association community. At AGA, I helped to manage CME credit practices and organized projects for their coursework, such as the Digestive Diseases Self-Education Program (DDSEP) and the Academic Skills Workshop.Accomplishments included developing and managing a process to collect all postgraduate course syllabi and faculty materials; I then collaborated with a publishing company to produce AGA’s final CME program syllabus product. I also authored handbooks for education programming (e.g., the Postgraduate Course, section symposia, DDSEP, and a course for users in Spain).

Business/Commerce, General

E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate

Social Work