Cathi A. Harbertson

Biography

Cathi A. Harbertson is a Business Services Analyst with the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine. She received her bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and is currently pursuing an MBA through the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She has spent the past ten years as business/data analyst and has been an integral part of developing a robust data and reporting structure for the emergency departments of Johns Hopkins Medicine. She was responsible for creating operational, research, regulatory, and financial reports for both administrative and clinical staff and leadership at Hopkins. Aside from the significant time devoted to the AAAEM-AACEM benchmarking surveys each year, her current work focuses on helping operationalize clinical decision-making guidelines throughout Johns Hopkin Medical Institutions.

Cathi has been an integral part of the ED benchmarking and salary surveys since 2011. She, alongside the AAAEM-AACEM Benchmarking Committee and Roundtable Analytics, provides substantial support to the deployment and analysis of the survey each year. She has most recently been involved in smaller pilot studies to address current issues in ED operations and helped to publish papers related to the results of the survey.