To each of her roles Melissa has brought decades of clinical and executive experience and domain expertise, thought leadership and strategic guidance to her teams, clients and partners.Melissa has over thirty years of healthcare leadership experience and has held a variety of roles including Vice President of Critical Care and Cardiac Services at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Senior Associate Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nurse Executive at Duke University Medical Center. Melissa also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Nursing Management Journal and then as the Chief Healthcare Strategist at the SAS Institute. From 2007 until 2015, Melissa served as the first ever Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at Hill-Rom.In 2019, Melissa joined Kirby Bates Associates as Chief Operating Officer and led the business operations, technology, sales and marketing teams. In January 2020, Melissa was named President of KBA. Soon thereafter she was named President of Tyler & Co., affording both organizations new synergies and expanded opportunities to serve their clients. Melissa provides strategic vision and direction to both teams and is the liaison to their parent company, Jackson Healthcare.Melissa is a nationally and internationally recognized consultant, speaker and author on clinical and leadership issues in healthcare, with many peer reviewed publications and book chapters to her credit. She is a past National President of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1997. Melissa was the Distinguished Alumna at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 and at Gwynedd Mercy University in 2017. She is actively engaged as an officer, task force leader and member of many national nursing and healthcare organizations and Boards and serves our industry at the highest level with integrity and passion.Melissa earned her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Gwynedd-Mercy College and her Master’s Degree in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.
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