JAMIE S. CHERUP

• Providing specialized neurological care serving regional empanelment of 1,400,000 military veterans.
• Designated Approval Authority for Neurological services, providing oversight of consult triage and providing approval determination for timely access to direct VA and community care in alignment with the MISSION Act.
• Independently provide comprehensive health care in second busiest Neurology clinic in the VA system to Veterans with broad range of chronic and acute health problems, including neuropathy, progressive neurological movement disorders, chronic migraines, cognitive impairments, and combat related PTSD.
• Collaborates with various specialties and consultants across the health and disease spectrum to coordinate care.
• Evaluate and treat pain due to acute and chronic neurological conditions with localized nerve block and botulinum injections.
• Interprets analytical results, identify salient findings, and develop relevant prevention and treatment recommendations based on findings.
• Collaborates with team of neurology providers, residents, and students through direct communication, documentation and consultation as needed.
• Participates in monitoring the quality, safety, and appropriateness of patient care in Neurology.
• Maximize patient satisfaction through open communication and holistic patient-centered care, partnering with the veteran to develop plan of care, achieving 84% satisfaction score, exceeding national average.
• Identified acute syncopal event and provided emergency intervention, bringing patient back to baseline and averting life-threatening event and complications.
• Conducted over 1,349 patient interactions worth $269,800 in facility funding for catchment area covering 4 regions.
• Designated lead consult analyst; reviewed and processed 3,300 consults.
• Nominated and selected as Contributing Faculty at UCF School of Medicine, providing mentorship and clerkship training to 8 medical students and 6 residents.
• Increased access to care by over 30% during provider shortage providing pain intervention, averting delay in care.
• Provided outstanding supervision, mentoring, and training to nursing team.
• Created lab review log to ensure no missing lab results; 0 missed labs, identified over 20 critical lab values.
• Successfully managed the clinic's daily operations and established a patient first culture in the clinic.

• Providing specialized neurological care serving regional empanelment of 1,400,000 military veterans.
• Designated Approval Authority for Neurological services, providing oversight of consult triage and providing approval determination for timely access to direct VA and community care in alignment with the MISSION Act.
• Independently provide comprehensive health care in second busiest Neurology clinic in the VA system to Veterans with broad range of chronic and acute health problems, including neuropathy, progressive neurological movement disorders, chronic migraines, cognitive impairments, and combat related PTSD.
• Collaborates with various specialties and consultants across the health and disease spectrum to coordinate care.
• Evaluate and treat pain due to acute and chronic neurological conditions with localized nerve block and botulinum injections.
• Interprets analytical results, identify salient findings, and develop relevant prevention and treatment recommendations based on findings.
• Collaborates with team of neurology providers, residents, and students through direct communication, documentation and consultation as needed.
• Participates in monitoring the quality, safety, and appropriateness of patient care in Neurology.
• Maximize patient satisfaction through open communication and holistic patient-centered care, partnering with the veteran to develop plan of care, achieving 84% satisfaction score, exceeding national average.
• Identified acute syncopal event and provided emergency intervention, bringing patient back to baseline and averting life-threatening event and complications.
• Conducted over 1,349 patient interactions worth $269,800 in facility funding for catchment area covering 4 regions.
• Designated lead consult analyst; reviewed and processed 3,300 consults.
• Nominated and selected as Contributing Faculty at UCF School of Medicine, providing mentorship and clerkship training to 8 medical students and 6 residents.
• Increased access to care by over 30% during provider shortage providing pain intervention, averting delay in care.
• Provided outstanding supervision, mentoring, and training to nursing team.
• Created lab review log to ensure no missing lab results; 0 missed labs, identified over 20 critical lab values.
• Successfully managed the clinic's daily operations and established a patient first culture in the clinic.

