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Alexandria, Virginia, United States

 Providing project leadership in all aspects of planning, preparation, coordination, and execution of multiple projects and anticipating the of needs as driven by project work plans. Developing implementation strategies for implementing national standards to the field. Creating work plans including project staffing, project approach, and resource.

• Advising senior VHA leadership and other key VA internal and external stakeholders. Establishing the strategic foundation for VHA’s GAO HRL PMO.
• Managing multiple workstreams for the GAO HRL PMO.
• Leading and managing the business analysis, planning, coordination, monitoring, VHA submissions to GAO.
• Leading performance management processes to enable VHA in addressing GAO’s policy and training concerns.
• As product manager providing leadership and strategic guidance for the planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring for VHA’s knowledge management tool.
• Leading and ensuring the 508 compliance of VA’s High-Risk List Action Plan.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• As Deputy Project Manager, provided leadership and oversight in strategic planning, roadmap development, qualitative and quantitative analysis, risk management and mitigation strategies to help modernize VHA training.
• Helped develop VHA Training's GAO high-risk response action plan.
• Helped facilitate change management through collaborating with other GAO High-Risk Areas, EES committees, VISNs and VA medical facilities.
• Reduced the policy backlog by 10% and significantly reducing the number of ambiguous national policies and processes.
• Helped develop VHA Policy's GAO high-risk response action plan.
• Conducted business analysis and program evaluation to develop recommendations OBPI’s business processes.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Collaborated with ACC leadership, ACC Chapters/Governors and other organizational leaders on national health plan and policy issues. Primary lead for building a network of cardiology subject matter experts for issues.
• Led the review and drafting of responses to private-payer cardiovascular medical policies and tracked the acceptance of ACC feedback into health plan policies.
• Served as primary client contact to and led the ACC collaboration of multi-payer groups to design Alternative Payment Methodologies for chronic cardiac disease.
• Worked with public and private payers and quality organizations to create a core set of cardiology quality measures.
• Led the review and recommendations for ACC’s nominations for quality committees.
• Developed communications in the form of reports, briefing materials, position papers, educational services, and newsletters related to payer advocacy and other related topics and content for Payer Advocacy and Value.

• Federal Experience:
• Development, maintenance and support for Outpatient Imaging Efficiency and Patient Safety Measures for CMS
• Health Services Delivery (HSD) Reform Mapping for CMS
• Project Management of Assets for Independence
• Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) for AHRQ
• Evaluation of Process Improvement Processes and Technical Assistance for HRSAPrivate Payer Experience:

• Analyzed proposed and final federal regulations for the Medicare physician fee schedule (MPFS) and hospital outpatient prospective payment system (HOPPS).
• Analyzed and drafted responses for the proposed and final National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) and Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs).
• Led the research on comparing the cost effectiveness and utilization rates of radiation therapy, chemotherapy and surgery
• Responded to numerous coding questions for radiation oncology submitted by members, the American Medical Association (AMA), Carrier Medical Doctors (CMDs), Private Managed Care/Insurance companies and other.
• Assisted the development of the ASTRO/ACR Guide to Radiation Oncology Coding.
• Contributed articles in ASTRO's publications – ASTRONews and ASTROgram.

Masters In Health Systems Management (Mhs), Health Information Systems

Activities and Societies: 1. Selected by George Mason University for the Master’s Honors Program at Oxford University, London, 2..

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