The climb of healthcare consulting expert : Teresa Gulino


Posted On Sep 15 2020

Teresa Elizabeth Gulino or the ascent of healthcare leadership professional? She has been an integral part of US healthcare culture shift to Population Health Management, Digital transformation while keenly supporting the Human side of the business. She is a proven leader who believes in team building within her healthcare executive roles with escalating responsibility in Fortune 50 organizations.

What Teresa Gulino’s business partners think about her ? Teresa is the type of person that you wish you could hire for your own company. She has the drive, knowledge, personality, and get ‘er done attitude necessary to make any project or program successful. I worked with Teresa from 2005-2008 when she was the CNO for Nurse Staffing. My company provided criminal background checks to Nurse Staffing for pre-employment purposes. Teresa was adament about ensuring the safety of her company, its employees and her clients. She is extrememly detail oriented and always follows through to completion. I admire her strength and determination. She is such a dynamic individual and someone who has earned and is extrememly deserving of respect in her field. It is my true pleasure to recommend Teresa Gulino.

With more than 20 years of private & public sector direct executive management experience, Teresa Elizabeth Gulino brings a rare combination of financial acumen, business development, population health, and Artificial Intelligence-Data Analytics business intelligence to the Healthcare sector. Her professional career includes extensive large-scale healthcare operations, IT-Vendor software implementations and platform consolidation.

Teresa was a “go to” partner for business operations, which is critical to success in a matrixed environment. Teresa brought vision, structure and accountability to a rapidly evolving organization that greatly needed enhanced alignment. Messaging and workflows of associates within Teresa’s clinical scope improved rapidly after her arrival, enabling Transcend to deepen provider relationships and drive value-based improvements to our provider partners within the IPA model.

As the Global Business Executive, Teresa managed staff at all levels, including C-Suite, offshore – US based teams, vendors and demonstrated the flexibility to speak at the level of the employee, regardless of the level exhibited. She has international business relationships. Most recently, she expertly handled a team of 800+ individuals, $200M+ P&L and projects delivering $20M+ in administrative savings with $40B+ in national assets.

Teresa was our CNO of Nurse Staffing during my tenure as President. We initially worked through some very challenging times and then through a period of rapid growth both organically and through aquisitions. Teresa was a key member of the turnaround effort, establishing infrastructure, training staff and integrating the aquisitions we made. She is a professional that is focused, diligent and results oriented. Her ability to multi task, quickly identify opportunities for improvement and follow through were exceptional. Teresa is a team player and always looks to expand her knowledge and skills to be the best leader she can be. I’d highly recommend her!

Named to Orlando Business Journal’s 40 under 40 list, Teresa graduated with a Bachelors from UCF and holds an MBA from Capella University of Minneapolis, Betta Gamma Sigma. She is a member of American College of Healthcare Executives and holds a Board Position, Dean’s Advisor for the University of Central Florida, She is open to new Board Experiences! Read even more info on Teresa Elizabeth Gulino.

I worked with Teresa extensively at Transcend Population Health Management for nearly two years. Throughout my tenure there she was always a go to person. My job was to educate physicians to achieve Population Health goals. From the beginning, she provided education, guidance and advice on how to develop relationships with practitioners. From there, she guided me and the other Medical Directors on how to move these relationships to practice changes on the part of the practitioners. Her talent with Data Acquisition and Analytics was impressive. She always knew where to find information that we required, process the data, and cull actionable items to improve patient outcomes and our success. Her thorough understanding of healthcare at every level, from direct patient care to corporate senior leadership was critical to our efforts to educate physicians and drive Population Health forward. She demonstrated impressive Strategic Leadership, translating corporate initiatives into action on the part of the Medical Directors and nursing personnel to enable changes at the provider level. It was truly a pleasure working with her.

Last Updated on: September 23rd, 2020 at 3:02 pm, by


Written by Ilie Dumitrescu