Medical Quality Assurance
Resume:
Jan ****-August **** Association of YMCA Professionals (AYP)
Membership & Marketing Coordinator
Primary duties -
main contact person for 6000+ members
all detail work, email, phone contact
Web site design/maintenance
Graphic design for marketing association and
Emergency Assistance Fund (annual campaign)
Travel to YMCA of the USA (YUSA) events to exhibit
association, benefits and materials
Work closely with CEO, our National Board, and AYP
members
Display interpersonal skills
Demonstration of a positive attitude and friendly
demeanor
Team player
EDUCATION
1968 Rhode Island Junior College, Providence, RI; attended liberal arts
studies
1972 Brown University, Providence, RI; medical terminology course
1983-84 Harvard University Extension, Cambridge, MA; liberal arts
studies
1985-87 Metropolitan College/Boston University, Boston, MA; liberal
arts studies
1993. Suffolk University, Boston, MA; summer session, liberal arts
studies
1999 Learning Connection, Providence, RI: Computer Graphics Program;
Adobe PhotoShop, QuarkXpress
1999. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Graphic Design
Certificate Program
2000. To present - enrolled in online graphic design (Photoshop,
Illustrator)
programs via NAPP
Medical:
Kathleen E. Corbett, R. EEG T., R. PSG T.
LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS
1970 Certification from Hewlett-Packard Corporation, EKG Technician
1983 Completion Part 1 ABRET, April
Completion Part 2, ABRET, October
Registered EEG Technologist (R. EEG T.), Registry #1375
1999 Registered PSG Technologist ( R. PSG T.), Registry #2564
ADMINISTRATIVE/TECHNICAL DUTIES (Hospital)
2000 -01 CONSULTING: Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, New
London, Ct.
Review Policy & Procedure Manuals, Work with Administration
towards
Sleep Center accreditation.
Set-up in lab on-going education for current and new
technologists.
Review and analyze overnight Polysomnograms for physician's
final report.
1996-2000 Consultant for Veterans Administration Outpatient
Clinic, Boston, MA
1) Review and analyze digital EEG post IV drug infusion
2) Train research assistants basic understanding of EEG
waveforms and
instrumentation
1991-Oct. 99 Technical Director of Sleep Disorders Laboratory, New
England Medical
Center, Boston, MA
1) Responsible for supervision and training of technologists
and laboratory
assistants
2) Develop policy and procedure manual
3) Analyze raw sleep data for interpretation by Medical
Director
4) Instruct residents, fellows, visiting staff in the use of
equipment and
evaluation of data
5) Participate in research projects
6) Present data at national meetings
1989-91 Senior Neurophysiologic Technologist, New England Medical
Center, Boston,
MA
1) Responsible for patient flow in absence of Chief
Technologist
2) Supervise recording and responsible for all scoring of
research and clinical
sleep studies
3) Principal recording technologist and analysis of
neurodiagnostic studies with Department of Pharmacology and
Experimental Therapeutics, Tufts University School of Medicine
4) Development of Policy and Procedure manual
5) Assist in accreditation process of Neurophysiology
Laboratory
6) Developed Quality Assurance program with laboratory
1988-89 Equal Employment Opportunity Chairperson, Boston
VA Medical Center,
Boston, MA
1) Reinstate critical components of committee
2) Create more active employee involvement in Black, Hispanic,
women
and handicap programs
3) Responsible for invited speakers regarding specific issues
for employees
4) Elected to Regional Committee EEO
1985-89 Chief Technologist, Neurodiagnostics Laboratory,
Boston VA Medical Center,
Boston, MA
1) Supervise efficient running of the Neurodiagnostic
laboratories and four
technologists
2) Manage routine administrative duties
3) Assist in the instruction of Neurology residents
4) Teach students from 2 training programs
5) Development of policy and procedures manual
6) Receive 5-year full accreditation from American Board of
EEGs, May '86
(VA was first of 20 accredited facilities in the
nation)
7) Overview budget, create capital budget request (projection
10 years per
government facility equipment standards)
1983-85 Senior Neurophysiologic Technologist; Children's Hospital,
Boston, MA
1) Special procedures; long term monitoring, drug infusion
studies including
video
2) Assist in development of policy and procedure manual,
laboratory
accreditation process (Children's was one of first 10
nationally accredited
laboratories)
1981-83 Senior technologist, EEG/EMG Laboratory, University of
California Medical
Center, San Francisco, CA
1) Responsible for patient flow and administrative duties in
EMG Laboratory,
perform nerve conduction studies, assist physician with EMG
studies
2) Manage patient flow in absence of chief technologist,
perform EEG/EP studies
1970-80 Department Head, EKG/EEG Laboratory, Notre Dame Hospital,
Central
Falls, RI
- Develop policies, budget projections, training; perform all
studies
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1998-99 Instructor Polysomnography Certificate Program,
Laboure College,
Boston, Ma.
