• Patient Safety
• Business Management
• Technical Operations
• Construction Planning
• Emergency Preparedness
• Radio System Integration
• EMI and RFI.
  

In August, 2006 Mr. Mariotti joined Kaiser Permanente Health System in Southern California as a Clinical System Engineer in the Biomedical Engineering Department. His primary activities involve integrating complex medical technology systems in new hospital design and construction.

Between July, 2005 and August, 2006 Mr. Mariotti served as an independent consultant to the healthcare industry. His primary activities are related to hospital emergency preparedness and medical technology management as well as public safety communications system infrastructure. In this role he has assisted with regional hospital disaster drill planning, emergency preparedness concept of operations (procedures) and regional as well as statewide hospital specific radio communications systems design and implementation.

In August of 1994, Mr. Mariotti joined Harborview Medical Center as Director of Clinical Engineering.

Harborview Medical Center is a 420-bed teaching hospital associated with the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. It is the sole Level One Trauma and Burn Center for a four state WAMI (Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) region. Mr. Mariotti was hired to create, implement, and manage a clinical engineering department and medical technology management program. In July of 2005 the program was responsible for over 11,000 devices valued at over seventy million dollars.

Mr. Mariotti served many functions at Harborview Medical Center in addition to his development of the Clinical Engineering Department and medical technology management program. He was the outside liaison for Emergency Preparedness activities. He was an appointed member of the following committees: Capital Improvement Council, Bond Capital Improvement Council, Infrastructure, Cardiac Arrest, Critical Care Advisory, Product Standards, Single Use Device, Laser Safety, Imaging Council, and Environment of Care. He was also the Laser Safety Officer.

As Director of Clinical Engineering, Mr. Mariotti led a department of two technicians in 1994 to a team of twenty technical support staff. The Clinical Engineering program includes management of all patient related medical technology, surgical instrument repair and development, bed repair, imaging technology management as well as FDA computer system support. Mr. Mariotti oversaw the four million dollar Clinical Engineering Departmental budget. Mr. Mariotti assisted in the opening of the $300M Long Range Capital Improvement Project (LRCIP) in 1999 with an expansion of eight operating rooms, new PACU and over 24 intensive care beds. The LRCIP also included a complete new radiology imaging department with fundamental PACS implementation. Mr. Mariotti was significantly involved in planning for the Inpatient Expansion Building, a $280M construction project, which will again include new OR's, ICU and other high technology patient care locations that is scheduled to open in 2008.

Harborview Medical Center functions as "Disaster Medical Hospital Control" (DMHC) for all King County hospitals. As Emergency Preparedness Liaison, Mr. Mariotti was responsible for DMHC functions and interfacing with other agencies for Emergency Preparedness planning, drills and event execution. Mr. Mariotti coordinated such events as Top Off Two, World Trade Organization meeting and numerous Mass Casualty Incidents and drills in the Seattle (King County) metropolitan area. These activities included hospital evacuations, cruise ship drills, hazardous material incidents and numerous other activities. Mr. Mariotti coordinated these activities with Seattle Police and Fire Departments, King County Emergency Management, Bellevue and other suburban fire departments, King County Sheriff's Office, Washington State Patrol, FBI, Secret Service, King County Medic One and other agencies. Mr. Mariotti was an invited participant and graduate of the inaugural Seattle FBI Citizens Academy. Mr. Mariotti was appointed to numerous local and county committees including the Seattle Local Emergency Planning Council (L.E.P.C.), Central Region Trauma Council Prehospital Committee, King County Hospital Disaster Committee, Washington State Healthcare Regulatory Reform Committee, the Washington State Trauma and Disaster Preparedness Committees, and the Washington State Hospital Bioterrorism Oversight Committee. He has also served on committees for DHHS in Washington, D.C. related to hospital disaster planning.

In 1999 Mr. Mariotti developed the hospital capacity web page which is currently used by Washington, Oregon and South Carolina to manage emergency department diversions, hospital bed surge capacity and other hospital related emergency preparedness activities.

Mr. Mariotti received his American Hospital Association Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM) in April 2001. At the request of Harborview senior management, in addition to his other responsibilities, he functioned as interim Director of Facilities Engineering. This included Construction, Plant Engineering and Utility Management at Harborview Medical Center 1.4 million square foot campus for fourteen months. This position included oversight of all construction activities, four million dollar capital internal construction program, four million dollar operating budget, over sixty FTE’s and utility management. Mr. Mariotti stabilized the department, including construction budget, construction schedule, maintenance activities and personnel issues by focusing on effective management and team development. Mr. Mariotti was interim Facilities Director during the Nisqually Earthquake of February 2001. He managed the damage assessment response; engineering repairs and initial FEMA grant process as part of his responsibilities.

Before joining Harborview Medical Center, Mr. Mariotti was employed in the manufacturing sector with Spacelabs Medical as the Manager of Inside Sales. His responsibilities included managing the department responsible for responding to hospital and government requests for proposals and bids. Mr. Mariotti also assisted with the sales process. In a unique role he supported product development and provided engineering liaison for the field sales force.

