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Boston, Ma

I am responsible for Candello, the newly-rebranded, market-facing division of CRICO, the captive medical malpractice insurance company of the Harvard Medical Institutions. Over the last 20 years, Candello (formerly CRICO Strategies) has built and operated the industry's largest patient harm and financial loss "learning engine", the national Candello database, which contains more than 475,000 cases of harm and loss representing 550+ hospitals and 195,000+ physicians. Candello provides its clients and CRICO member organizations with comparative analyses and unique data-driven insights into not only where and how--but why--patients are harmed and financial loss is experienced. Through its online member community, Candello and CRICO members connect, share data, and collaborate on best practices to reduce patient harm and financial loss.

Boulder, Co

The Amplifire Healthcare Alliance is a network of leading health systems, including Partners, Intermountain, Providence, University of Colorado Health, who have joined forces use the Amplifire platform to improve quality, safety and financial performance by ensuring that their clinicians understand evidence and reduce variations in care and practice. As VP of Strategy and Product, I:- designed and evolved the Alliance business model, strategy, product offering, pricing, partnerships, and marketing and positioning, - outfitted the sales team with health system-specific intelligence and custom sales tools that cut the sales cycle by 75%, - grown health system participation in the Alliance by 1100% in 12 months, - grown physician and nurse use of Amplifire from several hundred to more than 30,000 in one year, - created game-changing innovations to the Amplifire sales, product, content, marketing, reporting and analytics, and client services functions, and- developed proprietary predictive analytics and ROI models for the Amplifire solution.

Boulder, Co Boston, Ma

Knowledge Factor has developed and introduced a game-changing, adaptive, online learning platform that enables professionals and their employers to master any educational topic, and understand and remediate the risks associated with knowledge gaps and confidently-held misinformation on those topics. Already the standard-bearer in the legal, education and IT industries, I was hired to design, introduce and scale the company's capabilities in the healthcare industry. We are building a rapidly-growing alliance of health systems, professional societies and associations, and businesses who are committed to improving the knowledge-based capability of the healthcare workforce to solve the industry's biggest clinical challenges and business problems.

Waltham, Mass.

Lead the company’s efforts to help clients, partners, and stakeholders achieve their objectives with their physicians and providers. My job is to devise strategies that will increase rate of successful health system sales and implementation, grow the QuantiaMD community, and build an outstanding reputation for the Quantia business across the industry. Within this role, there are four key duties:* Health System Market Development - As a healthcare Subject Matter Expert, direct the consultative function to drive sales and to leverage the QuantiaMD asset with clients.* Content Strategy and Community Development - Provide input on content development and advise on market needs to align content for the QuantiaMD community and content needed to drive success for commercial clients.* Thought Leadership - Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to raise the profile of Quantia across the industry.* Partner Development - Develop strategic partnerships with leading public and private organizations to build the Quantia brand, drive QuantiaMD growth, and identify revenue opportunities.

Waltham, Ma

I was named Vice President of Content Services to help drive the commercial growth and development of Quantia in the marketplace through its Physician Relationship Management (PRM) platform. The PRM product enables health systems, health plans, drugs and device companies, and physician services companies to engage with physicians and transform communication, foster alignment, and, ultimately, drive performance. I have assumed responsibility for all content that supports Quantia commercial clients. As VP of Content Services, I remain Editor in Chief of QuantiaMD, the company's 225,000 physician member community (described below).

Waltham, Massachusetts

I was hired as Editor in Chief to establish a strategic direction and a unique offering for physicians to participate in a web and mobile-based online community called QuantiaMD. Using proprietary web and mobile technology, we now engage more than 200,000 physicians, who consume expert content, share and discuss cases, network and collaborate, and participate in 14 communities focused on diabetes, patient safety, practice management, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and others. Among our recent achievements:* We received the 2013 Gold Medal Award for Best Overall Website for Physicians in the eHealthcare Leadership Awards from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends. Factors considered include delivery of strong health content, interactivity, medical care support, integration with the organization's operations, as well as strength of Web design and ease of navigation. * In 2012 and 2013, Manhatten Research reported QuantiaMD as the #8 and #9 most visited website by physicians, respectively, ahead of the American Medical Association and the American College of Physicians.

Positioned as a "Do Tank", Noblis (formerly Mitretek) is a private sector spin-off of Mitre Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Corporation exclusively supporting the Federal Government. As Senior Principal, I served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to both public and private sector projects, specifically supporting leadership, communication, quality and safety-related project needs.

Beverly, Massachusetts

HPI (Healthcare Performance, Inc.) was a sole proprietership consulting firm that specialized in the provision of strategic level performance and change management consulting for large organizations. Among our medium- to long-term clients were The National Health Service in England (corporate governance, patient safety, performance management), Shawnee Mission Health System (Y2K enterprise risk management), The Adventist Health System (leadership performance coaching), and Management Sciences for Health (leadership and quality in developing countries).

Beverly, Massachusetts

Two years prior to the Institute of Medicine report naming safety in healthcare as a major probIem, I founded HCSI with 10 recognized "thought leaders" in the early healthcare safety space to serve as the first and then-only organization to teach healthcare workers about safety. We signed on more than 500 hospitals to our newsletter, online safety community, and our live education programs. We became profitable in Years 2 and 3.

Marblehead, Massachusetts

I was lucky enough to be the first editorial hire for a husband and wife owned healthcare newsletter publishing start-up, then called Opus Communications (now HCPro). In my four years, we grew from six people and $1.5m in revenue to 60 and $15m. I developed and managed the healthcare accreditation and compliance products, which represented 75% of the company's revenue. From its publishing roots, the company grew Education and Consulting Services.

Bachelor Of Arts, English

Activities and Societies: I played baseball for three years, serving at Team Captain my senior year, and I played basketball for two.

Education record

I was enrolled in the School of Communication, with the intention of becoming a print journalist.