Cindy Joy Marselis has over twenty five years of management, strategic business analysis and system analysis experience in the life sciences industry with specific emphasis on the development of the electronic health record. Cindy has extensive expertise in requirements gathering, hospital and pharmaceutical system development and design, disease management outcomes assessment, proposal development, training, strategic analysis, as well as clinical trial management. She has consulted or held positions at a range of organizations including Fox Chase Cancer Center, First Consulting Group, Merck Vaccine Division, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck-Medco, Centocor, Astra Zeneca, OraPharma, Synthes USA, Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, Artcraft, and Priority Express. She has designed large scale databases, data warehouses, clinical repositories, and has established mining protocols for longitudinal health care analyses, and has also designed a number of hand-held health care, clinical trial, and sales force automation applications. While at Merck Research Laboratories, Cindy was the American-based Medical Program Coordinator for the successful registration in Australia and New Zealand of Pentavax, a pentavalent pediatric combination vaccine. She was acknowledged in the journal Vaccine for her contribution to this research. She was also lead author project manager for the development of two health information technology workforce development grants.
Cindy is the Director of the MS in Health Informatics Program and the Interim Chair of the Health Information Management Department at the College of Health Professions and Social Work. She also holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Management Information Systems Department at the Fox School of Business.
Cindy holds a BS in Health Information Management, an MBA in Health Administration, and a MS in Management Information Systems.
