Technical Consulting Clients
Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative, Lebanon, NH, October 2010 to present
Executive Office Administrator
Cord Blood Forum, Manhattan Beach, California, 2003-2011
Management of non-profit organization offices, including annual symposium. Acted as Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activity Director for University of Nebraska sponsored event for 2011.
MEDIcept, Ashland, Massachusetts, August 2007 to March 2011
Focused audits, process verification, and remediation in plasma and blood collection facilities.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, January to May 2007
Assisted Blood Donor Center with validation and implementation of new computer system and ISBT-128 .
Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, California, December 2006
Performed focused audits in Blood Donor Center and Transfusion Service.
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Whittier, California June 2004 to September 2006
Part-time management and compliance consulting for hospital-based blood collection center.
StemCyte, Inc., Arcadia, California January 2004 to September 2010
General quality assurance consulting for specialized cord blood banking facility.
Isensix, Inc., San Diego, California November 2003 to January 2006
Member of Technical Advisory Board. Company provides wireless environmental monitoring systems for healthcare and other industries.
HemaCare Corporation, Van Nuys, California July 2003 to April 2004
Performance of comprehensive quality assurance audits at blood collection centers located in the NorthEast US. Part-time management liason for 2 Southern California blood collection centers.
Lancaster Community Hospital, Lancaster, California May 2001 to May 2002
Revision of facility transfusion service SOP’s. Performed intense workload and root cause analyses, process improvement assessments. Assurance of regulatory compliance.
Little Company of Mary Health Services, Torrance, California March 2000 to January 2001
Compliance consulting for Transfusion Services and Blood Donor Centers of San Pedro Peninsula Hospital and Little Company of Mary Hospital prior to hiring of new Division Manager.
City of Angels Medical Center, Los Angeles, California January-February 1999
Responsible for the reopening of hospital transfusion service. Completed development of all SOP’s, and employee training and competency assessment prior to hospital licensing inspection
San Gabriel Medical Center, San Gabriel, California April 1998 to April 1999
Revision of facility Blood Bank and Donor Center Autologous Program policies and procedures.
Tustin Hospital and Medical Center, Tustin, California October to December 1997
Responsible for the reopening of hospital transfusion service. Completed development of all SOP’s, and employee training and competency assessment prior to hospital licensing inspection.
Midway Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, California July 1993 to January 1995
Revision of facility Blood Bank SOP’s in preparation for CAP and JCAHO inspections.
Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center, Hawthorne, California September 1990 to February 1991
Acted as part-time Blood Bank Supervisor. Prepared facility for AABB and California State Inspections. Revised SOP’s and Quality Assurance Program.