• Regional Medical Lead, Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT); empanelment of 1200 military veterans.
• Designated Women's Health provider, only provider to over 135 female veterans providing services for contraception, reproductive concerns, and family planning.
• Delivers comprehensive health care in rural outpatient practice setting to Veterans with broad range of chronic and acute health problems, including diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, asthma, COPD, depression, and combat related PTSD.
• Collaborates with various specialties and consultants across the health and disease spectrum to coordinate care.
• Assists with the management of pain due to acute and chronic concerns.
• Interprets analytical results, identify salient findings, and develop relevant prevention recommendations based on findings.
• Participates in monitoring the quality, safety, and appropriateness of patient care in Primary Care.
• Maximize patient satisfaction through open communication and holistic patient-centered care, partnering with the veteran to develop plan of care.
• Identified and reported six patient safety events; included 4 patient laboratory errors and 1 patient with untreated hypertension. These error identifications let to provider reeducation of laboratory analysis and medication management review, ensuring patient safety.
• Identified acute hypoglycemic emergency event with acute delirium and provided emergency intervention, bringing patient back to baseline and averting life-threatening event and complications.
• Voluntarily assumed supervision of the nursing and ancillary clinical staff of 16 in the critical absence of a Regional Chief Medical Officer for 6 months.
• Developed clinic SOP for day-to-day operations, improving efficiency of clinical, reducing work stoppage time for clinical staff.
• Provided outstanding supervision, mentoring, and training to PACT team.
• Created lab review log to ensure no missing lab results; 0 missed labs, identified over 60 critical lab values.
• Successfully managed the clinic's daily operations and established a patient first culture in the clinic.
• Lead, Welcoming Committee spearheading the including of local leaders to kick off NP Week 2022.

• Regional Medical Lead, Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT); empanelment of 1200 military veterans.
• Designated Women's Health provider, only provider to over 135 female veterans providing services for contraception, reproductive concerns, and family planning.
• Delivers comprehensive health care in rural outpatient practice setting to Veterans with broad range of chronic and acute health problems, including diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, asthma, COPD, depression, and combat related PTSD.
• Collaborates with various specialties and consultants across the health and disease spectrum to coordinate care.
• Assists with the management of pain due to acute and chronic concerns.
• Interprets analytical results, identify salient findings, and develop relevant prevention recommendations based on findings.
• Participates in monitoring the quality, safety, and appropriateness of patient care in Primary Care.
• Maximize patient satisfaction through open communication and holistic patient-centered care, partnering with the veteran to develop plan of care.
• Identified and reported six patient safety events; included 4 patient laboratory errors and 1 patient with untreated hypertension. These error identifications let to provider reeducation of laboratory analysis and medication management review, ensuring patient safety.
• Identified acute hypoglycemic emergency event with acute delirium and provided emergency intervention, bringing patient back to baseline and averting life-threatening event and complications.
• Voluntarily assumed supervision of the nursing and ancillary clinical staff of 16 in the critical absence of a Regional Chief Medical Officer for 6 months.
• Developed clinic SOP for day-to-day operations, improving efficiency of clinical, reducing work stoppage time for clinical staff.
• Provided outstanding supervision, mentoring, and training to PACT team.
• Created lab review log to ensure no missing lab results; 0 missed labs, identified over 60 critical lab values.
• Successfully managed the clinic's daily operations and established a patient first culture in the clinic.
• Lead, Welcoming Committee spearheading the including of local leaders to kick off NP Week 2022.

