She is a graduate of Molly College's School of Nursing and earned her MBA Summa Cum Laude from Adelphi University. She has over twenty years of health care experience holding a variety of clinical, administrative and consulting positions. Joan began her career at New York Presbyterian Hospital and became an Assistant Director of Nursing for Beth Israel Medical Center. She transitioned to healthcare consulting at Loeb & Troper and Deloitte & Touche where she provided a full complement of healthcare consulting services for a variety of healthcare organizations. Her expertise includes operations; regulatory preparation; policy, procedure and program development; quality improvement; and reengineering and reorganization planning.