Currently, Aileen serves as the Associate Vice President of Population Health and Executive Director of the Randall Lewis - Healthy Communities Institute at San Antonio Regional Hospital. Aileen manages and collaborates on high-profile strategic projects serving both internal/external customers in a dynamic matter, and have been successful in identifying viable opportunities and creating plans to drive the long-term vision.

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The Healthy Communities Institute is designed to serve as a vehicle to help create innovative solutions by providing structure, programs, and specific training around healthy community efforts. The institute seeks to address the healthcare worker shortage and elements of the educational gap through wHealth, a program bridging healthcare and wellness directed at middle and high school students. Utilizing its non-clinical internships, the institute provides community practicum experience for undergrad and graduate students, Community Partnerships (BUILD and Know Your Numbers) to support community health improvement, and in leading the Community Health Needs Assessment. 

Previously, Aileen was the Director of Development, Healthcare initiatives at the University of La Verne. Aileen supported a bold new initiative for the College of Health and Community Well-Being, currently in development, that will help meet the critical and ongoing demands for diverse, qualified healthcare professionals, brought into sharp focus by the tragedies of the global COVID-19 pandemic. With a deep passion for disease prevention and community health, Aileen's primary role was to provide support for the College of Health and Community Well-Being, which is to be the regional leader, and national model, for high quality education to prepare careers, research, and innovation in 21st century health and community well-being, with an emphasis on addressing health inequities and social determinants of health. Since the shortage of frontline healthcare workers during the 2020 pandemic crisis, the College of Health and Community Well-Being will strengthen the region by training diverse, highly competent, and compassionate health professionals to meet the needs of the 21st century health care and public health.

Aileen has 25 years of experience working with and providing support to local, state, and federal governments (and now academia) to writing and supporting scientific and community grants, developing improved processes to program management, writing and reviewing policies, and leveraging an organization's quality assurance through ongoing evaluations.

Aileen has a proven track record of success in managing small to large-size project teams in a collaborative and fast-paced environment. She also has a strategic ability to develop work plans for a project work stream, understanding dependencies, maintaining project economics, and keeping an organization informed of progress and issues. Because of Aileen's exposure to diverse working environments and technical issues, she brings forth unique perspectives while identifying skills and resources needed for timely and quality deliverables while maintaining flexibility for unanticipated issues.

As a Manager for Research Development and team science at USC, Aileen has raised programmatic solutions and fundamental research issues at both local and national levels. She is a natural public speaker and is driven to ensure the success of every project she encounters.