Toya T. Powell, CNMT

**** *********

Memphis, Tennessee 38104

901-***-**** home

901-***-**** cell

acr934@r.postjobfree.com email

Dear Representative,

Thank you very much for this opportunity to apply for this position with you.

I have exceptional patient relations skills, advanced radiation safety knowledge (for AR, TN, and MS) and 35 years of experience with almost all systems used in nuclear medicine.

My years as a volunteer imaging professional on a breast cancer website has given me insights that I think you would find most fascinating.

Go to http://bclist.petebevin.com/ and perform a search for Toya. At the time I began volunteering with this listserv, I was a 16 year NMT. This community taught me things that I never learned in school or in practice. I know things that most allied health professionals don’t know about the “cancer community”. I would like to think that I have taught them things that they misunderstood about the “healthcare community”.

I have often been described as high energy, self-directed and results driven. I pride myself on my interpersonal, technical and research skills. I am available for employment (with generous appropriate notice). My salary interests are negotiable.

I would love to interview with you about this position.

Sincerely,

Toya T. Powell, CNMT, ARRT (N), ASCP (NM)

TOYA T. POWELL, CNMT Memphis, TN 38104 1320 Jefferson 901-***-**** Cell 901-***-**** mailto:acr934@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Medical Professional

Professional Experience

Aureus Medical Group 2015-Present 13609 California Street, Suite 200 Omaha, NE 68154 800-***-****

April Zimmerly, Aureus Supervisor Jay Patel, Aspirus Wausau Hospital Supervisor 715-***-****

Aspirus Wausau Hospital, 333 Pine Ridge BLVD, Wausau, WI 54401

As Staff Nuclear Medicine Technologist at Participated in all phases of imaging. Contract - offered a position in nuclear medicine if one came available

Certified Medical Specialists, Nuclear Medicine Division 2002- 2015 785 Ohio Ave, Suite 3E

Dr. Roger Weiner, Medical Director Alisa Allen, Office Manager 662-***-****,

Clarksdale, MS 38614

As Senior Staff Nuclear Medicine Technologist Participated in all phases of imaging; organiazed first

mobile service in northwest Mississippi; set up first office based nuclear cardiology lab in the area

Professional Experience

Aureus Medical Group 200*-****-***** "Q" Street Omaha, NE 68137 800-***-****

Nick Eastland, Aureus Supervisor Virginia Walker, Radiology Supervisor 479-***-****,

As Staff Nuclear Medicine Technologist Washington Regional Medical Ctr, 3215 N. Hills Blvd, Fayetteville, AR

Participated in all phases of imaging. Contract - offered a position in nuclear medicine at each site

Professional Experience

Aureus Medical Group 200*-****-***** "Q" Street Omaha, NE 68137 800-***-**** Nick Eastland, Aureus Supervisor Ron Kaste, St. Francis Radiology Supervisor

As Staff Nuclear Medicine Technologist at St. Francis Hospital St Francis Hospital, 2986 Kate Bond Rd, Memphis, TN

Participated in all phases of imaging. Contract - offered a position in nuclear medicine

Northwest MS Reg Med Ctr 199*-****-**** Hospital Rd Clarksdale, MS 38614 662-***-**** Wiley "Skeeter" Lunsford, Supervisor

As Lead Nuclear Medicine Technologist Increased staffing 300%. Participated in all phases of imaging, radiation safety, and total quality. Promoted nuclear medicine to the hospital and general public. Increased department statistics 159% in first 12 months without staffing or equipment increase and increased statistics 170% more with new computer acquisition. Instrumental in correcting CPT coding errors resulting in an additional $70,000 in revenue annually. Added 6 new studies with no upgrade in equipment. Added 26 new studies with equipment upgrade. Increased statistics from 45 patient studies to 315 per month. Instrumental in mentoring potential nuclear techs (one candidate accepted).

