
Geriatric Nurse Practitioner specializes in professional nursing care for aging and elderly individuals. Promotes health and wellness education and preventive disease management to support optimal level of health and deliver quality, individualized care. Twenty one years of demonstrated geriatrics experience impacting care and comfort of senior population while building meaningful relationships with patients, families and health care providers.
Provided supervision to the 7 CBOC medical directors including managing panels of patients during provider gaps at the 7 CBOCs
Lead a Primary CAre administrative team responsible for oversite and strategic planning for 7 outpatient clinics ( 12,000 veterans and ~ 150 employees)
Provide primary care support to 7 CBOCs and White River Junction VAMC
Orient new providers at the CBOCs
Advance the use of telehealth in primary care at the CBOCs
Assist with team building at the CBOCs
VA Nursing Academic Partnerships in Graduate Education (VANAP-GE) VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT and MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA
Manage a primary care panel of 250 patients, Bennington VA CBOC
Create and build an NP residency program White River Junction VAMC
Precept NP students from MGH IHP
Supervise clinic staff
oversee clinic medical care
PCP for a primary care panel of 500 patients ages 21-100
Primary care and urgent care provider for 130 Vermont Veterans' Home nursing home patients
Preceptor, Geisel School School of Medicine (Dartmouth Medical School), 3rd and 4th year medical students.
Preceptor, University of Vermont adult-gerontology nurse practitioner students
Co-chair of the Bennington chronic pain management improvement project
Primary care utilization of scribes, first official VA pilot team in the US using scribes in primary care
Teacher, Junior and Senior High School Science and English