Jenny Dean
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Website: | http://web.mac.com/jennydoctor |
| Skills: | English, French, Languages |
| Location: | Cambridge |
| Interested in: | Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | health, Healthcare, IT, mba, medical, medicine |
| Schools: | University of Cambridge, University of Leicester, University of Plymouth |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Judge Business School, Cambridge |
| Position: | Business Experience |
| Time period: | March 2008 - April 2008 |
| Description: | The Global Consulting Project is a consulting project undertaken in association with blue chip companies as part of the MBA
• Undertook qualitative research of the potential market for an application of innovative technology with Cisco Healthcare (IBSG) and Map of Medicine, leveraging personal healthcare contacts |
| Employer: | Judge Business School, Cambridge |
| Position: | Business Experience |
| Time period: | November 2007 - November 2007 |
| Description: | The Cambridge Venture Project is a marketing consulting project undertaken in teams for a local company as part of the MBA
• Determined the best marketing strategy for the launch of a new diagnostic medical test by Pro-Nostics, requiring market research on the UK clinical and general public market sectors |
| Employer: | NHS Connecting for Health |
| Position: | Clinical Design Consultant – part time, fixed term contract |
| Time period: | August 2006 - November 2006 |
| Description: | The National Programme for IT is the world’s biggest civil IT programme.
• Successfully researched, scoped and designed a set of electronic clinical assessments to a tight timescale and specific quality criteria using PRINCE 2 methodology • Provided additional expert advice and input on other product designs using SNOMED CT |
| Employer: | South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Position: | Service Improvement Manager |
| Time period: | November 2005 - August 2007 |
| Description: | Providing secondary healthcare to a population of 250,000, employing over 2,500 staff.
• Led a challenging project inspiring reluctant staff to embrace change and implement their own ideas, improving patient wait in fracture clinic by 50%, receiving national interest and improved patient satisfaction • Championed a business case for patient transport, reducing patient wait by 93% and resulting in expected savings in excess of £100k • Researched and constructed the first framework for tracking strategic milestones and competitive benchmark trends for Directors of Finance and Performance and Development using Dr Foster Intelligence data • Defined operating procedures and wrote local guidebooks for the Choose and Book electronic booking system pioneered by the Trust • Spearheaded a review of a database of 10 years’ data, updating OPCS codes and working with system designer to implement solutions to root causes of problems, improving user friendliness and reducing patient risk in day surgery • Coached teams in service improvement using Lean and Value Stream Mapping of patient journeys, including patient involvement |
| Employer: | British Antarctic Survey, Rothera Research Station, Antarctica |
| Position: | Medical Officer |
| Time period: | April 2000 - January 2003 |
| Description: | A world class environmental research branch of NERC responsible for UK’s Antarctic research.
• Successfully managed medical challenges outside usual field of expertise, training non-medical base members as medical assistants, achieving unique relationship balance between management, base members and clinical confidentiality • Extended roles to include waste management, postmistress and chief wildlife surveyor • Presented experience at various organisations on invitation, including a national conference |
| Employer: | National Health Service, various hospitals through the UK |
| Position: | Doctor |
| Time period: | August 1996 - November 2005 |
| Description: | Largest organisation in Europe providing comprehensive healthcare to the UK population.
• Specialised in Anaesthetics with experience in Accident and Emergency, General Medicine, Aeromedical and Hyperbaric Medicine, receiving highly positive feedback in appraisals with regard to patient and staff relationships • Used a wide range of technical skills taking control of life-critical situations in hospital and during blue-light ambulance transfers |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2008 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | University of Plymouth |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2003 |
| Degree: | Remote Healthcare , MSc |
| University: | University of Leicester |
| Time period: | 1991 - 1996 |
| Degree: | Medicine, MBA |
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Andrea Cantone
Andrea is a Ph.D student in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, working on carbon nanotubes in collaboration with the Department of Material Science in Oxford.Andrea holds a Master degree in Electronic Engineering from the Universi...