EDUCATION
MS Rehabilitation
Administration, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, 2002
BS Business Administration,
Stephens
College, Columbia, Missouri,
1997
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Association
Support and Program Management, Owner
Brain Injury Association of America
Principal consultant for
meeting planning 2004 to present: meetings including Annual Symposium:
Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: The State of the Art (2004); Annual
Brain Injury Business Practices College (2005 and 2006); State of the Art
Medical and Rehabilitative Care in Brain Injury: Clinical and Legal
Implications (2006); Honoring the Past—Charting the Future Caregivers
Conference (2006).
Drake
University
2000 to present: Recruit for and coordinate Master’s cohort program
in Rehabilitation Administration and Rehabilitation Counseling in Kansas
City, Missouri, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Teach Counseling 220 Occupational
Information and Professional Resources in distance learning format. Advise
students on a variety of non-academic problem solving. Track and monitor
student’s progress.
National Association
of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA)
Educational Programs Manager:
2002 to 2006: Coordinate two annual conferences and numerous
other training activities for persons involved in the public sector of
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Coordinate and produce a series of Webcasts
on various topics to build capacity within agencies and across states.
Manage product review process and moderate list serve.
University of Missouri‑Columbia
Administrator, National Association of
State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA)
2000 to 2002:
Under a Cooperative Agreement between NASHIA and the Health Resources
Services Administration (HRSA), coordinate a series of regional forums to
build capacity within agencies and across states and an annual national
meeting for persons involved in the public sector of traumatic brain injury.
1999 to 2000:
Coordinate contract between NASHIA and HRSA to develop fact sheets on
traumatic brain injury and other areas of rehabilitation, prepare and
distribute slide presentation on public policy and traumatic brain injury;
supervise revision and expansion of NASHIA’s web site to share information
developed in the contract as well as other information on brain injury, and
manage the contract’s annual budget, monitoring all expenditures.
Project Director, Region VII NET:
1996 to 1999: Plan and direct the daily operational activities of
Rehabilitation Services Administration grant in Distance Learning through
Telecommunications (the Region VII NET) that includes IA, KS, MO, and NE.
Develop a needs assessment to identify customer base and level of expertise
in using the Internet. Direct the assessment of competencies, designed
implementation into learning modules, and validate the resulting
curriculum. Identify major consultants and monitor the on-going development
of learning modules. Direct the liaison of UMC’s Region VII Rehabilitation
Continuing Education Program and Drake University’s National Rehabilitation
Institute. Lead a dynamic collaborative management team and supervise
professional staff and support staff. Administer the financial operations
of the Region VII NET including development of budget, monitoring financial
activities, approving expenditures, and developing and writing needed
reports to granting agency (Rehabilitation Services Administration).
Convene advisory board. Maintain stability of the program by marketing
services and distance learning modules offered and by identifying continuing
funding sources, developing and writing proposals to those agencies.
Coordinator, Rehabilitation
Continuing Education Program:
1980 to 1996:
Manage grant office offering 50-70 training seminars annually. Presented
training in communication
skills, stress
management, leadership simulation, assertion, and ADA accessibility
surveying.
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