Medical Quality

James Blum

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City: Delray Beach

State: FL

Zip: 33444

Country: USA

Phone: 561-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: $65,000

Willing to Relocate

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JAMES M. BLUM

2105 Lavers Circle, Unit 510

Delray Beach, FL 33444

561-***-**** (Home Office) 207-***-**** (cell)

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EXPERIENCED MEDICAL RESEARCHER

Productive, Intuitive, Devoted

Capable of working at the 40,000 foot view and in agonizing accurate detail

Able to problem solve using engineering, medical, and biologic principles

Good communication skills, tough, yet flexible

Experienced with all Microsoft products and SAS and SPSS products

EXPERIENCE

CELL SCIENCE SYSTEMS, Deerfield Beach, FL 2009-2012

Director of Nutrition and co-Director of Research Development

Greatly improved provider relations (medical doctors, naturopathic physicians, chiropractors, acupunctures, registered dietitians, and health coaches);

Updated and revised outdated and wrote new procedural and quality protocols involving manufacturing of cassettes and analyzers, as well as laboratory procedures;

Updated individual quality protocols and procedures resulting in no major citations for 18 months from CLIA and ISO 9000 inspections;

Instituted Quality Improvements, including successful transition from using whole blood to using separated white blood cells for the food sensitivity test, antigen preparation (making our own from organic food sources), changes to the cassettes (which hold the food antigens), changes made to the statistical computer algorithm;

Adapted and tested protocols for leaky gut syndrome and oral detoxification;

Added new foods of 50 medicinal herbs and functional foods to the testing menu;

Grew the RD Department from one technician to four; brought QI under RD umbrella; added flow cytometry, HPLC, and similar technologies;

Assisted in the development of hormone saliva tests for commercialization;

dba, LIFE SCIENCE SOLUTIONS, LLC (Florida Corporation) 1998-2011

dba, DIETARY SUPPLEMENT RESEARCH GROUP, LLC (Maine Corporation)

Chief Scientific Officer and Management

Clinical outcomes and clinical trial consulting firm that designed and executed randomized, placebo-controlled, blinded clinical trials for the natural products industry;

Client list includes over 40 American and International clients;

Our trials have saved at least 4 clients several hundred thousands in regulatory fines.

For a two-year period, the company averaged nine concurrent trials;

Primary IRB and FDA regulatory role; filings, protocol deviations, obtaining INDs;

Advised medical professionals in use of nutritional medicine;

JAMES M. BLUM

2105 Lavers Circle, Unit 510

Delray Beach, FL 33444

561-***-**** (Home Office) 207-***-**** (cell)

abpwoy@r.postjobfree.com

Eastern Maine Healthcare, Bangor, ME 1994-1999

Director, Healthcare Research

Created and ran research department devoted to outcomes research, clinical trials, and quality improvement projects;

Grew staff to 10 full-time staffers; managed staff;

Projects includes outcomes for cardiac surgery, interventional and medical cardiology, orthopedics, emergency medicine, adolescent behavior, gestational diabetes, strokes, oncology, chronic pain, pulmonary medicine, dialysis, and more product lines;

Wrote and obtained a two-year national grant for total joint surgery outcomes;

Designed and conducted a series of clinical trials; set up pharmaceutical trials in physician practices (offsite from hospital); trained staff to manage trials;

Performed variety of statistical analyses; Wrote journal articles;

CURRENT FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Faculty (part-time), Hawthorn University (internet school), Graduate School;

Teaching: research methods, physiology, and nutrition; since 2011

Adjunct Professor of Medicine: University of South Florida Medical School,

Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, Tampa, Florida; since 2009

EDUCATION

PhD degree in Clinical Outcomes Research, University of Maine (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

MS degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University

MS degree in Regulatory Biology (minor in Computer Engineering), Cleveland State University

BS degree in Electrical Engineering Technology, Cleveland State University

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