DIANNE PERDUE

Austin, TX *****

Job Function: Healthcare & Medical

Highest Education: Post Graduate Degree

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Career Summary

Provide quality care to patients while helping to empower self-management of their condition/lifestyle. Be actively involved in advancements toward more effective treatment of heart disease.

Work Experience

Nurse Practitioner

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Austin, TX

Aug '15 - Dec '15 (4 Months)

Provided outpatient/inpatient care and follow-up of patients with arrhythmias requiring medical and/or invasive interventions including ablations, pacemakers, ICD’s.Provided outpatient/inpatient care and follow-up of patients with arrhythmias requiring medical and/or invasive interventions including ablations, pacemakers, ICD’s.

Nurse Practitioner

Seton Heart Specialty Care & Transplant Center, Austin, Mar '15 - Jul '15 (4 Months)

Provided evaluation and treatment for advanced heart failure patients. Developed protocol for a high-intensity, high-touch HF intervention program that included BootCamp in outpatient clinic, BPCI program, and HF Home Outreach Program.

Nurse Practitioner

Presbyterian Hospital Dallas - IEEM, Dallas,

Nov '10 - Nov '14 (4 Years)

Autonomic Function Clinic

Responsible for evaluation and treatment of patients with autonomic disorders, as well as patients with hypotension, syncope, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and exercise intolerance. Monitored at-risk subjects/patients during exercise testing. Served in exercise physiology research.

Project coordinator of an Altitude Illness study for the DoD. Nurse Practitioner

Various Urgent Care Facilities in Dallas area

Jan '05 - Jan '10 (5 Years)

Care Now, Minute Clinic, E-Care - Acute Care Part of core team that successfully launched Minute Clinic in the Dallas- Fort Worth Area.

Registered Nurse

Medical Center of McKinney, McKinney, TX

'99 - '01 (2 Years, 11 Months)

RN for the Swing Lab (cath lab and radiology).

Registered Nurse

Wilson N. Jones Hospital, Sherman

'97 - '99 (2 Years, 11 Months)

Worked in MICU and SICU

Registered Nurse

Baylor Cardiac Home Health, Dallas, TX

'96 - '97 (1 Year, 11 Months)

Case Coordinator for Heart Failure patients as well as patients post cardiac surgery

Registered Nurse

Medical Center East Hospital, Birmingham, AL

'95 - '96 (1 Year, 11 Months)

Open Heart ICU

Registered Nurse

West Florida Medical Center, Pensacola, FL

'95 - '96 (1 Year, 11 Months)

Open Heart ICU

Registered Nurse

Cardiac Consultants, Pensacola, FL

'94 - '95 (1 Year, 11 Months)

Office nurse for Interventional Cardiologist - Dr. Fleischauer, MD. Nurse/Officer

US Navy Nurse Corps, Pensacola, FL

'90 - '94 (4 Years, 11 Months)

Ensign. Surgical floor, OB/GYN floor, nursery, labor & delivery. Charge nurse duties. Education

Master Degree (COMPLETED '04) Family Nurse Practitioner Texas Womans University, Dallas,

Aug '04

Professional Paper: Effectiveness of Telemanagement for Patients with Heart Failure

Bachelor Degree (COMPLETED '92) Nursing

University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

May '92 With Distinction 05/1992

Volunteering & Causes

Jaycees (Management VP)

Planned and implemented fund-raisers and other events and activities. Arranged radio and newspaper coverage of events. Gained local business support to sponsor and donate prizes for fundraising events. These included Thanksgiving Baskets for needy families, Christmas Shopping Spree for needy children, outdoor event to raise funds needed for an uninsured community member with cancer.

University of Oklahoma Caucus for Men in Nursing (President) Planned and implemented Senior Awards Dinner and Dance, raised funds and delivered Thanksgiving Food Baskets to needy families, recruited/advertised for more males choosing nursing as a career.

Flippers Dive Club (Secretary)

Took minutes and monthly meetings and distributed to members. Coordinated and implemented a Lake Clean-up for Earth Day. Arranged 3 dive expeditions for club members.

Remote Area Medical (Volunteer Nurse)

Provided evaluation and treatment in a poor community located in Plaquemines Parish, LA with the RAM team.

Susan G. Koman 3 Day for the Cure (Walker)

Raised funds and walked 60 miles in 3 days for Breast Cancer Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Runner)

Raised funds as part of Team in Training to run in the Dallas Rock n Roll Half Marathon. Project AWARE (Runner)

Part of Running for Sharks team, raised funds and ran in the New York City Marathon to help ban Shark Finning. Texas Health Resources (Building)

Part of a community-wide team to build a playground in Las Colinas, TX McKinney Running Club (Member)

Volunteered for water stations at races, put out water for Saturday runners, arranged group trips to races.

Stonebridge Village (Village Representative)

Was first resident in new neighborhood and would visit new neighbors, providing them with information to help them orient to the new area. When concerns arose in the neighborhood, I organized neighborhood meeting with the City, the HOA, and the land developer to resolve the issues.

Awards & Honors

Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Distinction 05/1992 University of Oklahoma May '92

Nursing Excellence in Research Texas Health Resources Sep '13

NP Student ScholarshipTexas Woman's University Aug '02

President's Honor Roll University of Oklahoma 1988 - 2002

Outstanding OU Student - Runner-up University of Oklahoma Apr '92

Military Service - Ensign - Navy - Pensacola, FL Jul '90 - Apr '94 (3 Years, 9 Months)

Publications

The International POTS Registry - Heart Rhythm Apr '16

Author(s): Stephen A. George, MD, PhD, Tiffany B. Bivens, MS, Erin J. Howden, PhD, Yasir Saleem, MD, M. Melyn Galbreath, PhD, Dianne Hendrickson, MS, APRN, FNP-C, Qi Fu, MD, PhD, Benjamin D. Levine, MD Link: http://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271%2815%2901527- 1/abstract?elsca1=etoc&elsca2=email&elsca3=1547-5271_201604_13_4_&elsca4=Cardiology Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 943–950 Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) affects primarily young women and impairs quality of life. We found that in a research setting, exercise training along with lifestyle intervention is effective as a nondrug therapy for POTS.

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