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Offering independent consultation in health economics, market access and pricing, health quality, policy & reimbursement, real-world data analytics & evidence generation strategy.

• Research and publication: Responsible for leading RWE generation strategy and execution, for both internal analyses and external research collaborations, and subsequent publication communicating the value of the Tablo®.
• Economic modeling: Developed and presented economic models to prospective customers, leveraging existing evidence, to convey the technology investment opportunity.
• Payer strategy: Led outreach and engagement with payers to educate them on the value of home hemodialysis using Outset’s technology.
• Health policy engagement: Represented HEOR perspective on Outset technology to federal regulators and policymakers.
• Marketing insights: Develop TAM and other marketing models to guide corporate marketing insights, pricing and priorities in end-stage and acute kidney disease market segments.
• Market access: Developed value dossier for payer and provider audiences, outlined strategies for HTA submissions among global market priorities, and advised leadership and customers on reimbursement and pricing issues.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

• Relationship management: Executive relationship lead for program partnerships. Developing and managing, highly matrixed, multi-partner research and innovation programs, with ownership for program and partner success.
• Program development: Led development of OptumLabs Quality research program into a center for quality and performance measurement innovation, through relationships with executive stakeholders at Optum, AARP, CMS, NCQA.
• Corporate Research grant program oversight: Executive lead responsible for $5M program sponsorship of AARP Quality Measure Innovation Grant.
• KOL engagement and collaboration: Closed $500k in sponsorship to establish the OptumLabs CKD Research Collaborative, which leveraged key relationships with NKF, CMS, NCQA, John Hopkins, University of California.
• Healthcare quality measurement: Managed multiple quality measure development and testing projects, leveraging RWD (CMS QE Medicare and private claims, EHR data, SDOH data), with particular focus on vulnerable and.
• Health policy and advocacy: Represented UHG & Optum healthcare policy perspectives on the NKF Coalition for Kidney Health, including advocacy for CKD care quality.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for overseeing a portfolio of $5M in health services and epidemiology research projects funded by pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients, as well as independently representing organizational capabilities.
• Program & portfolio management: Responsible for managing a $5M+ portfolio of government and industry funded HEOR and epidemiology research projects. Represented organizational capabilities to prospective clients.
• Business & relationship development: Prospected and developed new clients leading to $5M+ in new funding commitments and a foundation for long term relationships.
• Senior leadership: Served on Senior Management team, with P&L responsibility, including financial forecasting and reporting of all research operations and developing organizational strategy.
• Post market surveillance: Led planning and development of a multimillion dollar, FDA mandated, pragmatic post marketing safety and surveillance research program for a novel biologic.
• Real World Data asset strategy: Driving creation of a unique linkage of CMS claims and large dialysis provider EHR, enabling over $1M in new research funding.

• Program & portfolio management: Responsible for managing execution and growth of a health services research portfolio from $3M to $5M, annually.
• Team leadership and development: Supervised and trained a project management team responsible for observational research projects.
• Project leadership: Led development of a comprehensive, claims based annual surveillance tool on the use of ESAs for anemia in ESRD.
• Operational process development and standardization: o Developed standards for proposal and project quality, effort and budget reporting. o Designed reports and established regular communication of project metrics to.

• Program & portfolio management: Responsible for managing health services and epidemiology research projects funded by pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients.
• Operational process development and standardizationo Responsible for creation of the project management office. o Developed operational processes for consistently delivering on contract research commitments.

Responsible for writing SAS, SQL, PHP, HTML, and JavaScript programs and web applications to complete programming and analytic tasks for the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) contract with NIH. Managed, mined and analyzed healthcare claims databasesDeveloped matching algorithms to link patient databasesDeveloped Web application for dynamic.

Contracted to Health Partners' Health Services Analysis and Research Division to perform medical claims analyses.

Manage daily store operations, including opening, closing, scheduling, and customer service.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance And Entreprenuership Emphasis With A Medical Industry Specialization

Activities and Societies: Medical Industry Leadership Institute (MILI), MILI Student Association, VenturesPlus

Mgis, Geographic Information Science

Ba, Mathematics Major, Economics Minor