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I am a passionate healthcare operations leader recognized for driving transformation, collaboration, growth, and operational excellence through data-driven strategic planning and financial oversight. As the Vice President of Operations for the Surgical & Clinical Services at Baylor Scott & White, I manage operations and enable growth across the Department of Surgery, Orthopedics, OB/GYN, Ophthalmology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Pediatric Surgery, Psychiatry, and Dialysis.Throughout my career, I have gained extensive experience formulating the strategic, operational, and budget plans for a major academic center and teaching hospital with 700+ beds, 200+ surgeons, 150 APPs, and 8K staff performing 33K surgeries and 290K clinical visits across 31 locations. As a collaborative change maker, I thrive on working with cross-functional teams, physicians, and leaders to develop short and long-range business plans while driving transformation across physician and staff relations, research, credentialing, and residency/medical student programming. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:✓ Direct surgical and clinical growth through the development of short- and long-term strategic plans and financial oversight of $980M, driving a 13% increase in surgeries YoY (Baylor Scott & White).✓ Recruit, develop, and lead top teams enabling a culture of diversity, inclusion, and performance improvement while creating a unified vision organization-wide (Baylor Scott & White).✓ Managed operations, marketing, growth, and program development for 8 dialysis facilities, 4 home therapy programs, and 1 hospital acute program with 700+ patients in Washington, DC and Maryland (Fresenius Medical Care).✓ Achieved top performance across a variety of areas, including earning #1 in the region for Clinical Productivity and Efficiency Ratings (2x) and #1 for Patient Quality Indicators (3x) (Fresenius Medical Care).AREAS OF EXPERTISE:Medical Practice Operations | Recruiting, Training & Development | Financial Management | Forecasting & Budgeting | Operational Excellence | Program & Project Management | Business Planning | Data Analysis & Reporting | Patient Care | Performance Management | Workflow Optimization | Continuous Improvement | Cross-Functional Leadership | P&L