Meredith C. Ryan, PA-C

817-***-**** adfu8q@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredith-ryan-9462606a/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelle-thomas-9b023213a

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Compassionate, patient-focused Certified Physician Assistant with proven record in clinical and surgical first assist roles, as well as managerial and corporate responsibilities.

Healthcare Management: Display sound clinical judgement and healthcare management skills with proven record providing quality healthcare services to patients, analyzing, diagnosing, and treating patients, devising meal plans, producing patient nutrition consultation video, and educating and counseling patients.

Oversight Leadership: Dynamic, hands-on leader with big picture vision and extensive experience providing strategic leadership and operational oversight. Repeated success directing medical management functions, managing schedules, budgets, grants, contracts and audits, creating reports and forecasts, and initiating strategies, policies, procedures, and improvements to optimize revenues, efficiency, quality, safety, and patient satisfaction.

Training: Highly skilled preceptor, proficient at establishing optimal training environments, building, engaging with, and supervising high-performing teams, writing, implementing and facilitating clinical education curriculum, initiating clinical training protocol, and producing over 30 staff training videos.

Research & Analysis: Leverage in-depth analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking abilities. Strong background as Director of Clinical Research leading start-up, development, and growth of Clinical Research Department, and Sub-Investigator and Research Coordinator for over 20 studies. Drive research activities, oversee staff, conduct studies, and financial analysis, devise reports, and train on research protocols.

Key Strengths: Demonstrate unique leadership qualities, exceptional organizational, communication, and interpersonal talents, and meticulous work ethic; able to multi-task from one critical task to next, foster trusting patient relations, and strive for optimal health and well-being of diverse multi-cultural patient populations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

McDonald Murrmann Center for Wellness and Health – Germantown, TN 1/2019 – Present

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

Play integral role providing healthcare services, gynecologic, and obstetric care to adolescent and adult women and ensure adherence with ACOG guidelines and standard of care for patient care and screening. Provide routine obstetric care with trimester specific counseling and testing, conduct in-office procedures, and efficiently drive laboratory and radiological report ordering, interpretation, and management.

Improved outcomes of patients with gynecologic problems by performing well woman assessments, diagnosing issues, developing and implementing treatment plans, delivering pre-conceptual counseling and family planning guidance, and educating patients on reproductive health.

Optimized time management saving 10 minutes per patient visit by introducing vital function in electronic medical record to summarize and centralize patient data, which in turn saved hours of provider and staff time.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Clinical Center at Las Colinas – Irving, TX 7/2015 – 1/2019

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

Provided healthcare services to ensure female patients consistently received stellar patient care. Managed wide range of patient care issues, and executed in-office procedures including skin biopsies, excision of lesions, IUD insertion/ removal, Nexplanon insertion/ removal, colposcopy, cervical biopsy, endometrial biopsy, and endocervical curettage.

Achieved 20% reduction in time spent per patient visit by devising templates and order sets within electronic medical record, saving time for providers and staff when documenting patient visits, lab review, and capturing orders.

Optimized patients’ reproductive health by examining, diagnosing, and treating gynecologic issues, providing high risk and routine obstetric care with trimester-specific counseling and testing, performing obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound evaluations and various sonograms, and educating on gestational diabetes.

Enriched skill sets of third-year physician assistant students by serving as preceptor, and effectively guiding and educating students.

Medical Spa / Wellness Franchise – Scottsdale., AZ Fort Worth, TX 4/2013 – 5/2015

CLINIC SUPERVISOR (7/2014 – 5/2015)

Provided oversight of multi-faceted medically supervised weight loss clinic and drove administrative functions.

Developed high performing workplace by driving hiring efforts, providing oversight of personnel, facilitating training and education, conducting employee reviews, providing valuable feedback, supporting continued staff development, and motivating teams to continually excel and deliver outstanding service to patients.

Boosted operational efficiency and effectiveness by supervising operations of workforce, multiple programs and each aspect of facility, creating schedules, allocating case loads, coordinating employee activities to ensure tasks performed in timely and non-hazardous manner, organizing meetings and workshops, preventing, assessing and resolving issues, and ensuring facility policies and regulations upheld and fulfilled.

Strengthened delivery of direct patient care by directing medical management activities, instructing on diet, advising on behavior modification, prescribing medications, administering vitamin injections for patients looking to lose weight, counseling and managing male patients receiving testosterone replacement therapy, ordering and interpreting laboratory tests and EKGs, and administering Botox and aesthetic services.

DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL TRAINING - CORPORATE OFFICE (4/2013 – 1/2015)

Directed and coordinated the planning, development, and introduction of various components of facility’s training, education, and orientation programs. Designed training curriculum, initiated effective learning delivery method, and promoted professional excellence for all clinical roles.

Optimized nationally-franchised medically supervised weight loss program by writing and executing clinical education curriculum and materials, developing over 60 meal plans for weight loss, diabetics, and vegetarians, establishing clinical training protocol, and revitalizing and producing updated patient nutrition consultation video.

Slashed patient visit time approximately 50% by devising electronic medical record templates incorporating drop-down menus with yes/no options across franchise, thus enhancing provider and staff availability and allowing approximately twice as many patients to be seen per day.

Equipped personnel with skills and knowledge to deliver outstanding results by creating, narrating, and producing over 30 employee training videos, identifying staff requiring additional support, and initiating systems of support that are accessible, easily implemented, and effective.

Heightened patient satisfaction while expanding patient volume by creating new and restructuring existing program materials including training documents, patient handouts and consent forms, and corporate policies and procedures, and reducing length of intake forms and introductory materials.

*** Additional experience as Family Practice Locum Tenens Coverage for Consilium Staffing,

Family Practice Physician Assistant for Texas Health Physicians Group, Director of Clinical Research with

Texas Health Physicians Group, and Women’s Health Physician Assistant with MRM OB/Gyn Associates***

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDIES

University of North Texas Health Science Center Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE MAJOR: PSYCHOLOGY MINOR: SOCIOLOGY GPA: 3.78 MAGNA CUM LAUDE

Angelo State University

Licensure Certification

Tennessee PA License # 3494, Exp.: 12/ 2020

Arizona State PA License # 5608, Exp.: 3/2021

Texas State PA License # PA02904, Exp.: 8/2022

National Certification # 1047409, Exp.: 12/2020

Professional Affiliations

Fellow Member: Tennessee Academy of Physician Assistants & American Academy of Physician Assistants (Current)

Fellow Member: Texas Academy of Physician Assistants (Current)

Member: American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology

Member: Association of Clinical Research Professionals

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