• Functioned independently as the sole Nurse Practitioner and Lead Associate Investigator in a dynamic clinical environment; supervised clinical team of nursing and lab personnel, total of 7 personnel.
• Supervised, coordinated, and facilitated the successful execution of 5 clinical trials through planning of comprehensive care, collaboration with multidisciplinary team, providing patient education, and continuously evaluating all patient outcomes for 3381 clinical autonomic disorder patients and volunteers.
• Supervised clinical team of research nurse and lab personnel, total of 7 personnel.
• Served as operational manager for daily clinical activities to include writing admission, transfer, and discharge orders; referring patients for consultation when indicated, ordering and interpreting appropriate laboratory tests and appropriate medication and treatments and documentation through in-depth progress notes and dictation summaries.
• Served as liaison for clinical investigators, facilitating protocol design, case report forms and regulatory documents development and study implementation in accordance with Investigational Review Board (IRB) guidelines, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines.
• Provided skilled hemodynamic monitoring of patients during clinical laboratory procedures; monitored patients for possible adverse reactions that may require emergency treatment or revision of the treatment plan.
• Provided technical assistance for autonomic tilt testing for domestic and international stakeholders.
• Served as sole clinician performing skin biopsies, key component of research study leading to novel scientific discovery.
• Team Lead in clinical data migration from Filemaker to Clinical Trials Data Base.
• Selected for 120-day detail as key member of NIH COVID Response Team; processed 19,902 suspected COVID cases, identified 1,451 positive cases and cleared over 1,200 employees for return to work ensuring safety of NIH; personally selected to extend deployment for an additional 40 days for a total of 160days; earned the NIH Director's Award for dedication to duty and excellent execution of the mission.
• Ensured adherence of 5 protocols in compliance with IRB guidelines, FDA regulations, and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines, maintaining study integrity with 0 deviations noted at annual review.
• Key team member in multi-disciplinary post-Covid study; provided high quality care, ensured public health safety and advanced scientific inquiry and discovery.
• Participated in novel research that identified findings that could be used in differentiating biomarker for early diagnosis of Lewy body forms of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension.
• Invited to speak at the 2021 American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Annual Conference; presented novel research findings, fostering collaboration and scientific inquiry among 3,000 participants.
• Selected to present poster presentation for the 2020 American Association of Nurse Practitioners Annual Conference, visible by more than 4,000 nurse practitioners.
• Collaborated with outside team as lead operator of hemodynamic monitoring on 66 patients.
• Ensured alternative back-up and maintained clinical operations by mentoring two NIH clinicians and providing them with hands-on training on hemodynamic monitoring.
• Expanded facility's emergency capabilities by providing BLS certification/recertification for 5 team members and over 100 NIH staff.
• Improved the efficiency of the clinical orders process and minimized errors by updating the Protocol Order Set.
• Served as key reviewer for annual audit; ensured clinical trial integrity by identifying 8 missing documents and forms and 2 incomplete consents, preventing deviations in clinical trials.

• Functioned independently as the sole Nurse Practitioner and Lead Associate Investigator in a dynamic clinical environment; supervised clinical team of nursing and lab personnel, total of 7 personnel.
• Supervised, coordinated, and facilitated the successful execution of 5 clinical trials through planning of comprehensive care, collaboration with multidisciplinary team, providing patient education, and continuously evaluating all patient outcomes for 3381 clinical autonomic disorder patients and volunteers.
• Supervised clinical team of research nurse and lab personnel, total of 7 personnel.
• Served as operational manager for daily clinical activities to include writing admission, transfer, and discharge orders; referring patients for consultation when indicated, ordering and interpreting appropriate laboratory tests and appropriate medication and treatments and documentation through in-depth progress notes and dictation summaries.
• Served as liaison for clinical investigators, facilitating protocol design, case report forms and regulatory documents development and study implementation in accordance with Investigational Review Board (IRB) guidelines, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines.
• Provided skilled hemodynamic monitoring of patients during clinical laboratory procedures; monitored patients for possible adverse reactions that may require emergency treatment or revision of the treatment plan.
• Provided technical assistance for autonomic tilt testing for domestic and international stakeholders.
• Served as sole clinician performing skin biopsies, key component of research study leading to novel scientific discovery.
• Team Lead in clinical data migration from Filemaker to Clinical Trials Data Base.
• Selected for 120-day detail as key member of NIH COVID Response Team; processed 19,902 suspected COVID cases, identified 1,451 positive cases and cleared over 1,200 employees for return to work ensuring safety of NIH; personally selected to extend deployment for an additional 40 days for a total of 160days; earned the NIH Director's Award for dedication to duty and excellent execution of the mission.
• Ensured adherence of 5 protocols in compliance with IRB guidelines, FDA regulations, and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines, maintaining study integrity with 0 deviations noted at annual review.
• Key team member in multi-disciplinary post-Covid study; provided high quality care, ensured public health safety and advanced scientific inquiry and discovery.
• Participated in novel research that identified findings that could be used in differentiating biomarker for early diagnosis of Lewy body forms of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension.
• Invited to speak at the 2021 American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Annual Conference; presented novel research findings, fostering collaboration and scientific inquiry among 3,000 participants.
• Selected to present poster presentation for the 2020 American Association of Nurse Practitioners Annual Conference, visible by more than 4,000 nurse practitioners.
• Collaborated with outside team as lead operator of hemodynamic monitoring on 66 patients.
• Ensured alternative back-up and maintained clinical operations by mentoring two NIH clinicians and providing them with hands-on training on hemodynamic monitoring.
• Expanded facility's emergency capabilities by providing BLS certification/recertification for 5 team members and over 100 NIH staff.
• Improved the efficiency of the clinical orders process and minimized errors by updating the Protocol Order Set.
• Served as key reviewer for annual audit; ensured clinical trial integrity by identifying 8 missing documents and forms and 2 incomplete consents, preventing deviations in clinical trials.

