Physician Assistant Summer Internship

CURRICULUM VITAE

VARNELL DIONE MCDONALD-FLETCHER, Ed.D., PA-C

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Duke University, Durham, NC

Teaching Fellowship: Duke Physician Assistant Program 2010 Project: Cultural Competency

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Doctorate of Education in Adult and Community College Education with Concentration in Health Occupations Education; (Phi Kappa Phi) 2008 Dissertation: The Impact of Stress Factors and Social Support on Burnout. Norwalk Hospital Yale School of Medicine Physician Assistant Surgical Residency Program,

Norwalk/New Haven, CT

Professional Certification in Surgery 1995

Project: Sarcoidosis

Duke University, Durham, NC

Master of Health Sciences 1994

P.A. Certificate

North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC

Bachelor of Science; Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude) 1987 North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC

Bachelor of Science; Biology (Summa Cum Laude) 1985 Sumter Area Technical College, Sumter, SC

Professional Diploma; Electronics (Honors) 1979

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LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS

• North Carolina Medical Board #102194

• National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants #1032970

• American Lung Association: Smoking Cessation, 2009

• American Heart Association: BLS for Healthcare Providers, 2021

• Six Sigma Yellow Belt 2008

• Emergency Medical Technician Certification, 1986 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA

University of Pittsburgh PA Studies Hybrid Program Advisory Committee and Admissions 2022 – current

• Assist in maintaining and refining the quality of the educational experience

• Admissions

GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY, Newberg, OR

Guest Online Lecturer

2022 – current

• Disaster Medicine Curriculum

High Point University Physician Assistant Studies High Point, NC 2021 – 2022

Assistant Professor, Clinical Coordinator

• Work with site directors and clinical preceptors

• Coordinate site visits and review student progress during the clinical phase

• Coordinate the clinical year curriculum

• Prepare assigned lectures using applicable technology

• Advise students

• Participate in ARC-PA accreditation

• Organized Job Fair

• Diversity Equity Inclusion Department Taskforce

• Diversity Equity Inclusion PA Committee

• Assist in didactic lectures, formatives, summatives

• Distinguished Lecture Series

• Interprofessional Health Education Consortium (IHEC)

• Interprofessional Education (IPE)

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Duke University Physician Assistant Program Durham, NC 2011-2016: Guest Lecturer

Lecture: SARCOIDOSIS and other Systemic Diseases with Rheumatic Manifestations

Group Facilitator

Wilderness Medicine and Emergency Medicine (How to Approach a Motor Vehicle Accident) kiosks for the Disaster Preparedness Program Consultant: Development of a Virtual Clinic for medical education Duke University Physician Assistant Program Durham, NC Teaching Fellowship 8/2009-8/2010

Teaching fellowship with the Duke PA Program presented the opportunity to partner with the faculty in development and implementation of curriculum and administrative programs.

• Duke Faculty Development Sessions

• Developed a PA learning module in cultural competency, and a multidisciplinary teaching module in cultural competency.

• Wilderness Medicine and Emergency Medicine (How to Approach a Motor Vehicle Accident) kiosks for the Disaster Preparedness Program

• Computer skills essential for the educator: PowerPoint, Blackboard

• Precept Physician Assistants and other health professions students and facilitate small group learning sessions: Continued Professional Learning

(CPL) and Interprofessional Case Conference (ICC)

• Develop lectures: Approach to the Musculoskeletal Patient, Sarcoidosis, Approach to the Neurosurgical Patient

• Educational technology, including web-based course management programs

• Participate in administrative, admissions and budgeting activities: including application for continued accreditation by ARC-PA

• Participate in regional and national meetings to gain knowledge of the breadth of PA educational programs: Basic Skills Workshop PAEA

• Practice weekly in a clinical setting: Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Neuro oncology

Methodist University Physician Assistant Program Fayetteville, NC Associate Professor of Clinical Education/Director of Academic Studies 8/2010 – 1/2011 The Methodist University PA Program provided the opportunity to partner with the faculty in development and implementation of curriculum and administrative programs.

