Results-oriented professional, who is passionate about building productive relationships with team members, constituents, and partners. Adept in identifying constituent and team needs to further initiatives and achieve
goals.
· Relationship Manager/ACS Point of contact for 11 high-impact health systems in the East Bay.
· Managed prioritized health systems engagement on prevention, early detection, screening, and quality of life initiatives, employee health & wellness programs, and population health-related efforts to achieve cancer control priorities.
· Developed and implemented an account team strategy for managing prioritized system relationships within assigned portfolio.
· Partnered with healthcare systems to create system changes that resulted in their support of ACS priority areas, including evidenced-based-intervention (EBI) projects, Prevention & early detection programs, and Patient Support programs.
Specifically, led collaborative partnerships with assigned accounts on colorectal, lung, and HPV vaccination initiatives.
· Relationship Manager for 14 high-impact health care facilities.
· Partnered with healthcare systems to create system change in support of ACS priority areas.
· Relationship Manager for UC ACS-funded researchers and local Oncology Nursing Society chapter (CEBONS).
· Identified volunteers for ACS East Bay Leadership Council.
· Standing member of Cancer Committees at my assigned portfolio.
· Collaborated with account team, including income development staff, to maximize health system engagement in ACS activities, events, and fundraising efforts within the market.
· Supported the Senior Director to ensure mission, top line, and bottom-line goals were reached as well as compliance with national policies.
· Relationship Manager for 11 high-Impact Hospital Systems in the East Bay.
· Collaborated with Mission Delivery staff partner to deliver high quality customer service to health systems and their patients.
· Implemented and managed patient programs held at partner sites.
· Recruitment, training, and management of site program volunteers.
· Recruitment of survivor and medical speakers for ACS local events.
· Identified local resources for entry on ACS’ national Resources Database.
· Recruited community partners to serve as host site for two “Cancer Prevention Study” community events; served as staff lead at both events.
· Followed-up on Patient Services requests in 11 counties.
· Managed Patient Services databases.
· Generated statistical data for all department reports.
· Administered funds to subsidize local bone marrow drives.
· Supervised department volunteers.
· Trainer for peer-to-peer support program volunteers
Relationship and team building
Powerful and confident public speaker
Strategic account development
Adept in standard software programs:
Adobe, Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point
· ACS Panel Speaker, Alameda County Public Health Commission Breast Cancer Awareness month educational event, October 2022.
· In 2021 & 2022 managed ACS Patient Transportation Grants awarded to hospital systems—which enabled the Oncology team to provide patients with free rides to & from treatment. I Influenced & guided account strategy, planning & concept meetings. In the South Bay SHC was one of the recipients.
· Leadership member, Employee Engagement Group (EEG) focused on educating staff nationwide about persons with disabilities, February 2023.
· Co-authored a journal article published in 2023: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37221889/
· Publication of literary non-fiction book Thunderclap A Defining Silence_Kirkus Reviews (chronicling my journey as a 30-year cancer survivor), December 2019.