Katie joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in 2010 as a health systems engineer after a few years with a healthcare software company. She has worked directly with the military health system implementing multi-site healthcare delivery initiatives and data driven management systems. Katie’s interests are in population need assessments, practice variation studies, and system design for enterprise wide application. Katie is currently the Program Manager of Force Health and Readiness, overseeing the mission of ensuring a ready medical force, a medically ready force, and the delivery of safe reliable care across all operational settings. In this position, Katie is a strategic thought partner for military leaders and oversees a Warfighter Readiness Performance Improvement portfolio of work.

Katie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master’s of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (with a focus in Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes Research), and a Master’s in Healthcare Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.