Baptist Mem Hospital - Med Ctr 199*-****-*** Madison Ave Memphis, TN 38146 901-***-**** Newton Robinson, Supervisor

As Staff Nuclear Medicine Technologist Participated in all phases of imaging, radiation safety, and total quality. Promoted nuclear medicine to the hospital and general public. Analyzed Software programs and taught innovative methods for image comparison, assisted with department research and assessment of diagnostic efficacy. Implemented pathology driven imaging protocols. Numerous offices in the Society of Nuclear Medicine on a regional and national level. Highly praised Instructor for the BMH School of Nuclear Medicine Technology.

Achievements . Largest number of commendations in the department

. Responsible for over $45,000 free publicity about nuclear medicine from 1995-96

. Decreased film cost by approx $10,000 per year with ACE image/archiving system

Delta Medical Ctr (AKA Eastwood) 198*-****-**** Getwell Rd Memphis, TN 38118 901-***-**** Arthur Raines/Patt Hamer, Supervisors

As Director of Nuclear Medicine Participated integrally with all hospital departments and committees including safety, radiation safety, quality assurance and infection control. Attended numerous hospital business, accounting and financial seminars. Responsible for all phases of operation of nuclear medicine department from scanning to budget.

Annually promoted nuclear medicine through speaking engagements, open houses, career fairs, public service announcements, etc., at high schools, grade schools, Boy Scouts of America Medical Explorers, Girls Clubs and other non-profit youth groups. Taught and supervised students in all phases of imaging and directed ECT practicums. Numerous offices in the society of nuclear medicine on a local level.

Achievements . Increased revenue 40% and assessed and acquired state of the art equipment

. Successfully passed all state and JCAHO inspections with no citings or suggestions

. 1990 Winner of National Nuclear Medicine Week contest

. First runner up for the National Nuclear Medicine Week Contest 1986

. Girls Club Advisory Council President 1984

Education (all in Memphis, TN)

Aug. 1979 - Aug. 1980 -BMH School of Nuclear Medicine, Certificate, 1003 Monroe Ave, Memphis, TN 38103, 901-***-****

Jan. 1978 - Aug. 1979 -University of TN Center for the Health Sciences, Graduate Courses, 920 Court Ave, Memphis, TN, 901-***-****

Sept. 1974 - May 1977 -Southwestern at Memphis (Presently Rhodes College), Pre-Med, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN, 901-***-****

Aug. 1970 - May 1974 -Hamilton High School, Magna Cum Laude Graduate, 1363 Person Ave, Memphis, TN, 901-***-****

Registries and Licensures ACLS exp 2016

Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board - #005631 (Exp 2016)

Mississippi Bd of Health (Reg Med Rad Tech) - #MRT1046 (Exp 2016)

Amer Soc of Clinical Pathologist - #1776 inactive Amer Reg of Radiologic Techn - #162472 inactive

OBJECTIVE: Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Extracurricular/Volunteer Endeavors:

Mississippi Society of Nuclear Medicine Speaker 2014 Nuclear Medicine Update

Powerpoint Presentation for Cardiologist and Nurse Practitioner on Nuclear Cardiology and Heart Disease

Single Handedly Successfully Petitioned the Governor of Mississippi to Acknowledge the Founders of the Mississippi

Society of Nuclear Medicine Founders

Volunteer Technologist for SNM.ORG Online Forum Discussion List

Go to SNM.ORG and click About SNM, then click Online Forum

Then click Anonymous or Guest Login

Volunteer Imaging Expert for Breast Cancer Discussion List

acr934@r.postjobfree.com or view the archives at

http://bclist.petebevin.com/ and type the search word Toya

Counselor / Mentor for Carl Keen Vocational Technical School in Clarksdale, MS

Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church Career Transition Ministry Counselor

Responsible Animal Owners of Tennessee Foster Caregiver

Boy Scouts of America Medical Careers Explorers

Currently Writing Two Books on Nuclear Medicine and Breast Cancer

Unique Areas of Expertise Indicative to my Participation in Nuclear Medicine

For the Nuclear Department, I Offer:

Rare or lengthy study evaluation checklist

Department checklist and orientation guide

Nuclear medicine audit

Nonradioactive pharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine course

