Director-Cancer Services, Inova Schar Cancer Institute
Falls Church, Virginia, Us
My role as Director of Oncology Services at the newly-created Inova Schar Cancer Institute, (part of Inova Healthcare System's Fairfax Campus, a 1000+ bed hospital), involves the successful growth and leadership for the Radiation Oncology program, Radiation Physics/Safety program, Stem Cell Transplantation, Interventional Oncology, System Cancer Registry, and direct leadership of a free-standing joint venture radiation oncology department and the hospital’s Therapeutic Apheresis department. In 2014, I was lead negotiator for creating a master purchase and service contract with a premier radiation oncology equipment vendor. Negotiated a master agreement for Inova’s system radiation oncology departments to serve as the beta test site for the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) accreditation program, and for several additional departments, I achieved accreditation from: The American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer (CoC), National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), American College of Radiology (ACR), the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) and departmental/hospital Joint Commission. I developed our Therapeutic Apheresis program by increasing marketing and visibility, expanding to a larger space within the hospital, re-vamping the nursing structure and leadership, integrating our physicians into newly developed tumor boards, streamlining our revenue cycle process to help expedite insurance approvals and improve reimbursements, and engaged with the solid organ transplant unit to partake in a lung transplant study.