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Trenya Garner is the Principal Systems Analyst for the Center for Healthcare Quality and Analytics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is responsible for managing the hospital-wide safety metrics scorecard, event reporting database systems administration, and developing analysis reports for hospital data. In addition, she leads the governance committee, which devises recommendations for database systems improvements. Trenya has created numerous user-friendly visualization and data-collection tools to assist staff with data reporting, analytics, and interpretation for quality improvement initiatives. Her role also includes serving as the liaison for external data reporting and training clinical and non-clinical staff on proper software usage.

Trenya earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Temple University, a Master of Public Administration from Villanova University, and a Doctor of Education with a concentration in Healthcare Communication and Leadership from Louisiana State University Shreveport. She holds an Executive Education Certificate from Harvard Business School and is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt and ScrumMaster. Before joining the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Trenya was the Manager of Quality Data at Catholic Health East (CHE), a multi-institutional health system located throughout the Eastern United States. At CHE, she managed a full turnkey satisfaction survey administration operation for over 15,000 patients and residents. In addition, she has served as an adjunct professor at Saint Joseph’s University’s Department of Decision and System Sciences, where she taught graduate and undergraduate classes.

Her areas of interest include data consulting, management, teaching, and planning. Outside of the workplace, Trenya is a member of the Board of Trustees at Jefferson Health-Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia, where she also serves on the Board’s Clinician Affairs Committee. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Philadelphia Youth Action, the Program Chairman of the Delaware Valley Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, and a proud and active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.