Catherine Lu
*************@*****.*** • phone: 917-***-**** • 212 W22nd Street, Apt 2N • New York, NY 10011
Experience
The Father’s Heart – New York, NY May 2010 – July 2010
Store Manager, Alphabet Scoop & Food Coordinator, Soup Kitchen, Food Pantry and Kidzone
Member of a store management team for a job skills/mentorship program with in-store management/ mentorship responsibilities and additional administrative duties such as inventory and scheduling coverage; and coordinating operations including overseeing staff and volunteers for a soup kitchen/food pantry feeding approximately 700 people on Saturday mornings, and a child development/gang prevention program ministering to approximately 100 children/parents on Tuesday evenings.
New York Presbyterian Hospital – CUMC, New York, NY January 2009 – April 2009
Social Work Assistant, Neurology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Discharge planning - submit referrals for homecare, short and long term subacute and acute placements.
Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY August 2001 – October 2008
Social Work Caseworker, Ob-Gyn and Maternal Child Health June 2005 – October 2008
Outreach and crisis intervention to perinatal ambulatory care and inpatients within the indigent/immigrant patient population. Conduct psychobiosocial assessments to identify issues specific to the Maternal Child Health subspecialty such as: unplanned pregnancy, level of parenting experience and availability of social support/eligibility for professional support, poor socioeconomic status and/or homelessness, existing and risk of child protection issues, h/o and current mental illness and risk of postpartum depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Create an appropriate intervention plan including supportive counseling, development and distribution of psychoeducation, program referral and collateral interviews toward the safe discharge of mother and newborn. Round with MFM Division to coordinate care plans for high risk pregnancies. Utilize moderate Spanish and Mandarin language skills.
Social Work Caseworker, Medical Oncology October 2004 – June 2005
Provide social work services such as arranging DME’s, enterals, transportation, homecare and placements to oncology patients, known from the clinic and followed for discharge planning upon inpatient admissions.
Social Work Intern & NYS Certified Rape Crisis Advocate, Adult Emergency Service August 2001 – December 2002
Student internship in the hospital’s Adult and Pediatric Emergency Services, the Riker’s Island medical ward, and medical inpatient wards during nights and weekends.
NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY May 1997 – October 2004
Program Associate, Ob-Gyn August 1998 – October 2004
Prepare medical student rotation lecture schedules, maintain visiting student electives enrollment; prepare resident and fellow payroll; maintain departmental continuing education credits; website content management; organization of the departmental annual report.
Summer Administrative Temp, Ob-Gyn May 1997 – August 1997
Maintain a computerized database of Ob-Gyn procedures performed at the Bellevue Hospital.
Education
NYU School of Social Work, New York, NY 2000 – TBD Candidate for MSW, Matriculated Individualized Plan
Gordon College, Wenham, MA 1994 – 1998 BA, Double Major in Psychology and Theology, AJ Gordon Scholar
LANGUAGES
Intermediate Spanish and intermediate Mandarin