Physician Assistant Care
Resume:
DEBORAH SHELLENBERGER, PA-C
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003-2803
Sebastian, Florida 32958
TEL. 609-***-**** F AX. 856-***-****
***.*************@*****.***
SUMMARY
Board certified Physician Assistant with experience in Correctional Health care, Urgent Care, Hospitalist, Adult Congenital Heart Defect cardiology, Pediatric congenital cardiology, Pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, and electrophysiology in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Proven talent to organize and facilitate projects from conception to completion. I promote effective communication among patients, families and staff.
EDUCATION
8/2000-8/2002 MCP Hahnemann University/Drexel University Bachelor of Science
Physician Assistant Program
Physician Assistant Certificate
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
5/2013-present Corizon Health Care (Philadelphia, Pa.)
● Health maintenance and chronic disease management in teens to adults
Manage opiate, benzodiazepine, and alcohol withdrawal
● Triage/Urgent care within the facility
● History and Physicals
● Respond to, and provide direction and in emergency situations 3/2017- 10/2017 Patient First Urgent Care
● Evaluate and treat fast track patients (review labs and x-rays)
● Suture and surgical glue lacerations
● Apply orthopedic splints
2/2012- 8/2016 Team Health
● Night time hospitalist at Our lady of Lourdes Hospital, Burlington, NJ
● Direct care for emergency and direct admissions
● Perform and dictate history & physical
● Evaluate and treat changing patient condition
● Communicate and coordinate care with attending physicians
● Perform IV insertion, obtain blood specimen, insert NG tubes 9/2006-2/2012 Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center, Philadelphia, Pa
● Coordinate outpatient care
● Responsible for outpatient clinic hours for three physicians
● Special interest in pregnancy and the adult congenital heart patient
● Ordering appropriate studies
● Follow up post visit and hospitalizations
● Triage phone calls
● Chart abstraction
● Coordination of multidisciplinary care
● EMR documentation
● Faculty facilitator for the Del Val Adult Congenital Heart Network
● Team captain and organizer for yearly fund drive raising $2000+/year Pulmonary Hypertension
● Assistant coordinator
● Assist in clinic
● Triage phone calls
● Follow up post visits
● EMR documentation
Preventive cardiology
● Worked with physician to establish a new outpatient clinic
● Collect data at patient visits
● Ordering and monitoring studies
● Triage phone calls
● Follow up post visits
● EMR documentation
- 8/2003-9/2006 St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children/Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa.
● Physician Assistant Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery. Duties include preparing patient and family for surgical interventions, H&P’s, coordinate inpatient and outpatient care; participate in multidisciplinary patient care rounds.
● Assist surgeon in operating room
● Monitor patient care in CICU
● Dictation/discharge summary, correspondence with physicians, and insurance companies.
● Collect and maintain data for STS database
9/2002-8/2003 University of Pennsylvania Health Systems/ Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
● Physician Assistant Cardiology/Electrophysiology. Duties include preparing patients for EPS studies, coordinate inpatient care, participate in outpatient clinic, device interrogation, patient teaching, and chart dictation.
● Clinical Research Coordinator, Department of Cardiology, Division of Electrophysiology. Included were drug, device, and ablation protocols.
● Develop informed consent forms, protocol summaries, and SOP’s for IRB submission and approval.
● Motivate and coordinate patient enrollment, manage study logs and patient files, and complete CRF’s.
● Direct compliance with NIH, FDA regulations, monitor INDs, and IDEs
● Monitor and report adverse events and serious adverse events, direct protocol initiation and monitoring.
CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSES
National NCCPA
BLS
ACLS
PALS
NIH Human Participants Protection Education for Research Teams State PA-C Florida license
PA-C Pennsylvania license
PA-C New Jersey license
Local University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine Patient Oriented Research Certification of Completion – Full Review Level
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
National American Academy of Physician Assistants
ACC-congenital heart
Adult Congenital Heart Network
State Pennsylvania Physician Assistant Association New Jersey Physician Assistant Association
Local Served on the leadership committee for Del Val Adult Congenital Heart N etwork PRESENTATIONS
Transposition of the Great Arteries & T runcus arteriosus CHOP Adult Congenital Nursing symposium
HUP Heart and Vascular center mid level practitioners Rhythm ICD Protocol
Attending physicians, EPS Fellows, Research study staff V-V Optimization UPHS/PMC, Philadelphia, Pa.
PUBLICATIONS
Alexander Opotowsky; Deborah Shellenberger; Vanita Dharan; Emmanuelle Pare; William Norwood; Gary D. Webb; Richard Donner S uccessful Pregnancies in Two Women with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Congenital Heart Disease 2010;5(5): 476-81
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