First year college based PSG training course
1992-Oct. 99 Technical Director, Sleep Laboratory, New England Medical
Center
1) Train fellows and visiting physicians in the analysis of
sleep
2) Train clinical neurophysiology technology students from
Laboure College
3) Monthly conference, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
staff and fellows
1989-92 Clinical instructor at the New England Medical Center
1) Train clinical neurophysiology technology students from
Laboure College
2) Train PROTECH students rotating the EEG/Sleep Lab
3) Mentor for Healthy Transitions/Healthy Futures
1985-89 Chief Neurophysiologic Technologist, Boston VA Medical Center,
Boston, MA
1) Train neurology residents rotating through EEG Laboratory
2) Train clinical neurophysiology technology students from
Laboure College
3) Train EEG Technology students from Children's Hospital
4) Weekly EEG conference with staff - attending physicians,
fellows and
residents
1983-85 Clinical and Technical instructor, School of EEG Technology,
Children's
Hospital, Boston, MA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1988 Fundamentals of EEG Technology, recognized by author John R. Knott
1993 The Electroencephalogram, recognized by author John S. Barlow
EXAMINER
1998. Examiner for ABRET - participate as oral examiner of candidates
for
registration in field of Electroneurodiagnostic Technologists
AWARDS
1986 Saltonstall Award, Eastern Society of EEG Technology, recognized for
completion of
laboratory accreditation process of Boston VA Medical Center EEG
Laboratory
1992 Employee of the Month, New England Medical Center; participation in
Healthy
Transitions/Healthy Futures mentoring program for Boston high school
students
RESEARCH PRESENTATION
1991 Periodic Limb Movement in Hyperlipidemic Patients, Ontario CA
International Sleep Disorders
PARTICIPATION IN CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Interaction of sleep disorders with epilepsy, toxemia in pregnancy,
migrane and other neurological disorders.
1. Quality of life in sleep disorder patients.
2. Gabapentin, valproate in the treatment of Periodic Limb Movement
Disorder.
3. Ketoconazole inhibition of triazolam and alprazolam in digital EEG
recordings.
4. Kinetics and Dynamics of Intravenous Adinazolam, N-Desmethyl,
Adinazolam, and Alprazolam
in Healthy Volunteers to be published in Clinical Pharmacology and
Therapeutics or the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
ABSTRACTS
1. Corbett K, Ehrenberg BL. Excessive Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep in
Hyperlipidemic Patients Susceptible to Lovastatin-Induced Insomnia.
Sleep Research 1991;20:317.
1. Greenblatt DJ, Ehrenberg BL, Scavone JM, Friedman H, Harmatz JS, Corbett
K, Shader RI. Effect of Infusion Rate on the Kinetic-Dynamic Relationship
for Intravenous Midazolam. (Submitted to 1993 meeting of the American
Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics).
