Maryland University of Integrative HealthAHM Director of Clinical Education
May. 2017 - Mar. 2022My job was to oversee and implement structure and policies affecting the master's level student clinic, the doctoral clinic & externships, and the Community Health Initiative sites. Management and design of the telehealth, case study, and on campus clinics, insuring that all clinics are a living expression of the curriculum, and helping the medicine come alive for students in a real world, practical, and integrative setting.
• Ongoing Design and Implementation: on and off site, master’s and doctoral level clinics
• External Partnership Creation: design and implementation of community health initiative (CHI) sites forunderserved populations
• Management of Integrative Doctoral Externships: variety of multi-disciplinary settings
• Healthcare Program Conceptualization, Design, and Implementation: transferred of a graduate level, academic group practice of a 3000-year-old medicine to an online environment in four weeks, followed by five experiential redesigns over 12 months while incorporating changing COVID and accrediting requirements
• Active Diversification of Clinic Faculty: a mutually supportive, cohesive, community-minded team reflective of the student body’s wide range of races, religions, ages, genders, and sexual orientations
• Substantive Contributions to University Self-Studies: fulfilling standards set by accrediting bodies
• Strategy, Creation, Support, and Implementation of Short and Long Term Process Changes: working in collaboration with the Provost, the Natural Care Center VP, other MUIH department Clinic Directors, and AHM Leadership to address interdepartmental and external partnership concerns; including pursuit of external technology solutions, assessment of user interfaces, data mining capabilities, and compliance with HIPAA, CDC, NCCAOM, CCAHM, Middle States, and other accrediting and regulatory bodies
• Clinic Programmatic Management of 35+ faculty and 60+ adult students
• Additional Skills: Meeting Facilitation, Educational Policy Development, Written & Verbal Communication, Cross-departmental Coordination, Flexible Adaptation Skills, Team Leadership, Team Diversification, Course, Creation and Delivery, Creative Solution Finding