DEMOGRAPHICS

Name/Credentials: Bradford A. Farrington, MS, APRN, NP-C, ANP

DOB: 12/17/1958

Address: **** ******** **., ***. *

Greensboro, NC 27408-3440

Phone: 336-***-**** (Home)

336-***-**** (Cell)

E-Mail: abok4q@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

Date: 12/2000

Degree: Master of Science

Concentration: Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Institution: The University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing, Chicago, IL

Date: 11/1996

Degree: Program Certificate

Concentration: Palliative Care - Pain and Symptom Management Fellowship Program

Institution: Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Date: 05/1987

Degree: Bachelor of Science/Program Certificate

Concentration: Family Nurse Practitioner

Institution: Purdue University Calumet, School of Nursing, Hammond, IN

Date: 1983-1984

Degree: None Confirmed

Concentration: Special Independent Study Projects in Nursing

Institution: Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Date: 05/1981

Degree: Associate of Applied Science

Concentration: Nursing

Institution: Purdue University North Central, Department of Nursing, Westville, IN

Date: 1981 (off-campus 1979-81)

Degree: A.B.

Concentration: Human Development/Social Relations (focus on health and human experience)

Institution: Earlham College, Richmond, IN

REGISTRATION & CERTIFICATION

Type: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)

Agency: North Carolina Board of Nursing

Number: 245013

Status: Active (unencumbered)

Expiration: 12/31/2013

Type: Registered Nurse

Agency: North Carolina Board of Nursing

Number: 245013

Status: Active (unencumbered)

Expiration: 12/31/2014

Type: DEA Registration

Agency: U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency

Number: MF2461945

Status: Active (unencumbered)

Expiration: 09/30/2014

Type: NPI Registration

Agency: CMS

Number: 136*******

Status: Active (unencumbered)

Expiration: None

Type: Nurse Practitioner - Certified (NP-C), Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP)

Agency: American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program

Number: A0809391

Status: Active

Expiration: 08/01/2014

HONORS/AWARDS

Date: 1998

Honor/Award: Glaxo-Smith-Kline Masters Nursing Fellowship Award

Date: 1995

Honor/Award: Roxanne Pain and Symptom Management Nursing Fellowship Award

Date: 1995 - present

Honor/Award: Marquis’ Nursing Awards Board, “Who’s Who in American Nursing”

Date: 1987

Honor/Award: Outstanding Clinical Services Award in Student Internships

Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dates: 2011 - Present

Title: Nurse Practitioner

Institution/Agency: Regional Center for Infectious Diseases, Cone Health System, Greensboro, NC

Duties: Primary and consultative management of adults with complex or chronic infectious diseases who have or at-risk for multiple co-morbidities including HIV Hepatitis A, B, & C, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, COPD, cardiac and renal disease states, thyroid disorders, coagulopathies, dermatologic diseases. Co-management of adults with HIV and oncologic and neurologic disease states, chronic pain management, urgent care, and routine health maintenance. Large indigent patient population with panel spanning young adults through geriatrics.

Highlighted

Activities: Assisted in start-up of anal cytology screening program which included High Resolution Anoscopy (HRA) procedure.

Dates: 2007 - 2010

Title: Nurse Practitioner

Institution/Agency: Tampa General Hospital/Hillsborough County Health Department Specialty Care Clinic, Tampa, FL

Duties: Primary and consultative management of adults with complex or chronic infectious diseases who have or at-risk for multiple co-morbidities. Largely diverse patient population with panel spanning young adults through geriatrics.

Highlighted

Activities: Active sub-investigator for USF HIV research, coordinated clinical supervision of medical students, physician and resident training rotations, and graduate nursing students.

Dates: 2009 - 2010

Title: Clinical Instructor in Medicine

Institution/Agency: University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Tampa, FL

Duties: Active Sub-investigator for USF HIV research. Supervising and training of medical students, nurses, advanced practice nurses, physician assistant students, internal medicine residents and Infectious Diseases Fellows in clinical primary care management of HIV. Lectured on specific management issues relative to HIV and adult health throughout life-span. Assisted ID Fellows with implementing required research-specific projects in their selected area of ID interest.

Dates: 2005 - 2007

Title: Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Practice Team Leader

Institution/Agency: Wayne State University College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI

Duties: Primary and consultative management of adults with complex or chronic infectious diseases who have or at-risk for multiple co-morbidities. Largely diverse patient population with panel spanning young adults through geriatrics. Management and development of nurse clinicians assigned to ID clinics. Responsible for program compliance with clinical guidelines and data collection as mandated under Federally-funded grants.

Highlighted

Activities: Developed and formatted clinic progress note for routine patient management. Developed chart audit system for health maintenance surveillance. Developed and implemented the Women’s Health PAP project for nurse clinicians. Implemented resource utilization study for nursing staff services. Created Performance Partnership Program with career dialogue for nurse clinician self-evaluation, development and retention. Created clinical-research team dialogue meetings between the research and clinical nursing teams. Re-wrote all position descriptions for nurse clinicians and clinical management teams.

