EXPERIENCE

The American College of Surgeons | CHICAGO, IL                              January 2009 – Present

Administrator, Resident Education Programs, Division of Education                       March 2018 - Present

Planning, management, and execution of educational programming for surgical residents: 

• Residents as Teachers and Leaders
• Pathways in Surgical Education for Residents and Medical Students
• Surgery Resident Program at Clinical Congress 

Responsibilities include: Agenda Development; Registration; Meeting/Event Planning (logistics); Faculty travel, hotel, and expenses; Communications Planning and Distribution including writing for social media, email, and web pages; On-site/in-person Event Management; Development and Distribution of Evaluations, and Evaluation Analysis synthesized for Division and Course/Program Leadership.

Additional Roles and Responsibilities:

• Staff Liaison to the Committee on Resident Education: Schedule, Plan and Facilitate Committee Meetings; Develop agendas and meeting materials; Prepare and maintain meeting minutes; Manage committee projects.
• Administrator for the Resident Awards: responsible for managing end-to-end process of two annual awards presented to residents during Clinical Congress
• Administrator for the American College of Surgeons nominations to the ACGME Review Committees

Education Administrator, National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC)         April 2014 – March 2018

Planning, management, and execution of all NAPBC Workshops, Conferences, and Webinars. Responsibilities: Content and agenda development in collaboration with planning committees; Registration; Exhibit management; Meeting/Event planning (logistics); Continuing education credit (CME, CE, CEU) certification; Communications Planning and Distribution including writing for social media, email, and web pages; Live, online event facilitation (webinars); On-site/in-person Event Management; Development and Distribution of Evaluations, and Evaluation Analysis synthesized for Committee and Board Leadership.

Additional Roles and Responsibilities:

• Staff Liaison to the NAPBC Education and Dissemination Committee; NAPBC Advocacy and Outreach Committee: Schedule and Facilitate several conference calls and in-person meetings annually, Develop agendas and meeting materials, Prepare and maintain meeting minutes, Manage committee projects, Develop committee updates for Executive and Board Committee meetings.
• Communications Administrator: writing and distribution of newsletters, updates, and social media posts for internal and external audiences

• NAPBC Web Administrator: writing and updating content
• Exhibitor for the NAPBC at national meetings

Education Administrator, National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) - Continued

Special Projects:

• Lead on the 2018 NAPBC Standards Manual project - project manager for rewriting of technical manual utilizing structured authoring
• Contributing member of the NAPBC Aptify project - database integration project

Business Development Associate, Cancer Programs                                     August 2013 - April 2014

Assisting the Business Development Manager with all marketing and branding projects of The American College of Surgeons Cancer Programs, in addition to staff liaison to the Recruitment and Retention Subcommittee, exhibit program coordinator, a member of the Cancer Department IT Steering Committee, the Administrator for the CoC Hospital Locator responsible for all communications regarding the locator via email and newsletter articles, and a contributing member of the NCDB CAP Project: Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) & Standardization of Cancer fields in Aptify.

Customer Relations Assistant, Cancer Programs                                   January 2009 - August 2013

Providing customer service for The American College of Surgeons Cancer Programs in addition to overseeing general office needs, record management in the Aptify database and leading and assisting with special projects under the direction of the Administrative Director.

Specialty Event Planner, JDK Catering Inc. | CAMP HILL, PA                                            October 2006 - April 2007   

Event operations and specialty event sales. This position provided comprehensive training on sales, planning and execution of events. Event Lead – Management and decision making with regard to food, staffing, transportation, design, set-up and tear-down. Event Planner in JDK’s Specialty Event Department - Contracted and was involved with all phases of client sales of specialty events including corporate, political and private functions. 

Program Manager, Cancer Recovery Foundation of America | HARRISBURG, PA                            October 2005 - 2006

Program Manager for the Healing Spirit Breast Cancer Gift Bag Program provided by CRF’s adult services. Duties centered on development, sale and production of the Breast Cancer Gift Bag Program, Development and managing advertising concepts both in print and online, Creation of corporate proposals for in-kind donations and national corporate sponsorship, Purchasing, Inventory, Organization/management of volunteers for fulfillment.