Lauren Mattos
Yuba City,CA
Summary
Experienced and caring professional with a solid background in team leadership, health education, patient care, medical office organization and practice, ophthalmic assisting and creative arts instruction, performance and leadership.
Compassionate Certified Ophthalmic Assistant known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Possess specialized skills in patient education, diagnostic testing, and vision acuity measurements. Excel in communication, empathy, and teamwork to enhance patient care and support ophthalmologists effectively.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Certified Ophthalmic Assistant
Del Pero Eye Center
Yuba City, USA
01.2005 - Current
- Served in the position of lead technician/optician for busy ophthalmic office in Yuba City, CA.
- Extensive experience in patient care, customer service and patient relations.
- Conducting patient exams.
- Work side by side with physician and other staff to keep our schedule running smoothly and efficiently.
- Mentored, trained, and provided direct on the job oversight to new hires.
- Extensive knowledge of ocular disease, injury, surgery, medications.
- Trained in maintaining a sterile field for office procedures.
- Medical transcription.
- Perform visual acuity tests, diagnostic screening tests and take measurements.
- Manual tonometry.
- IOL Master scans.
- Topography.
- IOL Master calculations.
- Auto and manual refraction.
- OCT scans.
- A-scans.
- Fundus Photography.
- Give pre/post-operative instructions.
- Assisting in-office surgeries and procedures.
- Handling multiple office phone lines and communication professionally.
- Order prescriptions, medical supplies, office supplies.
- Keep certification up to date with continued education credits and classes.
- Measure, adjust and order glasses, etc. for the optical department.
- Scheduling patient exams.
- Filing and organizing patient charts.
- Optical and medical billing.
Associate Director
Adventist Health and Rideout
09.2018 - 06.2023
- Assistant Director for the Adventist Rideout Healthy Kids program.
- Direction, choreography and rehearsal with a team of 6-10 actors and technicians.
- Leadership of 2-3 weekly performances for audiences of all ages ranging in size from 20+ to 750.
- Maintaining a professional artistic and educational environment.
- Planning and ensuring that team arrives on time and in a safe manner to performance venue.
- Following industry and organizational protocols to ensure the safety of performers, technicians and audience members.
- Ensure effective communication with the school and organization administrators and staff.
- Interaction with students, staff and other audience members during assembly.
- Ensure safe, timely and efficient load in, set up, operation and removal of stage, sound and other technical equipment for each rehearsal and presentation.
- Provide continue effective interaction with and outreach to community schools, organizations within target communities.
- Adventist Rideout Healthy Kids program, a professional health educational production that performs for elementary schools, middle schools and community events and organizations in the Yuba-Sutter region.
Director
Faith Christian School
Yuba City, USA
04.2003 - 07.2004
- Directing a large (100+) student summer theatre program for ages 8-18.
- Leading a staff of 6-8 counselors and youth interns (ages 16 – 24).
- Providing leadership of daily physical and vocal warm ups, exercises and team building exercises.
- Creating and instructing choreography and stage direction/blocking.
- Collaboration with and leadership of overall design and production team.
- Ongoing professional communication with students and families.
- Local and regional advertising and public relations.
- Stage management, front and back of house direction during rehearsal, production and performance.
Education
High School -
Faith Christian High School
Yuba City, CAGeneral Education Courses -
Yuba College
Certified Ophthalmic Assistant certification -
Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology
Skills
- Team leadership
- Community Health Education outreach
- Public relation and communication
- Organization and execution of team meetings
- Certified Ophthalmic Assistant
- Patient care and interaction
- Medical office organization
- Medical coding ICD-10
- Sterile field practice
- Medical record keeping
- HIPPA compliance
- OSHA compliance
- Healthcare administration
- Patient scheduling
- Staff training
- Ocular disease knowledge
- Effective communication
- Ophthalmic scribe
- Insurance verification
- Ophthalmic imaging
- Ophthalmic terminology
- Surgical assisting
- Ophthalmic patient care
- Autorefractor operation
- Ophthalmic equipment expertise
Timeline
Associate Director
Adventist Health and Rideout
09.2018 - 06.2023
Certified Ophthalmic Assistant
Del Pero Eye Center
01.2005 - Current
Director
Faith Christian School
04.2003 - 07.2004
High School -
Faith Christian High School
General Education Courses -
Yuba College
Certified Ophthalmic Assistant certification -
Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology