JUDI VITUCCI
RN, ARNP, PhD

Twenty eight years of health care management experience in acute care teaching hospitals. Direct clinical experience as a pediatric staff nurse, clinical specialist, cultural anthropologist and pediatric nurse practitioner. Major strengths in team building; new program planning and implement¬ation; community collaboration, quality improvement, utilization review and risk manage¬ment; strategies for compliance with JCAHO and government regulations; capital and operations budget; and program evaluation. Demonstrated skills in facilitating focus groups, strategic planning, conference planning, root cause analyses and use of quality improvement techniques. Nine years of developmental pediatric experience with expertise in the birth to three population. Five years of nursing education experience in baccalaureate, junior college and hospital in-service programs. Successful conference planning of over 64 state, local and national conferences. Education and experience in cross cultural health care settings. Ten years experience in outcomes research, program evaluation and quantitative and qualitative analysis. Successful grant-writer with over $14 million dollars secured from federal, state and local resources for maternal child services in the last 12 years. Fifteen years of community partnering and leadership in maternal child health at the local, state and national level.