I have 15+ years of experience managing analytics teams. Over my career I have touched most areas of health care on both the care delivery and payer side.
During my time with a large health servces provider, I led the analytics response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The cross-functional team developed a disease registry, provided information to US government agencies (CDC, FDA), updated the Executive Leadership team on a bi-weekly basis, and used machine learning/predictive analytics to create predictions to assist in planning responses.
After the pandemic, I explored the state of vitality in the United States and abroad along with health attitudes, behaviors, social determinants of health, and experiences with the health care system. If you want to learn more, take a look at: Vitality in America
The team recently published a portion of the research here: Energy in the Workplace
Prior to joining Cigna, I spent almost 15 years with Kaiser Permanente working in strategy management, population health technology, and leading a large organization change in how analytics were organized and delivered. I started my Kaiser journey building scorecards and dashboards for clinical teams to align strategic goals and operational activities. I was next the chief product owner for population health applications supervising the end-to-end build and maintenance of disease registries, analytics insights, and clinical process automation. As director of the Data Analytics and Reporting Excellence program I drove standards across the analytics teams, partnered with IT-data engineering in data governance, and supported the adoption of agile project management methodologies across 134 analysts and data scientists.
I have held faculty appointments to the graduate faculty at the University of Colorado - Denver in the department of Computer Science and Information Systems. In communication studies, I have taught at Concordia College - Moorhead, University of Nebraska - Lincoln and Truman State University, Kirksville, MO.
I am proud to have coached the 1993 college debate champions from Kansas State University.