Cassandra Baksh
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EXPERIENCE: Mid-Senior Level
STATEMENT: In my 30+ years of working in medicine I have cultivated a diverse set of amenable of skills, easily applied to various positions and tasks. With the assistance of the RJWBH Network, in the past 5 years I have been able to develop my leadership and managerial approaches, as well as support in program development beginning in the embryonic stage. In my next position, it necessary to be in a role that I can further lead and advance my managerial technique, as well as program development.
RWJBH-NEWARK BETH ISRAEL Patient Navigator FOCUS Program 10/2021- Current
Health and Treatment Advocacy
Assisting patients with barriers that would prevent the patient from receiving adequate medical treatment for HEPC & HEPB
Barriers Include:
■ Lack of Access
● Solution: Provide health facilities, health service providers, accurate healthcare coverage
■ Lack of Health Education
● Solution: Provide Digestible and accurate information to patients regarding their health concerns and treatment options.
RWJBH-NEWARK BETH ISRAEL Outreach Coordinator Colorectal Cancer Screening Program 01/2017- 06/ 2021
Relationship Building in Advocacy
Pioneered the Colorectal Cancer Screening Program at Newark Beth Israel
Interacted closely with Community Partners
■ Activists
■ Leaders
■ Legislators and Government
Worked to build out name recognition
■ Presentations and community events to raise relevancy
● Informationals and meetings in the
■ Recruited patients in high volume
● Integrated them into the hospital system
Research and Data Collection
Collected data and followed trends on Colorectal Cancer
Communities Affected
■ Race
■ Class
■ Location
Age trends
■ Rise and fall in the ages of those diagnoses
Leadership
Team Management
Supervised and Directed Staff in order to maximize impact and efficacy of the Newak Beth Israel Network
Collaborated with colleagues, peers, community leaders, activists, as well as legislators
SUMMIT MEDICAL Medical Assistant Internal Medicine 12/2015 - 10/2016
Clerical Work
Scheduling Appointment
Ordering supplies
Totaling Daily co-pays
Obtaining labs and medical reports.
Obtaining medical authorization from insurance companies for diagnostic testing and procedure
Highlight: familiar with Practice
■ Fusion
■ Navinet
■ Epocrates
■ Koalamd medical billing software,
■ ICD 10 and CPT coding
■ Scheduling same day surgery procedures and obtaining prior authorization for CPT codes Empire Medical Association Front Desk Internal Medicine 01/2015 - 11/ 2015
Clerical Work
Scheduling Appointment
Ordering supplies
Totaling Daily co-pays
Obtaining labs and medical reports.
Obtaining medical authorization from insurance companies for diagnostic testing and procedure
Highlight: familiar with Practice
■ Fusion
■ Navinet
■ Epocrates
■ Koalamd medical billing software,
■ ICD 10 and CPT coding
■ Scheduling same day surgery procedures and obtaining prior authorization for CPT codes
Highlighted Skills:
■ EKG testing
■ Supromatry Testing
■ Excel/Word/Cerner
■ Referral system Navinet
■ Assisting
● Capsule Endoscopies Assisting
● Hemorrhoid Ablation Metabolic testing