Accomplished Faculty
Accomplished Faculty
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Rose Clifford, RN, LNCC Senior Nurse Consultant |
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Rose Clifford has been an independent legal nurse consultant since 1986. Her firm, Medical Analysis Resources, Inc. in Cynthiana, Kentucky, specializes in the analysis of medical records for fact, merit and the detection of fraud in medical malpractice, personal injury and health care integrity cases. Ms. Clifford worked:
Clients have included accounting firms, law firms, insurance companies and the U.S. Government. Her practice has helped attorneys achieve multi-million dollar settlements and has resulted in the return of millions of dollars to the Medicare program. In 2000, Ms. Clifford recognized a need for and established a legal nurse consulting internship program for novice legal nurse consultants who felt they needed an orientation experience to the specialty of legal nurse consulting. She and her colleagues personally offer an opportunity for legal nurse consultants to work along side of highly accomplished nurse and physician consultants to gain first-hand experience working with actual cases and real attorneys. |
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Donna Adkins, RN, BSN, CCM, CLCP, LNCC Certified Life Care Planner |
| Donna Adkins, President/CEO of Medical Claims Analysis & Management Services is a Registered Nurse with over thirty years of nursing experience. She has practiced in the areas of emergency care and pre-hospital emergency care, having served for many years as the EMS Coordinator for a large metropolitan area. Her hospital experience includes working at the bedside and as an administrator and supervisor. Donna continues to consult with healthcare facilities and ambulance providers; she has been an Affiliate Faculty with the American Heart Association in the areas of Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support for many years. She has taught at the University level and continues to lecture nationally on issues involving nursing issues, case management and Life Care Planning. In 1993, she opened her business which focuses on liaison and consultation with insurance companies, individuals, attorneys, case management for the ill and injured, medical record reviews, detection of fraud and abuse, lifetime needs assessment and other issues, including civil and criminal cases. She has extensive experience in Life Care Planning and attended the first Life Care Planning training program offered through The University of Florida, Department of Rehabilitation. She has been credentialed as a Certified Life Care Planner since 1995. Donna has worked with plaintiff and defense attorneys who utilize life care plans in their cases. She has significant experience in testimony. In 1996, Donna was honored in the prestigious The Lane Report: "Top Women in Business". She was a founding member and the first President of the local AALNC Chapter and is again serving as President. Donna takes great pride in mentoring other nurses who desire to enter into the field of legal nurse consulting. | |
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Cathy Thomson, MD Orthopedic Hand Surgeon |
| Cathy B. Thomson,
M.D., is a successful orthopedic surgeon who traded her scalpel for a
pen. Dr. Thomson chose a new venture that allows her to utilize her
medical expertise in a very different setting that still requires
medical skill, extensive knowledge and true compassion as a consulting
expert.
Her achievements and accomplishments includes a B.S. from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., a medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville and a long list of impressive firsts in her specialty field of orthopedic surgery. Dr. Thomson continuously demonstrates a propensity for forging ahead against all odds, as the first woman to graduate from an all male medical school, the first woman to do a residency in general surgery and neurosurgery at the University of California, San Diego, and the first woman fellow in hand surgery with the Louisville Hand Group now known as Kleinert and Kutz in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Thomson is vigilant in her case reviews and solid and unwavering in her opinions. She states her position clearly, concisely and thoroughly. She loves being a physician in a consulting capacity. It allows her to continue to care for patients far beyond the traditional health care setting while diligently affecting positive outcomes. Having been an assistant professor and clinical assistant professor at the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Thomson has an innate ability to teach. She is exciting and passionate about her teaching not only medical students, interns and residents, but nurse consultants, lawyers and mediators. Dr. Thomson runs a consulting business where she serves as a non-testifying expert. She does everything a legal nurse consultant-does and should be doing. Dr. Thomson has taken and taught the Certified Legal Nurse Consultant's (CLNC) courses-different from other doctors involved in consulting. Her three years as lecturer at their annual meetings gives her a huge advantage over any other doctor who could just lecture about the topic-who hasn't applied the knowledge to helping attorneys and teaching LNCs first-hand. Unlike any other doctor, Dr. Thomson worked full time for two years in a large prestigious plaintiff (17 attorneys) law firm as a consulting physician. This is where she learned the “tricks of the trade” in a “trial by fire” way! This was her “internship” into the field of consulting. As a treating physician from 1970-1999, Dr. Thomson gave over 500 depositions on behalf of her patients in which she always qualified as an expert. Dr. Thomson was deposed by both sides, usually defense. She testified more than 75 times in trial. She has been involved as an expert in malpractice and worker's comp cases, but more so in personal injury cases. |
