• Facilitated in activities of daily living, personal hygiene management, feeding and ambulation.• Fostered relationships with patients, caregivers and healthcare teams to achieve individual care plan targets

• Reviewed clinical data from medical records to assign IDC-10, CPT and HCPCS codes.• Collected documentation and clarified ambiguous patient care statements by contacting providers.

Increased Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness throughout Greater Hartford Hospital Area through development and launch of multi-media donor awareness campaign.• Planned and conducted guest speaker programs; educating staff and affording opportunity for open dialogue regarding organ donation.• Developed and lead presentations providing training for hospital physicians and nurses defining their role in the donation process.• Guest presented at schools and seminars; educating both students and community about donation.• Established design and key placement of donor awareness signs throughout the community, increasing target group interest.• Continued on-call donor procurement with LifeChoice Donor Services, providing life-enhancing donor allografts to the community.

Provided on-site organ and tissue procurement services, educational support, and tissue banking resources to twenty-six hospitals in Connecticut and Massachusetts. • Provided in-services for hospital physicians and nurses, specifying their role in the donation process.• Educated non-clinical professionals as well the public, increasing donor awareness. • Served as Sales Representative for Hartford Hospital Tissue Bank, providing the community with quality bone and vascular tissues for transplantation.o Met with in and out-of house orthopedic surgeons to discuss their ongoing needs and upcoming special procedures requiring custom tissue grafts.o Sought out and called on prospective customers to introduce available services, new products, and to publicize Hartford Hospital Tissue Bank.o Increased product sales in Hartford area over 200% in 18-month period• Partnered with Hartford Hospital Tissue Bank as a Certified Tissue Bank Specialist. o Provided quality assurance for vascular, cardiac, and bone tissue allografts. o Handled purchase, sale, and tracking of allografts; maintained inventory of tissue bank. • Collaborated with transplant surgeons facilitating organ recovery, preservation, and allocation. o Acted as a liaison between hosting hospital staff and visiting transplant teams.o Preserved, stored, placed, and delivered human organs for transplantation.• Performed sterile surgical recovery of donor tissues for transplant. Trained per diem staff in sterile technique and surgical recovery procedures.• Recorded and reported clinical information through use of Microsoft Access, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Phlebotomist responsible for specimen collection and transport in 500 bed hospital.

Assisted in post-doctoral hypertension research under Dr. Daniel Ely, PhD. ~Responsible for frozen sectioning, micro-punching, and staining of tissues. ~Conducted paraffin tissue preservation, sectioning and scoring. ~Performed animal surgery, organ dissection, collection, and preservation.