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Summary

  • Most recently, I worked as a board-certified family nurse practitioner in the Department of Cardiology, Heart and Lung Clinic at UT Southwestern Medical Center until retiring 9/2023. I specialized in the care of patients both pre- and post-heart transplant.

    I hold an undergraduate degree from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma and earned my Master of Science in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Texas Woman's University in 2006. I have worked as an APP primarily in the cardiology field, including general cardiology, electrophysiology, heart failure and most recently heart transplantation. I am passionate about providing evidence based, compassionate care to my patients. In addition to providing patient care, I served as an APP mentor and was on the Advanced Practice Provider and Physician Collaboration Committee.

    Aside from working in my cardiology role, I am active in world missions, both medical and church-related, having served on trips in the Amazon, Belize, Mexico, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, India, Cuba and Cambodia.

Education & Training

  • Texas Woman's University
    Texas Woman's UniversityNP School, 2001 - 2006
  • Oral Roberts University
    Oral Roberts UniversityBS, Nursing, Summa Cum Laude, 1976 - 1980

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Outstanding APP in Leadership at UT Southwestern Medical Center UT Southwestern, 2021
  • Mary-Gibbs Jones Nursing Scholarship Texas Womans University, 2005

Professional Memberships

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Abstracts/Posters

  • Is there an Opportunity to Improve Management for Heart Transplant Recipients Receiving Pentamidine for Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis?
    Bjorkman, C., Neill-Fogus, S., Ryan, L., Teiber, D., Nelson, S., Johnson, K., Weber, K., Winters, T., UT Southwestern Celebration of Excellence
  • Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) in Patients Undergoing Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) for Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma and Solid Organ Transplant Rejection.
    A. Wodajo, L. Mahan, C Bjorkman, R. Sarode, N. De Simone, A. Gordon, A. Usmani., Special Issue Abstracts From the American Society for Apheresis 43rd Annual Meeting May 4–6, 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Moderate Association of Coronary Artery Calcium and Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Heart Transplant Recipients on Non-gated CT.
    Bjorkman, C., Carter, S., Amin, A., Joshi, P., Vasculopathy in Heart Transplant Recipients on Non-gated CT, International Society of Heart Transplantation, 4/26/2021
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Lectures

  • Heart Transplantation 
    UT Southwestern - 10/22/2022
  • Office

    5939 Harry Hines Blvd
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    Dallas, TX 75235
    Phone+1 214-645-5505
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