Christine Torres is the System Vice President of Supply Chain Management for the Main Line Health System, an Integrated Delivery Network consisting of four tertiary care hospitals and one rehabilitation hospital. In this role she provides corporate oversight by facilitating all contracting, logistics and medical equipment management associated with the supply chain needs of these healthcare institutions. Chris draws from her 40 years of healthcare business knowledge, clinical expertise, established relationships and teaching abilities to provide this organization with vision, strategy and direction in navigating the difficult challenges hospitals face today in the areas of ensuring patient safety, increasing supply costs, new technology demand, bending the Medicare cost curve and a host of other economic and resource demands. Chris is a member of the Main Line Health Leadership Faculty and provides training to the Management Team of the organization utilizing curriculums related to leadership development. Chris is certified in lean 6 sigma work and employs these strategies and techniques across the continuum of process improvement initiatives for the organization. Chris acts as a resource for many of the safety initiatives across the Health System. She provides guidance and support to these initiatives by focusing on the IOM STEEEP principles to provide a safer environment for our Patients and Staff. Chris provides strategic direction to the Main Line Health organization by coordinating a system approach to managing efforts related to clinical resource management processes that are leveraged in the evaluation of new technologies, services and supplies for the organization.