• Analyzed business and clinical data to promote value-based care• Managed program development and expansion across eight clinical sections, including development of Cardio-Oncology Survivorship Clinic, Rapid Access Palliative Medicine service, Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer program• Streamlined marketing efforts and worked with teammates to create marketing plans geared toward both referring physicians and potential patients• Collaborated with international researchers to administer the British Medical Journal of Supportive and Palliative Care with journal Editor-in-Chief, Declan Walsh, MD• Developed and implemented overall department research strategy and multi-institution collaborations• Standardized department quality metrics and developed process improvement infrastructure across specialties

• Served as group coordinator for international consortium, the Sentinel Lymph Node Working Group, planning and executing annual meetings in conjunction with the Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting and the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress• Supervised full-time Research Analyst and annual college-level summer interns; delegated tasks and gave introduction to clinical research, biostatistics, and scientific writing• Responsible for IRB approval and compliance for over 20 investigator-initiated research studies• Maintained databases for various research projects pertaining to melanoma, breast cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and gastrointestinal cancers; including individual project and longitudinal registry data collection and maintenance• Worked with large national databases such as the National Cancer Database and Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Medicare Linked Database to answer pertinent clinical and administrative research questions• Led weekly research meetings for investigators to discuss and implement new ideas• Coordinated research activities for annual Society of Surgical Oncology-accredited Fellowship in Breast Surgery and annual General Surgery Research Residency Program• Managed research projects from start to finish including protocol creation with preliminary literature reviews as well as database creation, data collection, analysis planning and creation and submission of abstracts, manuscripts, and posters

• Worked with clinical optimization subgroups within General Surgery, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Vascular Surgery Service Lines to determine and implement initiatives for cost savings • Analyzed longitudinal cost and charge data to determine each service line’s status on existing cost savings initiatives• Presented data visualizations and analysis to portray areas of opportunity for surgeons and physicians at subgroup meetings• Assessed factors impacting variability in cost per case by procedure, facility, and surgeon within a large regional healthcare system• Researched implementation of bundled payments for complete joint replacement surgeries and resulting cost savings or potential for penalty through the new Medicare initiative

• Assured accuracy of data collection and documentation for over 20 federally funded, pharmaceutical company-sponsored, and investigator-initiated clinical trials• Monitored source documentation from sub-sites participating in investigator-initiated studies• Investigated and resolved data queries for over 20 research projects• Completed case report forms (CRFs) from study visit source documentation• Attended numerous continuing education and training seminars related to data quality assurance, good clinical practice, and infectious diseases• Continued study monitoring at Carolinas Medical Center Infectious Diseases in Charlotte for sub-site investigator-initiated studies through June 2013

• Thoroughly checked over 100 patient charts after study visits for accuracy in data• Entered data into electronic databases accurately for more than 20 clinical trials• Reviewed informed consent documentation and assisted with IRB correspondence