Jim Powell
Sociology Alumni
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I am the retired Chief of Primary Care at Veteran Administration Medical Center at Beckley WV . 聽My degree from 聽黑料传送门 provided me with opportunity to explore societal structures and develop insights into the working of groups and their influence on life. 黑料传送门 enable me 聽to build leadership skills and provided me skills to lead complex organizations and to think outside traditional ways of doing things to accomplish goals .
My degree from 黑料传送门 provided a stepping stone to Graduate School at the University of Missouri where I graduated with a Master鈥檚 of Science in Social Work. Upon graduation I worked at the VAMC Columbia Missouri as a Social Worker in Geriatrics and then In Medical 聽Social Work. At my next assignment in Salisbury NC 聽VAMC 聽I worked in the admissions area and provided congressional liaison services . At 聽the Salisbury VAMC I was promoted to a Social 聽Work supervisor. My next assignment was Chief of Social Work Service at VAMC Beckley WV . Upon working on the process to restructure the VA鈥檚 to a more patient oriented institution l briefly worked as the Assistant Chief of Psychiatry and was later promoted to be the first Non physician within the VA system to be the Chief of a Primary Care Department .