• Methodist Faculty Development Sessions

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• Developed computer skills essential for the educator: PowerPoint, Blackboard

• Precepted Physician Assistant and other health professions students

• Developed community-based programs

• Facilitated small group learning sessions: Continued Professional Learning (CPL) and develop Inter-professional Case Conferences (ICC)

• Developed courses/lectures: Approach to the Health Promotion Disease Prevention and Research Methods

• Educational technology, including web-based course management programs

• Participate in administrative, admissions and budgeting activities: including ARCPA Re-Certification Process

• Participated in regional and national meetings to gain knowledge of the breadth of PA educational programs: Basic Skills Workshop PAEA

• Practiced weekly in a clinical setting

Duke University Physician Assistant Program, Durham, NC Admissions 2018-2021

TPE Interviews

Elon University Physician Assistant Program, Elon, NC Admissions 2011-2023

Conduct interviews of Physician Assistant applicants CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

HOSPITAL STAFF APPOINTMENTS

• 1994 - 1995: Norwalk Hospital/Yale University Hospital

• 1996 - 2002: Duke University Medical Center

• 2002 - 2003: North Carolina Specialty Hospital/Durham Regional Hospital (Duke Regional Hospital)

• 2003 - 2005: Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 2005 - 2010: Duke University Medical Center

• 2011 - 2021: Durham VA Health Care System

Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System Durham, NC Physician Assistant Surgery, 3/2011-4/30/2021

Responsibilities Included: Facilitate the care of surgical patients. Provide direct patient care including pre-, intra- and post-operative care. Obtain medical history, physical examination, write orders, patient education, and referrals both within and outside the VA system. Implement new initiatives for state of the art, cost effective, and intraoperative surgical care. Management of surgical residents on rotation. Administrative responsibilities included: departmental statistics, consult management and tracking, and compliance. Committee appointments: pharmacy and therapeutics, blood transfusion, performance pg. 5 VARNELL DIONE MCDONALD-FLETCHER, EdD, PA-C

management, clinical validation workgroup, labor mapping workgroup, operative and invasive procedure committee (project manager). Additional responsibilities have included: development and management of the Minor Surgical Operating Room, development and management of the Colorectal Clinic, operating room prosthetics, and safety incident reporting. Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina Physician Assistant Neuro-oncology, 8/2005 – 08/2010 Managed the clinical care of adults with brain and spinal tumors. Obtaining medical history, physical examination, chemotherapy orders, educate and coordinate interdisciplinary care with other health care providers, and home health agencies. Clinical care included clinical trials and research documentation. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Physician Assistant Department of Anesthesiology/Pain Clinic, 10/2003 – 6/2005 Responsibilities Included: Clinical management of pain patients using pharmacological, procedural, and surgical treatments. Clinical evaluation and treatment, and assistance with procedures (epidurals, trigger point injections, infusion catheters, TENs units). Triangle Orthopedic Associates, P.A., Durham, North Carolina Orthopedic Surgical Physician Assistant, 12/2002 – 8/2003 Responsibilities Included: outpatient clinic, operating room, and inpatient management of orthopedic patients. Pre-operative consultations, obtain a medical history, perform physical examinations, operative orthopedic procedures, and postoperative hospital and clinical patient management. Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina Neurosurgical Physician Assistant, 1/1997 - 12/2002 Responsibilities Included: Outpatient clinic, operating room, and inpatient management of adult and pediatric neurosurgical patients. Outpatient pre-operative history and physical examinations, postoperative care, and triage. Patient education. Skills: placement of CRW, Leksell, MRI-guided frames for stereotactic biopsy, and Stealth system

Grace Hospital Detroit, Michigan

General Surgery Physician Assistant, 10/1995-12/1995 Responsibilities Included: Management of general surgery and urology patients. First assistant in the operating room, pre- and post-operative inpatient management of surgical patients. Patient education.

Skills: Placement of central venous catheters.

Norwalk Hospital/Yale University Norwalk, CT and New Haven, CT Surgical Physician Assistant Resident, 8/1994-8/1995 pg. 6 VARNELL DIONE MCDONALD-FLETCHER, EdD, PA-C

Physician Assistant Surgical Resident in training for first assistant in the operating room. Responsibilities Included: Clinical evaluation, pre-, intra-, and post- operative management of surgical patients, and patient education. Surgical Skills: neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, plastic surgery, urological surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics (cesareans), and forensics.

LABORTORY MEDICINE

Durham County Health Department Durham, North Carolina Medical Technologist –Microbiology

Performed serological test for Syphilis, Neisseria gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and HIV testing. Testing of wells and swimming pools. Phlebotomy. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina Medical Technologist – Blood Gas Lab

Interpretation of blood gas results recognizing critical values and assuring reasonability. Calibration and monitoring of test regimens Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina Medical Technologist – Microbiology

Performs clinical laboratory tests and procedures to obtain data for use in diagnosis and treatment of disease

RESEARCH

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Biologist (Summer Internship)

Studied the effects of specific carcinogens on various organ tissue. Responsibilities included: high performance liquid chromatography, preparing compounds, tissue, and other substances for experiments; cultured cell activity by light microscope or scintillation counter using quantitative measures, sacrificing lab animals and removing major organs, preparing media, and recording laboratory observations for incorporation into reports and publications. Burroughs Wellcome Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Laboratory Technician (Summer Internship)