Mr. Mariotti came to Spacelabs Medical from ECRI, a world-renowned, independent nonprofit healthcare consulting and publication company based outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Mariotti joined ECRI in October 1986 and was a Senior Healthcare Consultant. His work focused on researching, purchasing and implementing technology related to extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy, physiological monitoring systems, and anesthesia delivery systems including medical gas piping systems, emergency medical services, and surgical technologies. Mr. Mariotti was also responsible for design, integration, management, and inspection of healthcare facilities projects. During his tenor he was responsible for assisting hospitals with purchases of tens of millions of dollars of medical technology.

Mr. Mariotti served on the editorial and technical staff of more than eight of ECRI’s publications, including Health Devices, the Consumer Reports of the healthcare industry. Mr. Mariotti also supported ECRI’s accident and forensic work group and was responsible for investigating numerous patient-and facilities-related incidents. Mr. Mariotti has been involved as an expert witness in cases regarding anesthesia, emergency medicine, and facilities and antitrust litigation in addition to other specific areas of legal and incident reconstruction.

Prior to ECRI, Mr. Mariotti worked as an independent healthcare consultant in the Chicago area. His primary project was designing, furnishing, and implementing an eight million dollar freestanding kidney lithotripter and surgery center in less than nine months. He was also involved in other projects including equipping an open-heart surgery program, designing a new fire department communications system, and reviewing a certificate of need for a proposed ambulatory surgery center.

Before becoming an independent consultant, Mr. Mariotti worked for a 400-bed suburban Chicago hospital as a clinical engineer. He was one of three engineers and four technicians in a very progressive clinical engineering department. His specialties included surgery, anesthesia, implantable pacemakers, and emergency medicine. He has attended numerous seminars and service schools related to these areas.

Mr. Mariotti received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering with a minor in biology (including a year of graduate level work in cardiology) from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. He was one of a core of several students that initiated the biomedical engineering program that has grown into an extensive program. Mr. Mariotti graduated in 1980. While in college, he worked his way through school as an athletic trainer, dormitory resident assistant, first aid instructor (for the physical education department), electrical engineering student instructor, and a member of the local ambulance service. He also spent his summers as a manufacturing plant engineer and as an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspector.

He was licensed as an emergency medical technician (EMT) in 1978 and maintained certification for 20 years. He was a licensed EMT in Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania. He was certified as a Paramedic in 1981 and maintained certification for over ten years. Mr. Mariotti was a national registered paramedic and was licensed as a paramedic in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Mr. Mariotti was a paramedic for a suburban Chicago fire department. Mr. Mariotti has also been a state-certified fire fighter and was certified in advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advance life support, advanced HAZMAT life support, Basic Disaster Life Support, and pre-hospital trauma life support. While in Pennsylvania he was an active paramedic with a nonprofit volunteer ambulance service in suburban Philadelphia, where, in addition to his paramedic duties, he functioned as the elected president and treasurer and the appointed paramedic coordinator. Mr. Mariotti also served as the paramedic representative on the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Emergency Services Council.

Mr. Mariotti served as the primary instructor for the Seattle Community College System Biomedical Technology Program for five years. He has also taught junior college classes in the fire science curriculum. His areas of expertise include industrial hazards and advanced hazardous materials. He has been a frequent lecturer to fire fighters, emergency medical personnel, physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, clinical engineers, and manufacturers of healthcare devices on such topics as pacemakers, defibrillation, hazardous materials, radio communications systems, risk management, purchasing of advanced medical technology, and technology management. He has been an invited speaker for groups ranging from hospital CEOs, to surgeons, to clinical engineers, to operating room nurses. These groups included: Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) local and national meetings, the American College of Surgeons, St. Paul Insurance Company, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the American College of Clinical Engineers (ACCE), and the Midwest, Pennsylvania, and Washington State Biomedical Associations. He has also been an invited speaker on nationwide teleconferences related to hospital emergency preparedness, Y2K planning, electromagnetic interference, and biomedical engineering management.

Mr. Mariotti has published articles related to emergency communications systems and hospital construction planning in Association of Public Safety Communication Officials (APCO) and Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) magazines, respectively. He has been interviewed and quoted in numerous articles related to emergency preparedness, medical technology planning and healthcare communications systems.

Mr. Mariotti is an amateur radio operator. Elected as a member of the American College of Clinical Engineers (ACCE), he is a participating member of the American Society of Hospital Engineers (ASHE), Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the Association of Public-Safety Communication Officials (APCO) and the Washington State Biomedical Association (WSBA), where he has held elected office as treasurer and president.

Mr. Mariotti has received awards for teamwork from South King County Medic 1 as well as Directors award from the Seattle/King County Health Department for his exemplary work in emergency and bioterrorism preparedness.

Mr. Mariotti has two teenage daughters and a son.

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