Jean C. Lafontaine Álvarez

Dr Susoni Metropolitan Hospital

• Reduced patient wait times through efficient triage and prioritization of critical patients.
• Analyzed complex trauma conditions and quickly determined treatments for various illnesses and injuries.
• Showed compassion when dealing with family members and kept families informed of patient status.
• Improved department efficiency with streamlined processes for admitting and discharging patients.
• Saved lives by providing prompt, accurate diagnoses and administering appropriate emergency treatments.
• Implemented evidence-based treatment guidelines that led to better outcomes for time-sensitive conditions such as stroke or sepsis.
• Promoted effective pain management strategies, ensuring patients experienced relief as quickly and safely as possible.
• Evaluated preliminary results and administered initial treatment such as stitching lacerations, splinting, casting broken bones or installing tubes and devices.

Metropolitan Mountain Hospital/Comprehensive Health in the Mountains

• Reduced patient wait times through efficient triage and prioritization of critical patients.
• Analyzed complex trauma conditions and quickly determined treatments for various illnesses and injuries.
• Showed compassion when dealing with family members and kept families informed of patient status.
• Improved department efficiency with streamlined processes for admitting and discharging patients.
• Saved lives by providing prompt, accurate diagnoses and administering appropriate emergency treatments.
• Implemented evidence-based treatment guidelines that led to better outcomes for time-sensitive conditions such as stroke or sepsis.
• Promoted effective pain management strategies, ensuring patients experienced relief as quickly and safely as possible.
• Evaluated preliminary results and administered initial treatment such as stitching lacerations, splinting, casting broken bones or installing tubes and devices.

• Reduced patient wait times through efficient triage and prioritization of critical patients.
• Analyzed complex trauma conditions and quickly determined treatments for various illnesses and injuries.
• Showed compassion when dealing with family members and kept families informed of patient status.
• Improved department efficiency with streamlined processes for admitting and discharging patients.
• Saved lives by providing prompt, accurate diagnoses and administering appropriate emergency treatments.
• Implemented evidence-based treatment guidelines that led to better outcomes for time-sensitive conditions such as stroke or sepsis.
• Promoted effective pain management strategies, ensuring patients experienced relief as quickly and safely as possible.
• Evaluated preliminary results and administered initial treatment such as stitching lacerations, splinting, casting broken bones or installing tubes and devices.

• Under the direction of the attending, examined, analyzed, and reviewed cases related to neuropathology.
• These include intraoperative consultations, surgical/autopsy slide assessments, and sign-outs.
• Performed brain cutting, gross examination, and took relevant sections accordingly.
• Played a part in the interdisciplinary neuropathology and tumor planning conferences.

• Maintained laboratory sanitation, organization and appearance.
• Read clinical information to determine specific pathologic examination to complete.
• Took specimen photographs before and after dissection for records.
• Prepared samples for slides and created specimen diagram.
• Labeled and stored tissue samples and specimens, and verified specimen numbering and related requisitions.
• Conducted specimen evisceration and dissection.
• Completed regular safety training to meet OSHA standards.
• Dictated examination findings using sufficient detail.
• Examined specimens to identify pathologic conditions.
• Kept supplies organized and well-stocked, requesting more supplies and avoiding unnecessary testing delays.
• Documented and verified patient information using laboratory information system.
• Maintained safe work environment free of unnecessary hazards to protect staff and testing results.
• Operated wide range of laboratory equipment and instruments to complete analysis.

• Under the scope of resident physicians, performed substantial gross examination, description, dissections, and processing of solid surgical tissue samples.
• Took part in the weekly gross and microscopic neuropathology examinations, including brain cuttings and intraoperative consultations.
• Participated in autopsy procedures and pediatric autopsy case interdisciplinary presentation.
• Played a part in the program's academic activities, including tumor board conferences, topic expositions, weekly immunohistochemistry meetings, the monthly California Tumor Tissue Registry, and a journal club about systemic lupus erythematosus.

• Reviewed and analyzed how the department is structured, organized, and subdivided.
• Learned about the principles of sample receipt, peripheral smear, grossing techniques, processing of surgical specimens, microbiology, histology, and histotechnology.
• Oriented about blood bank principles and standard clinical laboratory procedures and introduced to the morgue for the first time.