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• Concierge Education Program Management: Engage large clients (100 or more employees) in a concierge benefits education program to optimize healthcare utilization and health through custom topical and relevant educational campaigns promoting smart healthcare consumerism. Elicit buy-in from key stakeholders (CEO, CFO, VP HR) to promote program buy-in with a goal of lowering out of pocket cost, annual renewals and improving employee health and satisfaction• Multi-Channel Education Creation: Author and implement multi-channel social media education materials including podcasts, blogs and mobile push campaigns promoting healthcare best practices for small and medium sized businesses • Website Management: Restructure and maintain a client facing website housing key educational materials from 9 medical carriers, vendor partners and non-profits offering self-service benefits education opportunities for clients • Multi-medical carrier educational campaign development: Create plug and play benefits education option for clients with single and multiple medical carrier(s) including a 12-month education calendar, scripting, incentive ideas and a quick-start guide targeting relevant and actionable areas of high cost• Benefits communication creation: Author employee and client targeted communications promoting medical carrier programs and specific preventive health opportunities, such as mental health support and breast cancer screenings, with a goal of increasing preventive health utilization and improving health outcomes.• Benefits Decision Maker Engagement: Engage benefits decision makers to promote benefits education through monthly "how to” articles on implementing benefits education in their workplace in just 5-minutes • Road Show Promotion: Design, author and present road shows to engage internal and external stakeholders fostering support for benefits education to validate necessity of educational opportunities from a financial and wellness lenses

• Client Management: Work with employee members of over 100 large clients• New Member Intake and Follow Up: Conducted initial member intake including assessment of mental, physical, and psychosocial health to identify appropriate care plan, resources, and referrals. Conducted follow up calls to evaluate progress and adjust plan as needed• Care Plan Development: Used motivational interviewing, SMART goal setting, and barrier identification to help member create care plan • Health Professional Referral: Referred members for additional behavioral health and social work support based on clinical assessment • Health Education Resources: Provided members with appropriate mental, physical and emotional health resources as indicted by initial assessment and ongoing evaluation • Health Returns System: Noted care plan, education, referrals, and education in HRS system as required by governing body• Educational Facilitation: Prepare materials and facilitate in-house educational seminars on health and wellness topics. Provide feedback for presenters and edit Power Point documents to present educational materials in accessible manor• Desktop Creation: Spearhead soft-launch of new EMR and create desktops for team training

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Combined clinical expertise with a behavior-based approach to health and wellness. • Patient Treatment Plan: Developed and administered new patient intake, assessing specific exercise and non-exercise movement needs based on musculoskeletal limitations, medical history, and psychosocial barriers. Conducted ongoing care plan based on successes and barriers. • Care Collaboration: Coordinated with clinical team of endocrinologist, clinical psychologist, and registered dietician to develop evidence-based weight loss plan of care.• Exercise Prescription: Prescribed and progressed exercise per ACSM guidelines with a behavior-based approach, tailoring recommendations to meet individual needs.• Clinical Research Coordinator and Protocol Co-Author of Compression Trial: Co-authored protocol for the FeelWell Compression clinical trial. Developed informed consent, phone screen, and source documents. Served as Clinical Research Coordinator, overseeing administration, recruitment, marketing, personnel, scheduling, protocol implementation, data collection and analysis.• Wellness Communications: Wrote and published weekly newsletter/blog content and maintained clinic’s social media presence. • Health Education: Developed and led educational patient workshops to address relevant risk factors, weight loss and weight loss-maintenance topics including exercise, nutrition, and self-care.• Wellness Program Design: Designed and implemented challenges and wellness programs. Full Responsibilities included program administration, budget management, website design, communications, promotion, recruitment, and participant engagement.• Personal Training and Group Fitness: Conducted 1:1 training and group fitness sessions in-person and virtually, offering a variety of modifications to fit varied needs.• Health Coach: Served as health coach for patient population using motivational interviewing, SMART goal setting, and barrier identification.

Montgomery County, Maryland, United States

• Wellness Subject Matter Expert: Demonstrated relevant and current subject-matter expertise. • Education and Curriculum Development: Developed course curriculum including lecture, Power Points, weekly assignments, supplemental materials, quizzes, and exams. Developed engaging learning opportunities based on course text. Created lab activities cultivating student engagement and understanding

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

• Wellness Screens: Performed services such as finger stick and other biometric measurements including height, weight, BMI/body composition and blood pressure screenings.• Health Education: Explained screening results to participants and educated on risk factor management via lifestyle modification.• Subject Matter Expert: Maintained current knowledge of health promotions topics to keep health education programming material current based on latest scientific data.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

• Wellness Subject Matter Expert: Demonstrated relevant and current subject-matter expertise. • Education and Curriculum Development: Developed course curriculum including lecture, Power Points, weekly assignments, supplemental materials, quizzes, and exams. Developed engaging learning opportunities based on course text. Created lab activities cultivating student engagement and understanding.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Metabolic and Stress Tests: Administered and interpreted Treadmill Stress, VO2 Max, and Basil Metabolic Rate Tests including ECG monitoring at rest, with exercise, and throughout recovery.• Collaboration Individual Treatment Plan (ITP): In collaboration with physician, developed individual plan of care based on test results, medical history, and psychosocial barriers. Utilized goal setting to encourage lifestyle modifications and conducted patient follow up to assess for continued risk factor management.

Alexandria, Virginia

• Patient Management: Oversaw daily exercise therapy sessions with continuous monitoring of all patients including ECG, Sp02, DI, RPE, HR, BP, and blood sugar at rest, with exercise, and during recovery.• Program Development: Developed and led the Diabetes and Exercise Healthy Living Seminar, Risk Factor Management Seminar, and Alex Well employee health program. • New Patient Intake: Conducted new patient interview and intake including medical history review, risk factor identification, and medication reconciliation. • Lifestyle Modification: Managed holistic ongoing treatment of patients in Cardiopulmonary Cancer Recovery, Diabetes and Exercise, and Vascular Disease Management Programs. • Policies and Procedures: Authored policies and procedures for exercise prescription of cardiac and cancer patients based on ACSM guidelines and latest scientific data for AACVPR certification.• Education Development: Updated patient education program materials and implementation tools.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

• Cardiopulmonary Exercise Tests: Administered Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing including HR, BP, ECG and SpO2 monitoring at rest, with exercise and during recovery• Clinical Evaluation: Evaluated patients for contraindications to exercise testing, and continuously assessed patients for appearance of absolute indications requiring testing termination• Patient Education: Educated patients on risk factor management through lifestyle modification

Master’S Degree, Clinical Exercise Physiology

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology And Criminal Justice