Nurse Practitioner | HIV Specialist | Scientific Exchange | Clinical Education
Palm Springs, CA 92262, United States
#OpenToWorkDoctoral-prepared, credentialed HIV Specialist and Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with over 15 years of specialized healthcare experience. Experienced scientific communicator, delivering high-impact clinical education to professionals and students at international conferences and in classroom settings. Skilled in translating complex clinical evidence into actionable insights for diverse audiences, from frontline providers to academic thought leaders. Seeking to leverage deep HIV therapeutic knowledge and scientific exchange in a Medical Science Liaison role, translating research into real-life practice.
Medical Science Liaison, Clinical Research, and/or Education in the HIV and Infectious Diseases space. Clinician Informatics roles.
• Deliver graduate-level nursing education in the Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs • Served as Clinical Instructor (CI) for 10 NP students in clinical courses • Teaching responsibilities include Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning
Duke University School of Nursing
• Manage a complex panel of over 500 patients living with HIV within a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) • Translate emerging scientific evidence to clinical practice, optimize treatment outcomes for people living with HIV • Serve as clinical consultant on the latest treatment and modalities for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases • Identify and recruit patients for clinical trials in partnership with clinical research organizations • Translate clinical studies into actionable treatment for patients with co-occurring substance use disorders.
Desert AIDS Project (DAP) Health
• Completed New Graduate Transition to Practice for Nurse Practitioners in a Family Medicine Residency Clinic • Served as HIV and STI subject matter experts to over 50 family and internal medicine clinicians • Performed in-office procedures such as incision & drainage, joint injections, nerve blocks, & cryotherapy • Collaborated with clinician partners and experts from other specialties and service lines
Kaiser Permanente Beaverton Medical & Dental Office
• Delivered scientific presentations on the topics of HIV, infectious diseases, immunology, and epidemiology to diverse learners • Facilitated transfer of knowledge to more than 300 baccalaureate and graduate nursing students • Consistently recognized as a high-impact educator with overall course evaluations of more than 5.0 out of 6 points • Teaching responsibilities include Advanced Physiology & Pathophysiology, Advanced Health Assessment, Epidemiology, Leadership, Population Health, and Acute Care Nursing
Oregon Health & Sciences University
• Provided system-wide urgent/emergency infection control expertise to 10 hospitals across 3 states • Content expert on hospital epidemiology and high-consequence infectious diseases such as Ebola Virus Disease • Managed database development life cycle for disease outbreaks and exposures.
PeaceHealth
• Provided interim Infection Prevention expertise to 2 hospitals within a metropolitan area serving over 400 beds • Led outbreak investigation of different diseases, including Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) • Supported and trained novice Infection Preventionists within the region
B. E. Smith
• Led the Infection Prevention and Control program for a 200-bed hospital • Prevent and eliminate the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections • Provided expertise during pathogen outbreaks and emergent situations • Educated professionals in infection prevention and their roles in providing safe patient care
Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center
• Led high-impact infection prevention & harm elimination initiatives within a 165-bed pediatric acute care facility • Developed training and education for the region's only high-risk infectious diseases care unit. • Interpreted infection-related data to provide understandable information for frontline and leadership staff • Designed and implemented system-wide data analytics and business intelligence tools using Microsoft Power BI • Effectively managed and directed multidisciplinary team members during an infectious disease outbreak.
Randall Children’s Hospital – Legacy Health
• Led daily Infection Prevention operations of 8 infection prevention professionals within 6 hospital sites. • Served as liaison and represented Infection Prevention & Control at System-wide meetings. • Analyzed and developed strategic initiatives such as employee engagement and data inter-rater reliability
• Bridged clinical and technical teams to provide effective clinical documentation tools within a 5-hospital system • Served as an expert on Epic Clinical Documentation and Epic Stork modules • Advised system-wide Pediatric Specialty User Groups & Nursing Advisory Council on workflow improvements
Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Banner University Medical Center–Tucson
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Master of Science · Clinical Informatics and Patient-Centered Technologies
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
California Board of Registered Nursing
American Academy of HIV Medicine
Washington Board of Nursing
Oregon Board of Nursing
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board
North Carolina Board of Nursing
Certification Board of Infection Control & Epidemiology
American Heart Association
