Ali Seckin

About Ali Seckin

I’m a board certified healthcare professional with 15+ years of experience in medical technology, patient care, project management, and administration. Throughout my history in medicine, I have developed a strong commitment to providing exceptional patient care while continuously evolving my skills and knowledge as a physician. Currently, I am the vice-chair of the Pain and Palliative Medicine Institute at Hackensack Medical Center, an organization dedicated to breaking edge medical innovations and exceptional healthcare. In this role, I am responsible for directing and supporting a staff of physicians, nurses, technicians, and clerical professionals. I also develop comprehensive care plans for immediate and long-term patients, ensuring individualized treatment and high quality care. Previous experience includes a chief residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Colleagues know me as a highly innovative, creative, results-driven professional who can always be trusted to come up with a new approach. I am an effective communicator who can be relied on to clearly convey my ideas, input, and direction. I currently hold medical licenses in New Jersey and New York, and possess an Anesthesiology Certification, as well as a Pain Medicine Board Certification. I recently finished a certificate program in Business Administration, and have completed multiple residency and fellowship programs with renowned medical institutions. Core Competencies Include: Pain and Palliative Medicine, Patient Care, Medical Technology, Team Leadership, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Anesthesiology, Quality Assurance, Clinical Research

Experience

1. Vice-chair, Pain and Palliative Medicine Institute

   Hackensack Meridian Health

   Aug 2005 — Present · Hackensack, NJ, US

   Charged with providing direction and supervision to medical, nursing, technical, and clerical staff to ensure efficient operations focused on delivering high quality care to patients and families. Maintains optimal financial standing of the department by executing meticulous analysis, reporting, and planning of accounts, budgets, and expenditures. Oversees the development of comprehensive plans for immediate and long-term pain relief approaches, including therapeutic exercise, interventional therapies, counseling, family education, and community reintegration.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS-Continuously improves upon current practices with the development and implementation of enhanced organizational policies for the facility and/or medical units based on analysis of operations and demographics-Maintains a consistent track record of reducing turn-over time in operating rooms and minimizing the cost of care for spinal stenosis patients-Successfully led a team of providers to achieve significant improvement in HCAP scores -Oversaw the establishment of interventional pain treatment, increasing case numbers steadily over 10 years

Education

• Columbia University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Health/Health Care Administration/Management

  2016 — 2018

• American Society of Anesthesiology, Schaumburg, IL Degree: Certificate in Business Administration

  Certificate, Business Administration and Management, Healthcare

  2015 — 2015

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  Pain Fellowship

  2004 — 2005

• UMD of NJ

  residency, Anesthesiology Residency Program

  2000 — 2004