8625 Midnight Pass Rd.

B 202

Sarasota, FL 34242

Mobile Phone: 973 495 4822

drferdinand@mac.com

 

 

 Rosemary Ferdinand, RN PhD

Objective

Executive leadership responsibility for healthcare strategy, technology and operational solutions.

Experience

1997– Current                Deloitte Consulting                      Parsippany, NJ

Senior Manager

§         Managed health care information and business intelligence systems strategy, implementation and process transformation engagements serving global provider, health plan, life sciences and public sector clients.

§         Lead complex healthcare systems projects spanning the full system life cycle including strategic systems planning and program development, budget development and financial management, resource requirements and acquisition, requirements definition, package selection, custom system design, coding/testing, implementation, post implementation evaluation and support..

§         Lead clinical systems implementation and process transformation engagements across a broad range of services including CPOE, Nursing, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging Services, Nutritional Services, Physical and Occupational therapies and others.

§         Managed business intelligence implementations for outcomes management and reporting, including clinical and operational process key performance indicators.

§         Managed healthcare middleware and integration implementations and organizations including program management, analysis and development teams across multiple time zones within the US, India and Canada.

§         Developed and lead service delivery organizations for IT, medical management and customer services with up to 280 staff, including service offering development, marketing material development, as well as financial and utilization management.

§         Managed informatics projects including clinical data repositories, knowledge-base and expert system design for healthcare decision-making at the point of care, advanced rules design, advanced algorithms for data mining and knowledge discovery in clinical care delivery and research settings, data capture standards and integration requirements between financial, research and EMR applications.

§         Deloitte healthcare industry provider sector leader for translational science and informatics with expertise in the current state of translational research activities including personalized medicine, genomic medicine, and integration of clinical trials with clinical care.

§         Effectively attracted, retained and developed staff; lead high performing teams.

§         Recognized as an industry thought leader with multiple published papers and speaking engagements.

 

1992 - 1997                   UMDNJ University Hospital                Newark, NJ

Clinical Systems Analyst

§         Developed functional and technical specifications for radiology, laboratory, pharmacy nursing care, rehabilitation services and dietary order entry; laboratory and radiology results display and data repository configuration to support clinical decision-making and case-management in a client server environment.

§         Chaired the Design Committee of end-users.

§         Participated in the New Jersey Medical School Bioethics Committee, representing ethical issues in healthcare information management.

§         Provided design and implementation consultation for pharmacy, operating room, utilization review, quality assurance and nursing scheduling systems.

§         Developed and implemented a training plan for 2300 end-users in an Academic Medical Center.

§         Chaired an Operations Committee of end-users to address clinical business process issues related to the system implementation.

§         Developed and maintained a clinical information system information web site.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

§         Provided individual, group and family psychotherapy in inpatient and ambulatory settings.

Education

2004                             UMDNJ                                            Newark, NJ

§         PhD,  Biomedical  Informatics

1999                             UMDNJ and NJIT                              Newark, NJ

§         MS, Biomedical  Informatics

1990                             Columbia University                      New York, NY

§         MS, Nursing

1984                             Seton Hall University                South Orange, NJ

§         BS, Nursing

Interests

Equestrienne, Sailing, Private Pilot

References

Available upon request