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Jennifer M. Carman, M.D. Internal Medicine

Rodney E. Snow, M.D. Endocrinology

Allison J. Smith, M.D. Ophthalmology

Thomas K. “JT” Thomas, M.D. Obstetrics and Gynecology

Elizabeth Lyons, M.D. Rheumatology

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Todd C. Huber, M.D. Otolaryngology ENT

Gregory A. Mowery, M.D. Otolaryngology ENT

Nicole O. Baggott, M.D. Internal Medicine

Subir Prasad, M.D. Neurology

Beverly M. Zak, M.D., Ph.D. Dermatology

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1909 Mallory Lane, Ste 108 Franklin, TN 37067 (615) 771-7220

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Editor’s Note Your Primary Source for Professional Healthcare News

Editorial Editor Cindy Sanders

elcome to the 2012 edition of Nashville Medical News InCharge Healthcare, a compendium of key decision-makers across the broad spectrum of Nashville’s vibrant healthcare industry. Our intent is to make this publication a rich resource that delivers a snapshot of one of this city’s most important economic engines.

Contributing Editor Geert De Lombaerde

Art & Production Art Director

This dynamic industry’s influence extends far beyond the borders of Nashville, however. Local healthcare executives are widely recognized as thought leaders and innovators on a national … and even global … basis. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal highlighted Nashville as the nation’s healthcare hub and noted entrepreneurs flourish in an environment where there is access to funding, facilities and mentors.

Tracy Mitchell Photographer Eric England

Sales & Marketing SouthComm Executive Publisher Mike Smith Advertising Director Ginny Staggs

In fact, the Nashville Health Care Council attributes more than $70 billion in revenue and 400,000 jobs globally to this industry. Locally, healthcare employees more than 200,000 and adds almost $30 billion to the city’s revenues annually. Healthcare is also Nashville’s fastest-growing employer. Since 2004, direct healthcare employment has jumped more than 20 percent, which is even more impressive in light of national economic woes. We hope you find InCharge Healthcare a publication you turn to again and again to tap into the vast industry knowledge headquartered here. The listings are not meant to be a social registry or ‘who’s who’ in healthcare but rather are meant to be a useful guide to those influencers who shape healthcare’s direction and create opportunities for others.

Account Executives Maggie Bond, Heather Cantrell, Rachel Dean, Christy Martin Gibson, Chelon Hasty, Scott Hylbert, Joy Lewis, Carla Mathis, Erin Mills, Stephanie Roselli, Stevan Steinhart, Keith Wright

While much care and thought has been put into creating this list and ensuring its accuracy, we readily recognize in the constantly evolving healthcare landscape, change is inevitable … and, in fact, desirable. Equally, we realize other deserving leaders should be included in future editions. Please feel free to help us grow this list by e-mailing me directly at editor@ nashvillemedicalnews.com or going online to www.nashvillemedicalnews. com and use the “My Medical News” button to submit comments, suggestions and ideas under the “InCharge Healthcare” link.

Chris Ferrell Chief Executive Officer Todd Patton

Cindy Sanders cindy@medicalnewsinc.com

Director of Accounting Susan Torregrossa Director of Sales Operations Patrick Rains Director of Content/Online Development Heather Pierce

On The Cover Left to Right:

Wayne Riley, MD: President & CEO, Meharry Medical College Charles Eckstein, MD: President, Urology Associates Lucy Carter: Partner, Carter Lankford CPAs Melissa Waddey: Senior Director, Strategic Resource Group, LifePoint Hospitals

Creative Director

Photograph By Eric England

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A Clint Adams CFO Ardent Health Services One Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 250 Nashville 37215 615.296.3000 ardenthealth.com Adams, who joined Ardent in 2003, brings more than 20 years of accounting and healthcare experience to the lead financial role for the health services company. Previously, he was an audit senior manager for Ernst & Young, where he managed large and medium-sized audit engagements of multiple SEC healthcare and technology companies. He also served as controller for PathGroup Inc. and was an audit manager and staff accountant for Deloitte. A CPA, Adams is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Robert Adams Chairman & CEO National HealthCare Corp. 100 East Vine St. Murfreesboro 37130 615.890.2020 nhccare.com Adams has served NHC for 35 years – 18 of them as senior VP, 10 as COO and five as president and CEO. He became chairman of the board on Jan. 1, 2009, and has been CEO since Nov. 1, 2004. He has extensive long-term care experience, including serving NHC as a healthcare center administrator and regional VP as the company grew into a 76unit chain with almost 10,000 beds in 12 states.

Sharon Adkins, MSN RN Executive Director Tennessee Nurses Association 545 Mainstream Drive, Suite 405 Nashville 37228 615.254.0350 tnaonline.org Prior to assuming leadership for the state’s professional nursing organization in 2006, Adkins held various leadership positions at Vanderbilt, where she maintains an adjunct faculty position at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She holds a bachelor’s of science in nursing from the University of Minnesota, a master’s of science in nursing administration from VUSN, and is a 1997 graduate of the Parish Nurse Preparation Institute at the Marquette University College of Nursing.

Clifford Adlerz President & COO Symbion Healthcare 40 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 500 Nashville 37215 615.234.5900 symbion.com Adlerz has served as president of Symbion since May 2002 and as COO and a board director since its inception in 1999. Previously, he was COO of UniPhy, an operator of multi-specialty clinics, independent practice associations and related outpatient services. He also served as division VP of HCA Inc. and regional VP of HealthTrust, with responsibility for the operations of 14 hospitals in two states.

Karen Ahern Senior VP, National Healthcare Finance Fifth Third Bank 424 Church St. Nashville 37219 615.687.3115 53.com In July 2011, Ahern stepped into the role oversee-

ing national healthcare lending after joining Fifth Third in 2008 as director of healthcare banking. Previously, the healthcare finance veteran was with SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and also headed up healthcare finance at National City. In 1996, Ahern became the first finance professional elected to the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Dave Alexander, MD President Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance 301 21st Ave. N. Nashville 37203 615.329.6600 toa.com Specializing in sports medicine and hand surgery, Alexander is president of TOA. The board-certified orthopaedic surgeon, who holds a certificate of added qualification in surgery of the hand, received his medical degree from Vanderbilt, where he also completed surgical and orthopaedic residencies. Recently, Alexander was recognized as one of the nation’s ‘Top Doctors in Orthopaedic Surgery’ by Castle Connolly Medical, a healthcare research company. He is he former chairman of the board for Ortholink Physicians Corporation.

Don Alexander CEO Tennessee Medical Association 2301 21st Ave. S. Nashville 37212 615.385.2100 tnmed.org Alexander has been with the Tennessee Medical Association since joining the organization as a field agent in 1973. He was named to the top staff spot in 1995 but announced his intentions to retire before the end of 2012. The organization has named Russ Miller as his successor. During his nearly four decades with the TMA, Alexander has advocated on behalf of physician members on a variety of legislative, educational and practice issues. Prior to joining the staff, he worked briefly as a consultant for the GA-TN Regional Health Service in Chattanooga.

Tom Anderson Co-founder, Vice Chair Capella Healthcare 501 Corporate Centre Drive, Suite 200 Franklin 37067 615.764.3000 capellahealth.com Anderson co-founded Capella with Dan Slipkovich in April 2005. His current focus is on development. Previously, he was senior VP of acquisitions and development for Province Healthcare, where he completed transactions involving 18 hospitals before Province was sold to LifePoint. He began his career in 1975 in public service with the Tennessee Division of State Audit.

Doug Andrews Co-founder & President Lam-Andrews Advertising 1201 Eighth Ave. S. Nashville 37203 615.297.7717 lam-andrews.com Andrews, who co-founded this healthcare communications firm in 1991, is responsible for business development, operations and strategic planning. He also serves as the firm’s technology director, applying a range of online marketing expertise to help clients maximize brand awareness and lead generation using web-based tactics.

