Administrative Fellowship Alumni

Year of Fellowship: 2024-2025

Background: Cecilia earned her Master of Healthcare Administration from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining Baylor College of Medicine, she gained experience at renowned healthcare organizations, including Cleveland Clinic, where she optimized patient care workflows and standardized operations across multidisciplinary teams. As a consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she led the Data Modernization Initiative for the Scalable Systems team, advancing healthcare infrastructure and enabling data-driven decision-making. In the community, Cecilia serves as Co-Chair for the ACHE Southeast Texas Chapter’s Membership and Retention Committee.

Focus During Fellowship: During her fellowship, Cecilia led initiatives to integrate artificial intelligence into operations and developed comprehensive patient care programs that enhanced clinical excellence and operational efficiency. Her rotations included the Department of Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, Urology/Otolaryngology, Dermatology, and the School of Health Professions.

Current Baylor Status: Cecilia is currently a Clinical Operations Associate with the Department of Medicine. In this role, she partners with faculty and administrative leaders to drive operational efficiency, support strategic initiatives, and implement process improvements that strengthen patient care delivery and departmental performance.

Year of Fellowship: 2023 - 2024

Background: Michelle attended Texas A&M University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health with a minor in Philosophy. After graduation, she worked for over two years in a technology consulting company before obtaining her Masters in Health Administration at The University of North Texas Health Science Center.

Focus During Fellowship: During her fellowship, Michelle had the opportunity to gain a variety of experiences across Baylor's mission areas. She completed rotations and projects within Urology, Neurology, Patient Business Services, Patient Access, and the Learning Health System. One of Michelle's primary projects was working with the clinical staff in Urology to create a more streamlined onboarding process.

Current Baylor Status: Michelle is currently a business strategy and development associate in the Department of Medicine. In this role, Michelle supports the department's affiliate operations and strategic planning.

Year of Fellowship: 2021-2022

Background: Jose attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Management. Following graduation, Jose worked full-time as a financial services representative in Patient Access at Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas. He did this year for a year before moving to Houston to obtained his Master of Public Health in Healthcare Management degree at The University of Texas Health Science Center.

Focus During Fellowship: During his fellowship, Jose completed project work with Clinical Affairs, the Department of Surgery, Patient Business Services, Ambulatory Operations, Incident Command Center, Quality & Safety, Orthopedic Surgery, and Physician Compensation. Jose also had the opportunity to oversee the selection and onboarding of a major advanced care planning provider to be integrated with the Baylor EMR. This project work along with co-managing the Baylor Medicine committee meetings with his co-fellow Mickayla resulted in a well-rounded experience.

Current Baylor Status: Jose is currently a business strategy and development associate within Clinical Affairs and the Office of Academic Integration. Jose supports affiliate operations and oversees the operations and strategic planning for Baylor’s Academic Integration efforts with Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center.

Year of Fellowship: 2020-2021

Background: Deborah attended Hampton University where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Following graduation, Deborah worked in New York City for a large financial service organization. She obtained her Master of Public Health in Healthcare Management at The University of Texas Health Science Center.

Focus During fellowship: During her fellowship, Deborah had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects with several departments and leaders at Baylor College of Medicine. She completed rotations and projects with Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Orthotics & Prosthetics, Patient Business Services, Women’s Health OB/GYN, Baylor Improvement Group, Department of Pathology and Immunology, and Ambulatory Operations.

Current Baylor Status: Deborah is currently a senior manager with the Department of Neurology. She manages a variety of business operations, finance, human resource functions, and strategic initiatives for the department. Previously, Deborah worked for the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy as the section administrator for Clinical Ethics and Education.

Year of Fellowship: 2020-2021

Background: Samson attended Tennessee State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Health Science with a concentration in Health Administration. Following graduation, Samson continued his education at the University of St. Francis in Chicago where he received his MBA in Healthcare Management.

Focus During fellowship: During his fellowship, Samson had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects with several departments and leaders at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed rotations and projects with Urology and Orthopedics, Family Medicine, Quality and Safety Committee, Executive Committee, Patient Business Services, Human and Genetics Research, War Room Marketing Committee, and helped build a clinical presence in the Sugarland area. Samson orchestrated a clinical presence clinical presence within the Sugarland, Texas area by bringing service line administrators and clinical leaders together (Orthopedic Surgery and Medicine). He also gathered and analyzed department data to produce financial proforma for executive leadership approval which led to the adoption of a multitiered clinical plan for the West Houston market.

Current Baylor Status: Samson is currently working as a Business Strategy & Development Associate. In this role, he is responsible for implementing business development plans and programs to drive new and grow existing revenue streams. Samson is also responsible for managing the revenue cycle and providing revenue enhancing opportunism for multiple medical and surgical specialties. 

Year of Fellowship: 2013-2014

Background: Megan attended the University of Chicago, where she received a bachelor’s in Comparative Human Development. She received her Master of Science in Health Systems Management from Rush University in 2013.

Focus During Fellowship: During her fellowship Megan explored a variety of areas across the institution including Neurosurgery, the Medical Genetics Laboratories, IT, Finance, and Business Development. Her longitudinal project focused on supporting efforts to create the Baylor's Radiation Oncology Department. She also spent time working on several process improvement projects for clinical and non-clinical areas.

Current Baylor Status: After her fellowship, Megan transitioned to business development where she worked as a project manager to provide data analysis support to the Baylor Clinical Affairs leadership team. As a part of her role, she was asked to assist the Department of Radiation Oncology as they began to try to stand up their FGP/Baylor Medicine Clinic in 2016. 

Megan is currently the administrator for the Department of Radiation Oncology. In this role, she oversees the clinical, education and research operations for the department. This includes managing all finance and human resource functions. She is responsible for maintaining the department relationship with Harris Health, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, and other affiliates, and implementing and managing new agreements and partnerships with them.

Year of Fellowship: 2009-2010

Background: Erin attended Texas A&M University and received a bachelor's in sociology and a master's in public administration. After finishing her administrative fellowship, Erin completed doctoral studies in healthcare management biostatistics, graduating in 2016 with a doctorate.

Focus During Fellowship: Erin took advantage of the flexibility within Baylor’s fellowship program to structure her year-long rotations around departmental and clinical operations. Erin had the opportunity to serve as the lead on a cost containment project for the Department of Ambulatory Operations and conducted an examination of historical practices regarding record retention and storage. Another project where Erin felt she made a significant contribution is when she compiled and analyzed existing insurance revenue cycle data for the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics. In fact, she was recruited into the department by Sean Kim, another former Baylor fellow, as a project manager in the spring of 2010.

Current Baylor Status: Erin is currently the senior director of clinical business services in the Patient Business Services department at Baylor. Her main responsibilities revolve around managing affiliate hospital and clinical departmental communication on revenue cycle metrics and matters, special projects, offsite clinical revenue cycle start-up, and many other duties.