Cardiac surgery NP with responsibility in all aspects of perioperative care. Sees outpatients both preop and postop for routine and urgent visits. Manages recently discharged patients on warfarin. Inpatient, admits, con-sults, discharges and rounds on all preop and postop cardiac surgery pa-tients, including bypass, multiple valve, myomectomy, transplant, and all (temporary, durable & ECMO) mechanical circulatory support patients on floors and ICU. Total program case volume approximately 1900 per year. Program also has 3 star rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for coronary bypass and AVR/CABG. No less than two star rating in any other category. 30 day mortality is 1.6 as published by CMS. Also work with ad-vanced heart transplant/MCS team and medical intensive care unit.

At Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Acute care nurse practitioner on cardiac surgery & VAD specialist team.

(A division of CompHealth) Cardiac surgery locum tenens nurse practitioner at Geisinger Medical Center.

Cardiac surgery NP with responsibility in all aspects of perioperative care. Sees outpatients both preop and postop for routine and urgent visits. Inpatient, admits, consults, discharges and rounds on all preop and postop cardiac surgery patients, including bypass, valve, transplant, and all (temporary, durable, including total artificial heart & ECMO) mechanical circulatory support patients on floors and ICU.

Coordinates all aspects of cardiac transplant care, including participating in the patient selection process, waitlist maintenance, coordinating transplant operations, education of post transplant patient and coordinating post transplant care. Responsible for maintenance of patient data in appropriate databases and UNOS data. Assists with mechanical circulatory support program as needed.

Acute care NP in CVICU. Responsible for critical care management of complex cardiovascular surgery patients, including heart, lung and multiorgan transplant patients and mechanical circulatory support patients with a variety of temporary and durable devices. Also responsible for management of ECMO patients and general cardiac surgery patients, including complex/multiple valve replacements and adult patients with congenital disease.

Coordinates and participates in patient selection, outpatient clinic visits, clinical management, inpatient and outpatient education to VAD patients and their caregivers as well expert consulting on VAD system and clinical management for hospital employees. 
Participates in research related databases and equipment management. 
Implanting center for HeartWare ENDURANCE and LATERAL trials and the Thoratec MOMENTUM 3 study. Implanting center for SynCardia total artificial heart. Center implanted 56 durable VADs in 2014, 81 in 2015, 65 in 2016, in addition to temporary devices and ECMO. Led project to incorporate use of thromboelastography and platelet mapping into VAD program's practice. Coordinates and maintains patient selection and performance improvement meetings as well as policy and procedure development.
 Responsible for 24/7 availability to patients at home with VADs coordinating follow-up consultations and clinic visits. Involvement with community outreach on VAD safety measures and awareness.
 Liaison between cardiothoracic surgeons, heart failure cardiologists, VAD companies and patients.

Procurement transplant coordinator working in intensive care units, identifying and evaluating potential organ donor, working/counseling donor families, medical management of organ donors, facilitating organ placement, communication with transplant coordinators and surgeons, coordinating and arranging transportation of out of state surgical teams, arranging and overseeing surgical recovery of organs, experience working 24 hour on-call shifts.

Coordinates and participates in patient selection, outpatient clinic visits, clinical management, inpatient and outpatient education to VAD patients and their caregivers as well expert consulting on VAD system and clinical management for hospital employees. 
Maintains and tracks research related databases and equipment management. 
Coordinates and maintains patient selection and performance improvement meetings as well as policy and procedure development.
 Responsible for 24/7 availability to patients at home with VAD’s coordinating follow-up consultations and clinic visits. Involvement with community outreach on VAD safety measures and awareness.
 Liaison between cardiothoracic surgeons, heart failure cardiologists, VAD companies and patients.

9-1-1 and critical care transport RN/paramedic throughout New Jersey. A consortium of several hospital systems to provide EMS, the company is one of the largest EMS providers in the state and was the first accredited service in New Jersey.

Quaternary care center receiving referrals of patients from other hospitals for evaluation and treatment of end stage heart failure, cardiogenic shock and severe cardiomyopathy. Typically patients seen are pre- and post-op orthotropic heart transplant, ventricular assist device (LVAD, RVAD & BiVAD) implantation, lung transplant, kidney, pancreas transplant and general surgical cases. Frequent titration of multiple vasopressors, inotropic medications and pulmonary vasodialators. Use of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT/CVVHDF), Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), ventilator management including oscillating vents, use of nitric oxide, intra-aortic balloon pump management, and hemodynamic monitoring via pulmonary artery catheters. Familiar with following VADs: Thoratec Heartmate II, CentriMag, PVAD, IVAD & XVE.Abiomed Impella 2.5, 5 & CP; AB5000.Terumo DuraHeart.HeartWare HVAD.CardiacAssist TandemHeart.Jarvik 2000.Work also included per diem work as cardiac transplant coordinator (August 2010-October 2011), handling all aspects pre-, peri- and post transplantation, outpatient visits and medical management. Also assisted with VAD program. Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is the 3rd largest heart transplant center in U.S. in 2011. Member Bioethics & Pharmacy Committees

Critical care and 9-1-1 paramedic in the largest city in NJ (and 68th largest in the U.S.). Responsible for EMS in the cities of Newark, East Orange and Orange. EMS at Newark Liberty International Airport and Port Newark and Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal, among the busiest air and seaports in the U.S. Field training officer for new employees, emergency medicine residents on EMS rotation, medical and paramedic students.Founding member of the critical care transport team, providing ground critical care to all of New Jersey and surrounding metropolitan area with specialty in transport to the New Jersey Trauma Center (Level I) at UMDNJ-University Hospital, and its Level III neonatal center.

Paramedic in the New York City 9-1-1 EMS system.

9-1-1 paramedic in suburban New Jersey

Critical care and 9-1-1 paramedic at the largest hospital-based EMS service in City of New York, with ALS 9-1-1 coverage in 4 of the 5 boroughs of the City. Critical care paramedic serving Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital (Level IV NICU), Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Burn Center at Weill Cornell. Service included all areas of New York City, Long Island, Upstate NY and surrounding states.

9-1-1 paramedic in Jersey City (75th largest in U.S.) and Hudson County, New Jersey (most densely populated in U.S.).

Critical care transport EMT