Hal Andrews Co-founder Mainland Morgan & Co. 3100 West End Ave., 7th Floor Nashville 37203 615.312.7118 After serving as managing director with private investment firm The Martin Companies, Andrews launched Mainland Morgan & Co., a holding company with interests in healthcare, information technology and real estate, in 2011. Recognized for his entrepreneurial vision, Andrews provides strategic advisory services to a variety of companies in the healthcare technology and services industries. In addition, he serves on the boards for Care Team Connect, Shareable Ink, Medify, SurgiChart and Nashville Capital Network. In 2007, Andrews launched Data Advantage, which he ultimately sold to The Martin Companies. He began his career as a healthcare attorney.

Nancy Anness VP of Advocacy and Outreach Saint Thomas Health 102 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 800 Nashville 37205 615.284.7847 sths.com 1n 1991, Anness was recruited by Vanderbilt to start the Vine Hill Community Clinic. Four years later, she joined Saint Thomas Health to launch community clinics to serve the poor. After 13 years as the executive director of the Saint Thomas Family Health Centers, she moved into her current position in 2008.

Doug Ardoin, Jr., MD CMO TriStar Health System 110 Winners Circle, First Floor Nashville 37203 615.886.4900 tristarhealth.com Ardoin was named CMO for the TriStar division in November 2011. He came from New Orleans where he served in the same capacity for HCA’s Delta Division. Ardoin is responsible for continual improvement of clinical and patient safety outcomes, as well as greater physician engagement and alignment in the areas of physician leadership and clinical variation reduction across the division. Previously he served as physician-in-chief of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and CEO of Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital in Houston. Prior to that, the board-certified family physician was in private practice.

Mark Awh, MD Founder & President Radsource, LLC 8 Cadillac Drive, Suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.376.7500 radsource.us An authority on magnetic resonance imaging, Awh was a founder of Radsource, a joint venture between United Surgical Partners International and Imaging Specialists, PLLC, in 2001. Awh oversees the imaging management company, which offers services ranging from interpretation to developing imaging centers. Prior to founding Radsource, Awh served as director of MRI at Saint Thomas Hospital and as president of one of the nation’s largest radiology private practices.

David Ayer Director of Clinical Research Centerstone Research Institute 44 Vantage Way, Suite 280 Nashville 37228 615.463.6240 centerstoneresearch.org

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InCharge HEALTHCARE As director of clinical research at Centerstone, Ayer works with a team of nationally known researchers managing clinical trials focusing on schizophrenia, depression, older adult needs, conduct disorders, homelessness, and nicotine, alcohol and methamphetamine abuse. He received a doctorate in behavior analysis at Western Michigan University and is a member of the American Psychological Association.

B Buddy Bacon CEO Meridian Surgical Partners 5141 Virginia Way, Suite 420 Brentwood 37027 615.301.8140 meridiansurg.com From 1996 to 2003, Bacon was CEO and CFO for Medifax-EDI Inc., a local healthcare information technology company that was acquired by Atlanta-based Crescent Capital for $117 million. Bacon then teamed up with Surgical Alliance co-founders Kenny Hancock and Cathy Kowalski to assemble a team to run Meridian, which now manages 16 surgery centers in 12 states in partnership with physicians.

Ben Baker COO CareHere 215 Jamestown Park Drive, Suite 204 Brentwood 37027 615.661.5680 carehere.com Baker is the former president of Precision Data Management Systems, which markets information technology consulting services. He is a certified master black belt in the Six Sigma quality management process pioneered by General Electric. CareHere runs 90 on-site healthcare clinics in 17 states. Its payroll has risen to about 160 people from 90 a year ago.

Jeff Balser, MD, PhD Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs & Dean Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1161 21st Ave. S. D-3300, MCN, Nashville 37232 615.936.3030 medschool.vanderbilt.edu A Vanderbilt School of Medicine graduate, Balser joined his alma mater as an associate dean in 1998 and was named chair of VUMC’s Department of Anesthesiology three years later. In 2004, he became the chief research officer and led the moved the medical school into the top 10 in NIH funding. In October 2008, Balser was named associate vice chancellor for Health Affairs and became the 11th dean of the School of Medicine since its founding in 1875. Eight months later, he took on the top job upon the retirement of Harry Jacobson, MD, who hand selected Balser as his successor and worked closely with him for a smooth transition.

Lee Barfield Member Bass Berry & Sims 150 Third Ave. S., Suite 2800 Nashville 37201 615.742.6200 bassberry.com Barfield has practiced law with Bass since 1978 and is a member of the litigation and healthcare industry practice areas of the firm. He has

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defended hospitals, doctors and nurses in medical malpractice cases. He has also counseled healthcare providers on hospital operational issues, child abuse reporting, fraud and abuse and other healthcare regulatory issues.

Executive VP – Specialized Banking Industries Regions Bank 315 Deaderick St. Nashville 37201 615.770.4242

Shari Barkin, MD Chief of General Pediatric Division Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt 2200 Children’s Way Nashville 37232 615.936.2425 childrenshospital.vanderbilt.org Barkin was named to her post in 2006 and also serves as a pediatrics professor. Her research focuses on improving and preventing instances of childhood obesity. She recently received a Tennessee State Implementation Grant to test the effect of an obesity intervention program for Latino families with young children.

David Bartholomew President & CEO HCCA International 405 Duke Drive, Suite 210 Franklin 37067 615.255.7187 hccaintl.com Bartholomew was responsible for growing Staffmark from a one-office startup in 1991 to one of the largest staffing companies in America. He joined HCCA in 2009 and focuses on its domestic division, including HCCA Anesthesia, a provider of certified registered nurse anesthesia services for physician offices, surgical centers and hospitals; NRS Healthcare, a Middle Tennessee-based provider of per diem medical staffing; and HCCA Clinical Research Staffing. He is a past chairman of the American Staffing Association.

Samuel W. “Bo”   Bartholomew III  CEO PharmMD 5200 Maryland Way, Suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.346.0880 pharmmd.com Prior to helping launch PharmMD, Bartholomew served as vice president of business development for Integration Management Inc. He also served as managing partner of Integration Ventures LLC, a joint venture partner of Integration Management. Earlier, Bartholomew was associate administrator for Centennial Medical Center in Nashville and associate administrator at HCA’s then-new StoneCrest Medical Center. He serves on multiple boards including the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation and Tennessee Center for Bioethics and Culture.

Regina Bartlett CEO Hendersonville Medical Center 355 New Shackle Island Road Hendersonville 37075 615.338.1000 hendersonvillemedicalcenter.com Prior to joining HMC, which is part of HCA’s TriStar network, Bartlett served as the chief nursing officer for South Pittsburg Hospital (now Grandview Medical Centers), and as several other leadership positions with Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga, where she started her career with HCA in 1978.

regions.com In December 2011, Barton was named to oversee specialized industries including healthcare, which he had led since 2009. Previously, he was managing director and co-head of the Nashville healthcare group at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. He has also held management positions at CRC Equities and Third National Bank.

Thomas Bartrum Shareholder Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz 211 Commerce St., Suite 800 Nashville 37201 615.726.5641 bakerdonelson.com A practicing attorney, Bartrum works in the areas of healthcare regulatory and transactional law as well as fraud and abuse allegations. He has devoted much of his practice to hospital-physician joint ventures and other collaborations and writes extensively on the subject of healthcare law.

Matt Bassett Senior Vice President Revive Public Relations 209 10th Ave. S., Suite 404 Nashville 37203 615.742.7242 revivepr.com The California healthcare PR firm, listed among the top 15 such firms in the nation, opened its second office in March 2011 and tapped Bassett, along with Kriste Goad, to oversee the new Nashville location. Bassett has more than 15 years of public policy experience. Previously, he was vice president of public policy for dialysis service provider DaVita. Prior to that, Bassett served as chief of staff for Kentucky’s Cabinet of Health and Family Services and senior advisor to Governor Ernie Fletcher for health and insurance policy.

