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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

I provide strategic and operational assistance to help bring healthcare innovations to market. This includes advising companies on clinical and regulatory strategies, commercialization pathways, product inclusion and usability, VOC and market assessments.Highlighted Project:• Provided patient-reported outcome (PRO), health equity / usability, and business case development expertise for the winning solution to the AHRQ Step Up App Innovation Challenge and 2nd place at the AMIA Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) App Showcase: PRISM: PROMIS Reporting and Insight System from Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Value Proposition Design ClassParticipants apply the Lean LaunchPad methodology to learn how to translate their science and technology innovations to real-life products and services. Modules within the class include intro to the methodology, product-market fit, customer discovery, pathway to commercialization, and market assessment.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Mentor to the 2024 Grand Prize Winner - Momease Solutions

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Prepared FDA pre-submission, IDE, and IRB materials and clinical trial design for a novel medical device to address chronic lower back pain

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Finalist for the 2017 Tony Diggs Excellence Awards: - Outstanding Graduate / Professional Student Group of the Year Award- People's Choice Award

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Project 1 (Consultant Team Lead): Created a complete international go-to-market strategy for a medical device company to enter into post-acute care market segments. Received the 2018 award for the "best CCE powerpoint deck."Project 2 (Consultant): Completed an assessment of the upstream market opportunity for a medical device company to expand into inpatient pharmacy management resulting in an advised strategic alliance. Received the 2017 award for "best CCE team project."Project 3 (Consultant): Developed a set of industry-driven standards and formed an evaluation program that: aligns private and public incentives, unites stakeholders, identifies struggling owner-operators and addresses the common industry goal of preserving naturally occurring housing units in the Twin Cities 7-county metro.

Bothell, Washington, Us

• Established four KPIs for new oncology indication through use of chart review, physician, and patient market research and provided strategic recommendations for launch• Evaluated strategic positioning of a new indication through a competitive threat assessment to assist in 2018 forecast

Chicago, Il, Us

The Center for Primary Care Innovation improves the health of our communities by developing novel methods to transform primary care clinical practice, education, and research. We need a talented and prepared workforce, research that answers important questions about how to make care better, and the successful implementation of this knowledge within healthcare systems. I assisted with the creation and implementation of a strategic plan resulting in $3.7M HRSA grant to address social determinants of health, managed the annual budget, website, membership model, and quarterly newsletter.

Chicago, Il, Us

Through collaboration with academic, community, and industry partners across the country to successfully submit over 15 proposals for federal and industry funding. I helped shape and led over $15M of quality improvement projects and large-scale comparative effectiveness studies to further the division mission to improve the quality of chronic disease and preventive care, doctor-patient communication, health education, reduce health disparities, and use health information technology to measure population health. To maintain clinic priorities, and ease patients' burden to participate in research, I established and oversaw a Research Review Committee to ensure patient recruitment strategy success for over 40 studies. Additionally, I produced and maintained a research website resulting in the division’s increased online visibility and dissemination of research products and findings.

Chicago, Il, Us

Project management of multiple, often simultaneous, federally funded clinical trials and department quality improvement studies including a $3.5 million 5 year R01, subcontract of $11.46 million 3 year RC4, $1.2 million 3 year R18, $630,000 K08, and $250,000 1 year R21.

Chicago, Il, Us

I managed cooperative group trials, such as CALGB, ECOG, and NCI funded trials focusing on GU, GI, Multiple Myeloma, Lymphoma, Transplant, and Phase I protocols. I was responsible for screening eligibility of patients, scheduling patients per protocol requirements, maintaining compliance to protocols, completing Case Report Forms and Data Safety Monitoring Minutes in a timely fashion, shipping correlative samples and pathology per protocols.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Pathways to Youth Program Research Assistant who collected follow-up data through in-person and phone interviews, analyzing data, literature reviews for current and upcoming protocols, and initial stage data collection.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Healthcare Strategy

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology