JILL S. WARRINGTON has spent the past twenty-five years in healthcare. Beginning her career as a federally funded MD-PhD student, Jill bridged the clinical and research worlds, recognizing the critical nature of translational medicine and the value of applying research principles to clinical service work. With a PhD in pharmacology, Jill was exposed to the operations of pharmaceutical companies and the principles of laboratory medicine. Through her academic career, she has learned from some of the best at Princeton University, Tufts School of Medicine and Graduate Sciences, Duke University, and now the University of Vermont. Throughout her career, she has brought thought leadership to her endeavors, publishing pioneering research on innovations in SUD and spearheading a number of grant-funding projects in this area. Through her work with Chris at Aspenti Health, where she served as chief medical officer, she collaborated with institutions on bold new approaches to substance-use treatment, helping to introduce new reporting strategies for laboratory-result interpretation; providing countless local, regional, and national presentations; serving as course director for digital educational content development; and championing innovative solutions in the organization, such as the introduction of a transformative testing strategy--known as comprehensive screening--to the field. Further collaborations have involved the following: a mobile unit for specimen collections during the COVID-19 pandemic; the development of a telehealth strategy for observed collections (telecollections); Lean Six Sigma operational and quality efficacies to the laboratory; and the investigation of several offerings to the digital platform, including the incorporation of social determinants of health data and the collaborative helping model. Today she serves as Director of Population Health for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and as Laboratory Director for the Vermont Department of Health Laboratory.
