Sandra Powell-Elliott, the vice president of Innovation and Health Ventures at Hackensack Meridian Health, has been named to the Becker’s Healthcare 2022 list “Women Power Players in Health IT”.

Sandra Powell-Elliott will also be a featured speaker at Becker’s Hospital Review’s 7th Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, which will take place in Chicago from Oct. 4-7. She will discuss “How to be a Daredevil Innovator in Healthcare.”

Sandra Powell-Elliott’s role at Hackensack Meridian Health is to foster the internal development of an innovative culture, while also bringing innovative and transformative solutions from outside of the organization to the forefront of the organization’s strategic planning efforts. Through the development of the Bear’s Den investment and innovation program, Sandra’s efforts have enabled HMH to invest in early stage, innovative ideas and technologies to better meet the needs of patients and the clinicians who treat them.

In addition, Sandra closely works with the researchers of the Hackensack Meridian Center of Discovery and Innovation (CDI) to license new discoveries, create spin-out opportunities, and also identify collaborative opportunities with large medical device and pharmaceutical companies.