About
I am an accomplished senior healthcare executive with experience within academic medical centers, integrated healthcare organizations, multi-hospital/multi-site systems, and free-standing fee for service entities. I have extensive knowledge related to surgical clinical scenarios that I have participated in and encountered during my career, as well as my education and experience as a Registered Nurse, Operating Room Manager, Director, and Administrator in similar venues. I have extensive experience with regulatory mandates, expertise in national clinical standards, and ensuring best practices in procedural safety culture. I also completed the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's Patient Safety Executive post-graduate course in 2013. I am currently board certified as an clinical Operating Room Nurse (CNOR). As an administrator, I have personally supervised the safe care in and around surgery and other procedures in various operating room venues for 12 years, totaling approximately 200,000 surgeries.
Oversight Experiences include:
- Multi-site surgical venues - UC Davis Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente
- Level 1 Trauma academic medical center – UC Davis Medical Center
- Integrated health system – Kaiser Permanente
- Military health care – Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Ambulatory surgery and procedural services – Alta Bates Summit Surgery Center
- Clinic management – Perioperative Medicine Clinic, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco
- Capital Construction Planning and Implementation – UC Davis Medical Center
Clinical Experiences include:
-Medical Surgical Nursing Educator
-Shock / Trauma Intervention
-Procedural Services
-Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Care
-Procedural Sedation
-Clinical Educator
-Root Cause Analysis
-Quality and Safety Investigations
-Standard of Care Research
-Surgical Robotics Program Co-Chair
-Value Analysis Director