Chicago, Illinois, United States
Healthcare consultant focused on clinical process redesign with effective and efficient implementation. Aimed at delivering innovative, value-based healthcare solutions drawing on in depth knowledge of digital health technology and workflow to improve quality, safety, cost, and equity. A cardiovascular nurse practitioner with over 25 years’ leadership experience in diverse roles, including executive leadership of a digital health technology solution, director of clinical research foundation, and university faculty. Deep experience in fast-paced digital health start-up environment and skilled at finding innovative approaches to outcome and value measurement. Awarded for ability to drive innovative, complex programs resulting in positive outcomes exceeding customers’ expectations. Guided by core leadership tenets of partnership building, data-driven decision making, user-centered design, and collaboration. Long time volunteer for the American Heart Association focused on innovation and technology acceleration. Past President of the Chicago Board and current member of the Midwest Regional Board and Illinois Advocacy Committee. Honored with the National AHA Healthcare Volunteer of the Year Award. A graduate from Vanderbilt University with a BA in English and Political Science and an MSN, ultimately certified as an acute care nurse practitioner. Clinical experience includes acute cardiac care, heart failure, interventional and preventive cardiology. Additionally coordinated investigator initiated and multi-center trials and has been a director of two health-focused research foundations. Earned a PhD in 2011 from Loyola University Chicago, School of Nursing. The dissertation project was a community assessment of cardiovascular health and risk in people of Mexican descent in Berwyn, Illinois. and was awarded a year long fellowship for the Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Graduation Award for demonstrating a strong commitment to the prevention of CVD through excellence in nursing research.
Cardiosense is a rapidly growing, venture-backed digital health company leveraging novel multi-sensor devices and artificial intelligence to combat heart disease. By mining raw physiological waveform data, we are developing noninvasive biomarkers to predict clinical worsening, guide personalized therapy, and significantly improve patient outcomes. In this role I lead the design and deployment of a comprehensive clinical strategy to guide development and validation of our noninvasive hemodynamic algorithms.
Ensured the adoption and effective implementation of the physIQ solution by the healthcare customer. Built relationships with clinical partners/key opinion leaders/customers to demonstrate clinical and economic efficacy of the solution. Supported sales through strategy development, commercial execution support, product development insights, customer relationship development and maintenance. Drove l regulatory compliance, including alignment with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines. Contributed to ongoing FDA approval projects. Co-developed product pipeline, business plan and value proposition to drive adoption in the market. Lead complex implementation of the digital health solution in healthcare settings including academic medical centers, community health systems and Veterans Health Administration Hospitals including assessment of readiness, project management and metrics for evaluation of value. Lead research studies (from principal investigator or project management role) by writing research protocols, securing clinical trial partners, liaising with internal product development teams, and conducting the study reporting outcomes and publishing results. Forged and nurtured long-standing relationships within complex networks of healthcare systems, to execute successful pilots and conversion into customers. Earned $6.4 million contract with National Institutes of Health for deployment and development of physIQ’s platform for remote monitoring of COVID-19 positive patients (2020-21). Served as principal investigator on multi-center study where 1,000 patients were monitored remotely with physIQ’s platform. Collaboratively developed COVID Decompensation Index using machine learning technology that can predict worsening on the COVID-19 condition
In the role as Director of Clinical Development I wrote research proposals and protocols with associated budgets and grant applications as needed. My greatest success was writing and deploying a study to develop a biomarker for COVID-19 decompensation. We received a $6.4 million contract and executed the project within the projected timeline (N=1,000) in < 1 year. Through this I have gained experience with payers, providers, CROs and academic research partners to determine their needs and how we can solve their challenges with our advanced analytics.
I served on the nursing faculty at DPU's School of Nursing, Masters Program. While I taught various courses ranging from Med/Surg courses to Health Promotion, my greatest accomplishment was developing and rolling-out Community-based Service Learning in the School of Nursing. This program supports a legacy of nursing students learning from community organizations in a structured, outcome driven manner. This supported my continued engagement and activism in the community focusing on optimal health for all individuals. In addition, I taught courses in research design and implementation.
Clinical application of a heart failure Care Platform to improve satisfaction and efficacy of the heart failure management team. In development of a PA MEMs sensor for proactive heart failure management.
Global management of cardiac device and clinical trials including procurement and evaluation of potential protocols, budget and contract development and negotiation, regulatory compliance, data collection, EDC, study monitoring and close out, participation in FDA audits.