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Selected by this 150 bed community hospital to manage and direct radiology, cardiology, oncology, laboratory services, and rehabilitation services departmental personnel and operations. Position entails developing and administering individual departmental budgets ranging from $3 to $33 million, managing a team of 200 that include managers and contracted physicians, planning and directing departmental activities, developing departmental strategic and operational goals and objectives, and assessing departmental performance. Oversee modalities that include computed tomography, nuclear medicine, sonography, interventional radiology, magnetic resonance imaging, mammography, and diagnostic radiography, and the Cardiac and Pulmonary Services Department, which includes Cardiac Diagnostics, Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab, Cardiac Catheterization, vascular ultrasound, and echocardiography.Direct the Foster J; Saved $100,000 by researching and changing contrast vendors and reduced the operating cost of echo and vascular ultrasound by renegotiating the contract of a third party vendor.Provide a strong vision for success and offer hands on mentoring and leadership that motivates the team to achieve goals.Championed the effort for the Radiology department to go digital (PACS) in 2005, and realized return on investment within only 14 months.Served as Chairperson of the Benchmarking Advisory Group and led the group to reducing hospital overtime from 6% to less than 2% within one year, a savings of $1.2 million; the group also initiated productivity measures that require each department to remain at the 50% or below mark on Solucient scores.Led the Interventional Radiology Service Line at the hospital in November 2006, which contributes to patient and physician satisfaction, and adds $4.5 million in annual revenue to the organization.

Chosen by the St. Luke East Radiology Department to coordinate all aspects of operations, which encompassed scheduling, budgeting, resolving conflicts, and managing modalities that include computed tomography, nuclear medicine, sonography, interventional and diagnostic radiology, and mammography.Provided hands on team leadership and motivation that significantly bolstered morale and teamwork; encouraged cross-training of staff into new modalities and offered opportunities for staff to grow and succeed, which resulted in being nominated and winning the GE Award for Excellence as Manager of the Year from the staff for leadership.Promoted formerly strained relations between staff and senior administration by fostering trust and collaboration and developing a mission and vision for the department that each employee and the administration agreed to follow, which resulted in higher patient satisfaction scores and higher staff morale.

Challenged to lecture students enrolled in the Radiologic Technology Program, which involved giving audio visual demonstrations and leading hands on work in addition to serving as the clinical coordinator and lab coordinator for the program.Clinical Coordinator duties included scheduling students for clinical experiences, organizing clinical instructor meetings, and developing clinical evaluation forms to be used by hospital staff and students.Developed cooperative relationships with area hospitals, acquiring expired supplies of catheters, IVs, and other medical supplies, allowing students to experience working with actual medical equipment such as guidewires and catheters as opposed to exclusively didactic coursework.Treated students as colleagues, allowing them to grow as individuals, and surpassed job expectations by working one on one with two individual students, which allowed them to graduate with their classmates.Established new curriculum for interventional procedure class to allow students the opportunity to receive hands on experiences, better equipping them for real life medical situations.

Brought on to perform radiologic procedures on trauma patients, inpatients, and outpatients. Completed extensive training in computerized axial tomography, fluoroscopy, and surgery; performed quality assurance on processors and laser printers; gained experience in nuclear medicine.