Health Educator/Program Coordinator

Neetu Verma

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Charlotte, NC 28262

Phone # 704-***-****

EDUCATION

University OF North Carolina at Charlotte

Department of Public Health Sciences

Masters of Science in Public Health - May 2007

Thesis- Prevalence of HIV testing among Non-Hispanic Black and White Women

Advisor: Dr Larissa R. Brunner Huber, PhD

Nalanda Medical College and Hospital

Patna, India 800020

MBBS January 1996 (Registration # 28797) (equivalent to MD in USA)

Research- Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/ AIDS and leprosy

Advisor: O. P Chaurasia MD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

May 2008- June 2011 Union County Health Department

Monroe, NC

Health Promotions Coordinator/ Public Health Education Specialist

My role was to design, implement, facilitate, evaluate, and coordinate Health Promotion programs in schools and day care centers to combat rising incidence of overweight and obesity.

Spearheading worksite wellness and chairperson for worksite wellness committee

Also worked as Smoke Free Union Coalition Coordinator and Chairperson, responsible for spreading awareness on secondhand smoke effects County wide.

Instructor for parenting class at the Health Department

A board member for Union County Asthma Coalition and Child Nutrition Committee.

Making new partners to succeed in Health Department’s mission.

Administered Kate B Reynolds grant and budget.

Administered State Health Promotion budget.

Developing and implementing Community Action Plan for the year and reporting that to the State Health Promotion

Grant writing

Attended Conferences and meetings to remain upto-date in the field of Health Education and Health Promotion.

April 2008-May 2008 Lifespring Maximized Living Health Center

Huntersville, NC

Health Promotion Coordinator

My role was to design, implement and counsel health sessions aimed at spreading awareness of healthy lifestyles through physical activities, healthy nutrition and maintaining a proper brain-body relationship. I was also involved with screening of the people and going over the test results with them.

May 2006- July 2006 Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium

Charlotte, NC

Intern Prevention Specialist and Group Health Educator and Counselor

My role was to design, implement and facilitate the group education sessions named "P.R.O.T.E.C.T Yourself " at McLeod Addictive Center, and also at Chemical Dependency Center dealing mostly with prevention and control messages against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The education sessions aimed at helping adolescents and adults in substance abuse treatments to gain self-confidence and get back to drug-free life. I successfully marketed this program “” Protect Yourself” by utilizing concepts from social marketing theory. I was also involved with HIV counseling, testing and case management. These sessions utilized Health Belief Model to bring about changes in people’s behavior.

Jul 2003 -July 2004 Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies

Seattle, WA

Health Educator

My role was to educate mothers the significance of breast feeding and encourage them for breast-feeding their child. I was responsible for designing and facilitating the educational sessions. We also made adolescents and adults aware of the harmful effect of smoking and alcohol consumption on the babies.

Sep 2002 – Jun 03 Rose Hill Elementary School

Kirkland, WA

Health Promotion Specialist

My role was to encourage the kids to develop healthy food habits, and to teach them sexual health. I was also involved in teaching mathematics and reading and grading the test paper.

Jan 2001 - Aug 02 Northwest AIDS Foundation

Seattle, WA

HIV Educator and Case Manager

responsible for case management and designing and facilitating HIV/AIDS

awareness and prevention sessions for people in substance abuse treatments.

My role was to support clients in achieving abstinence and other treatment goals through assessment, treatment planning, substance dependency counseling and education. I was associated with the development of a treatment/service plans and also worked with the clients and other affiliate professionals to set goals for success

Jan 2000-Dec 00 United Ways

Seattle, WA

Volunteer

responsible to provide care and support to the terminally ill patient. I was responsible for educating the families of such patients for coping with situation.

Project Name: “Compassion in Dying of Washington”

Jan 1998 - Nov 99 Kailash Hospital and Research Center

Noida, India

Resident Medical Officer and Research Associate

While working as a Senior Research Associate in the Kailash Hospital and Research Center in Noida, India, I got the opportunity to participate in ongoing clinical research on Bulimia.

My role was to:

• Collect, organize and maintain clinical documentation.

• Manage preparation, sending and tracking of clinical trial materials to clinical sites.

• Maintain call log of contact with clinical sites.

• Assist with gathering and development of overall project functional requirements.

