Stefani Daniels is Founder and Managing Partner of Phoenix Medical Management Inc., a national advisory firm exclusively devoted to hospital case management strategic planning, program improvement projects, and education. A graduate of Stockton State College and Villanova University, Stefani spent the majority of her career in the executive suite of hospitals in New York, Pennsylvania and Florida and is a former senior consultant with Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc. She held adjunct faculty appointments in graduate healthcare programs at Columbia University in NY, University of Pennsylvania, and Nova Southeastern University School of Business and Entrepreneurship in Fort Lauderdale, FL and currently sits on the editorial boards of Lippincott’s Professional Case Management journal, HCPro’s Case Management Monthly and CMSA’s Today. Stefani is a popular speaker, author, and recognized expert in the field of hospital case management . She is co-author of the popular text The Leader’s Guide to Hospital Case Management and the recently published The Hospital Guide to Contemporary Utilization Review and is a contributing author in the 2nd and 3rd edition of CMSA Core Curriculum for Case Management