EmpowHer Panel Series: Leveraging a UC Davis MBA in Healthcare
Joint sponsored by the Health Care Council and Women In Leadership Sacramento
- February 17, 2022 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us Thursday, February 17, at 7 p.m. to hear from two UC Davis MBA alumni and a current student about how they are leveraging their MBAs across healthcare and share insights from industry experience. Speaker expertise spans compliance, accreditation, risk management, community outreach, operations and practice transformation.
Speakers
Jen Correa MBA 19
Jen Correa is a project manager within the Strategic Space Planning & Transition Strategy department of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California. She combines her passion to contribute to a mission-driven organization with her project management and healthcare facility design skills through project work to activate new units and ambulatory sites within the hospital, and partners with clinical leaders on space planning projects.
She previously worked for the California Quality Collaborative (CQC) - a part of Purchaser Business Group on Health, serving on a 4 year CMS-funded grant to transform clinical practice through teaching quality improvement. Prior to CQC, she analyzed clinical trial protocols for business proposals and managed marketing projects at the clinical trial services vendor Bracket.
Correa holds an MBA from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. She lives in San Carlos and spends her free time with her husband and son.
Michael Baldi MBA 21
Michael Baldi is a former U.S. Army Medical Service Corps Officer and Aeromedical Evacuation pilot. He served in the U.S. Army for nine years, six of which were overseas in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. On top of flying medical evacuation missions he managed medical operations across the healthcare continuum from outpatient/clinic operations to ancillary support and inpatient operations.
Baldi transitioned from the military in 2017 and was recruited by Kaiser Permanente as a performance improvement senior consultant through their Military Officer Transition. Since then, he served as the compliance program manager for the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento service area from 2018 to 2021 where he was responsible for the ethics and regulatory programs to include HIPAA/ privacy and security, audits and investigations, and regulatory change management.
After graduation from the UC Davis MBA program, Baldi was promoted/took a new job as director of quality overseeing both the Accreditation, Regulation, & Licensing and the Risk Management, Patient Safety portfolios.
Samantha Quio MBA 22
Samantha Quio is a community outreach supervisor with UC Davis Health.
As a Mexican American DREAMer (“Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act”) student, taking on two cultural identities taught her to value diversity and easily relate to communities that are not her own.
At UC Davis Health, Quio assists in the administrative development of COVID-19 Vaccine efforts and PCR testing by creating Standard Operational Procedures. She was responsible for leading the first mobile vaccine team to assist the underserved populations across Yolo County.
Quio also worked in patient accounting at UnitedHealth Care (UHC) as the main point of contact to analyze billing adjustments. She was presented the Leadership Award for developing Standard Operational Procedures for her department. Additionally, she led the first Employee Advocacy and Engagement Committee to foster camaraderie between employees and leadership.
Outside of her “day job”, Quio served as the national president of a non-profit organization that includes a chapter at UC Davis campus. As a board member of Alpha Pi Sigma Sorority, Inc., she managed safety, insurance, and federal taxes to uphold non-profit status for the organization. An experience which cultivated her advocacy skills for first generation Latinx women pursuing higher education.
The adversities Quio faced influenced her life experiences by creating a passion to continue helping underserved communities. This ultimately led her to pursue her UC Davis MBA the UC with a focus in healthcare.