Bernadine (Bernie) works with the University of Iowa Health Care legal department as a healthcare risk manager alongside Molly Jamieson. Her background is in clinical nursing including emergency medicine, critical care, cardiovascular lab, interventional radiology, and Home Care. She has experience in organization-wide quality improvement with a focus within non-profit healthcare systems. Bernie has been a Healthcare Integrity and Compliance Officer as well as a Healthcare Risk Management Director. 

Her expertise includes healthcare risk management; Enterprise Risk Management; ongoing Accreditation readiness; General Healthcare Compliance; a background in conducting root cause analysis, event investigation and claims management; and quality improvement activities. She’s a board member of Iowa Society for Healthcare Risk Management and a member of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. Bernie graduated from the University of Iowa College of Nursing with a Bachelor of Nursing, received a Master of Jurisprudence in Health Law from Loyola University Law School Beasley Institute for Health Law and Policy, is a Certified Professional in Health Care Risk Management and certified in Healthcare Compliance.