Dale Batchelor, MD Executive VP & CMO Saint Thomas Hospital 4220 Harding Road Nashville 37205 615.222.2111 stthomas.org In May 2006, Batchelor was named CMO of Saint Thomas Hospital. For more than 20 years, he has served the hospital, its patients and physicians through roles of chief physician executive, interim chief operating officer and interim president and CEO (January 2005-May 2006). Board-certified and trained at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Batchelor, a member of Saint Thomas medical staff since 1986, has practiced ophthalmology in Nashville since 1979.

Bill Bates, MD Chairman & Founder digiChart Inc. 100 Winners Circle, Suite 450 Brentwood 37027 615.777.2727 digichart.com A clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Bates launched digiChart, an HIT solutions and services company in the field of women’s health. Prior to digiChart, he was a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and dean of the College of Medicine

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James Bearden CEO Gresham, Smith and Partners 1400 Nashville City Center 511 Union St. Nashville 37219 615.770.8100 gspnet.com Bearden joined Gresham, Smith and Partners in 1976 and was named CEO in 2007. The design and consulting firm specializes in serving the healthcare industry in the U.S. and abroad. Bearden is a member of the American Institute of Architects, a founding board member of the Architecture, Construction and Engineering (ACE) Mentoring Program, and serves on the 2011 United Way Board of Trustees and 2011 American Heart Association executive leadership team. He also serves on the Saint Thomas Health Board and was commissioned chairman on Feb. 1, 2011.

Yarnell Beatty Director of Legal & Governmental Affairs Division Tennessee Medical Association 2301 21st Ave. S. Nashville 37212 615.385.2100 tnmed.org Beatty joined the TMA in 2001 as general counsel and was named to his current position in 2004. He began his career as a staff attorney with the Tennessee Department of Health. In 1998, he was named executive director of the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners and was promoted to director of Health Related Boards in 2000 for the Department of Health. Since joining the TMA, Beatty has served on numerous work groups and is a frequent speaker and panelist on health law issues and patient safety initiatives.

Craig Becker President Tennessee Hospital Association 500 Interstate Blvd. S. Nashville 37210 615.256.8240 tha.com Craig Becker has been president of the Tennessee Hospital Association and the Tennessee Hospital and Education Research Foundation since August 1993. Prior to joining THA, Becker was president of the Maine Hospital Association from 1989 to August 1993. He served as VP of government relations at the New Jersey Hospital Association from 1985 to 1989.

Gordon Bernard, MD Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1161 21st Ave. S. T-1208, MCN Nashville 37232 615.343.0077 medschool.vanderbilt.edu Bernard oversees Vanderbilt University’s efforts to move research from bench to bedside. He has leadership and oversight responsibility for the offices of Grants and Contracts, the Clinical Research Center, the Clinical Trials Center, Research Support Services, the Vanderbilt Institutional Review Board, the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization. After receiving a $20 million, five-year federal Clinical

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and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) grant, Bernard also serves as principal investigator of the new CTSA Coordinating Center. Bernard sits on the board of Cumberland Pharmaceuticals and chairs the company’s Medical Advisory Board.

CMO eDoc4u 3212 West End Ave, Suite 500 Nashville 37203 615.269.5710 edoc4u.com

George Bishop, III Partner Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis 511 Union St., Suite 2700 Nashville 37219 615.850.8623 wallerlaw.com Bishop was the founder and initial chairman of the health law section of the Tennessee Bar Association. He also served as the initial chair of the health law committee of the Nashville Bar Association. Bishop is recognized nationally for his work in mergers and acquisitions, particularly transactions involving hospitals and other health facilities.

Bosch is the founder of the eDoc4u technology, chairs the company’s Medical Advisory Team and is an actively practicing internal medicine physician. Bosch served as Chief of Flight Medicine at the Pentagon, holds an MBA in healthcare informatics, was named one of three “Microsoft Clinicians of the Year” in 2007 and featured in TIME magazine as a national leader and change agent for health solutions.

Dennis Bottorff Managing General Partner & Co-founder Council Capital 150 Second Ave. N., Suite 415 Nashville 37201 councilcapital.com

David L. Black President & CEO Aegis Sciences Corp. 515 Great Circle Road Nashville 37228 615.255.2400 aegislabs.com Black is an internationally recognized forensic toxicologist who hit the national news recently during a drug spat involving NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield. He has more than 25 years of experience in developing and implementing substance abuse policies. As a diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Toxicology, certified laboratory director by the American Board of Bioanalysis, and licensed laboratory director by the state of Tennessee, Black is often called upon as an expert witness in court cases involving drug use and testing.

Mike Blackburn Managing Partner Petra Capital Partners 3825 Bedford Ave., Suite 101 Nashville 37215 615.313.5999 petracapital.com Prior to co-founding Petra in 1996, Blackburn was a venture partner at Richland Ventures, another Nashville-based venture capital firm. Before that, he was an associate with Lawrence, Tyrrell, Ortale & Smith, a healthcare services and IT venture capital firm. Blackburn has served as a director for CapRock, STI Knowledge and Navigator and helped Petra be one of the most active locally based investors during the recession. Petra’s current portfolio features a number of healthcare companies including HealthTeacher, Century Hospice, Salveo Specialty Pharmacy, and SpecialtyCare.

Gordon Bonnyman Executive Director Tennessee Justice Center 301 Charlotte Ave. Nashville 37201 615.255.0331 tnjustice.org In 1996, Bonnyman joined Michele Johnson to launch the Tennessee Justice Center, a nonprofit law firm providing services to low-income clients, particularly in the area of health law. Best known for his work on behalf of TennCare enrollees, he has received numerous awards including recognition from the American Bar Association, the American Cancer Society, the Tennessee Primary Care Association, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Prior to founding the TJC, Bonnyman spent 23 years as a Legal Services attorney.

615.255.3707 In 2000, Bottorff co-founded Council Capital, a private equity firm with approximately $150 million of capital under management with investments primarily in early-growth and growth stage companies in healthcare services and healthcare IT. As a successful financial services CEO, Bottorff has created more than $7 billion in realized shareholder value. During his 32-year career in banking, Bottorff has been the key executive of four banks. He also has served as a member of the board of directors of 11 companies, from pre-revenue startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Jack Bovender Retired Chairman & CEO HCA Inc. 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com HCA icon who unretired to help Tommy Frist resurrect the company in the late ’90s after the Columbia debacle. Was named CEO in early 2001 and led then-record $33B leveraged buyout in 2006. Retired from CEO post at the end of 2008 before stepping down as chairman a year later. Key leader and former chairman of Nashville Health Care Council who has led several overseas trade missions.

Jason E. Boyd Interim CEO Metropolitan Nashville Hospital Authority COO Nashville General Hospital 1818 Albion St. Nashville 37208 615.341.4491 nashvilleha.org Boyd is now at the helm of the Metropolitan Hospital Authority and remains COO of Nashville General Hospital, which he joined in 2008. Previously, he was COO of Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, Miss., for four years. Boyd is a board member for the Healthcare Executives Forum of Middle Tennessee, Middle Tennessee eHealth Connect and the American Heart Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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Chairman & CEO HCA Inc. 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com

Partner Bradley Arant Boult Cummings 1600 division st., suite 700 Nashville 37203 615.244.2582 babc.com

Executive VP & CFO RegionalCare Hospital Partners 103 continental Place, suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.844.9800 regionalcare.net

Bracken was named HCA’s president and CEO in early 2009, succeeding company legend Jack Bovender. He also followed Bovender into the chairman’s chair and led HCA back to the public markets in March 2011. He launched his executive career at HCA in 1995, when he was named president of its Pacific division. His past positions include stints as CEO of the Green Hospital of Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in San Diego and CEO of Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. He sits on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Stephen Braun Partner Bradley Arant Boult Cummings 1600 division st., suite 700 Nashville 37203 615.244.2582 babc.com Braun was the senior VP and general counsel of HCA Inc. from 1991 to 1997 and also spent time at Greenebaum Doll & McDonald. As a partner at BABC, he advises hospitals, surgery centers and other providers in transactional, regulatory and operations matters. He has represented issuers or underwriters in a variety of industries, including healthcare, banking, oil and gas, biotechnology, retail and manufacturing.

