Sharing all that I know with EMDR therapists and EMDR clients, so that they may share their own voices with the world, is my life’s work.
Before I became an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDR Certified Clinician, I cultivated a strong foundation in teaching and learning that now benefits the therapists I teach and EMDR clients I support.
I’m an international educator with Masters’ Degrees in both Psychology and Education.
For 14 years at Stanford Medical School, I designed applied research in both psychology and education, and created trainings to effectively teach Stanford healthcare providers topics such as compassion, wellness, communication, cultural competence, and evidence-based care.
As I teach my fellow EMDR Clinicians, I continue to collaborate with Stanford on hospital-wide teaching innovations.
experience developing and teaching stanford medical school Courses and training programs
In addition to developing and teaching required curriculum in the pre-clinical years of medical school, I developed and co-directed 3 electives for clerkship medical students, residents, and fellows. One elective was rated by learners as one of the top courses in the Medicine Residency program.
I shared my love of teaching with other educators and professors from around the world through the Stanford Faculty Development Center’s train-the-trainer model. Just as I supported professors becoming more attuned to their students, I offer this expertise to (1) parents becoming more attuned to their children through parent support program and (2) therapists becoming more attuned to their clients through EMDR consultation.
experience developing effective trainings with evidence-based results
Since 2003, I’ve presented over 40 workshops for physicians, social workers, and nurses from around the world.
since 2010, I’ve been an invited speaker at national medical conferences, and reviewer and published author in peer-reviewed journals.
I have 15 years of expertise developing effective trainings for healthcare providers, with evidence-based results featured in peer-reviewed medical, psychology, & education journals
A high value care curriculum for interns: a description of curricular design, implementation and housestaff feedback (Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2017)
Hand hygiene of medical students and resident physicians: predictors of attitudes and behaviour (Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2016)
Septris: a novel, mobile, online, simulation game that improves sepsis recognition and management (Academic Medicine, 2015)
The Medical Education of Generation Y (Academic Psychiatry, 2015)
Hospitalist Intervention for Appropriate use of Telemetry Reduces Length of Stay and Cost
(Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2015)
The Impact of a Faculty Development Program in Health Literacy and Ethnogeriatrics (Academic Medicine Evans, 2014)
Smarter Hospital Communication: Secure Smartphone Text Messaging Improves Provider Satisfaction and Perception of Efficacy, Workflow (Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2013)
An Innovative Blended Preclinical Curriculum in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics: Impact on Student Satisfaction and Performance (Academic Medicine, 2016)
Pending Studies at Hospital Discharge: A Pre-post Analysis of an Electronic Medical Record Tool to Improve Communication at Hospital Discharge (Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015)
Why providers transfuse blood products outside recommended guidelines in spite of integrated electronic best practice alerts (Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2015)
Development and Evaluation of an Electronic Medical Record–Based Best-Practice Discharge Checklist for Hospital Patients (The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2015)
Development and Evaluation of an Electronic Medical Record–Based Best-Practice Discharge Checklist for Hospital Patients (The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2015)
Medical students and the electronic health record: 'an epic use of time' (American Journal of Medicine, 2014)
Patient whiteboards to improve patient-centred care in the hospital (Postgraduate medical journal, 2013)