ChristinaRamey791@yahoo.com

Project/Program Management

Budget Operations, Accruals

CHRISTINA A. RAMEY

Professional Profile

(513) 237- 3013

Analysis, Reporting, SharePoint Mentoring, Vertis Trained

6/2015 - Present

8/1999 – 6/2015

Philanthropy & Fundraising

Community Outreach

Work History

River City Group (RCF), Carl Satterwhite, President/CEO and Scott Robertson, Chairman/CEO

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati, Ohio

6/2015 – Present RCF Account / Project Manager:

Regional Account Manager for Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana

  · Specializing in operations and project management for our mid-west account resulting >3.2M annual contracted services

  · Provide management and oversite for a diverse team of stakeholders, project managers, designers, construction teams,

move coordinators, and general contractors.

  · Space Planning and Design of existing and newly constructed spaces.

  · Oversee the installation of all furniture for multiple projects, teardowns, reconfigurations, and multi-phased projects.

  · Successfully inventoried and catalogued furniture in healthcare for redeployment to an inner-city Health Care Clinic.

  · Volunteered for a comprehensive account management project for Price Hill’s inner city’s clinic. Renovations resulted

in donations > 95K patient facility improvements. City Commissioner’s (Todd Portune / Wendell Young) held a pressrelease

commending our overwhelming success.

  · Manage team members by overseeing daily workloads, monitoring project and budgets.

Accountable for project budget and scope as well as process improvement of group processes. Estimating project

budgets, issuing PO’s, and invoicing. Prepare timelines, schedules, and monitoring reports.

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Strong proclivity to working in healthcare and industry environments such as Cincinnati Children Hospital’s expansion

and move projects, Fosdick & Hilmer, INC and CVG’s relocation services.

  · Managed projects in Collaboration with Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) associates.

  · Specialties: Accruals, AutoCAD, Budgeting, Customer relations, Database management, Inventory Management

6/2014 – 6/2015 CCHMC Manager, Center for Eosinophilic Disease (CCED), Division Allergy and Gastroenterology

Major Responsibilities - Provided management and oversight of staff, processes, and projects for CCED.

  · Worked with Senior Management to leverage strengths of each division to reach programmatic goals.

  · Directed Supervision of Intake and Research FTE: 7. Ensue clinic flow and clinics are managed appropriately,

patients are scheduled in a timely manner, ensure coordination between clinical care and research.

  · Strategic planning and program management: developed direction, provided support for the expansion of the program

  · Developed quality improvement metrics (QI), internal reporting, and structural processes for the clinical program.

  · Operated as a liaison to all divisions supporting the CCED.

Community and Professional Outreach: Directed, planed, executed CCED’s national conference (CURED) and appropriate

presence at national educational meetings. Engaged families to help develop systems, education and awareness.

  · Provided operational and administrative information to families, patients, staff, physicians, faculty, and liaisons.

  · Managed weekly patient and family education classes and support group programs.

  · Addressed complaints, concerns or inquiries from all entities (patients, families, internal colleagues, care providers)

  · Directed “Camp CouragEOS”: Camp Joy weekend event for children and families diagnosed with EGID.

Marketing Clinical Programs, Fundraising and Philanthropy: Manage marketing resources, publicize, promote

philanthropic programs. Directly collaborate with disease-based interest groups and external advocacy organizations. Work

with public interest groups to develop national agenda, raise philanthropic support, and increase donor engagement with the

program. Co-directed CCED’s fundraising partnership with EFC; Casino Night (raised $11,000 for program services).

• Cincinnati Walk for Kids: Team Captain for the “Eosinophilic Avengers” (ranked top 5 among fundraising teams).

Managed Media Campaigns: CCED Facebook (ranked CCHMC #1 most visited site from Aug - June, 2015).

Academic Development

Research & Clinical Operations

CITI,Epic,PeopleSoft,ePas,AutoCAD

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  · Utilizing resources to develop patient/team education, physician education (physicians outside the CCED),

patient improvement plans, support groups, outreach to patients/families through (website, Facebook, and conferences).

Managed Program Development - Directly supported the Medical Director & Clinical Staff (N=8)

  · Assisted with implementation of CCHMC’s new clinical program, Travel Clinic (N=400 patients)

  · Created / maintained clinical tracking systems to quantify federal regulatory outcomes to the CDC.

  · Managed internal billing system utilized to track and collect internal clinical revenue.

  · Managed medical services for international pre/post-adoptions (pre-adoptions N=100/post-adoptions N=400)

  · Managed clinical and office moves (N=6) and the Center’s offsite storage with Iron Mt. and Cintas.

9/2010 - 6/2014 CCHMC Sr. Specialist Project Manager, IAC / Division of Infectious Diseases

Community Outreach, Marketing, Philanthropy - Organized and participated in initiatives to increase clinical revenue.

  · Assisted Medical Director with fostering relationships with local (N=8) and national (N=225) adoption agencies

  · Liaison to patients, agencies, philanthropic organizations, IAC Board Members, and Stakeholders.

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Implemented and maintained the department’s marketing database (N=4,000 total patients from 1999-2014).

