Professional Experience



Health Promotion Facilitator

Program Performance & Impact

Alberta Health Services

Lethbridge, AB

July 2022 – Present


  • Utilizes professional knowledge and skills, along with health promotion strategies (e.g., creating supportive environments, developing personal skills, strengthening community action, building healthy public policy and reorienting health services) to initiate, develop, coordinate and/or lead and evaluate health promotion initiatives at the provincial level through collaborative internal and external relationships. 

  • Evaluating and supporting quality improvement in a variety of programs and settings. 

  • Collaborating with members of provincial population and public health to support the area of evaluation, quality improvement and monitoring. 

  • Engagement in the following activities: project management; resource development; applied research & evaluation; and developing and maintaining strategic partnerships and working relationships across the province for collaborative action.


Health Promotion Facilitator

School Health & Wellness Promotion

Healthy Children and Families

Alberta Health Services

Lethbridge, AB

August  2010 – June 2022


  • Strategic implementation of evidence-based actions for health promotion with school authorities using the comprehensive school health approach.

  • Active engagement and maintenance of professional networks and stakeholders, both locally and provincially.

  • Creative development, facilitation and evaluation of professional learning opportunities for internal and external stakeholders both in person and virtually.

  • Ongoing identification of health education needs, and health trends in the school setting.

  • Collaborative and customized consensus building, to provide project management support at the school authority level including action planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

  • Innovating strategies to reach target populations with evidence-based information.

  • Experience facilitating meetings, workshops, and presentations using virtual engagement platforms such as Teams, Zoom, and Google Business Suite.


Research Assistant

Memorial University of Newfoundland 

Monitoring Food Promotions in Canadian Recreation Facilities Study 

Lethbridge, AB

January 2022 - April 2022


  • Collected child and sport-related food marketing and branding data in recreation and sport facilities.

  • Supported research activities including recruitment, data entry and data cleaning.


Case Investigator; Team Lead; Pod Educator

COVID-19 ACERT Team

Communicable Disease Control

Alberta Health Services

March 2020- July 2021; September - October 2021 


  • Performed patient and family centred case investigations as part of an interdisciplinary team.

  • Lead and mentored staff as a team lead for case investigations within contact tracing, school notification team, surveillance team and the pod partnership team. 

  • Supported the creation, testing and implementation of an innovative pod partnership model for case investigations and surveillance.

  • Created a variety of training plans and audio visual materials to efficiently and effectively onboard new staff.

  • Implemented hands-on training for contact tracing in a virtual setting.

  • Created standardized resources for the contact tracing department, such as daily process guides.

  • Liaised with assistant head nurses and management to address concerns gaps with knowledge, quality improvement and provide workload updates.


Nutrition Consultant (Volunteer)

University of Manitoba & University of Nairobi

HIV/AIDS Research Team

Nairobi, Kenya, Africa

January 2009 - March 2009 


  • Led quality improvement activities within a network of clinics, related to nutrition, to improve data collection and patient care. 

  • Provided nutrition counseling and nutrition education to HIV clients.

  • Facilitated nutrition in-services for clinic staff on the basics of health eating to improve the care and health of patients.


Prenatal Nutritionist

Best Beginning Program

Alberta Health Services

Calgary, AB

August 2006 - November 2009 


  • Provided outpatient nutrition counselling and client-centered nutrition care for at-risk pregnant clients including: adolescent, homeless, indigenous and immigrant adolescents/women. 

  • Collaborated daily with an interdisciplinary team to provide comprehensive care aimed at preventing low birth weight babies in at-risk populations. 

  • Created and delivered culturally appropriate hands on education, presentations and teaching kits for low literacy populations.


Public Health Nutritionist

Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

David Thompson Health Region

Red Deer, AB

December 2005 - July 2006

 


  • Engaged a wide variety of community audiences and health professionals, including public health nurses, teachers, and the families to provide individual and group nutrition education for all stages of the life cycle.

  • Developed strategic logic models and program planning for the following content areas: chronic disease prevention, school-aged nutrition and food security.


Residential Dietitian

Cottonwoods Seniors Care Center

Interior Health Region

Kelowna, BC

July 2005 - Nov 200


  • Collaborated with physicians and interdisciplinary teams to provide nutrition care to residents of the long term care center.

  • Completed nutrition assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of nutrition care plans.

  • Provided nutrition counselling to older adult outpatients with several comorbidities to improve nutrition outcomes and quality of life.


Education & Skills


Bachelor of Science - Nutrition (with Distinction)

April 2005

University of Saskatchewan, College of Pharmacy & Nutrition

(Included accredited internship; Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region)

 

Master of Health Studies

Current-2026

Athabasca University


Key Skills

  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Facilitation 
  • Professional report and health writing
  • Management of multiple tasks/projects 
  • Innovation and problem solving
  • Strategic thinking
  • Leadership

Qualifications and Certifications

Registration in the College of Dietitians of Alberta - Ongoing since 2005

ICA Consensus Building and Focused Conversation Facilitation Training - 2014



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