Ms. Smith-Lewis is the interim executive director of the health system goes Tennessee Valley.
Ms. Smith-Lewis has more than 20 years of federal service and provides abundant experience in leadership and management. Ms. Smith-Lewis began her federal career at the country’s first medical research agency, the National Institutes of Health. She first served in her national institute of heart, lungs and blood and later at the clinical center, the largest hospital in the country entirely devoted to clinical research. As an administrative leader in intensive care units and intensive care for hospitalized patients, Ms. Smith-Lewis implemented her first unit budgets, supported operational needs and participated in the budget planning process ‘investment.
In addition to her federal career, she made meetings at Fidelity Investments and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Before her mission in TVHS, Ms. Smith-Lewis was the chief of staff to the Pact Act Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO), where it is responsible for global operations and fully attacking all aspects of the implementation of the PACT law, including budget, calendar, technique, analysis, policies, processes, processes, Quality and knowledge management. The EPMO is responsible for ensuring a unified approach on the scale of AV for an effective and timely implementation of the PACT law in order to allow an integrated veteran experience while maintaining transparency and responsibility at levels superiors of the department. Previously, she was executive manager in the VHA organizational excellence office, where she was responsible for all the administrative activities for an organization of more than 500 full -time equivalent employees. Another notable role was as a financial manager of the homeless programs Vha, where it managed $ 1.6 billion in resources for the number one priority target of the agency to end the homelessness of the alumni fighters. Other EVO appointments have taken place at the VHA strategy office and the VHA operations and management office.
As a leader who values ​​continuous learning, Ms. Smith-Lewis looked for stretching assignments, first in 2015 for the exercise (FY) as an active acting assistant by the Deputy Director of the Network in the Integrated veterans’ integrated 5221 veterans services network as the interim assistant director in the Coastal Health Care system in North Fayetteville. She received the director’s play of excellence at the end of her mission in Fayetteville in recognition of her stellar service supervising several lines of service. She recently completed an assignment with the American office of personnel management, where she has created a community of practice which has resounding success for more than 250 stakeholders in data analysis acquired in improving human capital capacities and exchanges of information through the federal government.
Ms. Smith-Lewis holds a Baccalaureate of Sciences in Mathematics of Simmons College, a master’s degree in health care administration at the University of Caroline in Nord-Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in project management management from ESI International University / George Washington. In addition, she completed an administrative two -year health care scholarship at the University of Virginia Medical Center, a 2015 Federal Executive Institute and graduated in 2020 of the White House leadership development program. In May 2023, she finished the Secva Leadership Forum and then accompanied the secretary in August 2023 as a traveling companion in New York and Maine.