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Meet the Staff: Phyllis McKinnon, BioDesign’s Office Administrator

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One of the first smiling faces patients sees when they enter our Tampa Functional Medicine practice is that of Phyllis McKinnon, BioDesign’s intake coordinator, and office administrator. Phyllis is charged with ensuring that each of our patients and guests is welcomed and taken care of. In addition, this former holistic spa owner educates new patients through our protocol for treatment and wellness. Before joining our team earlier this year, Phyllis was a full-time hospice volunteer, working with the dying and their families. Bringing comfort to these patients made her more determined than ever to become a part of a team that focuses on preventative health. She says she found that focus in the staff here at BioDesign Wellness. Beginning her career as an esthetician, where she specialized in oncology esthetics, Phyllis became an esthetic instructor for one of the largest esthetic corporations in New England. She spearheaded and opened that …

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Meet the Staff: BioDesign’s Customer Experience Manager Lori

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Welcome to another installment in our Meet the Staff series. This time around, we’d like to introduce Lori, the customer experience manager here at BioDesign Wellness Center. Lori is the point of contact for all of our patients and usually the first person most people see upon entering our Tampa functional medicine practice. Lori handles a lot of essential functions for us, including coordinating patient appointments, confirming those appointments, and then making sure nobody falls through the cracks when it comes to those appointments. She also greets new patients and takes them on a tour of our facilities. On top of that, Lori is responsible for keeping track of patients’ incoming lab results so our doctors have what they need when you arrive for your appointments. We asked Lori if she would sit for a quick Q&A about her work history, as well as a few personal asides that she might …

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Meet the Staff: BioDesign’s Director of Nutrition, Cameron Ackerson

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Cameron Ackerson, CSCS, is Director of Nutrition here at BioDesign Wellness Center, where he runs our nutrition/weight loss division. Cameron joined us in October of 2017 as a Nutrition Coach specializing in weight loss. Our doctors were so impressed with his knowledge, professionalism, and his kind candor with our patients that he was promoted to his current position in July of 2018 — less than a year after his arrival at our Tampa functional medicine practice. Cameron educates our patients on how to find a meal plan that is not only sustainable for them but also enjoyable to prepare and consume. His job involves taking complex dieting concepts and breaking them down into smaller, more practical courses of action. He meets with many of our patients on a weekly basis and holds them accountable to a mutually agreed-upon diet so they can attain the best results possible when it comes …

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Meet the Staff: BioDesign’s Care Coordinator, Chrissie Skelton

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We’re extremely proud of — and grateful for — our talented staff here at BioDesign Wellness Center, and we’d like nothing better than to profile each through a blog post of their own. As a result, we are starting a “Meet the Staff” series of blog posts that will appear here from time to time, introducing our medical team and support personnel. Here, you’ll be able to get our crew better through our thoughtful quizzing about each staffer’s chosen career, their work histories, their likes and dislikes, and more. And we’ll ask a few silly questions along the way just so you can get a better idea about what makes them tick. To start things off, we’re introducing our care coordinator, Chrissie Skelton, who began working at BioDesign Wellness Center back in the summer of 2014. Chrissie can be found behind the scenes, where she makes sure our patients are …

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