South Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States
- Provide high quality direct patient care, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure optimal outcomes, and maintain thorough medical records while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. - Proficient in a multitude of therapeutic areas including neurology, pulmonology, cardiology, hematology, oncology, rheumatology, and immunology. - Educate patients and families about medical conditions, treatment options, and preventative health strategies. - Perform bedside procedures including placement of arterial catheters, central venous catheters, chest tubes, intubations, thoracenteses, and paracenteses. - Participate in the development of protocols, clinical research, and quality care initiatives to enhance patient safety and care delivery. - Active participant in numerous hospital committees including APP council, critical care committee, sepsis committee, resuscitation committee, and palliative care committee. - Training specialist for the EPIC electronic medical record system. As a Physician Builder, work collaboratively with stakeholders to create new builds and periodic optimizations of the system. - Developed the hospital as a clinical site for the Rutgers University PA program, and serve as a preceptor for medical students and PA students during their ICU rotation.
- Develop and deliver education content related to critical care and pharmacology. Create written and practical assessments to objectively test mastery of material. - Participate in the recruitment of physician assistant student candidates by assisting with review of applications and conducting interviews. - As coordinator of the ICU clerkship, mentor PA students and medical students during clinical rotations; providing guidance on patient assessments, differential diagnoses, and treatment strategies. - Supervise students in hands-on clinical training, simulated medical education (SIM), and objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE), providing constructive feedback and ensuring students are well prepared for both clinical practice and board examinations. - Lecturer for the nationally recognized Rutgers PANCE/PANRE board review course, having created and presented lectures in cardiology and pulmonology.
Serve as a ‘train the trainer’ for the EPIC electronic health record rollout across the Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health System Obtained Physician Builder and Physician Smart User Certification Help with the creation and revision of the Epic Care Orders-Inpatient curriculum. Provide real time clinical feedback to help improve the Epic Care Orders Platform.
Participated in multi-disciplinary rounds on patients admitted to the medical & surgical ICU. Proficient in ventilator management, analgosedation¬, advanced hemodynamic monitoring, and administration of vasoactive medications.