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| CURRENT POSITION |
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Certified Nurse Practitioner
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Primary Care & Psychiatric Services, PC 2004-Present dba: Advanced Behavioral Healthcare Psychiatric out-patient medical management for children, adolescents and adults. Individual supportive, insight-oriented and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Inpatient care of adolescents and adults at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital and Northwest Community Hospital. Psychiatric consults in skilled nursing facilities. Medication management for medical acute and chronic diseases. Primary care for all ages. Nurse Practitioner owned and operated. |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
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| Certified Nurse Practitioner | Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital Jun 06-Jul 07 Inpatient medical care of children, adolescents and adults. Member of Nurse Practitioner team responsible for Comprehensive Medical-Psycho-Social history and physical on most inpatient admissions. Expert resource for unit staff on issues of medical or psychiatric medication and disease process. |
| Certified Nurse Practitioner | Child Assessment/Family Services, Marengo, IL Sep 04-May 06 Primary care for all ages in rural clinic. Individual and family psychotherapy and counseling. Medication management for medical & psychiatric problems. |
| Certified Nurse Practitioner | Behavioral Health Care Associates, Schaumburg, IL Sep 02-Jul 05 Psychiatric out-patient medical management for children, adolescents and adults. Individual and family psychotherapy. Credentialed at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital. Clinical Research Coordinator. |
| Certified Nurse Practitioner | Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, IL Jan 02-Aug 02 Care management and coordination for Geriatric persons. Public and staff education on Geriatric issues. |
| Certified Nurse Practitioner | The CORE Center/Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL Sep 98-Sep 01 Primary and specialty out-patient medical management for HIV-infected children, adolescents and adults. Medical management of drop-in clients in STD clinic. Credentialed as Medical Staff at Cook County Hospital. |
| Nurse Clinician | Loyola University Center for Home Care & Hospice, IL 1996-Dec 98 Home care and infusion nurse. PICC certified. |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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| Adjunct Faculty | Harper College, Palatine, IL. Clinical Nursing Instructor. 2006 |
| Adjunct Faculty | College of DuPage, Glenn Ellyn, IL. Clinical Nursing Instructor. 2001-2002. |
| Adjunct Faculty | The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health Graduate-level Community Health distance learning program 1997-1998. |
| RESEARCH EXPERIENCE |
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| Sub-investigator | Behavioral Health Care Associates Psychopharmacologic clinical trials. Observational trials. Responsible for staff coordination, budgets, regulatory documents and IRB communications. Clinician responsible for psychiatric and medical history, psychiatric assessments and diagnosis, physical exams. |
| Research Site Coordinator | The CORE Center/Cook County Hospital Grant co-writer. Antiretroviral clinical trials. Observational trials. Responsible for staff management, budgets, regulatory documents and IRB communications. Clinician responsible for medical history/physical, gyne exams. |
| Research Data Analyst | The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health Integral member of team who designed, implemented and taught the first web-based course at UIC’s School of Public Health. Co-taught graduate data management and interpretation for grant writing course. |
PUBLICATIONS
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EDUCATION
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CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE
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RESEARCH
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