Dr. Denise Gee, DHA, MBA, CSSBB

Denise Gee is a senior healthcare executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience at the intersection of healthcare quality, regulatory compliance, and enterprise operations. Her background includes extensive human resources, compliance, and operational leadership across memory care, senior living, and behavioral health hospital systems, with a focus on navigating complex regulatory requirements and building scalable, high-performing systems.

At Qsource, Denise serves as Compliance Officer and leads Quality and Corporate Services, including oversight of the organization’s consulting division, as well as HR, Marketing, Growth, and IT. Her approach is grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing clinical, operational, and support teams together to drive informed, consistent decision-making. She is expanding Qsource’s behavioral health offerings through the development of services that help organizations more effectively address behavioral and psychosocial needs across care settings. She is also advancing the responsible use of AI, leveraging emerging technologies to support more proactive use of data, strengthen regulatory alignment, and enhance, rather than replace, clinical and operational judgment.

Denise is passionate about helping others meet challenges, overcome obstacles, and grow into the best version of themselves. She was named an MSNBC Know Your Value finalist and completed Johnson & Johnson’s Human Performance Institute Corporate Athlete program. She has also been recognized by the D’Aniello Foundation and Nielsen for her work supporting veteran employment initiatives and is the author of multiple books on HR compliance.

Denise holds a Doctor of Healthcare Administration (DHA) from Virginia University of Lynchburg and an MBA, summa cum laude, from Purdue University. She is also a graduate of the Jim Moran Institute at Florida State University and a SCORE Certified Small Business Mentor. Her professional affiliations include SHRM and ACHE.