As President and CEO, Danielle Vizcaino is a methodical, innovative, and hands-on leader with more than 15 years of healthcare experience and seven years of executive leadership experience in the charitable patient assistance space.
Danielle leads a diverse organization of more than 80 employees in Orlando, Florida, and Washington, DC, which has consistently been named by Forbes as a top 100 charity and The NonProfit Times as one of the 50 best nonprofits to work for. She oversees TAF’s nearly 90 disease programs, which since 2009 have helped nearly 180,000 people access the critical treatment they need to manage a life-threatening, chronic, or rare disease.
Since joining The Assistance Fund’s (TAF’s) Executive Leadership Team in 2016, Danielle has served as Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President of Operations, Philanthropy, and Communications, Vice President of Operations, and the executive liaison to TAF’s Medical Advisory Board, where she played a critical role in recruiting new members. During Danielle’s first seven years at TAF, the organization launched 55 new disease programs, achieved a 400% increase in corporate donations, obtained 4,847 new individual donors, and secured $1.5M in individual donor contributions. In addition, Danielle championed several internal and external initiatives that supported TAF’s high standards of operational excellence and customer service, while embracing innovation and transforming the patient experience.
Prior to joining TAF, Danielle served as Director of Operations at One Call Care Management and as a Medical Laboratory Scientist at the Bureau of Public Health Laboratories in Jacksonville, Fla. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). She is also a board member of Harbor House of Central Florida. Danielle earned an MBA and MPH from the University of North Florida and a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology and Microbiology from the University of Central Florida.