PhD in Translational Medicine with peer-reviewed work behind the method.
Built from healthcare operations and evidence.
ASKARR sits where research standards, digital transformation, and operating discipline have to hold together.

PhD, MBA / Founder and Principal Consultant
- Training
- PhD
- Business
- MBA
- Focus
- Ops
A practice built around disciplined execution.
Rodney combines translational medicine, executive business training, and hands-on healthcare operating experience.
Executive MBA training in finance, accounting, and operating rigor.
Advisory experience across digital transformation, governance, and process improvement.
Full background
Rodney Rosalia combines a PhD in Translational Medicine with an Executive MBA in Finance and Accounting and more than a decade of international healthcare advisory experience.
His work spans healthcare process optimization, business analysis, digital transformation, governance design, and data-driven quality improvement across hospital, laboratory, and health information domains.
He has advised on personal health record governance and national information standards, led digital transformation programs in cardiac surgery quality management, and supported operational improvement in laboratory medicine and specialist care settings.
Credentials, focus, and research record.
Clinical research training paired with executive business discipline.
- Translational Medicine / Leiden
- Finance & Accounting / Maastricht
- Oncology / Amsterdam
Healthcare transformation work grounded in governance, workflows, and adoption.
- Healthcare operations
- Digital transformation
- Governance and data
- Value-based care
Published record across digital transformation and clinical simulation training.
- The Lancet Regional Health - Europe / 2021
- The Annals of Thoracic Surgery / 2021
- JTCVS Techniques / 2023
Swipe horizontally
Selected work, kept confidential.
“ASKARR helped us move from broad strategic ambition to practical operating steps our teams could actually use.”
“The work was clear, structured, and grounded in how decisions are made inside healthcare organizations.”
Swipe horizontally
Evidence, business training, advisory execution.
A compact path from oncology research to healthcare transformation work.
- 012007
Research foundation
MSc Oncology · University of Amsterdam
- 022014
Doctoral training
PhD · Leiden University
- 032022
Operating discipline
Executive MBA · Maastricht
- 042023
Practice formed
ASKARR founded
- 05Today
Advisory focus
Strategy, governance, data, and operations
Start with fit, then scope the work.
No sales pressure. We establish whether the engagement is a fit before anything else.
Advisory work where strategy had to become operating cadence.
Selected references from work where recommendations had to become governance, routines, and practical decisions.
“ASKARR helped us move from broad strategic ambition to practical operating steps our teams could actually use.”
“The work was clear, structured, and grounded in how decisions are made inside healthcare organizations.”
Evidence, business training, advisory execution.
Rodney’s path runs from oncology research through healthcare operations, business training, and international advisory work.
- 200701
Research foundation
MSc Oncology · University of Amsterdam
- 201402
Doctoral training
PhD · Leiden University
- 202203
Operating discipline
Executive MBA · Maastricht
- 202304
Practice formed
ASKARR founded
- Today05
Advisory focus
Strategy, governance, data, and operations
Work with a practice built for the long run.
A scoping conversation is the first step. We establish fit before anything else. No sales pressure, no commitment required.