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Clear Communication and Health Literacy
Work Experience

Director- Children's Wisconsin Health Literacy Task Force

Organizing and presenting health literacy clear communication practices, leadership presentations and strategic planning to create organizational change to become a health literate organization, and yearly October health literacy month activities

Director Children's Wisconsin Asthma Education

Involved as a member and health literacy consultant, and became leader for developing and then implementing distribution of system wide asthma education at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin

Medical Director for Health Literacy Quality

Leader of health literacy to improve organizational health literacy, focus on areas of ongoing improvement

Education

University of Arizona

B.S. Psychology

University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Doctor of Medicine

Medical College of Wisconsin

M.S. Clinical and Translational Science

Skills
& Expertise

Change and project management

Implemented organizational change in health literacy and medication safety during the pandemic, numerous published improvement projects in clinical care, health literacy, and medical communication.

Leading interdisciplinary teams

I have been director and medical director of improvement groups and clinical change committees.

Health communication and education

I am an international expert in health literacy, both from assessment and understanding impact through clinical research to implementation in becoming a health literate organization.

Evaluation

From clinical evaluation to research and quality improvement, I am adept at evaluating clinical circumstances or areas for improvement in a clinical or research setting.

Plain language

I am an expert in plain language assessment of documents or other prose.

Strategic planning-

As Medical Director of Health Literacy I have provided strategic planning for all of our initiatives.