Cathy Menkiena, MBA, BSN, RN-BC

Cathy Menkiena joined Health Catalyst in November 2018 and serves as the SVP & GM for the Northeast Region. Cathy brings more than three decades of healthcare expertise ranging from direct critical care nursing to successive healthcare leadership, quality improvement, information systems and consulting leadership positions. She spent 20 years in the provider setting in various roles at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center before moving into Information Technology and management consulting leadership roles.

Cathy brings extensive experience leading progressive healthcare initiatives, quality improvement, strategy, systems analysis, software implementation, and enterprise-wide process redesign and transformation in multi-entity settings. Cathy is committed to change the way healthcare is delivered through enabling technologies, analytics and innovation.

In her role as SVP and General Manager, Cathy is focused on providing data and analytics solutions for health systems and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to enable data informed decision making for outcomes improvement and population health.

Cathy has a Bachelor of Nursing degree (BSN) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Niagara University. She is board certified in Nursing Informatics by the American Nursing Credentialling Center (ANCC) and has attained both her Fellow of American Health Care Executives (FACHE) and Fellow Health Information Management Systems Society (FHIMSS).

She is a Board Member of the Healthcare Executive Forum (HEF) local ACHE chapter and the HEF Programming Committee. She serves on the Board of the NY state HIMSS Chapter and is an active member of the NY State Nursing Committee. Cathy also Co-Chairs the HIMSS National CNO/CNIO Vendor Roundtable.