BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA

Attachment #14
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August 2003-January 2006 The Florida State University
College of Medicine Tallahassee, FL
ARCH Project Program Coordinator
• Program coordinator providing assistance to the
principal investigator through planning, organizing,
scheduling, and facilitating exploratory focus groups in
five rural counties of north Florida and south Georgia
targeting senior caregivers caring for family members
or loved ones with Alzheimer’s Disease or related
dementia and Parkinson’s disease.
• Responsible for establishing community links and
Memorandums of Understanding as community liaison
between the ARCH Project and leaders in multiple rural
communities including African American, Hispanic, and
non-Hispanic white communities with particular focus
targeting traditionally medically underserved
communities (MUC).
• Responsible for data collection, transcription and formal
data entry and database maintenance as applicable to
all focus group and workshop participants. Responsible
for tracking CME/CEU registrants and for screening
potential program applicants into either the control
group or the randomized clinical experimental group.
• Directly responsible for organizing strategic planning
meetings with federal and state grant personnel to
plan, organize, and implement grant short and longterm
objectives. Arrange schedules and coordinate
travel for faculty and guest speakers attending
workshops on campus. Facilitated all phases of
coordinated rural outreach, education, and professional
workshops to provide ongoing training to caregivers
and professionals working with Alzheimer’s disease,
and caregiver stress. Conduct workshops on research
updates relating current best practices on Alzheimer’s
disease pharmacology and optional best practices for
possible treatment modalities.
• Recruit regional and national faculty and guest
speakers to participate in interdisciplinary training
workshops.
• Obtain CME/CEU approval and provider status for
workshop presentations and work with advertisers and
sponsors to promote all ARCH related events in the
rural media and faith based communities in our rural
catchment area of south Georgia, south Alabama, and
north Florida.
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