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Susan L. Penfield
A Vice President based at Booz Allen Hamilton’s McLean headquarters, Susan Penfield specializes in the management and strategic use of information technology within the national health industry.
Ms. Penfield has almost two dozen years of strategy development and technology delivery experience for a wide scope of clients and engagements, such as:
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Providing program management services for every major federal health-related organization in the U.S., including the Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institutes for Health, focusing on pandemic flu preparedness, vaccine inventory management and distribution network development, regulatory and safety systems development, and informatics program development
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Overseeing the development of and providing program management and strategy and technology support for the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG), including developing the architecture to support collection, sharing, and analysis of data for a broad community of cancer researchers across institutions, registries, pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and sub-disciplines of clinical and research informatics
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Developing large-scale technology transformation programs that include information technology, structured software development life cycle management, and program and project management
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Managing the strategy and technology change initiative to support the transformation of the FDA’s pharmacovigiliance programs
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Designing, developing, and conducting avian flu strategic simulations which led to reports now widely referenced by the public and media
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Transforming the CDC’s Vaccine for Children program by streamlining vaccine distribution by creating efficient inventory management procedures and simplifying provider ordering and approval processes
A recognized thought leader, Ms. Penfield has co-authored several industry articles, including “Avian Flu: A Test of Collective Integrity” for strategy+business. Her career experience spans a variety of technology management positions and support for science, engineering, and financial organizations.
Ms. Penfield is a member of the e-Health Initiative Board of Directors, NIH Children’s Inn Board of Directors, and Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. She holds a B.S. degree in technology management from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.
profile posted January 2007 |
