Executive Profile: Susan Penfield of Booz Allen Hamilton

Susan Penfield serves as senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton. She specializes in the management and strategic use of IT within the national health industry. Her duties include devising strategies for health data interoperability; increasing the integration of public health information to support food safety, chronic disease management and collaborative research; developing IT modernization strategies for regulatory, safety, payment, and public health mission systems; and implementing effective informatics programs to support data sharing and analysis

Penfield has provided consulting services for federal health-related organization in the U.S., including the Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services including the Food and Drug Administration, and National Institutes for Health, Centers for Disease Control, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Penfield has been engaged in many of the issues facing the healthcare industry, including overseeing the development of and providing program management and strategy and technology support for the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Bioinformatics Grid; developing a national plan to combat Alzheimer’s Disease through support of the Alzheimer’s Study Group; and designing, developing and conducting avian flu strategic simulations, which led to reports now often referenced by the public and media.

Penfield serves on the Center for Health Transformation and the National Women’s Health Resource Center board of directors, she is a trustee for the NIH Children’s Inn board of directors, and is a member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. She holds a bachelor’s degree in technology management from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania and a certificate in management from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business.