Responsibilities included: Assigned to work with a team of researchers who were developing analogs to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Synthesis of chemical intermediates of potential drug candidate compounds. PROFESSIONAL BOARD/COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS

• North Carolina Medical Board

Board member: 2017- 2021

Executive Committee: 2021

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Disciplinary Committee

Licensing Committee, Chair 2021

Policy Committee

RIMS Program – presentation 2021

FSMB: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Committee

• National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants Board member: 2009 – 2016

Review Committee – Chair 2014-2015

Appointed Annual NCCPA Committees

Nominating Committee

Finance Committee

Research and Test Development Committee

Governance Committee

Search Committee

• Education Committee of the North Carolina Medical Society Committee Member: 2005 – present

Site visitor for accreditation review (for the NCMS and Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education)

Recently appointed Accreditation Review Subcommittee Member SOCIETIES/ORGANIZATIONS

• American Academy of Physician Assistants Member

1995 – present

• North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants Member 2003 – present Nominating Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Committee, DEI/HBCU Committee

• Triangle Area Physician Assistants Member 2003 – present

• North Carolina Medical Society Member 2005 – present

• Wilson V. Eagleson Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Member 2009 – present

• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Member since 1990 Honors/Awards

• Epsilon Pi Tau International Honorary Society

• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

• Board of Trustees Award: Norwalk Hospital/Yale University

• Resident Medical Writing Award: Norwalk Hospital/Yale University

• Minority Biomedical Research Student –National Institutes of Health

• Minority Access to Research Careers – National Institutes of Health

• Beta Kappa Chi National Scientific Honor Society

• Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society

• National Deans List

• National Technical Association of the Research Triangle Park, 1985 Research Award Recipient

• Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare

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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Panelist: Black Men In White Coats Summit: 08/06/22 High Point Representative:

Program DEI Committee HBCU presentations

PA Employment Recruitment Fair 07/23/2022 (organizer) Speaker: North Carolina Medical Board: “Regulatory Immersion Series” The learning objective: North Carolina Medical Board: An Introduction to Medical Regulation.

High Point University/Physician Assistant Studies 11/12/2021 Wingate University Physician Assistant Program 11/14/2022 Pfeiffer University Physician Assistant Program 12/05/2022 Wake Forest University Physician Assistant Program 05/03/2023 Panelist: African American COVID Taskforce (AACT+) 06/17/2021

“Is the COVID Pandemic Affecting Our Mental Health” The learning objective: Discuss the Mental, Spiritual and Social Trauma in the African American Community.

Speaker: Women’s Health Awareness 2019: Transforming Communities by Enhancing Women’s Health April 2019.

Lead sponsor was National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Office of Human Research Compliance, Clinical research Branch

“Feel Empowered: Know Your Rights as a Patient” (An introduction to the North Carolina Medical Board)

Poster: Palumbo, M.V., De Gagne, J., Murphy, G. & McDonald-Fletcher, V.D.

(2015). Practicing Interprofessional Care of Elders: Utilizing Virtual Environment. Poster presented at Duke Ahead, Duke University; Durham, North Carolina.

Webinar: Workplace Options: Global Provider Education, September 14, 2011

“The Impact of Stress and Social Support on Burnout in Healthcare” The learning objective: Recognize specific stress factors and social support factors which impact burnout in healthcare providers.

Chairman/Program Director: National Tuskegee Airmen Youth in Aviation Program January 22-23, 2010, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

“Youth in Aviation Program”

The learning objective: Youth Instruction in Aerodynamics, Aircraft Maintenance, Navigation and Weather, Military to Commercial Aviation.

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Speaker: Nurse Practitioner Symposium April 24-28, 2006: "The Power of The Pen"

The learning objective: How to manage pain effectively in your practice. ACTIVITIES

• Volunteer Mentoring Program: Mentor students who would like to enter the healthcare profession.

• Poverty Simulation Steering Committee, PA Foundation

• Board Member of Hope Creek Academy, Durham, North Carolina

• Health Education Director, Community Baptist Church, Durham, NC

• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Global Impact Committee, Women’s Healthcare and Wellness Committee

DISSERTATION

The Impact of Stress Factors and Social Support on Burnout PUBLICATIONS

McDonald-Fletcher, V.D. (2000). Dyspnea, Anterior Chest Pain and Anorexia in a 35year-old Woman. Clinician Reviews, 10(2): 87-104. McDonald-Fletcher, V.D. (1999). Telemedicine Expanding the Scope of Health Care Information [Allied Abstract]. Journal of Allied Health, 28(2), 131. REFERENCES:

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