Senior Healthcare Consultant

• Receive and direct high-level medical and administrative inquiries from the Board and donor community. Manage transition of prior responsibilities to the Executive Services group.• Secure philanthropic support and oversee medical and personal care for several global health patients at the request of the hospital's President.

Launched and led a Donor Relations program to provide high-touch, best in class, 24/7 medical navigation and an optimal patient experience. Oversight for trustees, donors and patients referred by leadership and staff. Established and maintained philanthropic relationships with corporations, law firms and financial companies including Goldman Sachs, Paul Weiss Rifkind, Schulte Roth, Donna Karan, Warner Music and Federated Department Stores. Extended the Mount Sinai Medical Center brand to a broader patient base. • Raised over $29 million in donations from individuals, corporations and foundations. • Co-chaired and ran “A Toast to Health” an annual wine benefit. Raised $17 million dollars over nine years. Consistently attained over 85% event underwriting. • Generated physician referrals resulting in hundreds of additional surgical admissions and over $20 million in incremental revenue each year. • Directed philanthropic funds to capital projects including an emergency room upgrade, complete renovation of the Neonatal and Pediatric ICU’s and state-of-the art modernization of a medical school lecture hall.• Provided $2.8 million for scholarships to The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Supported programs including, Visiting Doctors, Palliative Care Fellowships and emergency medicine residency training.

Planned and executed medical missions with global health experts:Haiti Earthquake Response. At the request of President Clinton’s office, arranged for physicians and medical supplies to be sent with first responders in the days following the earthquake in 2010. Collaborated with Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health to re-open the University Hospital in Port au Prince.• Organized transport of 5 full surgical teams and all required equipment. Over ten days, the teams treated 400 patients and performed 50 surgeries. • Personally delivered needed supplies during the early days of the mission. • Communicated with military leaders to obtain necessary landing slots, protection from the 82nd Airborne, and tents from USAID to house patients and orphans. • Negotiated resupply without cost of all supplies and medications provided by Mount Sinai. Liberia Medical Missions. Patients received the first chemotherapy in Liberia and a pap screening clinic was opened in Monrovia in 2014 in response to the large number of advanced stage cancers diagnosed during annual missions. Program continued through 2014, to resume post-Ebola..• Coordinated directly with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her ministers in 2007, 2008.• Obtained private funding to send 30 physicians, medical students and support personnel to provide medical care and surgical intervention.

Planned and facilitated an 18-month program of events to commemorate the institution’s 150th anniversary, reporting to the Executive Vice President and Board of Trustees.• Secured $800,000 in corporate sponsorship across the portfolio of events.• Oversaw contract and filming of a documentary video on the history of Mount Sinai Hospital.. Program included a museum retrospective at the Museum of the City of New York. We work closely with the archivists from The Mount Sinai schooj of Medicine as well as the archivists from the Museum of the City of New York.

Designed and managed the Office of Clinical Trials, a key organizational and operational component advancing clinical trials and translational research. Attended and organized research conferences. Strengthened overall regulatory compliance and fiscal compliance with third party payors. • Launched marketing and outreach program to convey Mount Sinai’s research capabilities. • Attracted ongoing contracts from Novartis, Smith Kline Beecham, Amgen and Pfizer and other pharmaceutical and biotech companies. • Grew research revenue by increasing clinical trials by 40% and patient enrollment by over 320% annually, from inception. • Secured $12 million in NIH funding and ran program on a $1.5 million budget resulting in a profitable operation beginning in year one. • Facilitated contracts between faculty and pharmaceutical and biotech companies resulting in $500,000 in funding for investigator initiated research projects. • Awarded $5 million grant from the American Heart Association after reworking a previously submitted and unfunded NIH grant proposal.• Created a career track for Clinical Research Coordinators including ACRP certification opportunities and a centralized pool of research coordinators to promote steady workflow.

Research Coordinator Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Child Development, Research Nurse CoordinatorCoordinated a National Institute of Mental Health funded pediatric study. Recruited subjects, developed tools to achieve stated research goals, implemented research protocols, analyzed data and prepared reports. Department of Surgery Research Nurse SpecialistEstablished initial infrastructure and managed a multi-site surgical metabolism laboratory consisting of 4 full-time surgical fellows with an annual budget of $800,000. The study in collaboration with Rockefeller University supported seminal work on tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Implemented federally funded research protocols. • Recruited control subjects and hospitalized ICU inpatient subjects and obtained informed consent. • Assisted physician researchers with all clinical and laboratory aspects of the study including processing, cataloging, transporting and storing specimens. • Prepared submissions for IRB approval to assure patient safety and regulatory compliance.

Registered Nurse, Neonatal ICU. Delivered care to critically ill infants. Supervised ancillary personnel, assigned nursing staff, maintained detailed written records and electronic medical records for all patients.