Dr F. Asselin was a GEC associate at Mount Sinai Medical
Center, on staff
at Paukman Medical Associates, Executive Health. She also was on the Board of The Doctor's Consultants as well as with Corporate
Wellness. She worked extensively in the primary care sector as well as in
corporate health.
She has been very involved in preventive aspect of
medicine
and founded "Personal Wellness Programs" . She worked with programs involving
the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association. In the
corporate sector she was very involved with the New York Business Group on
Health. As
a staff member of Corporate Wellness she was the Medical Review Officer for
many companies such as DLJ, BBDO, Associated Press, First Boston, Swiss
Banks.. She was the Medical Coordinator for The Doctor's Consultants
Physicians Service PC, a multi specialty practice. She was also
very involved in the development of education programs for corporation
in prevention and health care cost reduction. . As a physician she
was very active in the New York Medical Society, the Women Medical
Association and several other professional associations.
In 1998 she left the private practice of
medicine to pursue other goals. As HMO governed more and more the practice
of Medicine, she felt very strongly that it posed many ethical issues
that made the practice of medicine very difficult. She continued to be
involved in the corporate sector in publishing educational programs . She
also has been active in Non-for Profit
organizations such as GetWell.org (GetWell Education Foundation), National Federation of Women.,
AMA..
Dr F. Asselin has always held an important role in health
care cost reduction, by educating patient about prevention, as well as
fighting health care fraud at the corporate level. She has received many
awards for her involvements.
In 2000 after contracting a serious illness in the
previous years, she was the victim of her own efforts. Patients who had been
discharged several years ago for suspicion of False Claims were successful
in having her license removed. Every since than she has been battling
through the legal system to be heard by the New York State Education
Department. Despite that she has continued her efforts in Health Care Cost
Reduction and Fraud Prevention.
