Senior Consultant
San Francisco, CA
Barbara Santry, Senior Consultant, has been at the innovative edge of health care for more than 30 years. She has served in a variety of roles in industry’s three relevant domains: the payer domain, the provider domain, and the product launch domain. She has been a consultant to the industry, a manager in the industry, and an investor in product and service companies. She was associated with the beginnings of managed care and with the shift away from cost-based reimbursement to today’s outcomes driven system.
Ms. Santry has worked with products across a great many clinical specialties, including:
* Cardiac rhythm management
* Interventional cardiology
* Cardiac valves
* Critical care monitoring
* Minimally invasive surgery
* Genetic testing
* Oncology
* Spine care
* Orthopedics and rehabilitation
* Deep brain stimulation
* Respiratory care and ventilation
* End stage renal disease
* Total parenteral nutrition
* High risk obstetrics
Cutting across clinical specialties, she has had experience with mechanics affecting successful product launches, particularly those related to:
* Provider economics
* Pharmacy benefit management
* Provider agreements
* Claims processing systems
* Group purchasing
* Home health
* Disease management
Ms. Santry has been a venture capitalist, a nationally ranked sell-side analyst, an officer at a large hospital system, a financial and systems consultant, the CFO of two small enterprises, Medicaid’s Deputy Budget Officer, and a triage nurse in the United States Navy. She has served on boards of companies ranging in size from start-up to $400 million in sales. She is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry.
Education
BSN, Georgetown University
MBA, Stanford University
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