• Assist with development and maintenance of project schedules, and responsibility for schedule follow through.

• Assist with training of system users at Investigator Meetings and Clinical Sites.

• Recommend and implement process improvements.

Jan 1996- Jan 1997 Nalanda Medical College and Hospital- INDIA

House Physician and Research Associate

I worked extensively on the research project on Sexually Transmitted disease including AIDS. I was responsible for analyzing population based data set for women with various sexually transmitted infections. I got the opportunity to present my research findings in All India Dermatologist Conference amongst eminent doctors and graduate students of the country.

- Also worked on Leprosy Research & Control project sponsored by World Health Organization, India. I was responsible for reviewing relevant literature, and also assisted in primary collection of data, and analysis of the data.

Jan 1995- Jan 1996 Nalanda Medical College and Hospital -INDIA

Intern Medical Officer

Here I acquired knowledge and experience while working in following departments.

Dept. Of Medicine: 2 months

I was responsible for prescribing medications to patients in the outpatient department. The most frequent cases were those of GI upsets and respiratory tract infections like common cold, bronchitis, laryngitis etc.

I also took care of admitted patients. These were patients suffering mostly from chronic bronchitis, emphysema, congestive heart failure.

Dept. Of Surgery: 2 months

I assisted my professor in various surgeries as for example appendicitis, hernia, gall stones and also assisted in outpatient department where patients usually came for minor or major cuts, burns, accidents, fracture etc.

Dept Of Obstetrics & Gynecology: 2 months

I gained the experience of caesarian section, tube ligation and vaginal delivery.

I assisted in prescribing medications in the outpatient department for various vaginal discharge and infections

Preventive and Social Medicine: 6 months

During these six months of training in preventive medicine as an intern, I worked in 4 different units:

a. Immunization Unit - I helped in immunizing kids and infants

b. Family Planning- I counseled women and men to use condoms, copper t or oral contraceptives

c. Tuberculosis Unit- I examined the admitted patients and followed up with their medications

d. Skin & V.D Unit- I diagnosed and prescribed medications to the patients in the outpatient department.

During my Internship Period:

I was also a member of Rotary International Patna (India), working on Global Polio Eradication Project. We were to educate the mass about the importance of polio and administered oral polio drops to children up till 5 yrs (2 times a year) in addition to regular vaccination schedule. I co-organized a seminar on ‘Safe Sex’. The main motive of this was to educate school going children on HIV (AIDS) and use of condoms. I designed and implemented education fairs for the people of rural area of Bihar (India) and supported various activities for a community health education center for a local hospital. My main role and objective was to educate the mass about the importance of immunization and its affectivity in providing protection against deadly diseases like Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Pertusis, Whooping Cough, Hepatitis B and many more which otherwise could be life threatening and encouraged pregnant mothers to go for routine check ups, eat healthy and avoid smoking

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

I was the principal investigator in the research conducted under the guidance of

Dr Larissa Brunner Huber (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology) in the Department of

Public Health Sciences at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). The research was on the prevalence of HIV testing during preconception and prenatal care among Non- Hispanic Black and White women. My thesis was selected to be presented at Annual Graduate Research Fair of University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was also selected by American College Of Epidemiology to be presented at Florida in September 2007.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Patna Science College, INDIA

Distinction in Chemistry and Biology

Selected into the Medical School via state wise written test and interview.

Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, INDIA

Among top 3 graduates

Highest score in Surgery and Medicine.

TRAININGS

Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium, Charlotte, NC

HIV 101/HIV 102

Grief/ Bereavement

Healthy Schools Institute Summer Conference/ Skills Session

Grant writing for Healthy Schools

Lake WA Technical College, Kirkland WA

Software Testing

SKILLS and Expertise:

MS Word, Power Point, Software Testing, Rational visual testing

SAS, SUDAN, Epi info.

Designing and implementing health education/ health promotion programs

Facilitating education sessions

Planning, implementing and evaluating health programs

Case Management

Designing sampling/research methods (both quantitative/qualitative)

Primary collection of data.

Secondary data analysis

Writing and communicating research findings

Presenting research findings

IRB

Behavior Change theories/practices.

Fundraising

Grant Writing

CERTIFICATIONS

Registered Medical Practitioner, India. (Reg # 28797)

CHES (Certified Health Education Specialist), CHES ID # 14146

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