Brief approach to my accomplishments and abilitise

1. Mary Ellen Rider
521 Kelsey Street, Lakeland, FL 33803
Phone: 863-397-3279 Email: merider50@hotmail.com
LinkedIn: www/linkedin.com/in/MaryEllenRider
Helping Your Company Reach Important Ultimate Consumers
Your Star in Improving
Consumer Health Insurance Knowledge
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2. What I’ve Done
• Over 10 years Experience in Financial Education in land grant
university education programs
– Built consumer health policy position program from a job description
– Facilitated decision for changing county based Cooperative Extension
specialties through promotion and curriculum development
– Taught variety of consumer and family economic formal education
classes
– Written over 25 consumer publications around financial education and
consumer health policy education
 Tested a NE voluntary insurance purchasing group law
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3. Major Accomplishments
• Tested NE state law regarding voluntary insurance purchasing
groups through education program and evaluation of project
→ 1000 citizens expressed interest in forming a biddable
group
→ presented data to Unicameral committee to “tweek” law
• Created curriculum for health policy project having attention of
the National Rural Health Association as a potential national
model
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4. Strategic Business Value
Collaborator
Collaborator Research Based
Educator
Mary Ellen
Rider
Consumer
Publication
Author/Editor
This is What I Do Best!
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5. Collaborator
• Health policy collaborators to steer programming and projects:
 state government employees
 medical researchers
 community leaders
 professional organizations
 county based Cooperative Extension educators
• Created health policy efforts for USDA/Cooperative Extension
Service National Network of Health with other state specialists
• Marketed NEFE High School Financial Planning Program in
Indiana. Enrollment swelled from 600 too 6000 students
When all responsible decision making parties are at the table, workable solutions can be found.
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6. Consumer Publications
Author/Editor
• Edited vocational curriculum guides for doctoral assistantship
All research- based consumer publications reviewed by an academic
& practicing professional before final publication.
• Authored 12+ Extension publications around trusts, credit, and
insurance for family resource management focus
• Authored 14+ consumer health policy publications around
medical terminology, medical record privacy, consumer
responsibilities in health care, insurance purchasing groups,
maintaining health insurance in financial downturns.
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7. Research Based Educator
• Offered first family & consumer sciences Cooperative Extension on-line
class [focus: selecting long term care]
• Developed consumer health policy community lessons for train-the-trainer
model of delivery.
• Compared patient protections between seven countries.
Presented findings at conference in Helsinki, Finland.
“An educated consumer positively affects the bottom line”
Tom Scott, former retail executive, and others
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8. How I Can Help
• Involve collaborators to provide appropriate content
• Use research based information to create consumer or technical
publications
• Educate consumer to be efficient and effective partner which
positively impacts the bottom line
A Grand Island Nebraska consumer said,
“This is the best community lesson we’ve had in 20 years!”
on the ‘Maintaining a Treasure Chest:….’ medical record lesson.
A Sleepy Hill Middle School colleague stated, “Dr. Rider maintains
high expectations from her students.”
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