Brent chairs the senior housing/long-term care and certificate of need practice groups within the 42-attorney healthcare team at BABC. He specializes in working with long-term care and senior housing providers as well as lenders to the health care community. He also belongs to the American Health Lawyers Association, National Association of Bond Lawyers and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

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The former CEO of Essent Healthcare, which merged with RegionalCare Hospital Partners in the fall of 2011 to form a seven-hospital system, was named to the senior leadership team of RegionalCare in November. Browder, who joined Essent in 2001 as an EVP and CFO, took over leadership of the company following the 2007 exit of Hud Connery. Previous experience includes serving as senior VP and CFO for TMC Healthcare and VP of Operations Finance for Health Management Associates.

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Chair & Surgeon-in-Chief Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt 2200 children’s way Nashville 37232 615.936.1060 childrenshospital.vanderbilt.org

President Vanderbilt Home Care Services, Inc. 2120 Belcourt ave. Nashville 37212 615.936.0336 vanderbilthealth.com/homecare

Brock is professor of urologic surgery and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. In 1992, he became the director of the Division of Pediatric Urology. He was named surgeon-in-chief in 2002. Brock is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Surgeons and the Society for Pediatric Urology. He is past president of the Society for Pediatric Urology.

A past president of the Tennessee Nurses Association, Brown oversees Vanderbilt’s not-for-profit organization that brings healthcare to the community setting. Prior to her leadership role at VHC, she was a staff nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center specializing in oncology. She also spent a decade working in home infusion services. Brown received her BSN from the University of Tennessee and her master’s in health systems management from Vanderbilt. She is a board member for Alive Hospice.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Gary Brukardt Chairman & CEO SpecialtyCare One American Center 3100 West End Ave., Suite 800 Nashville 37203 615.345.5510 specialtycaresg.com Brukardt has served in the healthcare sector for 35 years. Prior to taking the helm at SpecialtyCare, he was CEO of Renal Care Group, which he grew to 450 facilities and revenue of almost $1.6 billion before selling to Fresenius Medical Care. Previous experience includes serving as EVP of Baptist Health Care Affiliates, as well as chairman and president of managed-care insurer HealthNet. Since founding Specialty Care in 2006, Brukardt has grown the company to more than 900 clinicians serving more than 545 hospitals in 40 states.

Mary Bufwack, PhD CEO United Neighborhood Health Services 617 S. Eighth St. Nashville 37206 615.228.8902 unitedneighborhood.org Bufwack has served as CEO of UNHS, a nonprofit community health center organization in Nashville and Middle Tennessee for more than 20 years. UNHS has grown significantly in recent years, doubling since 2005 and using federal stimulus funds to reach out to new communities. Previously, Bufwack spent seven years on the faculty of Colgate University in upstate New York, where she taught sociology and anthropology. After relocating to Nashville, she worked with the YWCA Domestic Violence Shelter before taking the lead position at UNHS. She is a previous Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree.

Howard “Skip” Burris III, MD CMO & Executive Director, Drug Development Sarah Cannon Research Institute 3322 West End Ave., Suite 900 Nashville 37203 615.329.7274 sarahcannonresearch.com Burris has more than 20 years of Phase I clinical trial experience and is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. In addition to his leadership role at SCRI, he is also a partner at Tennessee Oncology, which he joined in 1997. A West Point graduate, Burris completed medical school at the University of South Alabama. His residency and fellowship were at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where he served as director of clinical research at the Institute for Drug Development of the Cancer Therapy and Research Center.

Judith Byrd Director Leadership Health Care 211 Commerce St., Suite 100 Nashville 37201 615.743.3140 healthcarecouncil.com Byrd directs Leadership Health Care, an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council to develop the next generation of healthcare industry leaders. She has 17 years experience in journalism, government and healthcare policy, including serving as an account executive for Nashville public affairs firm Hall Strategies and as communications director with the American Cancer Society in Tennessee.

C Debbie Cagle CEO Advantage Behavioral Health 1101 Sixth Ave. N. Nashville 37208 866.726.4560 centerstone.org Cagle is CEO of Advantage Behavioral Health, a not-for-profit behavioral health administrative management organization founded by Centerstone. She provides executive leadership and strategic planning, overseeing business operations, managed care contract relationships and the advancement of strategic initiatives. Prior to Centerstone, Cagle served as COO of ValueOptions of Tennessee, coordinating relationships with key mental health stakeholders including state officials, advocates, consumers, providers and other BHOs.

Chad Calendine, MD President Premier Radiology 28 White Bridge Road, Suite 111 Nashville 37205 615.356.9999 premierradiology.com Calendine is the president of Premier Radiology, LLC, president of Advanced Diagnostic Imaging, PC, and the president of Phydata, LLC, located in Nashville. He obtained his medical degree from The University of Tennessee-Memphis and completed his residency and fellowship training at Atlanta’s Emory University. Calendine remains active in the American College of Radiology, the Radiologic Society of North America, the American Roentgen Ray Society and the Radiology Business Managers Association.

Chris Callaghan, DPA President & COO Insight Genetics 111 10th Ave. S., Suite 110 Nashville 37203 615.255.8880 insightgeneticsinc.com Callaghan co-founded Insight Genetics in 2007. The company develops advanced molecular diagnostic products that enable personalized cancer care and partners with researchers, pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies to deliver targeted treatment. Previously, Callaghan managed as CEO the turnaround of two affiliated environmental management service companies based in Michigan and led their sale to EarthTech, a subsidiary of Tyco International.

Kevin Campbell Partner Bradley Arant Boult Cummings 1600 Division St., Suite 700 Nashville 37203 615.252.2325 babc.com Campbell’s practice focuses exclusively on the representation of healthcare providers in transactional, regulatory and operational matters. While he has a broad spectrum of clients, Campbell’s practice has a particular emphasis on acute care hospitals and large physician practices and organizations. He has been recognized on a national level for his work in the healthcare arena and has been included in Chamber’s USA, Healthcare 2008-2011 and Expert Guide to the “Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers.” He sits on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Laura Campbell President & CEO Laura Campbell & Associates P.O. Box 1868 Brentwood 37024 615.376.9294 laura-campbell.com Nashville healthcare insider Laura Campbell has more than two decades of experience in the local healthcare and venture capital industries. Prior to launching her consulting firm in 1997, she founded the Nashville Health Care Council and served as a partner for Massey Burch Capital Corp. In total, she’s helped more than 250 new ventures and existing companies in their growth and development.

Vic Campbell Senior VP HCA Inc. 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com Spearheading the hospital giant’s government and investor relations operations, Campbell is a respected staple of the HCA management team. He joined the company’s finance department in 1972, establishing its investor relations functions four years later. Named senior VP in 1994, Campbell has served on the boards of the Federation of American Hospitals and the American Hospital Association and currently sits on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

William F. Carpenter III President & CEO LifePoint Hospitals 103 Powell Court, Suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.372.8500 lifepointhospitals.com An attorney by training, Carpenter came to head role of hospital operator LifePoint by way of the general counsel’s office. He joined the firm in 1999 after serving as general counsel for HCA’s Americas Group following his work at law firm Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis. Carpenter became CEO of LifePoint in 2006 — the year after the company’s acquisition of Province Healthcare; he became chairman in late 2010. Carpenter is chair of the Federation of American Hospitals. He serves as the 2011-2012 vice chair of the board for the Nashville Health Care Council.

