University of Maryland Medical System
Director, Clinical Informatics
- Leads a 28-person clinical informatics department through three managers, structured by clinical service line, supporting 9 hospitals, 2,400 licensed beds, more than 5,000 nurses, 16 emergency departments, and 12 general surgery programs. Reports to the Vice President of Clinical Systems and Chief of Clinical Informatics.
- Built the department’s management layer entirely through internal promotion, developing three clinical informaticists into manager roles and establishing a service-line structure with a bench for continued advancement.
- Directs the team facilitating system-wide EHR governance and user design councils, establishing the decision pathway through which frontline clinician input shapes enterprise electronic health record configuration and change.
- Serves on multiple system steering committees, contributing clinical informatics perspective to enterprise technology strategy and influencing capital planning for clinical technology and project investment.
- Shares accountability for the clinical informatics operating budget, including annual planning, forecasting, and resource allocation across the department.
- Authored and secured health system approval for documentation burden guiding principles governing EHR change across 9 hospitals, eliminating millions of clicks and returning clinician time to direct patient care.
- Led enterprise e-consent conversion for anesthesia and surgery across 12 facilities, reaching 97% digital adoption and 14,000 consents within 90 days and closing a documented consent-integrity and regulatory exposure gap in surgical workflows.
- Directed Virtual Nurse program deployment across seven facilities, supporting 11,000 visits in the first year.
- Serves as leadership liaison to the system telehealth portfolio, including telehealth, telesitter, Tele-EMS, and remote fetal monitoring.
- Established enterprise SlicerDicer self-service analytics with a standing governance team, defining data access and stewardship standards for system users.
- Precepts Doctor of Nursing Practice and Master’s in Nursing Informatics students; guest lectures at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.