Leah Collon
Auburn Hills,MI
Summary
Experienced healthcare professional with 15+ years of expertise as a Certified Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring (CNIM) specialist. Dedicated to patient safety and optimizing surgical interventions. Skilled at monitoring and interpreting neurophysiological data during procedures. Adjunct professor for the lab component of Michigan Medicine's Intraoperative Monitoring (IOM) program.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Neurodiagnostic Technologist
Henry Ford Health
04.2019 - Current
- Monitoring patients spinal cord function during surgical intervention to prevent loss of mobility
- Researching patient charts for information needed to determine the correct modalities to monitor during surgery
Surgical Neurophysiologist
National Neuromonitoring
10.2017 - 10.2018
- Treated patients suffering from strokes, brain disorders, brain cancer and traumatic brain injuries.
- Diagnosed and treated patients suffering from chronic conditions.
- Consulted with referring physicians on cases involving disorders and conditions of nervous system.
Neurodiagnostic Technologist
Michigan Medicine
04.2010 - 10.2017
- Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment to protect patients by continuously monitoring the central and peripheral nervous system during surgery
- Adjunct professor for training college students for skills learned before going into the operating room
- Joining a qualified and diverse group, working closely with multiple disciplines to help improve patient outcomes through remarkable advances in IOM care
- Consistently perform high quality neurophysiological monitoring in the operating room to assess the functional integrity of the central and/or peripheral nervous system during neurosurgical, orthopaedic, and vascular procedure
- Utilizing multi-modality monitoring including: somatosensory evoked potentials, electromyography, transcranial motor evoked potentials, electroencephalography, brainstem auditory evoked potentials, cranial nerve monitoring, electrocorticography, and nerve conduction studies to improve the quality of patient care by preventing iatrogenic injury
Education
Associate's degree - Health Information Technology
DeVry University
Remote05.2015
B.B.A. - Business Management
Saginaw Valley State University
Saginaw, MI05.2002
Skills
- Medical Imaging
- Teaching
- Surgery
- Neurology
- Patient care
- Patient monitoring
- Physiology knowledge
- ICD-9
- Microsoft Office
- Medical transcription
- Transcription
- Typing
- Clerical experience
- Medical records
- Medical terminology
- EMR systems
- Medical office management
- Document management systems
- Paralegal experience
- Documentation review
- Windows
- Microsoft Access
- Research
- Software troubleshooting
- Information management
- Data collection
- Analysis skills
- EDI
- Leadership
- Computer skills
- Communication skills
- Data analysis skills
- Quality assurance
- Records management
- Data management
- Supervising experience
- Epic
- Hospital experience
- Computer science
- Data mining
- Statistics
- Clinical research
Certification
- BLS Certification
- CERTIFIED NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC Intraoperative neuromonitoring, 05/07, 12/27
Timeline
Neurodiagnostic Technologist
Henry Ford Health
04.2019 - Current
Surgical Neurophysiologist
National Neuromonitoring
10.2017 - 10.2018
Neurodiagnostic Technologist
Michigan Medicine
04.2010 - 10.2017
Associate's degree - Health Information Technology
DeVry University
B.B.A. - Business Management
Saginaw Valley State University
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