Associate Director Medical Center

Minerva A. Garcia, MLS, MT (ASCP), MS ** Pontiac St. Staten Island, New York 10302

Cell: 646-***-**** Wk: 718-***-**** email: ad9gu9@r.postjobfree.com

Position Interested: Clinical Lab Molecular Microbiology (CLT) Position

EMPLOYMENT(S):

JAN 2022-PRESENT

MICROBIOLOGY TECHNOLOGIST MAILMONIDES MED CTR

BROOKLYN, NY 11220

Present

Associate Director Microbiology Jacobi Medical Center

Bronx, NY

Duties Include:

Sitting Bench Technologist during staff shortages

Current in molecular testing: SARS, FLU A/B, RSV, C.difficile, Strep A, MRSA, Blood Culture, Meningitidis/Encephalitis Panel, Gastric Panel, Respiratory, Pneumonia

Instruments Knowledge: Cepheif GeneXpert, Infinity, BioFire, GenMark

Blood culture instruments:BioMerieux BacT-Alert, and BD

training new employees, Medical Technology students and Medical students

Teaching Felow, residents the many aspects of Microbiology

Daily oversight of the Microbiology Dept,/Staff performance, Employees’ Evaluations, Payroll, NYS/CAP proficiencies entry/monitoring, PI Committee, Infec. Control, etc. antimicrobial Stewardship committee

Responsible for SOPs writing/validations studies and the lab orders.

Cerner Microbiology implementation new LIS for the lab Prepare yearly Antibiograms

Lab Week celebration evaluate speakers for the lab and represent the Microbiology lab in its celebration with making posters, other implementation of an inexpensive Gram Stainer Disposable Reagent Device pending USA patent to meet EPA for the lab

Speaker/Presenter posters at annual ASM Microbe Conventions

Keynote speaker at Vancouver., Canada and Harvard Medical School New Research Building

Served as CAP Inspector from 2014-Current: All Microbiology Proficiency Testing: No deficiencies

All Inspections: 0% deficiencies

2020- Present

Microbiology Technologist Maimonides Hosital Center

Brooklyn, NY

8/2006-Dec 2013

Microbiology Supervisor Flushing Hospital Medical Center

Flushing, NY

Sitting Bench Technologist during staff shortages

Serve as a hospital resource regarding Pandemic Influenza NYCDOHMH-BCD procedures and protocols, MRSA, and the Swine Flu pandemic for NYCDOHMH-BCD & CDC testing

Reporting results RSV/Influenza to the Surveillance

National Data base and special lab test submission via Shipping/Packaging Federal Express Form filled out to CDC

Lab Committee member for 1199 SEIU Clinical Laboratory Technical & Professional seminars on Saturdays

Worked closely with Infectious Disease & other Dept in publications of journals

Meeting Pharmaceutical Sales Reps, Inspectors: CAP, NYS and JACHO, and represent my Department

As Sept 2011 Antibiotic Stewardship Committee, assisted with EZ- ACCESS and the newly EPIC Software (Physicians HIS) and Molecular implementation BD Viper CT/GC NAA Qx DNA Amplification (For Urine & Urogenital specimens)

Implementation and writing of the procedures/staff training of molecular testing for the instrument: BD Viper CT/GC Qx DNA Amplification in urine and endocervical swabs specimens. Also initiated in the revisions on this SOP: (1) all sexually abused cases, culture must be performed before any molecular testing (2) and any specimen(s) with results 800 testing must be repeated to ensure accuracy of the specimen provided.

PNA FISH- Its implementation/writing of the procedures/staff training of molecular testing in the Blood Culture CAP

CAP & NYS Inspections 2007-2013 Microbiology Dept Result: No deficiencies found

7/16/86-August 2008

Clinical Laboratory Technologist Beth Israel Medical Center

New York, NY

Served as Lead Tech capacity/gathered a Committee Lab Wk ID/Sensi Vitek System 1/PT testing: City, State and CAPQC’s

Trained incoming Technologists, Lab administrative personnel, Medical Students and residents (Infect. Disease, Pathology, Pulmonary, Pediatric, Pharmacy students and Infect. Control nurse practitioners in the many aspects of Microbiology pertaining to Bloods, Wounds, Respiratory, Urine, BF, Genitals, stools, CSF, Plating, Parasitology and Anaerobic bacterial.

Researching Icare Studies, Levofloxacin in S.pneumoniae & Resistance Imipenem, Acinetobacter, P.aeruginosa, VRE & Emergence of resistant Enterobacteriaceae using E-Test, Disk Diffusion, Vitek System I & Microscan methods

Prepared and conducted discussions and lectures/conferences for fellow colleagues/collected unusual microbes for research and teaching purposes.

Prepared unknowns for Technologist, Residents, Medical students during Microbiology lab rotations

2005-06

Microbiology Manager, Trained staff with MultiData computer system reports entry

Universal Diag. Lab

BKLYN, NY

1988-90

Laboratory Technologist –Microbiology /Chemistr/Hematology

Doctors Hospital

SI, NY

1988-90

Lab Technologist: Microbiology, Id/Suscep. Microscan

St. Vincent’s Med.CTR

NY, NY

1982-84

Lab Assistant: preparing chemical reagents Chemistry courses/Labs

St. Francis College

BKLYN, NY

1985- 86

Medical Technology Training: Microbiology, Chemistry, Hematology

Maimonides Med.CTR

BKLYN, NY

1976-82

Medical Assistant: Phlebotomy, booking admission & surgeries

Baldo Bertocchi, MD

BKLYN, NY

1971-76

Candy stripper: Making patients’ beds, feeding patients, taking specimens to the labs

Lutheran Medical CTR

BKLYN, NY

EDUCATION:

MS Medical Microbiology, Mayor’s Scholarship Long Island Univ

BLYN, NY

Post Graduate Courses College of Staten Island the City Univ New York

SI, NY

Graduate courses

Recombinant DNA Techniques & Microbial Pathogenesis Wagner College

SI, NY

Seminar in Microbio I&II, Medical Microbio I&II, Mycology, Advanced Microbiology I & II, Seminar in Microbiology I & II, Medical Microbiology I & II, Mycology and Advanced Microbiology Long Island Univer.

