Profiles of ASQ Healthcare members are featured in each issue of Healthcare Update, an ASQ e-newsletter that goes out to both members and non-members in the Healthcare field.

Are you interested in sharing your background and experience with quality in healthcare? Would you like to be featured in Healthcare Update? If so, click here for the list of questions and profile format. Submit your response to Nicole Adrian, ASQ newsletter editor, at nadrian@asq.org.

As members submit profiles, the ASQ Healthcare Division will post them here! This is a unique opportunity to show others the diversity that ASQ offers to those in the healthcare profession.

Profiles:

June 2008 - Judy Norcia, vice president of quality systems, Florida Blood Services, St. Petersburg, FL

April 2008 - Rose Kavalchuck, vice president, Quality Systems and Managed Care; corporate compliance officer, Heywood Hospital, Gardner, MA

March 2008 - D’Anne Carpenter, executive director of organization learning and development for Trinity Health, Farmington Hills, MI

January 2008 - Rowena Chona Ortiz Sano, registered nurse and alternate administrator, ACP Health Care Resources Inc., Houston

November 2007 - Michael O’Dell, M.D., chief quality officer, North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, MS

October 2007 - Doug Sears, director of performance improvement and knowledge transfer, Bon Secours Health System, Marriottsville, MD

August 2007 - William "Bill" Dunwoody, paramedic and director of systems development and analysis for Delta Ambulance, Waterville, ME

May 2007 - Terrill Paradise, Six Sigma Black Belt, Columbus Regional Hospital

March 2007 - Tim Hallock, Quality and Organizational Improvement Leader, St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center

February 2007 – John Harrison, RN and manager of quality improvement