Megan Rooney

Leadership

• Manage and mentor a diverse team of writers and designers working collaboratively to produce a wide range of health communications
• Present at national conferences and symposiums, including the National Academy of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy

Project management

• Manage complex, multi-service projects with high-profile clients, including leading global pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and health systems

Program development

• Develop proprietary, innovative tools that implement cutting edge approaches and continuous improvement of HLM's communication services
• Create and implement internal processes to standardize and improve efficiency

Content design and delivery

• Develop and design innovative, accessible health communications, including print, multimedia, and digital communications, for a wide array of audiences
• Develop and deliver hundreds of in-person and virtual trainings and workshops
• Act as a subject matter expert in various content areas, including health literacy, plain language and creative writing, health behavior theory, mental health assessment and interventions, adult learning, curriculum development, instructional design, and cultural competence and humility
• Provide quality assurance through copy-editing across services, ensuring all products are accurate, error-free, and creative, while adhering to current health literacy best practices

Instructional design in e-learning development

• Identify specific needs and goals of learners in order to develop clear, measurable, and achievable learner outcomes
• Develop creative, engaging curriculum and materials that align with learning objectives and adult learning principles, including the most effective teaching strategies and activities to promote active learning and skill development
• Design quantitative and qualitative formative and summative assessments to evaluate learning
• Lead audience-testing of curriculum and use evaluation data to revise and improve curriculum

Assess

• Conducted psychosocial assessments of international survivors of human rights abuses to determine areas of intervention and support

Treat

• Developed individualized treatment plans to address specific client goals and needs
• Established a trusting, safe relationship with clients with post-traumatic stress disorder
• Provided Relational-cultural, Cognitive behavioral, Motivational Interviewing and Solution-focused therapies by delivering culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed, and linguistically-accessible services
• Communicated clearly with clients speaking over 10 languages through the use of interpreters

Collaborate

• Collaborated with supervisors, therapy team, case workers, administrative staff, and healthcare providers to provide supportive wrap-around services to all clients
• Attended weekly supervision from experienced therapists to ensure quality of care and professional development

• Created and delivered lesson plans for a very diverse set of students with a variety of language abilities, focusing on speaking, listening, reading, and writing English
• Chose various teaching methods and adapt existing materials to ensure interactive and engaging learning
• Created a supportive and inclusive classroom atmosphere where students feel comfortable using their English in new contexts
• Regularly assessed student progress and submitted student data to program administrators
• Tutored over 50 immigrant and refugee adults in citizenship coursework

• Coordinated multiple research studies, including participant scheduling, copywriting research surveys, and keeping and organizing files
• Consented research participants, delivered research surveys, gathered research data, and submitted data

• Conducted comprehensive needs assessments of children with developmental disorders
• Delivered home-based therapy to children and families through the DIR/Floortime Model using play to facilitate learning and reach developmental milestones