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SAMFE Training Officer for NME
Navy
Portsmouth, Virginia
Ada Dee has been serving the medical field for 23 years to include being a certified nurse aide, paramedic, firefighter, hospital corpsman, and a nurse. With extensive experience throughout the medical field Dee found her place assisting patients that had been sexually or physically assaulted. After working in the field for many years, Dee transferred to Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point (NHCCP) where she stood up the clinic’s first program of its kind to examine and care for sexually and physically assaulted patients. While at NHCCP Dee was hand selected as the Navy’s first Regional SAMFE (sexual assault medical forensic examiner) Trainer after assisting the Navy as a subject matter expert in the inter-service training course for SAMFEs in Fort Sam Houston. Dee was integral in working to collaborate on a team to create and designed the Navy’s first SAMFE refresher course, assistant course, and multiple trainings related to SAMFE within the Department of Defense. She works across the enterprise and with the civilian sector assisting SAMFEs in retaining skills and developing new ones, while teaching and assisting as an instructor at the SAMFE foundational course. As she continued to work in the medical / forensic world she noticed the physical and psychological strain on herself and colleagues. In 2016, Dee decided to become a yoga instructor with the insight that this might allow her to combat compassion fatigue from a completely different angle than before. She completed the Navy's Mind Body Medicine Trainer Program which allowed her to learn, teach, and practice more mediation focused techniques. She continues to teach different styles of yoga and mediation at various locations to include a pain clinic and gym at a medical center, yoga studios, school houses, and as part of conferences. Dee has continued to advance her own practice by attending and completing multiple trainings and certifications. Dee loves sharing how yoga and meditation can assist in changing parts of the brain and decrease anxiety, she hopes to continue to reach out to assist others in decreasing their own stress, and learn to live a full healthy life.
