Sharon Brickhouse Martin

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Email: sbmartin@brickhousemartin.com

Sharon Brickhouse Martin is the president of Brickhouse•Martin Healthcare Engineering (B•MHE), which she founded in 1991. She is a senior healthcare consultant with more than 25 years of experience in organizational and operational evaluation and improvement, initially in the manufacturing industry and predominately in the healthcare industry.

Ms. Martin holds a bachelor of science in industrial engineering and operations research and masters in engineering administration, both from Virginia Tech. She is also a qualified Myers Briggs Type Indicator® instructor.

Preceding B•MHE, Ms. Martin served in senior positions in the healthcare consulting practices of Ernst & Whinney, Coopers & Lybrand, and Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc.

Ms. Martin’s firm works with providers to sustain improvements and manage change using proven engineering analyses. She has served as project manager of the information systems selection and implementation projects at a 340 bed acute care hospital and was responsible for the clinical, CPOE, financial, and operational technologies that enabled newly redesigned processes and utilized Lean and Six Sigma tools.

Ms. Martin has also managed the application of a re-engineered care delivery model for a small acute care hospital. It required facilitating and directing the work of over 100 physicians and employees in 20 different teams concerned with information technology integration, clinical pathway and case management development, human resource restructuring, and hospital-wide educational program development. For another healthcare technology vendor, she managed the alpha and beta test phases of a new technology, and developed and delivered a comprehensive educational program for a nation-wide systems roll-out to over 200 clinical users.

An experienced facilitator and trainer, Ms. Martin has been a frequent speaker and author on the subjects of project management, reengineering, teambuilding, and process improvement for healthcare organizations. She is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Ms. Martin currently serves as a steering committee member of the Ron Brown Scholars Program. Previously she served on the advisory council for the Medical Care for Children Partnership of Fairfax County Virginia; on the industrial advisory board of the CEED program for the college of engineering at Virginia Tech; and as president and a member of the board of directors for the National Capital Chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.