About Turner Healthcare Quality Consulting

Turner Healthcare Quality Consulting, Inc. is a minority-owned strategic
consulting business founded in 2019.

Our Mission

Our mission is to deliver actionable, market-relevant strategic guidance for our biopharmaceutical clients by helping to deepen their understanding of their customer’s healthcare quality and value-based care perspectives.

In the process, we aim to address unmet medical and health needs of patients and family caregivers.In our work, we bring a focus to the cross-cutting themes of patient-centeredness and health equity​.

We pursue our mission with vigilance to the values of integrity, accountability, excellence, and passion​.

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Our Team

We have over 75 years of collective experience in the value-based care, payment, healthcare quality, and pharmaceutical industry space.

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Norris Turner, PharmD, PhD
President & CEO

Dr. Turner is the founder of THCQ consulting and an executive in the pharmaceutical industry with over 20 years of experience with clinical development, medical affairs, market access, and quality strategy.

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Manasi A. Tirodkar, PhD, MS
Healthcare quality

Dr. Tirodkar is a health services researcher and medical anthropologist with expertise in quality measurement and qualitative research methods who provides strategic advice around healthcare quality to biopharmaceutical companies.

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Shantel Houston, PharmD​
Brand strategy

Dr. Houston is a clinical pharmacist and brand strategy consultant with experience in branding and marketing, community pharmacy, association management, and consulting.

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George Bilyk, MBA
Policy & Advocacy

Mr. Bilyk is a healthcare professional with 30+ years of experience, including positions as a Finance/Marketing Controller, Medicaid & Medicare Marketing Director, and Health Policy Director focusing on mental health.

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Pam Sudbanthad, MS, PharmD, MBA
Clinical Pharmacy

Dr. Sudbanthad is a clinical pharmacist with extensive experience and financial knowledge of the current healthcare system committed to quality improvement and enhanced patient safety.

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Andrea Samuels, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy

Dr. Samuels is a results-oriented professional with 18+ years of pharmacy experience skilled in communicating with customers and collaborating with various members of the organization to achieve objectives.

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