Elizabeth Quezada
Compliance Program Manager @Northwell Health
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WORK HISTORY
Compliance Program Manager @Northwell Health
New Hyde Park, NY, US
RESEARCH COMPLIANCE & REGULATORY GOVERNANCE | ENTERPRISE RISK MITIGATIONDIGITAL TRANSFORMATION | DATA-DRIVEN QUALITY & INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY• Serve as a senior compliance and operational leader within one of the nation’s largest health systems, overseeing research compliance, institutional governance, and data-backed risk mitigation across a $50M+ clinical research portfolio. • Drive audit readiness, digital modernization, and cross-functional alignment by partnering with IT, legal, principal investigators, laboratory leadership, and federal regulatory agencies to elevate system-wide quality performance.• Direct enterprise research compliance operations, leading complex audits, regulatory reviews, and high-stakes investigations impacting investigators, laboratories, and executive leadership. • Serve as a key advisor to institutional leaders on governance strategy, risk prevention, and adherence to federal, state, and organizational requirements.• Engineered automated audit pipelines using REDCap, IRBM, and advanced Excel modeling while improving audit accuracy and monitoring performance 300%, transforming manual processes into a scalable, data-driven institutional compliance system.• Reduced compliance violations 70% by redesigning safeguards, creating targeted investigator training, and establishing standardized policy pathways that improved clarity, adherence, and operational consistency across diverse research environments.• Advise and coach 20+ principal investigators on regulatory governance, risk assessment, research proposal development, and institutional compliance expectations, protecting Northwell from potential financial, legal, and federal noncompliance exposure.
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Cornell University
Bachelor's degree, Biology/Food Science
Consulting Bootcamp
8H bootcamp
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Executive Master in Public Health
ABOUT ELIZABETH QUEZADA
Elizabeth Quezada is a Director-level Healthcare Operations and Public Health Strategy Leader with 15+ years of experience in overseeing clinical workflows, enterprise compliance programs, emergency response operations, and multimillion-dollar public health initiatives across major U.S. health systems, academic medical centers, and government agencies. She has excelled in unifying complex clinical, technical, and regulatory environments while driving operational excellence through advanced analytics, EPIC optimization, digital modernization, and scalable quality frameworks that elevate patient outcomes.Elizabeth’s expertise spans the full continuum of healthcare delivery, involving emergency response activation, community health operations, clinical workflow engineering, research compliance governance, population-level analytics, vendor management, and multi-site care coordination. At New York City Health + Hospitals, she directed high-impact citywide public health operations, managing $10M+ monthly testing programs, restructuring clinical workflows across ICU and specialty services, and collaborating with physicians, epidemiologists, IT teams, and executive leadership to increase mobility outcomes, boost referral accuracy, and ensure equitable access to care for millions of residents. She guided rapid-response decision-making through real-time analytics, synthesizing over 1M EPIC records to uncover care gaps and deliver insights that shaped crisis-level operations in the nation’s largest municipal health system.At Northwell Health, Elizabeth modernized a $50M+ research compliance portfolio by creating automated audit pipelines, reducing violations 70%, strengthening governance structures, and advising principal investigators on regulatory risk mitigation and institutional safeguards. She directed digital transformation initiatives in partnership with IT, legal, clinical leadership, and federal regulatory agencies, positioning the organization for sustained audit readiness and system-wide performance improvements.With a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, an Executive MPH from Columbia University, and advanced credentials in healthcare quality, digital transformation, and AI in healthcare, Elizabeth brings a rare combination of scientific expertise, operational leadership, and public health acumen. She is deeply committed to advancing healthcare equity, strengthening health systems, and enabling organizations to make evidence-based decisions that improve outcomes at scale.
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