Mary Jean Herden
Senior Lead Scientist Clinical Sme Lead Associate @Booz Allen Hamilton
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Lead Scientist Clinical Sme Lead Associate @Booz Allen Hamilton
Falls Church, VA
Clinical Subject Matter Expert with significant Executive Medicine experience working on several Military Health System Optimization Projects, including Specialty Care optimization, policy related to optimization, and clinical practice, and Clinical Community Development, as part of the overall process which will culminate in the Military Health System (MHS) becoming truly aligned with the principles of High Reliability. Serves as Senior Physician Advisor/consultant for conventional clinical medicine issues, operational medicine, and executive medicine. Clinical Community Coach, Lean Six Sigma Champion, mentor, and operational medicine instructor.
EDUCATION
University of Alabama
BS, cum laude, Arts and Sciences Honors Program Scholar
Naval War College
MA
University of Alabama School of Medicine
MD
ABOUT MARY JEAN HERDEN
Over 25 years experience in clinical medicine and senior leadership activities-strategic policy development, organizational transformation, re-organization, and transition. Consummate communicator. Subject Matter Expert in facility-based and operational/deployed medicine. Thrives in chaotic environments; ultimate facilitator and conflict resolution agent and people connector, able to seek, and find \"win-win\" solutions to organizational and individual patient and staff dilemmas; able to bring a group of people with disparate backgrounds and organizations together into productive problem solving teams. Key figure in the largest DoD BRAC Project completed to date, on time and on budget target. Served as the Lean Six Sigma Champion for the first project, kicking off a major re-organization and transformation of a senior military line specialty command. Hand-picked as the first person to serve in a series of newly created senior military and/or Joint positions, defining the positions while serving in them, creating necessary plans, policy, positions and funding as a surviving legacy. In-depth knowledge of military medical system facility operations, new facility creation, operation, initial outfitting and transition, consolidation/transformation of Service-specific facilities into Joint facilities, relationship of military operational communities to military medicine; the interrelationship and dependencies between military medicine, non-governmental organizations, other US Government departments, and NATO, and how to successfully partner these organizations for humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery missions, training missions. Adept at identifying cost-saving opportunities that do not sacrifice patient care quality. First-hand experience in set up and execution of headquarters and subordinate Joint Medical Inspector General organization and doctrine, and in Joint Commission facility assessments. Trusted adviser to senior military commanders/CEO equivalents.
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