Debora Teixeira

Academic Experience

October 2023-present

Academic lecturer at South Marin Health and Wellness

• Give in person lectures on various medical diseases and relating materials to both nurses and physical therapists
• Prepare and provide handouts for further enrichment of concepts
• Encourage participation during lecture and giving feedback of knowledge

April 2016

Guest lecturer at San Francisco State University- PA club meeting

• Assist students in their application process for advanced medical degrees
• Offer tutoring and shadowing experiences 
• Gave online seminars about various medical topics

January 2013-present

Preceptor and guidance instructor for pre-med and pre-physician assistant students

• Help students with their application process
• Teach clinical instruction and allow students to engage with patients in clinics
• Offer online tutoring for various medical subjects (genetics, anatomy, chemistry, etc)
• Provide help with career development and picking a career and specialty

Medical Professional Experience
October 2022         UCSF satellite campus at Marin Health Medical Center        Greenbrae, CA
Neurosurgery Physician Assistant
●Daily rounds on critical ICU and hospital patients
●Removal and placement of various surgical drains in both brain and spine including EVDs
●Coordinate with different specialties medical management of neurosurgical patients
●Assist with discharging patients to rehab and other home health services
●Write orders, manage and access new consultations in emergency department
●First assist in both brain and spine neurosurgical surgeries
●Office visits performing history, physicals and referrals to other specialties in person and via telehealth platforms

February 2020       Kaiser Permanente Medical Center                                           South San Francisco, CA
Orthopedics/Podiatry
●Diagnose and treat common orthopedic pathologies
●First assist in orthopedic and common general surgery open and arthroscopic/laparoscopic surgeries
●First assist in hand microsurgeries with the use of loops and microscope
●Inject with corticosteroids for large joints and hands
●Apply and assist with casting and splinting
●Obtain history and physicals in person and via telehealth platforms
●Formulate treatment plans and prescribe medications

September 2014      Kaiser Permanente Medical Center                                         San Francisco, CA
Head and Neck Surgery Physician Assistant
●Diagnose and treat common diseases in head and neck surgery patients
●Removal of cerumen under direct microscopic visualization
●Nasopharyngeal endoscopy and microscope utilization to diagnose ENT patients
●First assist in OR HNS cases 
●Assist in laryngeal biopsies and vocal cord injections
●Incision and drainage of peritonsillar abscesses
●Management of epistaxis; nasal packing and packing removal, cauterization
●Nasal fracture closed reduction, excisions of oral lesions and facial lesions
●Coordinator for pre-physician assistant students for shadowing requirements

July 2013            Kaiser Permanente Medical Center                                                 San Jose, CA
General Surgery Physician Assistant
●Daily rounds on hospital patients
●First assist in laparoscopic and open general surgeries, including microvascular surgeries
●Pre and post office visits
●Write orders, managing and accessing new consultations in emergency department

January 2013            Kaiser Permanente Medical Center                                         Oakland, CA
Pediatric Neurosurgery Physician Assistant
●Perform pre and post op clinics in neurosurgery department
●First assist in OR in various pediatric and adult neurosurgery patients
●Hospital rounds on pediatric patients and rounding on specialty clinic patients
●Managing extra-ventricular devices

July 2012                  Kern Medical Center Emergency Department                         Bakersfield, CA
Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant
●Perform initial evaluation of patient severity in ED
●Perform minor procedures; suturing, lumbar punctures, I&D
●Assist with trauma patients as needed
●Stabilize, diagnose and treat patients in the ED and prepare for transfer
●Coordinate proper referral for maximize patient treatment

January 2012         Dr. Yassar Salem General Surgery                                              Huntington Beach, CA
General Surgery Physician Assistant
●First assist in laparoscopic and open general surgical procedures
●Provide pre operative history and physicals and post operative consults
●Round on post operative inpatients
●Diagnose, treat and prescribe for various non emergent medical conditions
●Evaluate patient stability for transfer to local ER

September 2011    UCSF-Fresno Community Regional Medical Neurosurgery      Fresno, CA
Neurosurgery Physician Assistant
●Daily round on neurosurgical trauma, ICU and step down unit patients
●Placement of ventriculostomy and lumbar drains at bedside
●Assist in OR with craniotomies, aneurysm repairs, ACDF spine fusions and other neurosurgical
surgeries
●Consult on trauma patients and assessment of patient stability
 

Master's in Science Physician Assistant studies from Western University of Health Science May 2011

Bachelor's of Science in Health Science from California State University, Fullerton May 2009