Carrie Fuertes

• Scheduling diagnostic imaging
• Providing patients with appointment instructions
• Liaison between patients, Physicians, Financial Advocates, and Billing
• Obtaining documents to create clinical orders
• Prior Authorization initiation

• Staff Management
• Overseeing day to day operations
• Scheduling, organizing classes
• Retail sales, inventory control
• Dive instructor-Open water, Advanced Open water Specialties and Adaptive Training
• Mentor youth projects

• Drafted letters of medical necessity and prescriptions for Providers Nationwide
• Reviewed and approved all patient documents prior to submission to the Department of Labor
• Liaison for Medical claims examiners, Physicians and patients
• Researched and obtained detailed patient information for insurance providers and medical personnel

• Research and Development early detection methods
• Clinical trials enrollment Phases I-IV, patient consenting, IRB documentation, data collection, data entry, procedure completions
• Patient scheduling
• Phlebotomy, Tissue collection
• Investigation, Methodology and Writing

Co-Author: " Detection of circulating tumor DNA without a tumor-informed search using next generation sequencing is a prognostic biomarker in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma" Sept 23 2021

Co-Author: "The stochastic nature of errors in next-generation sequencing of circulating cell free DNA" Feb 21 2020

Co-Author: "The mutational profile of Glioblastoma derived cell free DNA in plasma represents a distinct subset of somatic mutations present in Glioblastoma solid tumor DNA" November 11 2019

Co-Author: "Automated size selection for short cell free DNA fragments enriches for circulating DNA and improves error correction during next generation sequencing" July 25 2018