Marjorie Heier
Sioux Falls,SD
Summary
Innovative Associate Professor recognized for high productivity and efficient completion of tasks. Specialize in curriculum development and interdisciplinary quality improvement. Excels in communication, critical thinking, and leadership, ensuring successful knowledge transfer and engagement in academic settings, community medicine and low resource settings.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Professor, Faculty
Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency Program, University of South Dakota
Sioux Falls, SD
08.2020 - Current
- OB Comprehensive practice, including curricular duties for Obstetrics and full spectrum Family Medicine, with duties in Clinic at Center for Family Medicine and Falls Community Clinic, as well as hospitalist medicine at Sanford Medical Center and Avera McKennan Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD
Medical Director
Chifundo Rural Health Center
, Zambia
01.2013 - 07.2020
- Company Overview: Rufunsa District Ministry of Health, Zambia, Privately owned clinic under Gospelink.
- Full Spectrum medicine with strong emphasis on public health. Recognized nationally by MOH for evidence based prenatal medicine and Indoor Residual Spraying projects reducing incidence of malaria.
Education
Board Certification in Family Medicine - Completed Residency in Family Medicine
Lincoln Medical Education Foundation
Lincoln, Nebraska06.1989
MD -
University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Omaha, Nebraska06.1986
Skills
- Evidence-based medicine
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Healthcare management
- Team leadership
- Quality improvement
- Clinical assessment
Certification
- South Dakota Full Licensure
- Nebraska Full Licensure
- Board Certification: ABFP
- Health and Life Coach Certification (HCI)
Projects
Global Health Curriculum: Working in Zambia with Residents, annually Block 2, with MOH approved QI projects, Cervical Cancer Screening QI project, 2023, Teaching cervical cancer screening, with goal to increase from 0% screening to > 90% for those HIV+ ages 15-59, Gender Based Violence Teaching Project, 2023. Teaching Project with aim at changing attitudes, Antenatal Care Project, Zambia: District wide average, improved early presentation of patients from 26% to 75%, ongoing project initiated July 2021, addition of glucose screening July 2022, Indoor Residual Spraying for Malaria, QI Project, 2017 to 2020
Websites
Affiliations
- BOARDS: AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE CONTINUALLY CERTIFIED SINCE JULY 1989
- AAFP: VICE CHAIR GLOBAL HEALTH MEMBER INTEREST GROUP 2022-23
- AVERA HOSPITAL BOARD, SIOUX FALLS, SD: PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE 2022-23
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY MEDICINE, 1986 TO PRESENT
- SOCIETY OF TEACHERS OF FAMILY MEDICINE
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
POSTER
IMPROVING PRENATAL FIRST AND SECOND TRIMESTER CARE
CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FAMILY MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF FAMILY MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Timeline
Associate Professor, Faculty
Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency Program, University of South Dakota
08.2020 - Current
Medical Director
Chifundo Rural Health Center
01.2013 - 07.2020
Board Certification in Family Medicine - Completed Residency in Family Medicine
Lincoln Medical Education Foundation
MD -
University of Nebraska College of Medicine
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