Lucy Carter Partner Carter Lankford CPAs 1114 17th Ave. S., Suite 101 Nashville 37212 615.320.0225 clcpas.com Carter has provided tax, litigation support, audit, compliance, management consulting, reimbursement, and compensation services to healthcare and professional service providers since 1977. She is the author of numerous articles appearing in The Journal of Accountancy, Healthcare Financial Management and Nashville Medical News.

Larry Cash CFO Community Health Systems 4000 Meridian Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.250.1799 chs.net Continually recognized as one of the best CFOs in the hospital industry, Cash has managed the finances of CHS since 1997. Under his tenure, the company completed its 2000 initial public offering and the 50-facility Triad Hospitals acquisition in 2007. Previously he held senior-level finance roles with Columbia/HCA, Humana and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Joe Cashia CEO Vivere Health 720 Cool Springs Blvd., Suite 520 Franklin 37067 615.550.4900 viverehealth.com Cashia is CEO of Vivere Health, which partners with reproductive endocrinology specialists to develop ambulatory surgery centers and in vitro fertilization labs. He previously was CEO and founder of National Renal Alliance, acquired by Renal Advantage in 2008. Prior to NRA, Cashia was co-founder, executive VP and COO of National Nephrology Associates; co-founder and executive VP of Development at Renal Care Group; VP of Operations at REN Corporation; and VP for the Western Region of Community Dialysis Centers.

Molly Cate Partner Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock 219 Ward Circle, Suite 3 Brentwood 37027 615.254.0575 jarrardinc.com Cate is a former healthcare industry journalist perhaps best known locally for authoring Nashville’s healthcare industry insider newsletter, Inside Baseball. She spent five years covering healthcare for The Nashville Business Journal, NashvillePost. com and Nashville Post magazine before joining the Ingram Group. In 2006, she co-founded Jarrard, a healthcare public affairs firm that has grown to 20 professionals and is now ranked in the nation’s top 15 fastest-growing healthcare PR firms.

Tom Chadwick CFO Centerre Healthcare 5250 Virginia Way, Suite 240 Brentwood 37027 615.846.9500 centerrehc.com Chadwick joined Centerre in October 2011 as the company’s CFO. Most recently he held the same position for Surgery Center Holdings and HealthPlan Holdings, both located in Tampa, Fla. He brings 35 years of finance and healthcare experience to his new position.

Sid Chambless Executive Director Nashville Capital Network 40 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 320 Nashville 37215 615.322.9016 nashvillecapital.com Since 2003, Chambless has led the Nashville Capital Network, Tennessee’s leading angel investment organization. Under his leadership, NCN has grown to 75 angel members who that provide support and funding to numerous local early-stage companies. Chambless is also the managing partner of Tennessee Angel Fund, a statewide angel co-investment fund launched as part of the TNInvestco program.

Ting Chang CEO iPractice Group 51 Century Blvd., Suite 125 Nashville 37214 615.574.6100 ipracticegroup.com Co-founder and CEO of iPractice Group, which provides solutions to help small and solo physician practices manage their patient care and overall business growth, Chang is responsible for setting the direction and business strategy of the company. Chang has had success in ventures rang-

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ing from marketing to real estate to healthcare. A business development prodigy, he purchased his first piece of real estate at the age of 16 and founded Insignia Marketing before he turned 20. Over the past 14 years, he has personally handled the marketing and development needs of many start-up and established businesses.

Doug Chappell Executive VP Ambulatory Services of America 320 Seven Springs Way,   Suite 220 Brentwood 37027 615.250.1799 asaambulatory.com Part of the team that founded ASA in 2006, Chappell has helped the company through a multi-year period of growth, including a $75 million funding round from Lindsay Goldberg in 2008. Previously, Chappell was senior VP, secretary and general counsel of Renal Care Group from 1998 through 2005. He also practiced law at Alston & Baird and held the senior counsel role at Policy Management Systems Corp.

Ravi Chari, MD Vice President, Clinical Excellence HCA Inc. 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com Chari was named to this newly created position in 2011. In this quality-improvement role, he’s responsible for enhancing physician engagement and reducing variations in clinical processes throughout HCA hospitals. He previously served as chief medical officer of HCA’s TriStar Division. He joined HCA in 2008 as chief medical officer at Centennial Medical Center. Chari is a former professor of surgery and Division of Transplantation chief at Vanderbilt.

Keith Churchwell, MD Executive Director & CMO Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute 1215 21st Ave. S. Medical Center East Nashville 37232 615.322.2318 vanderbilthealth.com Churchwell became executive director and chief medical officer of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute in July 2009. He is responsible for the quality of clinical care, patient satisfaction, direct oversight of operational and financial performance, strategic planning and overall contribution of the VHVI to the Medical Center and University. Board certified in cardiovascular diseases and internal medicine, Churchwell received his medical degree from Washington University and completed his training at Emory.

Tom Cigarran Co-founder & Chairman Healthways Inc. 701 Cool Springs Blvd. Franklin 37067 800.327.3822 healthways.com A founder of the disease management and wellness company, Cigarran has served as Healthways’ chairman since 1988 and a director since 1981. He’s also held the president and CEO roles. Other board experience includes AmSurg Corp., Nashville Capital Network, International Clinical Laboratories and others. A past chair of the Nashville Health Care Council, Cigarran is a current board member. In 2010, Cigarran made news by taking over the chairman role at the Nashville Predators NHL Hockey Club.

President CareHere 215 Jamestown Park Drive, Suite 204 Brentwood 37027 615.661.5680 carehere.com Clevenger founded the on-site healthcare provider, which now has clinics in 18 states, in 2004. Previously, he was chairman and president of the Self-Insurance Institute of America. Additionally, he was president of the American Progressive Benefits and EVP of Alliance Underwriters.

Mike Collins Managing Director & CEO 2nd Generation Capital 618 Church St., Suite 430 Nashville 37219 615.846.7650 2ndgeneration.com A CPA, Collins founded 2nd Generation Capital, a merchant banking firm active in private offerings as an investment principal and placement agent. Collins has been engaged in the merchant banking and venture capital industries as a principal and senior executive for the majority of his business career with experience spanning many different industries including healthcare services, biotechnology and insurance. He is also a member of  KraftCPAs, an affiliate of and minority investor  in 2nd Generation.

Mike Conrath Executive Director The Frist Clinic 2400 Patterson St., Suite 400 Nashville 37203 615.342.5900 thefristclinic.com As executive director of the Frist Clinic, Conrath oversees a large, diverse practice with 200-plus employees. Founded in 1993, the HCA-affiliated, multi-specialty practice is home base for 40 board-certified physicians and mid-level providers. Conrath joined the practice in January 2008 after relocating from south Florida. He has more than two decades of medical practice management experience.

Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD Dean & CEO Vanderbilt University School of Nursing 110 Godchaux Hall, 461 21st Ave. S. Nashville 37240  615.343.8876 nursing.vanderbilt.edu Conway-Welch has been dean and CEO of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing since 1984. Her name frequently appears as an honoree for healthcare leadership including being listed as one of Modern Healthcare’s “Top 25 Women in Healthcare” and Nashville Medical News’ “Women to Watch.” She has also been appointed to a number of state, regional and federal task forces and boards including advisory positions with the National Institutes of Health and Institute of Medicine.

Lanny R. Copeland, MD Chief Medical Officer LifePoint Hospitals 103 Powell Court Brentwood 37027 615.372.8500 lifepointhospitals.com Copeland joined LifePoint as CMO in 2007 and oversees efforts to enhance physician relations and quality of care at the company’s hospitals. Previously, he was VP for Triad Hospitals in Texas and VP for Phoebe Putney Health Systems in

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Steve Corbeil President TriStar Health System 110 winners circle, First Floor Nashville 37203 615.886.4900 tristarhealth.com In September 2011, Corbeil was named president of HCA’s TriStar Division. He had served in the same capacity for the company’s Midwest Division in Kansas City since 2007. In his new role, Corbeil is responsible for TriStar’s 17 hospitals and nine surgery centers in Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky. From 1996-2000, Corbeil served as CEO of HCA’s Medical City Dallas Hospital. Prior to returning to HCA in 2007, he held several senior-level multimarket leadership positions with Tenet Healthcare.

