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aabbott@uwsp.edu
1351 Maple Ridge, Amherst Junction, WI 54407
Home: (715) 824-6493 • Voice Mail: (715) 346-4420
Versatile executive leader with expertise in business, progressive healthcare, trainer, and professional associations.
Proven success in strategic planning, operations, financial management, marketing, and facilitating organizational change.
Visionary and change catalyst who drives innovation. Builds comprehensive regional and national programs.
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Trailblazer who contributed to the founding and developing of credential criteria for two professional fields.
• Created a cost effective integrative behavioral change model that decreases the effects of disease.
• Secured $300K, first-of-its-kind funding from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
Skilled problem solver with entrepreneurial spirit. Achieves organizational goals with measurable outcomes and limited resources.
• Expanded service delivery for Duke University Medical Center by moving program into a 30K-sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility and established premier programs.
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Created, marketed, and operated a wellness management system for 3,500 hospital employees.
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Positioned a $500K startup nutritional counseling program to compete with industry forerunners.
• Achieved 89% success rate in soliciting and securing funds for projects.
• Respected consultant providing business development of programs and product service lines.
Team builder with collaborative leadership style. Accomplished director, administrator, and trainer.
• Spearheaded startup of behavior modification-based rehabilitation program for 700-bed regional medical facility.
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Led innovative training program to achieve 3 national "Best Program Awards”
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Successful in bridging efforts between 50+ professionals from multiple disciplines to establish successful cross functional work teams.
E DUCATION AND C REDENTIALS
Analytical thinker, published author, seasoned public speaker/facilitator, astute negotiator.
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Ph.D.
, University of Pittsburgh • M.S.
, Florida State University •
B.S.
, East Tennessee State University
• Certified American College of Sports Medicine Program Director ®
• Former Trustee, National Wellness Institute
• Founding Fellow of American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
P ROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE
U NIVERSITY OF W ISCONSIN S TEVENS P OINT , Stevens Point, WI
Professor , Health Promotion ('97 - Present)
1987 to Present
Project Director , National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Grant ('90 - '99)
Professor and Director , Health Promotion/Protection Programs ('87 - '97)
• Directs Web-based health promotion program for 1100 university employees. Launched distance learning program. Expertise in health promotion marketing, lifestyle intervention programming, building sustainable communities and virtual work teams.
C HOICE TO R ENEW , Tomahawk, WI 1991 to 2001
Founder and Director
• Created a lifestyle reversal retreat program for heart patients. Leads all-volunteer staff, operations, marketing, and fundraising. Principal investigator conducting research.
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EFFERS AND A SSOCIATES , I NC ., Iola, WI 1986 to 1996
Principal Partner
• Launched a management and marketing group of professional trainers who specialized in organizational change management.
Provided consulting in cardiovascular, preventive, rehabilitative, integrative medicine, and wellness programs to a diverse range of corporate, healthcare, and public clients.
• Former clients include: Duke Center of Living, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute, American Corporate Health Programs,
Vantage Monitors, Inc., Heart Watchers International, Keene State College, St. Vital School Division and others.
A LLEGHENY G ENERAL H OSPITAL , Pittsburgh, PA 1979 to 1986
Director , Cardiopulmonary Preventive/Rehabilitation Programs and Adjunct Medical Staff
• Designed/supervised facility, managed $500K budget and 13 staff. Developed programs serving 1,500 in and outpatients annually. Cut health care costs, reduced duplication of resources, and focused spending on specific organizational goals.
Promoted programs and provided vendor services to corporate clients.
PREVIOUS: Clinical Exercise Physiologist, Led Community-based Cardiac Programs at U NIVERSITY OF P ITTSBURGH , Pittsburgh, PA, and M ONTIEFORE H OSPITAL
AND M EDICAL C ENTER , Bronx, NY.
Assistant Personnel Director , P RATT I NSTITUTE , Brooklyn, NY.
Instructor , M ARSHALL U NIVERSITY , Huntington, WV. and University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.