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Amanda is a transformational leader with the ability to inspire and empower teams to drive results. Her experience in operational and process improvement initiatives spans clinical and non-clinical departments in academic medical centers. In the perioperative service line, Amanda has proven positive outcomes in increased block utilization, improved resource allocation and optimized scheduling processes.
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Angus has over 30 years in the Sterile Processing field and over 25 years in management. He started his career as a high school student in a healthcare professionals’ program in the city of Boston. Angus has worked as an SPD technician, Lead Tech, Supervisor, Educator, SPD Manager, SPD Director and taught Sterile Processing at the Community College Level. Angus obtained his college degree from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts. Angus is Lean Six Sigma certified and is a transformational leader with the ability to inspire and empower teams to deliver results. He has a passion for educating fellow peers on current standards and creating roadmaps to optimize Sterile Processing Departments. Angus has also helped design several Sterile Processing departments from the capital purchasing process through to installation.
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Barbara is a Vice President of Nursing with Surgical Directions. She has over 25 years of experience in healthcare, specifically in perioperative and procedural area care management, leadership, organizational and business development, policy formulation, communications, and financing.
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Brian is the Senior Managing Director of Business Lines at Surgical Directions. He has extensive experience in OR process improvement, business intelligence and quaternary medical center perioperative services, where he has been responsible for all end-to-end OR processes as the Principal Management Engineer.
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Board-certified by both the American Board of Anesthesia and the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Young is a Physician Managing Director of Surgical Directions. As a clinically active physician, Dr. Young understands the challenges facing his peers in the hospital. He asks the right questions to get to the core of every issue, and he works as both advocate and mentor to improve operational, financial, and service-delivery outcomes for patients, physicians, and hospital leadership.
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Thomas Blasco MD, MS has 40+ years of clinical experience as an anesthesiologist/intensivist working in and managing tertiary care level hospital operating rooms, critical care units and free-standing ASCs. For over two decades, as a founding partner of Surgical Directions, working with scores of clients, he has become a recognized leader in successful organizational improvement of patient-centric surgical care.
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Greg Rugani is Vice President of Client Services – East Coast at Surgical Directions
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Experienced operations leader with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Healthcare Consulting, Performance Improvement, Medical Devices, Medicaid, and Healthcare Industry. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Economics from Columbia University in the City of New York.
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Dr. Klopotowski is Surgical Direction’s lead physician managing director. He is a clinically active anesthesiologist with over a decade of experience in critical care medicine and anesthesia leadership. As an interim chair of anesthesia, he has shepherded multiple anesthesia groups through transitions to employment, working collaboratively with hospital leadership and the group to ensure efficient transitions with no disruptions to service or decrease in clinical quality.
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Javier Donaghy, MSN, RN, CNOR, is the Director Surgical Services at AdventHealth Colorado
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Jill is dedicated to making a difference in healthcare by fostering innovation and improving the patient and employee experience. As senior managing director of Surgical Directions, she drives organizational strategy, builds strategic client and partner relationships, leads key growth initiatives, and oversees executive leadership development.
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Dr. Miller has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare leadership including P&L responsibility as well as hospital surgical and medical group consultative services. He has led complex system-wide anesthesiology departments and served as Division Medical Officer for anesthesiology, adult critical care, and interventional pain services at a national physician management company.
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As an Product Manager for Surgical Directions, Kartik supports consultants with analytic projects that reduce cost and increase optimization to help healthcare clients meet and exceed their performance goals. He has experience collaborating with healthcare professionals to implement large research studies and analyze health data.
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Kate Liang, MPH, is a Senior Business Analyst at Surgical Directions
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Dr. Katherine Grichnik has extensive executive experience across the spectrum of healthcare management, including strategic, operational, fiscal, and administrative responsibilities in a variety of settings. She is the Chief of Medical Officer at SCA Health, where she supports strategic partnerships and business models to create stakeholder value, ensures aligned and skilled anesthesiology professional services, and collaborates to enhance the quality of care, enhance facility operational success, ensure safety, create risk visibility, and support risk resolution.
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Accomplished healthcare executive with 20+ years of successfully designing, leading, and executing a broad range of growth and realignment initiatives. Oversees account teams and delivery strategies, and directs marketing, data, analytics, and financial departments. Creates and executes strategic marketing and sales support plans. Develops and launches new business ventures. Previous experience includes managing IT, data, and finance areas, including implementing program databases, web sites, digital marketing programs, and CRM. Tenacious, agile, and interpersonally successful at all levels.
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Throughout her career, Lee’s collaborative management of Operating Room Transformations has yielded significant increases in surgical growth and millions of dollars in hospital profits. Lee has successfully worked with physician practices to improve revenue cycle processes and improve financial performance while transforming the anesthesia practice to perform as a business entity and an invaluable partner with the hospital.
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Leslie is passionate about partnering with healthcare executives to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve, while profitably growing their organizations. As President and CEO of Surgical Directions, Leslie is responsible for building meaningful relationships with clinicians and administrators, ensuring high quality work and insights, and delivering measurable outcomes.
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Lindsay serves as Group Vice President of Operational Innovation & Strategy at SCA Health. She is an experienced executive with a history of partnering with payers and providers to design, implement and operationally support reimbursement strategies for value based care across portfolio of 250+ ASCs. Strategic leader with responsibility for state and federal advocacy and government affairs initiatives across SCA enterprise.
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Lisa is a seasoned healthcare executive with over two decades of experience driving operational excellence and strategic growth in complex health systems. As Chief Administrative Officer at City of Hope Medical Foundation and Vice President of Professional Services at City of Hope, Lisa has overseen transformative initiatives, including redesigning a $200M professional services agreement, doubling physician recruitment, and implementing innovative programs in access, patient experience, and operational efficiency. Previously, as Chief Administrative Officer of Neurosciences at the University of Southern California, Lisa led the development of the university’s largest clinical transfer program and spearheaded service line consolidation efforts. Her extensive experience spans clinical operations, physician leadership, financial management, and large-scale business development. Lisa’s results-oriented leadership and commitment to advancing healthcare make her a trusted partner for organizational success.
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Lucy Pereira-Argenziano, MD, serves as Chief Quality Officer – Northern Region at
Hackensack Meridian Health
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As Managing Director of Product for Surgical Directions, Michael manages analytics projects that reduce costs, drive revenue and increase ROI for healthcare clients. His specialties include analytics research, implementation, and strategy.
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Bob Johnson began his career as a Perfusionist and Cardio-Pulmonary Technologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he eventually became the Administrator for the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. He went on to hold senior leadership positions at several prominent healthcare institutions, including Sr. Associate COO for Duke Hospital, VP of Administration at Baylor College of Medicine, and Executive Director of anesthesia services at UPMC.
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Supriya Patel is a Director at Surgical Directions, where she has served in various leadership and project management positions for over 5 years. She obtained her Master of Health Administration on the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently obtaining another certification in Organizational Leadership.
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Surgical Directions is the nation’s premier clinician-driven perioperative consulting, technology, and workforce solutions organization. We have an unmatched depth of knowledge in the procedural space, with solutions that have been perfected over 25 years and across more than 500 healthcare clients.
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Trish Delgrosso, BSN, MSHCM, CNOR, CE-NP, RNFA, NC-BC, is a Senior Nurse Consultant at Surgical Directions
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