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A Lifelong Journey In
Explore my diverse roles, achievements, and the profound impact I made within the healthcare landscape. Discover the driving force behind my lifelong dedication to healing and wellness, and gain insight into the wealth of knowledge and experience that defines my healthcare career.
2024 - Present
My heart has always been with the kids and as I look to finish my career in medicine, I currently have the opportunity to care for this population at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Mission Bay, San Francisco.
2023-2024
After three decades in healthcare, one of the skills I had yet to master was caring for post operative cardiothoracic patients in the ICU.
As I traveled from coast to coast, and after being referred by a former surgical resident, colleague and former medical director of Weil Cornell ECMO Department, I had the opportunity to log more than 2,000 hours at New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn, primarily managing immediately post operatively and overnight under the indirect supervision of off sight cardiac anesthesiologists and Surgeons.
2021-2023
Returning to my roots. 14 years after hanging up my flight wings I would find myself back at Doctors Medical Center of Modesto, CA working as the only in-house trauma critical care advanced practice provider.
For 2-years I would spend working 24-48 hour shifts on call and managing all the ICU and Surgical floor trauma surgical patients from admit to discharge.
Being one of only 3 providers on a rotating schedule allowed me to expand my independent critical care skills as the only in house overnight provider. 1st call to the ED for trauma activations and 1st assist to the surgeon on emergent operative resuscitation
2020-2022
In March of 2020 I decided that the best way to offer my expertise was to Jump ALL IN and offer my services to those that needed it the most.
I took a travel assignment and went right into the FIRE spending 4 months at the epicenter of the Pandemic of 2020.
For four months, I would devote my time and energy to those patients at New York Presentation Hospital – Columbia in Upper Manhattan.
After completing this assignment, I would head down to Georgia and join forces offering aid in ALL Intensive Care Units throughout ECCC.
Over the course of the 2020 I have had the privilege to work throughout TEN (10) intensive care units and obtain License in three US States.
2005-2020
After hanging up my flight wings in 2007, I spent 14-years working Trauma Critical Care and Acute care surgery with the UCSF-Fresno faculty team.
Here I would be trained and work with an amazing group of surgeons who entrusted me to run trauma resuscitation as they rolled in, first assist with emergent cases needing damage control resuscitation in the OR and work side by side with the acute care surgery and trauma critical care fellows to manage our 32 bed ICU.
As a level-one trauma center we would care for all specialties in both pediatric and adult populations. Though I do consider myself always a student and on a mission for constant and never-ending improvement, I enjoyed my tenure assisting with medical student and resident education from clinical perspective at the bedside.
2000-2007
My flight days were definitely a highlight of my career.
On a nice clear summer day/night, if you looked skyward, you would find me soaring through the sky, flying in and out of the Yosemite valley transporting the sick and injured to the a local valley trauma center. I was honored to have been one of the first recipients of the Certified Flight Paramedic patches.
Candidates for this are expected to have mastery knowledge of current critical care transport medicine standards and the experienced paramedic skills and knowledge.
Why just fly in the valley when I could spread my wings?
Over my 7-year flight career, I had the opportunity to work with two amazing companies: First with the AirMed Team (of Doctors Medical Center, Modesto) – Armed in a BK-117, we rotated trauma call in the county and specialize in high-risk OB and Balloon Pump inter-facility transfers.
As I began to spread my wings I joined the REACH family based out of Santa Rosa, CA.
Here I had the opportunity to fly coastal mission in an Agusta 109, Bell 407, and a King Air fixed wing. Eventually I would be appointed the Clinical Training Coordinator over the California central valley and our base in Corvallis, Oregon
1999-2002
After attending the first Paramedic Training program offered through Stanislaus County and Doctors Medical Center, I would start my career in the field with American Medical Response, eventually becoming a Paramedic Preceptor, signing off on some amazing talented practitioners who I would trust with my life today.
I also would return the favor and eventually become the lead instructor with Yosemite Community College and oversee the didactic and skills labs.
1991-1999
My tenure in medicine would start in my teens. I would spend 2-years volunteering and working through the ROP program giving me a taste of what I knew I was destined to become.
I was eventually employed full-time as a patient transporter giving me an opportunity to see all areas of the hospital. I would eventually end up in the Emergency Department where I would spend the next 4 years working with physician assistants and nurse practitioners realizing that I didn’t need to become a physician to do what I loved to do…and that is where my story began!
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