• Supervised, coordinated, and facilitated the execution of clinical trials.
• Served as lead associate investigator and actively participated in protocol development.
• Served as liaison for clinical investigators for protocol design, implementation, case report forms and regulatory documents.
• Advised and assisted research nurses with protocol or regulatory issues.
• Creatively problem solved clinical trial problems of logistics, manpower, and study execution.
• Participated in analysis of data and in the publication and presentation of findings.
• Successfully performed over 100 lumbar punctures, a key component of the clinical studies, maintaining study integrity with zero adverse events.
• Improved the efficiency of the clinical orders process and minimized errors by updating the protocol order set.
• Independently managed a large volume of clinic patients for 4 weeks while the Primary Investigator was engaged in local and international conferences, sustaining clinical operations and ensuring continuity of patient care.
• Trained new Associate Investigator to perform clinic duties.
• Mentored and trained new research nurse to perform clinical and regulatory duties, ensuring clinical trial integrity for 4 active clinical trials with zero deviations.
• Initiated, wrote and edited clinical Standard Operating Procedures for new employee training; adapted and used to train 3 new clinical staff and 1 new Patient Care Coordinator.
• Expanded facility's emergency capabilities by providing BLS certification/recertification for 2 team members and over 100 NIH staff.

• Supervised, coordinated, and facilitated the execution of clinical trials.
• Served as lead associate investigator and actively participated in protocol development.
• Served as liaison for clinical investigators for protocol design, implementation, case report forms and regulatory documents.
• Advised and assisted research nurses with protocol or regulatory issues.
• Creatively problem solved clinical trial problems of logistics, manpower, and study execution.
• Participated in analysis of data and in the publication and presentation of findings.
• Successfully performed over 100 lumbar punctures, a key component of the clinical studies, maintaining study integrity with zero adverse events.
• Improved the efficiency of the clinical orders process and minimized errors by updating the protocol order set.
• Independently managed a large volume of clinic patients for 4 weeks while the Primary Investigator was engaged in local and international conferences, sustaining clinical operations and ensuring continuity of patient care.
• Trained new Associate Investigator to perform clinic duties.
• Mentored and trained new research nurse to perform clinical and regulatory duties, ensuring clinical trial integrity for 4 active clinical trials with zero deviations.
• Initiated, wrote and edited clinical Standard Operating Procedures for new employee training; adapted and used to train 3 new clinical staff and 1 new Patient Care Coordinator.
• Expanded facility's emergency capabilities by providing BLS certification/recertification for 2 team members and over 100 NIH staff.

• Administered patient care, ensuring adherence to safety protocols and best practices in Emergency Room Setting
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans.
• Monitored vital signs and recognized changes in patient conditions for timely interventions.
• Educated patients and families on health management, enhancing understanding of treatment options.
• Precepted 8 new nursing graduates to unit and nursing care and procedures
• Managed complex cases by coordinating with specialists, optimizing patient care pathways.
• Utilized advanced assessment skills to identify subtle changes in patient condition that warranted further attention or intervention, preventing potential complications.

• Pediatric nurse on 10 bed pediatric ward and serving 15 med/surg services and specialties with

charge nurse experience

• Cross trained to augment staffing in NICU and post-partum units
• Augmented nurse staffing on adult med/surg wards treating combat related wounds and injuries in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Selected to be part of 11 member medical training team as part of Operating Enduring Freedom to mentor, teach, and supervise Afghan doctors and nurses; awarded Army Achievement Medal
• Precepted 4 new RNs and 8 medical technician to floor
• Formulated and implemented pediatric ward flow sheet, streamlining nursing documentation of patient care