BLYN, NY

Biology of Nerve Cells, Molecular Microbiology Columbia Univ.

Medical Tech Training

Microbiology, Chemistry and Microbiology

Maimonides Medical CTR

BLYN, NY

BS Biology

Bachelors of Science

St. Francis College

BLYN, NY

SCHOLARSHIP & HONORS: MAYOR’S SCHOLARSHIP/Spanish

LICENSURE: NY State Clinical Laboratory Technologist

MEMBERSHIP: NYC & National ASM, American Chemical Society, New York Academy of Science (active member),

Alliance for Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Advance for Lab Professional, ASCP in Medicine & New York Mycology Society

CERTIFICATIONS: ASCP Board of Registry Certifications: Chemistry, Hematology and Microbiology, computer certifications: Introduction to Excel, Microsoft Words, Power Point, E-mails, Leader-ship built-skills, Certified Spanish Medical Interpreter, Anaerobic Bacteriology, CAP Inspector Training Course certificate, Anaerobic Bacteriology, Biological Safety Cabinets, BioSafety Level III Cabinets, Lab Preparedness Exercises, certified in Shipping/Packaging Infectious Substances/Goods & Microscan Walkaway, Annual ASM conference attendance and NYCDOHMH Sentinel Laboratory certificate up to date. Corporate Compliance certifications and Managements courses., certified by 1199 SEIU Employment Fund on “Environmental Green Efforts”, Communication Leadership

PUBLICATIONS: Damon Lab News, Local 1199 SEIU News, NYC ASM, Advance for Clinical Laboratory Professionals & SHEA. Con-tributed to all the writings for an abstract publication in SHEA on MRSAhVISA (2008) for our Infectious Disease Director most rcently. Vancomycin Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) infections ARE ON THE RISE, D.Asnis M. Garcia, Published in New York Chapter Americans College of Physicians/Doctors for Adults Sat March 8, 2008, Neurocysticercosis in the Infant of Pregnant mother with a tapeworm (2009) Am.J.Trop.Med & Hygiene, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Meningitis New York, NY, USA, 2009, hVISA (MRSA), VISA (MRSA), MSSA-hVISA, Recovery of Streptobacillus moniliformis, a GV-PmBdCurvB from clinical Blood Culture sample in aerobic bottle, Flushing, NY, USA; presented at American Society for Microbiology 112th General Meeting asm2012 San Francisco, California, June 16-19, 2012, and working on MDR and BV.

Poster presentation Microbiology Conference at ASM 2013 American Society for Microbiology 112th General Meeting San Francisco,CA paper on “Recovery of Streptobacillus moniliformis, a GV-PmBdCurvB from clinical Blood Culture sample in aerobic bottle, Flushing, NY, USA” written/presented by Minerva A. Garcia C(ASCP)CM, Hcm, Mcm, accepted for Publication Feb 2015 for the JOMM (Jour of Medical Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, New Research science Center at Joseph P. Martin presented abstract at the Society of Biomolecular Imaging and Informatics 2nd Conferences ”Pathogenicity of Mobiluncus mulieris a GVCurB Vital Role in Pregnant Women Sept 5-17, 2015, and ASM 7th Conference on Biofilms abstract presented Oct 24-29, 2015. Abstract accepted at the 32rd ASM Clinical Virology symposium on- RSV: In Immunocompromised /Suppressed Patients, Why Not Treat? New submission STD Prevention Conference Sept 20-23, 16 Atlanta, GA On- Is Chlamydia trachomatis an Indicator for Appendix in Young Women? At ASM Conference Streptococcal Genetics June 2016 GAS: Mother and Newborn is the Same Strain and/or Nosocomial in Nature? Abstract accepted presentation 32rd Clin Virology Symposium, Daytona Beach, FL RSV: In Immunocompromised/Suppressed Patients, Why Not Treat? Accepted for publication JOMM March 2017 Recovery of Streptobacillus moniliformis, a GV-PmBdCurvB from clinical Blood Culture sample in aerobic bottle, Flushing, NY, USA” written/presented by Minerva A. Garcia, MS, MLS, MT (ASCP), et. Al. Presented at the 2017 ASM Microbe Difficulties Encountered in the Isolation of Streptobacillus moniliformis. RSV: in Immunocompromised/Suppressed Patients, Why Not Treat? Presented Abstract accepted presentation 34th Clin Virology Symposium, Palm Beach, Florida 6th May to 9th May 2018 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, United States of America. Publication Poetry book collections of poems “The Journey of a Rainbow: My Poetic Journal Mind Views”. April 29, 2019.

Keynote speaker at Vancouver, Canada presentation of abstracts and also a judge at the 7th International Conference & Exhibition in Bacteriology & Antibiotics. Radio Interviews with Ric Bratton in This Week in America November 24, 2020, Kate Delaney March 10, 2021 and Scott Media Strategies/Web Talkradio with Mary Lou Davidson.

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