2. Ehrenberg BL, Corbett KE. Alpha-Like Activity in Deep Non-REM Sleep:
Clinical Correlations. Sleep Research 1993;22:371.
3. Greenblatt DJ, Ehrenberg BL, vonMoltke LL, Corbett K, Wallace DW,
Harmatz JS, Shader RI. Kinetics and Dynamics of Lorazepam During
Continuous Infusion Crit Care Med 2000; 28: 2750-7.
4. Ketoconazole Inhibition of Triazolam and Alprazolam Clearance:
Differential Kinetic and Dynamic Consequences. Clinical Pharmacology and
Therapeutics 1998; 64: 237-47..
5. Greenblatt, MD; vonMoltke, MD; Ehrenberg, MD; Jerold S. Harmatz;
Kathleen E. Corbett: et al:
Kinetics and dynamics of lorazepam during and after continuous
intravenous infusion.
Critical Care Medicine 2000 Vol. 28, No. 8.
7. Greenblatt DJ, Jarmatz JS, vonMoltke LL, Ehrenberg BL, Harel L,
Corbett K, Counihan M, Graf JA,
Darwish M, Mertzanis P, Martin PT, Cevallos WH, Shader RI: Comparative
kinetics and dynamics of
zaleplon, zolpidem, and placebo. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1998; 64: 553-61.
INVITED LECTURER
June, 1995 "Sleep Hygiene: Jet Lag and Shift Work" - Society of Woman
Engineers
(SWE), Boston, MA
February, 1996 "Sleep Disorders" - Restless Legs Society
Support Group
Needham, MA
October, 1997 "Sleep Disorders, Quality Sleep" - Federal Reserve
Bank
Boston, MA
March, 1999 "Technical Aspects of Polysomnography,
Sleep Hygiene, Yours and the Patient's" -
Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers
Beth-Israel Medical Center, New York, New York
November, 1999 "Sleep Disorders in Women - Sleep Hygiene,
Quality Sleep for Women of All Ages and Their
Families WomenWise '99 ConferenceMystic
Seaport, Mystic, CT, Presented by The Westerly
Hospital of Rhode Island
Areas of Interest outside of Medicine
ECLECTIC EDUCATION/TRAINING:
October, 1999 Boston Bartenders School of America, Westerly, RI;
Certificate and National licensing November '99
October - Dec '99 Learning Connection, Providence, RI;
Graphics Instruction in:
Adobe PhotoShop software, version 5.5
QuarkXpress software
January 2000- 01 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,
RI
Graphic Design Certificate Program
Winter Semester; Adobe PhotoShop 5.5
Spring Semester; Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Two
Dimensional Design
Fall Semester; Basic Drawing
June to Oct 2000 & 01 Misquamicut Golf Club -summer season employee
Receptionist at the Golf Club, Beach Club
Bartender, Misquamicook event, Beach Club
Supervisor: General Manager, Philip C. Koretsky
Display of Photography, Graphic Design
September - October '99 17 photographs displayed at "The Green Marble
Coffee House",
Merchant Square, Westerly, Rhode Island
August 2000 4 Photographs displayed in the Watch Hill Improvement
Society
Photography Show (one sale)
May 2000-01 Photographs and designs as greeting cards sold in local
stores:
Bookland, Watch Hill
Sun-Up Gallery, Avondale
Greeting Cards and Framed work on sale...
Watch Hill Photography Show
2001 - 2003 - 2005 - 2009 Photography display and sale of work
December 2001-present Creative Director, International String Network
Newsletter, Ashaway Line & Twine, Ashaway RI
August 2000-present Creative Director, Crandall Family Newsletter,
Ashaway, RI
Freelance Photography
Personal and local business.
Graphic Design Consulting
Greeting Cards
Collage work for family reunions, graduation, birthdays, etc.
Various design from thought to print!
Web site: www.kateelizacorbett.com
Kate Eliza Corbett
Westerly, RI 02891
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