Thomas Joseph Christl
Punta Gorda,FL
Summary
Dynamic leader with extensive experience in leading people and organizational change to drive results, significantly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.
Expertise in building coalitions to drive voluntary adoption of key initiatives and impactful practices, fostering resilience across the national healthcare and public health critical infrastructure. Adept at leading diverse multi-agency collaborations and providing strategic insights on national security matters. Demonstrated business acumen in budget oversight and program management, driving organizational growth and capability enhancement. Develop strategic vision critical to inform policy frameworks that bolster national health infrastructure and improve response capabilities.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director, Office of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
02.2022 - Current
- Advance the resilience and security of the $800 billion national healthcare and public health critical infrastructure by leading a complex collaborative partnership with 400+ private sector and 150+ public sector partner organizations to identify priority risks and develop mitigating strategies and deliverables through a robust consensus-based process
- Drive strategic alignment between national policy and operational priorities for healthcare resilience, supply chain security and cybersecurity
- Coordinate and manage a continuum of threats across multiple lines of business through effective resource investment and building shared strategic visions for impactful outcomes
- Combined advanced degree in organizational leadership with professional experience to drive internal organizational change, expanding staffing by 200% and attracting 400% increase in annual funding
- Led the $10 million, four-year development of a web-based risk assessment tool, transforming healthcare facility risk evaluations and enabling sector-wide risk analysis, leading to adoption by over 2,700 healthcare facilities
- Directed a strategic assessment of HHS-wide cybersecurity authorities, to identify gaps and opportunities to advance the cybersecurity posture of the healthcare and public health infrastructure
- Exercised leadership without authority to drive organizational change, increasing engagement and participation in voluntary partnership activities of the HPH Sector
- Oversaw program development and operational activities to assess cyber threats and respond to cyber incidents impacting the HPH Sector
- Briefed HHS leadership and White House staff on numerous related activities
Branch Chief
Office of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
08.2019 - 02.2022
- Coordinated Healthcare and Public Health Sector private-public partnership activities to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Directed omni-channel communication programs to ensure timely and actionable information sharing across public and private sector partners to increase resilience of the healthcare and public health infrastructure
- Managed legislative responsibilities for HHS as the HPH Sector Risk Management Agency
- Served as Government Program Officer for a $3.7M, five-year Cooperative Agreement
- Served as the sole government sponsor for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report on medical supply chain resilience
- Led a meta-analysis of supply chain findings, resulting in an expert forum and publication in the journal Health Affairs
- The report ranked in the top 20% of NASEM downloads
Director, Office of Drug Security, Integrity and Response
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
01.2011 - 08.2019
- Directed a multidisciplinary team to execute the national security mission to security the pharmaceutical supply chain using novel strategies and tools
- Represented HHS at national and international forums, engaging with regulatory agencies and key stakeholders to foster collaboration and influence policy development
- Designed, implemented, and evaluated risk-based public health strategies and policies, driving innovation and accountability to address urgent health risks and regulatory concerns in the pharmaceutical sector
- Decreased the mean classification time of critical (Class I) pharmaceutical recalls from 46 to 5 days
- Drove organizational change to meet evolving mission space, doubling organization size in a competitive and constrained hiring environment
- Led incident response activities for multiple critical drug quality emergencies
- Engineered strategic shift in approach to FDA’s efforts to combat illicit opioid sales
- Overhauled the pharmaceutical importation program implementing technology-enable risk-based approaches affecting over 800,000 import entries valued at $86 billion
- Advanced global health security through supply chain integrity expertise
Laboratorian
Monrovia Medical Unit (MMU)
12.2014 - 01.2015
- Tested clinical samples of suspected and confirmed Ebola patients to enable personalized medical treatment under austere 'hot zone' conditions
Deputy Team Lead
Public Health Service
04.2018 - 04.2021
- Deputy Team Lead of 140 commissioned officer deployment team with multiple deployments as well as Officer-In-Charge for 90 officer COVID-19 deployment team charge with establishing Alternate Care Site
Education
Master of Science - Organizational Leadership
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD12-2023
Master of Science - Biomedical Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SCBachelor of Science - Biology
University of Miami
Miami, FLBachelor of Science - Marine Science
University of Miami
Miami, FLSkills
- Operations management
- Meeting facilitation
- Human resources management
- Customer service
- Clear oral/written communication
- Organizational skills
- Strategic planning
- Project management
- Policy development
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Excellent communication
Certification
- Prosci Change Management Certificate
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS)
Timeline
Director, Office of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
02.2022 - Current
Branch Chief
Office of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
08.2019 - 02.2022
Deputy Team Lead
Public Health Service
04.2018 - 04.2021
Laboratorian
Monrovia Medical Unit (MMU)
12.2014 - 01.2015
Director, Office of Drug Security, Integrity and Response
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
01.2011 - 08.2019
Master of Science - Organizational Leadership
Johns Hopkins University
Master of Science - Biomedical Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina
Bachelor of Science - Biology
University of Miami
Bachelor of Science - Marine Science
University of Miami
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