Richard G. Cowart Shareholder, Chair for Health & Public Policy Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz 211 commerce st., suite 800 Nashville 37201 615.726.5600 bakerdonelson.com Cowart is the chair of the firm’s health and public policy department and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Cowart is a recognized authority on the legal, regulatory and business issues related to healthcare services. He works primarily as board counsel to health service organizations and counsels providers on business, policy and governance issues, with an emphasis on business transactions.

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Vice President & COO Healthways 701 cool springs Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.614.4929 healthways.com

Co-founder & Principal Crawford Spalding Group 12 cadillac drive, suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.309.9200 crawfordspalding.com

Cox, who joined Healthways in 2006, oversees sales, marketing and communications, and market and delivery operations for domestic business. He previously was senior VP of employer market and networks. Before Healthways, he was president of Concentra Network Services. Cox is past chairman of the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations and served on the Centerstone and Leukemia & Lymphoma Society boards.

Crawford was chairman of CVS Caremark, the Fortune 20 company formed by the 2007 merger of CVS and Caremark. In 1998, he joined the country’s then-largest physician practice management company, Med Partners, and rebuilt it into a large and fast-growing pharmacy benefit manager. Before that, he was chairman and CEO of Magellan Health Services, CFO of several private firms and president of Mulberry Street Investment Co.

Drew Crawford Co-founder & Principal Crawford Spalding Group 12 cadillac drive, suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.309.9200 crawfordspalding.com Crawford teamed up with his father, Mac Crawford, to launch their advisory shop after serving as senior VP of underwriting and analytics for CVS Caremark, whose pharmacy benefit management business is based in Nashville. Prior to the merger with CVS, Crawford spent eight years at Caremark in executive positions and was responsible for some of the company’s largest client relationships.

Christy Tosh Crider Shareholder Baker Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz 211 commerce st., suite 800 Nashville 37201 615.726.5608 bakerdonelson.com Crider heads the firm’s long term care industry service team and concentrates her practice in long term care, behavioral health companies, managing the litigation of numerous long term care facilities around the country, medical malpractice litigation and many areas of tort and commercial litigation. She works with healthcare companies on quality assurance, corporate compliance, general business advice and litigation avoidance. She also chairs the Nashville office’s Charitable Contribution Committee.

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Managing Principal Crosslin & Associates, P.C. 2525 West End Ave., Suite 1100 Nashville 37203 615.320.5500 crosslinpc.com

Chairman, President & CEO PathGroup, Inc. 5301 Virginia Way Brentwood 37027 615.221.4500 pathgroup.com

With more than 40 years of accounting and consulting experience, Crosslin has served hospitals, physician practices and healthcare organizations as an auditor, board member and advisor. He has volunteered his time and expertise as a board member to nationally recognized healthcare organizations and is the president of STAT Solutions, a physician practice service organization and subsidiary of Crosslin & Associates.

Teresa K. Culver Of Counsel Miller & Martin 150 Fourth Ave. N., Suite 1200 Nashville 37219 615.244-9270 millermartin.com As co-chair of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group, Culver focuses on regulatory/operational matters such as Stark compliance, fraud and abuse, EMTALA and HIPAA. She also specializes in labor and employment law. She represents hospitals and health systems, physician groups, healthcare corporations and providers. Culver also advises hospitals and physicians regarding physician recruitment, including drafting and negotiating recruiting agreements. She’s a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

D Eric Dahlhauser Chairman & CEO Insight Genetics 111 10th Ave. S., Suite 110 Nashville 37203 615.255.8880 insightgeneticsinc.com Dahlhauser has served as chairman and CEO of Insight Genetics since its formation in 2007. The company develops advanced molecular diagnostic products that enable personalized cancer care, and partners with researchers, pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies to deliver targeted treatments. Prior to co-founding Insight, Dahlhauser served on the executive team of Genetic Assays, Inc., a molecular clinical diagnostics company.

Duncan Dashiff Epiphany Health Ventures 3401 West End Avenue, Suite 310 Nashville, TN 37203 615.515.9880 www.epiphanyhealth.com Dashiff recently joined the Healthcare Investment Group, a consortium of healthcare-focused investment funds, to lead the launch of Epiphany Health Ventures, a new specialized investment fund designed to enable innovation in the healthcare delivery system through the creation of, and investment in, highly disruptive healthcare services companies. Most recently, Dashiff was with Morgan Keegan as a managing director in the Healthcare Investment Banking practice. Prior to that he served as co-head of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey’s Healthcare Corporate and Investment Banking practice and worked at Raymond James & Associates, Equitable Securities, and Smith Barney. Throughout his 17-year career as an investment banker, he has focused on transactions for companies in the healthcare services and information technology sectors.

Davis has led PathGroup, Inc. since the founding of this anatomic and clinical pathology services group in 1996. He also serves as president and CEO of Associated Pathologists, a PathGroup affiliate Davis joined in 1986. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and School of Medicine. In 2008, Davis completed a 19-year run as chairman of the HCA Healthcare Network Institutional Review Board.

Jean Davis Senior VP of Operations Centerre Healthcare 5250 Virginia Way, Suite 240 Brentwood 37027 615.846.9503 centerrehc.com With more than 20 years of healthcare experience, Davis coordinates and directs the operations of Centerre’s joint-venture hospitals. Her background in the inpatient rehabilitation industry has been focused on oversight of clinical programming, outcomes and case management. Well respected in the industry, she played a role in helping CMS develop the prospective payment system for rehabilitation hospitals. She has also participated in the design, development and presentation to CMS of a pay for performance design for inpatient rehab facilities.

Ralph Davis Partner Cressey & Co. 2525 West End Ave., Suite 1250 Nashville 37203 615.369.8408 cresseyco.com Davis is a partner in Cressey, which was formed in 2007 with an eye on the healthcare privateequity market. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis LLP, serving as chairman of the board from 2004 to 2008. His law practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the healthcare industry, public and private equity, debt financing, and general corporate law.

Roger L. Davis, PharmD Dean & Professor of Pharmacy Practice Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy 1 University Park Drive Nashville 37204-3951 615.966.1000 lipscomb.edu/pharmacy Davis was named founding dean of the College of Pharmacy at Lipscomb University when the program launched in 2007. A member of Lipscomb’s board of trustees since 1999, Davis has nearly four decades of industry and academic experience including 25 years on the faculty at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, the last 10 as assistant dean for Middle Tennessee. He also served as associate executive director of the Tennessee Pharmacists Association.

Jim Deal CEO Hospice Compassus 12 Cadillac Drive, Suite 360 Brentwood 37027 615.377.7022 hospicecompassus.com

Deal partnered with Thoma Cressey Equity Partners in 2006 to found CLP Healthcare Services (which did business as Cloverleaf Partners) to provide hospice and palliative care. In April 2009, the company changed its name to Hospice Compassus. Today, the company serves patients at more than 50 locations in 15 states. Prior to this venture, Deal was chairman and CEO of Nashvillebased Inspiris and CEO of Centers for Diagnostic Imaging in Minneapolis. He sits on numerous boards including MedCath and AmSurg.

John A. Deane CEO Southwind, A Division of The Advisory Board Company 210 25th Ave. N., Suite 1200 Nashville 37203 615.385.2126 southwind.advisory.com Deane has extensive industry experience in the field of physician practice management and alternative models of physician alignment as founder and CEO of Southwind, which is now a division of The Advisory Board Company. In 2007, Southwind developed an annual two-day conference in Nashville exploring ways to optimize health-system-sponsored physician employment. Deane has led turnaround engagements for a number of large, institutionally sponsored medical groups, facilitating annual savings from $2 million to $20 million.