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Gloria
Blackmon,
BSN, RN-BC, LNHA Licensed Nursing Home Administrator |
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Gloria Blackmon, of New Orleans, Louisiana received an Associate Degree in Nursing from Maryville College of St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A well-known mentor to many aspiring and successful nurse entrepreneurs and an advocate for nurses taking care of themselves, Ms. Blackmon is the CEO and visionary founder of Nutrira, Spa Retreats for Nurses. A unique groundbreaking educational style retreat program designed to inspire, rejuvenate and educate nurses. Her clinical career has included acute medicine, physical rehabilitation, home health and gerontological nursing, in which she holds ANCC certification. Administratively, she has functioned as a coordinator in education and Alzheimer's unit development, Director of Nursing in freestanding and hospital based skilled nursing facilities and is a licensed nursing home administrator. Ms. Blackmon established Blackmon & Associates, LLC, an independent medical-legal firm in 1996 in Kansas while she continued a clinical practice. She has worked with Legal Aid, defense and plaintiff counsels. Experienced as an appointed independent monitor by a State Attorney General's office, she also provides services to the insurance industry as a loss control analyst and onsite investigator. Ms. Blackmon has given numerous presentations at nursing facilities and to national audiences regarding long term care issues. Frequently published, she has contributed articles to Claims Magazine, LNC Resource, The Medical-Legal Institute Journals and E-Zine and textbook chapters in A Facility Based Risk Management Program-A Practical Guide For LTC Providers and Defensive Documentation For Long Term Care: Strategies for creating a more lawsuit-proof resident record and Problem Behaviors in Long Term Care. Expected out in late 2005 are chapters regarding long term care litigation case preparation and medical record documentation for two Lawyers & Judges publications. |
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Nancy Dion, RN, LNHA, CLNC Licensed Nursing Home Administrator |
| Nancy L. Dion is a healthcare professional with over 40 successful years in the healthcare and business arenas. She has expertise in varied areas of healthcare that include clinical services in acute and long term care settings, organizational redesign, quality improvement, risk management, facility/agency executive team building and management. In addition, Nancy has served as a consultant to international, state and local facilities and agencies in the areas of healthcare, business, and education. Currently, Nancy owns and operates C.D. Consulting through which she provides consultation to healthcare organizations and law firms in Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Texas and Washington.
Nancy, a registered nurse, began her educational process by completing her basic nursing education with a diploma from Bayonne Hospital in Bayonne, New Jersey. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Healthcare and Business Administration from Florida International University in Miami, Florida, and is currently completing her dissertation for a Doctorate in Business Administration from Columbia State University. Additionally, Nancy is a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, Florida Licensed Nursing Home Administrator, Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, and Certified Health Care Risk Manager. Nancy has served as part time faculty member at Florida International University in Miami, Florida and Nova University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She has presented at both the Florida and National Association for Healthcare Quality. Her accomplishments have led to recognition in such publications as "Who's Who in American Women”, "Who's Who in American Nursing", American Biographical Institute's "Woman of the Year" and recognition in the State of Florida as the "Outstanding Healthcare Quality Professional.” Ms. Dion has planned, developed and presented the following educational programs:
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Angie Tobias, RN, BSN, MSHSA, LNCC |
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Mary Bramlett, BSN, AD, RN, CIC, LNCC |
| Bio is pending | |
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E. Patrick Moores Attorney at Law |
| Bio is pending | |