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Adjunct college instructor teaching Anatomy & physiology, medical terminology and introduction to healthcare.

Surgical scheduling coordinator with strong customer service skills. Responsibilities to include the overall coordination and scheduling of patients surgeries, procedures, radiologic testing such as MRI's, CTA's, Cat Scan's, and vein procedures. Responsible for obtaining precertifications, authorizations, verifying patients insurance deductibles/co-insurance, referrals and charge entry. Well experienced in ICD-9 coding and CPT. Over 11 years clinical experience and plain film diagnostic experience.

Served as a Special Procedure Technologist/Senior Diagnostic Technologist in the main department. Provided exceptional services for the emergency room, critical care unit, and patient care unit and outpatient clinic. Assisted in the operating room for basic c-arm cases and AAA. Very proficient in business office equipment, PACS, McKesson, Meditech and Radiisphere.Assisted Interventional Physician in vascular procedures, such as instilling enzymes or inserting balloon in blood vessels to remove plaque or other blockage. Picc line placement, dialysis catheter insertion, kyphoplasty, angiograms, fistula grams and many more examinations.Operates fluoroscope to aid physician to view and guide wire or catheter through blood vessels to area of interest.Starting automatic injection of contrast medium into blood vessels of patients and activates fluoroscope and motion picture camera(cinefluoroscopy) to produce images that assist physicians in guiding catheter through vascular system of patients.Observing gauges, recorder, and video system of multi-channel data analysis system that indicates blood pressure, cardiac output, and respiration during imaging of vascular system.

Served as an operating room and main department technologist. Experience in the endovascular suite in the operating room. Served as a lead technologist in the operating room, scheduling technologist for over 25 physicians using several different fluoroscopy machines, assisting with ordering supplies, inventory control, after hours and weekend call schedules.Operating diagnostic imaging equipment to produce contrast enhanced radiographs of vital organs, blood vessels, arteries and veins. Aiding the physician in diagnostic evaluation and treatment.Positioning and immobilizing patient on examining table, using head and shoulder braces, or other mobilizers and following specific protocols.Entering technical factors determined by protocol, such as amount and quality of radiation beam, and specified filming sequence into computer.Raising and lowering examining table and manipulating and positioning x-ray tube in response to instructions from physicians.