Keith C. Dennen Member Bone McAllester Norton 511 Union St., Suite 1600 Nashville 37219 615.238.6340 bonelaw.com Dennen concentrates his practice in the areas of healthcare law, intellectual property law, estate and probate, employment law, corporate and transactional law and litigation. Since 1998, he has served on the executive board of the Nashville Medical Group Management Association and is a charter member of the Sumner County MGMA. He is a 2004 graduate of Leadership Middle Tennessee and has served on the board since 2006.

David M. Dill President & COO LifePoint Hospitals 103 Powell Court, Suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.372.8500 lifepointhospitals.com Dill joined LifePoint in 2007 as EVP and CFO, rose to COO in 2009 and assumed the presidency in late 2010. He oversees operations for the hospital company with 54 facilities in non-urban markets. Previously, he served as EVP and CFO of Renal Care Group from November 2003 until 2006 when the company was acquired by Fresenius Medical Care. Dill was then named EVP of Fresenius Medical Care North America and CEO of the company’s East Division.

Jason Dinger CEO MissionPoint Health Partners 102 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 800 Nashville 37205 615.284.2659 missionpointhealth.com Dinger is CEO of MissionPoint Health Partners, an affiliate of Saint Thomas Health and newly launched company to provide an innovative platform for the delivery of integrated healthcare services in Middle Tennessee. In his position, Dinger will play an instrumental role in developing and implementing its model of care, coordinating all partners and signing on new members.

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Associate Vice Chancellor Public Health & Health Care and Senior Associate Dean Population Health Sciences Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Commissioner Tennessee Department of Health 425 Fifth Ave. N. Cordell Hull Bldg., Third Floor Nashville 37243 615.741.3111

Director Institute for Medicine & Public Health 1215 21st Ave. S. Medical Center East, Suite 6000 Nashville 37232 615.322.7916 mc.vanderbilt.edu Part of the medical center’s senior leadership team, Dittus, who was recruited to Vanderbilt in 1997, founded the Center for Health Services Research in 2000 and created the Institute for Medicine and Public Health in 2007. For more than three decades, he has devoted his energies into improving the quality, safety and equity of healthcare, health delivery systems and public health policy. He served as founding president of the Academy for Healthcare Improvement and sits on a national committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Harold Amos Faculty Scholars Program.

Rebecca Donner Founder & Principal Inner Design Studio 7103 Baker’s Bridge Road, Suite 106 Brentwood 37027 615.321.0696 innerdesignstudio.com Donner began her career designing primarily healthcare and financial projects with Hue, Inc. In 1993, she used her significant healthcare experience to found Inner Design Studio, Nashville’s only interior design firm focusing solely on the healthcare industry. Throughout her career, she has worked on the design of more than 500 healthcare facilities across the United States. Donner is certified with the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ).

Thomas Doub, PhD COO Centerstone Research Institute 44 Vantage Way, Suite 280 Nashville 37228 615.463.6240 centerstoneresearch.org Doub works with academic researchers and clinicians nationwide to improve access to mental health and addiction treatments. A renowned researcher in his own right, Doub works to implement research findings in the care setting. He joined Centerstone in 2003 as VP for research. Previously, he was director of research and development for Dual Diagnosis Management and a senior research scientist for the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. Doub is a visiting fellow for the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies.

Kasey Dread Executive Director Nashville Academy of Medicine 3301 West End Ave., Suite 100 Nashville 37203 615.712.6236 nashvillemedicine.org A 2010 ”Women to Watch” honoree, Dread serves as the voice of physicians in the Nashville community. In addition to leading the county

medical society, she also spearheads Bridges to Care Plus, bringing specialty medical care to the uninsured through a network of healthcare professionals. Prior to her work in healthcare, Dread was director of admissions and financial aid at Harding Academy.

tn.gov/health Dreyzehner was appointed to the state’s top public health spot in 2011. The board-certified physician is a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He has extensive public health leadership experience and previously served as director of Virginia’s Cumberland Plateau Health District. Dreyzehner began his medical service as a United States Air Force flight surgeon and has private practice experience in both occupational and addiction medicine. He holds a number of faculty appointments and has served in leadership positions in several regional and national medical and public health organizations.

E Charles Eckstein, MD President Urology Associates 2801 Charlotte Ave. Nashville 37209 615.250.9200 urologynashville.com Since 1998, Eckstein has served as president for this group of 28 urologists, who provide service through 10 Nashville-area offices and 12 satellite rural clinics in Middle Tennessee. While serving as president and chairman of the board of the Nashville Academy of Medicine, he was instrumental in establishing Nashville’s Bridges to Care Plus to provide specialty care to the indigent through donated services. In October 2011, Eckstein was named chair of Health Innovation Specialists, an alliance between eight local medical practices creating a collaborative physician network focused on clinical initiatives, quality and cost efficiency.

Saad Ehtisham CEO University Medical Center 1411 W. Baddour Parkway Lebanon 37087 615.443.2500 universitymedicalcenter.com In April 2010, Ehtisham was named CEO of University Medical Center. Prior to that he was SVP of clinical operations and CNO for Via Christi Wichita Health Network, a 1,150-bed, not-forprofit Catholic Health Care Network in Kansas. He has also held executive positions with medical centers in Indiana, Kentucky and New Mexico. Ehtisham is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves on the board of directors for the Tennessee Hospital Association.

Chuck Elcan Founder & CEO Chinaco Healthcare Corp. 3100 West End Ave., Suite 500 Nashville 37215 615.269.6519 chc-healthcare.com

Elcan launched Chinaco Healthcare Corp with HCA co-founder Thomas Frist Jr. in 2008. A year later, in the summer of 2009, Elcan’s company announced intentions to open its first 500-bed hospital in China. Prior to the Chinaco Healthcare startup, Elcan served as CEO for MedCap Properties, one of the largest healthcare asset managers in the nation.

Greg Eli Partner Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain 5250 Virginia Way Brentwood 37024 615.377.4600 lbmc.com Leader of LBMC’s healthcare practice, Elis is a partner in the accounting and assurance practice with more than 25 years experience in finance and healthcare. The CPA is an active participant in the Leading Edge Alliance Healthcare Group of over 125 accounting firms worldwide. He is a past member of the board of directors of the Nashville Health Care Council, where he was the representative board member for the public accounting industry.

Linda Ellis COO Cogent HMG 5410 Maryland Way, Suite 300 Brentwood 37027 615.377.5600 cogenthealthcare.com As Cogent HMG’s COO, Ellis has a strong background in hospital administration and physician practice management. Most recently, Ellis was regional COO for the western region of EmCare and senior vice president for operations for Sterling Healthcare. As a physician practice management executive, she has worked effectively with emergency physicians and hospitalists to increase productivity, quality outcomes and customer service.

Dan Elrod Member Miller & Martin 150 Fourth Ave. N., Suite 1200 Nashville 37219 615.244-9270 millermartin.com Elrod represents more than 40 Tennessee healthcare institutions on regulatory issues and is one of Capitol Hill’s top lobbyists as the representative of the Tennessee Hospital Association, NHC and others. He also has served as counsel on numerous insurance company formations, mergers and other transactions and is the administrator of the Tennessee Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, which has paid more than $70 million in claims since 1989.

David Emery Chairman & CEO Healthcare Realty Trust 3310 West End Ave.,  Suite 700 Nashville 37203 615.269.8175 healthcarerealty.com Emery formed the company and has held his current positions at the healthcare real estate investment trust since May 1992. Prior to 1992, he was engaged in the development and management of commercial real estate in Nashville. Emery has been active in the real estate industry for nearly 40 years.

