Maria (Krisel) Quiambao, RN, CDE

• Led the implementation, management, and evaluation of virtual clinical programs for clients with diabetes and chronic diseases across multiple provinces.
• Provides strategic leadership of short- and long-term goals in accordance with Ellerca's mission and core values to implement positive change/organizational structure within the company
• Developed, implemented, revised, and evaluated policies and procedures.
• Developed medical directives for GLP-1 program
• Recruited, hired and trained all staff, providing direct supervision, ongoing staff development and continuing education to healthcare providers
• Oversee clinical processes and ensuring adherence to regulatory body standards
• Subject matter expert on company-wide virtual health services and programs.

Key Contributions:

Business Development : Helped in securing strategic partnerships with Roche Canada, Medavie Blue Cross and Diabetes Canada to drive business growth via presentations/proposals. Worked closely with the CEO to identify business opportunities and maintain relationships with industry partners. Introduced key connections such as our physician advisors and our lead psychologist advisor to provide thought leadership on the organization's business initiatives.

Strategic Planning : Review/develop company vision and mission, worked with the CEO in developing and implementing strategic objectives for the clinical department. Worked closely with the product manager, software developers, marketing team and the customer service team in various projects to provide industry perspective and act as subject matter expert. Successfully implemented Dr. Michael Vallis's Behaviour Change Model into our training program.

• Provided subject matter expertise in Diabetes as a healthcare consultant for industry partners
• Provided healthcare provider training, speaker and advisory board services.

• Performs professional consultation, and educational services for persons with prediabetes, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in an ambulatory and inpatient care setting. Experience in insulin pump therapy and gestational diabetes
• Leads council meetings and projects to create opportunities for partnership, equity, accountability, decision making, and continuous learning among the interprofessional team with regards to practice improvement
• Triage clinic referrals based on urgency to promote effective prioritization and risk management.
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Key Contributions:

Quality Improvement: Co-chaired the Practice Council, driving quality improvement initiatives and accreditation preparation.

Staff training and education: Member of the Network for Healthy Populations Education Program Committee for the Novo Nordisk Network for Health Populations where we identify and promote educational opportunities for healthcare providers that focus on diabetes care and research. Facilitated hospital-wide initiatives, including new basal insulin analogues roll-out and development of resources for virtual care delivery.

• Developing, assessing, planning, initiating and coordinating individualized care plans for clients, providing ongoing resource management and discharge planning as appropriate
• Providing program and community resource interpretation/education to hospital and community agency staff, physicians, patients and families
• Ensures fiscally responsible use of appropriate resources to achieve desired outcomes by mobilizing and integrating formal and informal support networks

• Manages general nursing tasks, in addition to spearheading health promotion and prevention initiatives, working independently as well as collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, responding to client needs in a timely manner
• Provides health teaching and utilized adult teaching principles for clients and families with diabetes with co-morbidities such as congestive heart failure, renal failure and COPD, resulting in increased compliance with treatment

• Performed general nursing tasks
• Functioned as a charge nurse during night shifts, modelling leadership through effective operations oversight, concise communications and staff liaising, filling staff gaps and providing guidance
• Managed complex clients and maintained client homeostasis, oversaw nutritional status of clients and maintained respiratory status of clients with chest tubes and tracheostomies.