Nuclear medicine scope of practice

Template for an exceptional nuclear medicine department meeting

Nuclear medicine humor

Nuclear medicine history

A "how to" on getting involved in the society of nuclear medicine tech section

Nuclear medicine code of ethics

Nuclear medicine scan guidelines

Nuclear medicine quarterly radiation safety checklist

Pregnancy and the nuclear tech

New Equipment evaluation pearls and pitfalls

Speed scanning using patient morphology, radiopharmaceutical uptake and disease morphology

For Nursing Service and other Ancillary departments, I offer:

Nuclear nursing notes on all routinely performed studies

Inservices on "what is nuclear medicine" specific to each department

For the Radiologist, I offer:

Nuclear inservices and images on rarely performed studies

Anatomy maps of nuclear studies

Websites of nuclear studies

Regional users of rarely performed nuclear studies

Manufacturer's numbers for imaging specifics and atlas images

Patient questionnaires that enhance scan accuracy and specificity and significantly improve reimbursement

Golden High Five program to acknowledge fascinating NM

studies requested by physicians

Documenting scan technical problems before submission to the radiologist

For physician specialties, I offer:

Nuclear studies endemic to the physician's specialty posed as clinical

questions that nuclear medicine can answer

Golden High Five program to acknowledge fascinating NM

studies requested by physicians

For Hospital Administrators marketing nuclear medicine to physicians, I offer:

Nuclear studies endemic to physician specialties

For the General Public, I offer:

Nuclear pamphlets on all routinely performed nuclear scans for reading patients

Nuclear pamphlets on all routinely performed nuclear scans for illiterate patients

And for patients who do not speak English

Famous people who've had nuclear medicine scans

"What does a nuclear scan look like" file, videos, slides, etc.

MY PERSONAL NUCLEAR PROCEDURES SKILLSET EXPERIENCE

Pulmonary

Radioaerosol ventilation

Gas ventilation

Perfusion

Perfusion/Ventilation quantitation

Bone/Musculoskeletal

Bone scan, limited, planar

Bone scan, whole-body, planar

Bone scan, 3-phase

Bone scan, 4-phase

Bone scan, SPECT

Oncology

Ga67 tumor imaging, planar

Ga67 tumor imaging, SPECT

Monoclonal antibody imaging

Peptide imaging

Breast imaging (Scintimamography)

Lymphoscintigraphy/sentinel lymph node localization

Lymposcintigraphy SPECT

Tumor imaging, PET

Infection

Ga67 infection imaging

Ga67 SPECT

Ga67 Subtraction Studies

Tagged WBC imaging

Renal/Genitourinary

Cystogram, direct

Effective renal plasma flow (ERPF)

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR)

Renal anatomy, planar

Renal anatomy, SPECT

Renal flow

Renogra

Endocrine

Adrenal imaging

Parathyroid imaging

Thyroid imaging

Thyroid uptake

Whole body survey for thyroid metastases

Transmission Imaging

Hematopoietic

Bone marrow imaging

Plasma volume

Red cell mass

Spleen scan with labeled, denatured RBCs

Spleen SPECT

Cardiovascular

Myocardial perfusion, planar

Myocardial perfusion, SPECT

Myocardial perfusion, gated SPECT

First pass for EF and wall motion

MUGA (multigated acquisition)

Gated cardiac blood pool, rest

Gated cardiac blood pool, stress

Gated cardiac blood pool, SPECT

Cardiac shunt

Cardiac PET

Gastrointestinal

Esophageal motility/transit

Gastric emptying (liquid/solid)

Gastroesophageal reflux

Gastrointestinal bleeding

Hemangioma

Hepatobiliary

Gall bladder ejection fraction

Peritoneal venous shunt patency

Hepatic pump patency

Liver-spleen imaging, planar

Liver-spleen imaging, SPECT

Meckel’s diverticulum

Salivary (parotid)

Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction

Central Nervous System

Brain flow

Brain imaging, planar

Brain imaging, SPECT

Cisternogram

CSF leak

CSF shunt patency

Ictal and interictal Brain PET

Brain PET

Radionuclide Therapy

Intracavitary

Polycythemia vera/leukemia

Thyroid carcinoma

Hyperthyroidism

Metastatic bone pain

Monoclonal antibody therapy

Embolic radiotherapy

NUCLEAR MEDICINE CAMERA SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE

Digirad

Elscint

Siemens

Raytheon

Sophy

Adac

General Electric

Medx

Toshiba

Numerous Capitec Thyroid and Dose Calibrator Series

INSPECTIONS PASSED REPEATEDLY

JCAHO

RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH

ACR

INTERSOCIETAL ACCREDITATION COMMISSION

RADIATION SAFETY/ OSHA/ QA/QC/QM/

AGREEMENT STATE REGS/ NRC REGS

References:

James Smith, CNMT, ARRT (N), (R)

Mid South Nuclear Services, LLC

203 Malone Road South

Hernando, MS 38632

901-***-****

Lamarr Gardner, RN

ACLS, PALS Instructor

P. O. Box 1036

Indianola, MS 38751

662-***-**** Fax 662-***-****

James Lester, RT, CNMT. RPA

Liberty Heart Center

3491 Bluecutt Rd # 3

Columbus, MS

662-***-****, 662-***-****

Erma Oliver, CNMT

4383 Ruth Drive

Memphis, TN 38109

901-***-****

L. Karen Gant, MD

P. O. Box 111201

Memphis, TN 38111-1201

901-***-****

Dr. John Buchignani

Baptist Memorial Hospital - East

Nuclear Medicine

6019 Walnut Grove

Memphis, TN 38120

901-***-**** or 901-***-****

Unique Problem Solving Ideas of Interest From Toya Powell:

-while working as a contract nuclear tech, made an overview of the facility’s nuclear charges and discovered that the billing was being charged by the number of milliliters instead of the number of millicures thereby saving the facility in excess of forty-three thousand dollars annually.

-when invited to speak about nuclear medicine at an international non-profit breast cancer conference, created a show-stopper display called “Barbie gets breast cancer” complete with a Barbie in a wheel chair, a Barbie nuclear tech in scrubs, a Ken physician with stethoscope, an IV pole with tubing connected to the doll’s arms, and two female and one male dolls that had had left, right and bilateral simulations of mastectomies that had healed.

-when querried by a cardiologist as to how to reduce misadministrations by his technologists and students, developed a procedure that cost $0 and reduced misadministrations by 88%.

-when tasked by a cardiologist to develop a powerpoint for attending physicians at his practicing hospital, developed it with alternate versions for his nurse practitioner and included a display called “Barbie gets heart disease” with a doll that was hooked up to a treadmill and when a tiny button was pushed at its’ back it was enabled it to walk on the treadmill.

-when challenged by one of the top physicians at the medical college, was able to stump over 40 physicians, residents, nuclear techs, physicists and scientists with real artifacts that mimic disease (including the renown “world’s strangest cardiac SPECT artifact”).

-to acknowledge the achievements of the area teachers having nuclear procedures, at the end of their procedure, they are informed that the reason that their procedure is performed by a highly skilled allied health professional is because of a teacher and then they are honored with a memento of their procedure in the guise of an unusual coin that has as it’s cover a light bulb in the middle of a superman emblem and a typed statement emblazoned with their name that says “my name is (their name) and I am a teacher, what is your superpower?

-when it was learned that two of the founding members of the nonprofit state society of nuclear medicine had passed away without ever being lauded for the creation of one of the longest running phenomenal nuclear medicine societies in the United States; single handedly petitioned the governor of the state to proclaim a week in their honor; financed commemorative silver coins and an accompanying ceremony so that the living members would know that they were not forgotten.

-developed a technologist generated half page patient history sheet that improved diagnosis 40% and improved reimbursement by 72%.

-when it was discovered that a huge portion of our patients were functionally illiterate, constructed a patient instruction sheet that had enough images on it that told the story of what would happen in such detail that a 10 year old child could understand it.

-so impressed a visiting city newspaper reporter about my love and passion for nuclear medicine that she wrote a half page feature article on me that more than doubled our patient statistics for 2 months. The article was titled Nuke Nut.

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