Teresa van Oort

Teresa van Oort, MHA, MSSW, LCSW-S, FAOSW received a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at Texas Tech University, a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) at Texas State University and a Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Teresa worked in consulting with Advisory Board Company after completing an Executive Fellowship and becoming Assistant Market Administrator with Kindred. After which she obtained her MSSW completing her clinical internship in the critical care step down unit with Seton. She then transitioned to MD Anderson Cancer Center where Teresa first worked on the Lymphoma/Myeloma unit as a Social Work Counselor providing coordination of patient’s bio-psycho-social needs, comprehensive assessment and counseling services. After which she transitioned to leadership as the Clinical Program Manager in a hybrid clinical/administrative capacity focusing on departmental and institutional operational priorities, analytics & metrics, information technology, process & standards improvement. Upon relocation to Chicago, Teresa worked as a Sr. Project Manager at University of Chicago Medicine with the Quality Performance and Improvement team, primarily focused on partnering with surgical teams to improve their patient care through enhanced clinical pathways and institutional ACP. Teresa currently works at the Association for Cancer Care Centers, ACCC, as a Program Manager focusing on oncology related quality improvement and AI/informatics programs. She is also a Lecturer at The University of Chicago, Crown School of Social Work, Policy and Practice teaching classes focused on social work’s role in healthcare settings & ethics and engages in consulting/speaking engagement on a variety of topics strategy (wellness & mental health, suicide, ACP, SDOH, MAID, patient needs assessment, social work technology and AI, analytics and productivity measures) as Executive Director of van Oort Consulting. She is an award-winning presenter, having spoken at local, national, and international conferences, like AOSW and Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare, on Advance Care Planning, suicide assessment, medical aid in dying, quality and performance improvement projects and productivity metrics. Teresa has published in Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, and has several additional abstracts under review.