  · Fundraised for IAC’s annual Passport Fundraiser (2013 achieved gross goal of $100,000).

Financial and Budget Operations – Pioneered the Center’s Accounting and Budget Tracking Databases

  · Co-managed budget planning – responsible for quantifying and forecasting trends to assist with the analysis and

preparation of the new fiscal year budget. Managed monthly financial reports and annual budget information.

  · Fundraised for IAC’s annual Passport Fundraiser (2013 achieved gross goal of $100,000).

Patient Systems: Epic and Social Media:

  · Co-managed the Center’s integration of Epic and Health Information Management (HIM) system.

  · Created and maintained the IAC’s and Travel Clinic’s internal and external websites.

CDC Multi-Site Research Study –Managed budget reports, inventory, and vendor pricing.

  · Successfully streamlined the financial security of issuing participant incentives and reduced pricing.

  · Reduced employee safety risk by 100%; identified and implemented the process for safer specimen transport.

5/2007 - 9/2010 CCHMC Program Manager, Center for Adherence Self –Management / Division of Psychology

Managed New Program Development- Directly supported the Medical Director & Faculty (N=8)

  · Co-Managed alongside Senior Directors in the implementation of CCHMC’s new Center.

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Implemented and managed the Center’s daily operations, databases, reports, and SOP’s.

New Research Initiatives and Piolet Studies – Managed essential responsibilities across studies.

  · Co-wrote IRB protocols, managed submissions, upheld CCHMC and Industry regulations.

  · Maintained 95% recruitment / retention rate across multi studies and disciplines.

Financial and Budget Operations – Pioneered the Center’s Accounting and Tracking Databases

  · Co-managed budget planning – responsible for quantifying and forecasting trends.

  · Managed the Center’s budget and faculty expenses (N=8).

  · Direct Supervision of FTE Research Assistances:10. FTE Indirect Research Assistances: 11.

  · Directed weekly didactic lab meetings.

Community Outreach, Marketing, and Social Media - Assisted Medical Director with promoting the Clinical Service.

  · CCHMC divisions; created and conducted presentations and directed weekly didactic lab meetings.

  · Created and maintained the Center’s internal / external websites and video projects.

Direct Academic Affections – Successfully pioneered the Division’s first “Student Research Program.”

  · Established adjunct agreements to all academic affiliations so that undergraduate students could earn practicum

credit. Collaborations were with the following Universities: Cincinnati, Xavier, Northern Kentucky, Thomas

Moore, and Mount St. Joe.

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5/2002 - 5/2007 CCHMC Clinical Research Coordinator III / Research Assistant II–Division Psychology

  · Established protocols, including a U-O1 Grant’s process through Cincinnati Children's Hospital’s Divisional

Scientific Review, General Clinical Research Center Scientific Review and the IRB.

  · Successfully managed research operations that resulted $1M in new funding.

  · Co-authored grants, protocols, consents, manuscripts and SOP’s.

  · Recruited research participants in 11 different longitudinal studies with recruitment and retention of 95% for

control and target subjects. Coordinated patient’s pre-operative schedules and research appointments.

  · Served as a liaison to several clinical divisions to develop research protocols.

  · Collaborated with the Division’s senior management to improve interactions and communication between the

department, research staff, and the hospital. Facilitated meeting agendas.

  · Assisted the Division in the implementation of multiple initiatives including directing and organizing the

Division’s Research Registration system, coordinating and facilitating the operations for monthly research

assistant seminars and participating in the development of a Divisional data core.

  · Supervised and provided leadership to Research Assistants, Graduate Students, Summer Undergraduate

Research Fellows, and Volunteers. Organized and lead orientation and trainings.

  · Managed data collection, entry, scoring, and analysis. Managed the implication of the Bioinformatics’ Study

Tracking System to improve communication between the bariatric clinical team and research staff members.

1999 - 2002 CCHMC Student Research Assistant–Division Hematology/Oncology: Friendship Study

  · Administered psycho/social measures to teachers, students and families; data entry, scoring, and analysis.

Participated in weekly didactic and literature review meeting. Member of ROBERTS scoring committee.

Education

1998 – 2002

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Magna cum Laude: 3.8 GPA, Dean’s Honors, PSI CHI (National Honor Society in Psychology)

Affiliations, Honors, and Service

2014 – Present Ambassador Program - Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

2012 - Present Veteran & Military Family Resources (VAMFAN), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

2010 - 2014

2010 - 2014

2009 - 2010

2009 - 2010

2008

2006

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), MS Publisher, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe Photoshop, Epic,

PeopleSoft, Kronos, SPSS, Business Objects, PubMed, Medline, Pub-Med, Ebsco Host, SharePoint, etc.

Volunteer Activities

  · Present

  · 2015

Mathew-25 Ministries; assist with efforts to better support our community

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital - IBD Gastroenterology Conference

  · 2002 – 2010 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s Sickle Cell Event, by M. Mitchell, Ph.D.& L. Crosby, Psy.D

  · References upon request

IAC Committee Member, International Adoption Center Board, Bi-Monthly Symposium

PAC Committee Member, Professional Advisory Counsel, quarterly seminars

Cincinnati Children’s Clinical Research’s Advisory Committee, Vice President

Employee of the Quarter, Division of Psychology, June 2009 & Oct 2010

Clinical Trials Office (CTO) Committee; co-wrote, Operating Guidelines-Research

CTO’s DACUM Focus Group: co-wrote the amended job descriptions- Clinical Research Cord.