Dates: 2003 - 2005

Title: Virology Medical Science Liaison

Institution/Agency: The Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company, Division of Global Medical Affairs, Plainsboro, NJ

Duties: Delivered timely scientific knowledge of HIV therapeutics to key opinion leaders and sales representatives. Established working relationships with key HIV researchers within assigned district of field work. Support for district-oriented investigator-initiated scientific studies with subsequent follow-up during study protocols. Researched and answered unsolicited scientific/clinical questions on HIV agents in company product line. Developed identified speakers for distinguished faculty series. Presented programs regarding HIV product line to specific provider groups. Monitored corporate compliance of designated contracted speakers during their presentations.

Highlighted

Activities: Lead medical information writer for field science teams. Co-developed field science response teams for faculty development. Developed clinical science training programs for field sales teams. Co-developed field science core curriculum on metabolic physiology.

Dates: 2001 - 2003

Title: Lead Nurse Practitioner

Institution/Agency: Title III Primary Care Program, AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Inc., Milwaukee, WI

Duties: Primary care management of adults with HIV who have or at-risk for co-morbidities. Largely diverse indigent patient population with panel spanning young adults through geriatrics. Supervised and directed activities of nursing and medical assistant staff at assigned clinic sites.

Highlighted

Activities: Re-developed all clinical practice guidelines for agency’s Health Services Department. Re-developed medical record and progress note formats. Developed clinical science training program for Health Services staff. Maintained independent practice at 2 clinical sites.

Dates: 1999 - 2001

Title: Nurse Practitioner

Institution/Agency: Howard Brown Health Care Center, Chicago, IL

Duties: Urgent care for adult population experiencing STI symptoms. Diagnosis and management of STI’s with subsequent follow-up. Provided consulting support for HIV providers on specific health management issues relative to HIV and co-morbidities.

Dates: 1994 - 1999

Title: Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nursing Consultant II

Institution/Agency: The University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center/UIC College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Chicago, IL

Duties: Responsible for consultation and evaluation of acutely-ill HIV in-patients at the Medical Center. Maintained 4 half-day outpatient clinics per week. Primary and consultative management of adults with complex or chronic infectious diseases who have or at-risk for multiple co-morbidities. Largely diverse patient population with panel spanning young adults through geriatrics.

Highlighted

Activities: Served as clinical faculty for UIC Colleges of Medicine and Nursing. Clinical and lecturing faculty for Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC)

Dates: 1988 - 1994

Title: Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Consultant

Institution/Agency: Cook County Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Chicago, IL

Duties: Daily consultation services for patients referred to HIV Team within ID Division. Responsible for reviewing, evaluating, diagnosing and recommending plan of care for select in-patient population of acutely-ill HIV patients bordering off dedicated in-patient unit. Responsible for quarterly rotations to dedicated in-patient HIV Unit to support medical House Staff in care and treatment of patients housed on unit. Independent and collaborative management of adults with HIV who have or are at-risk for multiple co-morbidities. Largely diverse and indigent patient population with panel spanning young adults through geriatrics. Major focus on end-of-life management for the terminally ill HIV patient.

Highlighted

Activities: Developed computer database program for tracking consult assignments, selected in-patient census relative to specialty, and completed dispositions. Developed guideline manual for HIV/AIDS management utilized by rotating House Staff through Infectious Diseases Services. Developed the first patient access program for qualifying prescription services post-market AZT. Monitored treatment compliance and outcomes of patients taking AZT in early market release period. Involved in multiple expanded access trials for treatment of various advanced sequella to HIV. Developed proposal protocol and was co-PI for study of novel treatment of cryptosporidiosis. HIV Services representative to hospital Bioethics Committee of the Executive Medical Staff Division (1991-4), community representative to Bioethics Committee (1994-6).

Dates: 1981 - 1987

Title: Clinical Staff Nurse IV

Institution/Agency: Critical Care Nursing Division, The Methodist Hospitals of Northwest Indiana Gary, IN

Duties: Primary critical care nursing of critically-ill neurosurgical patients.

CLINICAL EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

Dates: 1999 - 2000

Activities: Acute Care Internship in Emergency/Urgent Care Medicine

Institution/Agency: Rush Medical Center, Chicago, IL; UIC Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Holy Cross Hospital, Joliet, IL

Dates: 1997 - 1998

Activities: Acute Care NP training in Internal Medicine

Institution/Agency: Cook County Hospital, Department of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Dates: 1996

Activities: Pain and Symptom Management Fellowship

Institution/Agency: Northwestern University Medical Center, Palliative Care Unit, Chicago, IL

Dates: 1987

Activities: ID Clinical Preceptorship for NP

Institution/Agency: Cook County Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, Chicago, IL

TRAINING SUPPORT

Dates: 2009 - 2010

Activity/Position: Clinical Instructor in Medicine

Institution/Agency: University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tampa, FL

Dates: 1996 - 2003

Activity/Position: Training Specialist

Institution/Agency: Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC)

Jane Adams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Dates: 1991 - 2003

Activity/Position: Clinical Faculty

Institution/Agency: Malcolm X College Physician Assistant Program, Chicago, IL

Dates: 1991 - 2000

Activity/Position: Adjunct Clinical Faculty

Institution/Agency: UIC College of Nursing, Chicago, IL

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dates: 2008 - 2011

Activity: Co-investigator

Affiliation: University of South Florida Infectious Diseases Research Unit

University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL

Dates: 1990 - 1994

Activity: Co-Investigator

Affiliation: Research Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cook County Hospital-Rush Medical College - CCPCRA

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