Jennifer Orozco on Clubhouse

Bio

Jennifer Orozco has been a practicing PA in vascular surgery for more than 18 years and is the current Director of Advanced Practice Providers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. In this role, Jennifer partners with other executive leaders to provide oversight, utilization, and operations of the Advanced Practice Provider (APP) role across the health system. In the past year, Jennifer has been instrumental in leading multiple COVID efforts across the system including COVID testing strategy and operations, provider redeployment as well as multiple other covid operations. Prior to this leadership role, Jennifer was the founding Director of Clinical Education for the Rush Department of PA Studies and the Director of PA Clinical Practice for Medical Affairs, where she helped solidify both the PA program and the APP role at Rush. Additionally Jennifer has tremendous experience on both the state and national level in regards to the role and utilization of APPs. She is the former President and current legislative co-chair of the Illinois Academy of PAs, an elected member of the American Academy Board of Directors and an appointed member of Sullivan Cotter’s National Advanced Practice Advisory Council. Her interests and expertise include academic hospital and ambulatory operations, APP leadership and utilization, clinical practice development and assessment, workforce model and service line development, credentialing and privileging, FPPE/OPPE competency assessment, education and provider burnout.