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Publications

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  · Herzer, M., Ramey, C., Cortina, S. (2012) Incorporating Electronic Monitoring into Clinical Care: A Novel and

Promising Adherence Promotion Approach; Health Psychology; 17(4):505-518.

  · Hillard, M. E., Ramey, C., Rohan, J., Drotar, D., & Cortina, S. (2011) Electronic monitoring feedback to

promote adherence in an adolescent with Fanconi Anemia. Health Psychology; 30(5):503-509.

  · Pai A., Ingerski L., Perazzo L., Ramey C., Bonner M., Goebel J. (2011). Preparing for transition? Allocation of

oral medication regimen tasks in adolescents with renal transplants. Pediatric Transplantation; 15(1):8-17.

  · Zeller M.H., Reiter-Purtill J., Ramey C. (2012) Negative peer perceptions of obese children in the classroom

environment. Obesity 2008; 16(4):755-762.

  · Trzepacz, A.M., Vannatta, K., Gerhardt, C.A., Ramey, C., Noll, R.B. (2004). Emotional, social, and behavioral

functioning of children with sickle cell disease & comparison peers. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 26(10): 642-648

Presentations

  · Ramey, C (May, 2010). “Center for Adherence Self-Management Clinical Service; One Year & Counting.”

Presented at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

  · Ramey, C (April, 2010). “Center for Adherence Self-Management Clinical Service; One Year & Counting.”

Presented at Northern Kentucky University, Newport, KY.

  · Cortina, S., Ramey, C. (April, 2009). “Challenging Case: Non-adherence to Medical Treatments.”

Presented at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Adherence Center, Cincinnati, OH

  · Cortina, S., Ramey, C. (Oct, 2009). “Progress Report: Adherence Center Clinical Service and Research”

Presented at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Adherence Center, Cincinnati, OH

  · Wilson, L.M., Zeller, M.H., Ramey, C., Piazza-Waggoner, C. & Modi, A.C. (April 2008).

Quality of life, socioeconomic status and obesity. Are they related?

Poster presented at the Child Health Conference. Miami, FL.

Posters:

  · Zeller,M.H.,Modi, A.C., Ramey, C., Wilson, L., Piazza-Waggoner, C., Godiwala, N. & Flanigan, M. (Oct,2007)

Is childhood obesity in the eye of the beholder? Poster presented at annual Obesity Society Conference.

  · Zeller, M.H., Reiter-Purtill, J., Wilson, L., Valentine, S. & Ramey, C. (October 2007).

A controlled study of depressive symptoms and self-concept in obese youth.

Poster presented at the annual Obesity Society meeting. New Orleans, LA.

  · Zeller, M.H, Modi, A., Roehrig, H., Ramey, C., Noll, J., Inge, H. (October 2006).

Psychosocial Outcomes of Adolescent Bariatric Surgery.

Poster presented at the annual Obesity Society meeting. Boston, MA.

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  · Modi, A.C., Piazza-Waggoner, C., Ramey, C., Wilson, L. & Zeller, M.H. (October 2006).

Quality of life and parenting stress of mothers of obese youth seeking weight management treatment.

Poster presented at the annual Obesity Society meeting. Boston, MA.

  · Ridel, S., Reiter-Purtill, J., Ramey, C., Zeller, M.H., (April, 2006)

Friendship - Modifying Factor of Depressive Symptoms Social Self-Efficacy:Obese & Non-Obese Kids

Poster presented at the annual Pediatric Psychology Conference (APA) Miami, FL.

  · Marik, P., Zeller, M.H., Reiter-Purtill, J., Ramey, C., (April, 2005)

Family Factors Associated With Attrition from a Pediatric Weight Management Program

Poster presented at the annual Pediatric Psychology Conference (APA) Miami, FL.

Jordan, R., Reiter-Purtill, J., Ramey, C., Zeller, M.H., (April, 2005)

Importance of Reciprocated Friendships in Decreasing Internalizing Symptoms of Obese Youth

Poster presented at the annual Pediatric Psychology Conference (APA) Miami, FL.

  · Zeller, M.H., Ramey, C., Allen, R., (April, 2003). Social Competence of Obese Youth: Implications for

Treatment. Poster presented at North American Association for the Study of Obesity Conference

  · Short, A., Vannatta, K., Gerhardt, C., Ramey, C., Deckter, M., Noll, R., (2000)

Behavioral Functioning of Children with SCD: A Case-Control Study

Poster presented at the annual Pediatric Psychology Conference (APA)

  · Gutzwiller, J., Zeller, M.H., Marik, P., Vannatta, V., Ramey, C., (April, 2003)

Parent Distress & Parenting Behavior: Families with Obese Youngster: implications for Treatment.

Poster presented at the annual Child Health Conference, Nashville, TN.