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InCharge healThcaRe Joann Ettien Administrator & COO The Women’s & Children’s Hospital at Centennial 221 Murphy ave. Nashville 37203 615.342.1000 thewomenshospital.com Ettien was named to her current position in 2006 but has more than 30 years experience with HCA. Immediately prior to relocating to Nashville, she served as chief nursing officer at Largo Medical Center in Florida. In addition to overseeing the city’s only freestanding hospital dedicated solely to caring for women and babies, Ettien also chairs women’s perinatal services for the TriStar Health System. She is actively involved with March of Dimes and Nurses for Newborns and is on the board of Hospital Hospitality House, YWCA and Parent’s Reaching Out.

Starling Evins, MD Chief of Staff Williamson Medical Center 4321 carothers Parkway Franklin 37067 615.435.5000 williamsonmedicalcenter.org Evins was elected chief of staff at Williamson Medical Center in 1996. Certified by the American Board of Urology, Evins practices with Franklin Urological Associates and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Evins is active in a number of organizations and serves as a delegate to the Tennessee Medical Association and to the American Association of Clinical Urologists. He is a past president of the Tennessee Urological Association.

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President & CEO HealthTrust Purchasing Group 155 Franklin Road, suite 400 Brentwood 37027 615.344.3000 healthtrustcorp.com

Executive Chairman Cogent HMG 5410 Maryland way, suite 300 Brentwood 37027 615.377.5600 cogenthealthcare.com

Fitzgerald oversees the financial and operational functions and manages the contracting for supplies, pharmaceuticals and capital equipment for the large healthcare group purchasing organization. The former accountant has managed financial operations, financial auditing, accounts receivables, health information systems and supply chain operations during his career. He’s a member of the Federation of American Hospitals and a board member of the Tennessee Minority Supplier Development Council.

Fleming served as president and CEO of Cogent Healthcare from April 2005 to June 2011 and now serves as executive chairman for Cogent HMG. Prior to Cogent, he was president and CEO of Surgical Alliance Corp., COO at Quorum Health Group and president of HCA’s Eastern Group. A lifelong healthcare executive, he served as CEO of three HCA hospitals prior to accepting a senior management role in the company.

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Gordon Ferguson President & CEO Middle Tennessee Medical Center 1700 Medical center Parkway Murfreesboro 37129 615.396.4100 mtmc.org Ferguson has served in his current role since 2006 and has more than 20 years of healthcare experience. In 1998, Ferguson joined MTMC as senior vice president of support services and subsequently served as senior vice president of operations. In 2004, he was named COO. During his tenure at MTMC, he has completed a master facility plan and overseen nearly $300 million in construction projects. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

David Fitzgerald Partner Petra Capital Partners 3825 Bedford ave., suite 101 Nashville 37215 615.313.5999 petracapital.com Fitzgerald is partner at Petra, focusing on healthcare, information technology and business services sectors for the private equity firm. Prior to Petra, which has been one of the most active locally-based investors in recent years, he was a general partner at Richland Ventures. Past experience also includes leading market development and acquisitions at diagnostic lab company InformDx. Fitzgerald sits on the boards of SpecialtyCare, Salveo Specialty Pharmacy and New Century Hospice.

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Lipscomb University provides a powerful, cutting-edge education, rich in academic excellence, service and faith that prepares students to be both leaders and servants, while meeting the needs of today’s health care market. The College of Pharmacy will graduate its first class in May of 2012. Our accredited nursing program earned a 96.6% first-time pass rate last year on the NCLEX. Admittance to our dietetic internship program is extremely competitive. We continue to develop innovative degrees that provide learning with purpose, from a master’s in health care informatics to Nashville’s only master’s program that uniquely combines the disciplines of exercise and nutrition sciences. We are also building for the future through our partnerships with the Boy Scouts Explorers Program, the Metro Nashville Public School Pencil Foundation and our own summer Health Care Academy. And we’re thankful for the recognition that continues to come our way, including this issue’s recognition of Dr. Roger L. Davis, Pharm.D., and dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Congratulations, Dean Davis!

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Pat Foster President and CEO Centerre Healthcare 5250 Virginia Way, Suite 240 Brentwood 37027 615.846.9500 centerrehc.com Foster has 28 years of healthcare services experience, 21 years of which have been devoted to operating rehabilitation hospitals. Early in his career Foster served as vice president and assistant administrator for two large not-for-profit hospitals before entering the post-acute care industry. Most recently he served as president of the inpatient rehabilitation hospital division for another hospital company where he had responsibility for 98 rehabilitation hospitals and eight long-term acute care hospitals.

Richard E. Francis, Jr. Chairman & CEO Symbion Healthcare 40 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 500 Nashville 37215 615.234.5900 symbion.com Francis has served as the chairman of the ambulatory surgery center company since 2002 and as CEO since its inception in 1999. Prior to Symbion’s formation, Francis was president and CEO at UniPhy, an operator of multi-specialty clinics, independent practice associations and related outpatient services. Earlier in his career, he worked in senior management for HealthTrust and directed operations of 11 hospitals in five states.

Paul Frankenberg President, CEO & Founder FOCUS Search Partners 104 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 210 Nashville 37205 615.330.1829 focussearchpartners.com Frankenberg founded FOCUS Search Partners (and its predecessor company Kraft Search Associates) as a retained healthcare executive recruitment firm. During his 15-year career, he has completed more than 300 board, executive and senior management search assignments for high-growth, entrepreneurial companies to large, private-equity backed companies. Frankenberg has been recognized by Modern Healthcare for leading one of the “Top 25 Retained Healthcare Executive Search Firms in the USA.” He sits on several community boards, including the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

Ron Franks Chairman Hart Freeland Roberts 7101 Executive Center Drive, Suite 300 Brentwood 37027 615.370.8500 hfrdesign.com Celebrating 102 years in business, architectural and engineering firm HFR works on behalf of clients around the country in healthcare design, master planning and programming projects. Franks, who joined HFR in 1974 and is now the firm’s chairman, maintains hands-on client involvement and is director of the healthcare division. His extensive industry experience includes design work and oversight of hospitals, clinics, outpatient facilities and medical office buildings.

David Frederiksen President & CEO PatientCredit Inc. 530 Church St., Suite 301 Nashville 37219 615.300.8894 corp.mypatientcredit.com

For the past three years, Frederiksen has led PatientCredit, a company that provides business office extension services that manage patient-pay after insurance. He formerly held the COO role at Insight Healthcare Financial and at Pine Creek Healthcare Capital, a lender to rural hospitals and a distressed-debt asset manager.

Tennessee, Alabama and Texas and made a big move into Florida in 2007 by buying Leon Medical Center Health Plans for $355 million. Prior to founding NewQuest, HealthSpring’s predecessor, Fritch founded North American Medical Management and was VP of managed care for PhyCor following that company’s acquisition of NAMM.

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Partner & Chairman Cressey & Co. 2525 West End Ave., Suite 1250 Nashville 37203 615.369.8400 cresseyco.com

CEO American HomePatient Inc. 5200 Maryland Way, Suite 400 Brentwood 37027 615.221.8884 ahom.com

The former U.S. Senate Majority Leader now oversees acquisitions, divestitures and portfolio companies at Cressey, which was formed in 2007 with an eye on the healthcare private-equity market. He is also the Distinguished University Professor of Business and Medicine at Vanderbilt University. As part of his tenure in D.C., he was U.S. Senator from the State of Tennessee from 1994 to 2007, holding seats on the Finance Committee overseeing health policy and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Frist, a renowned heart and lung transplant surgeon who founded the transplant program at Vanderbilt, is also actively involved in a number of public health initiatives. He is a member of the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Robert A. Frist, Jr. President & CEO HealthStream 209 10th Ave. S., Suite 450 Nashville 37203 615.301.3237 healthstream.com Frist has served as CEO, president and chairman at HealthStream since 1990. Over the last 21 years, he has steadily grown the company into a leader in healthcare education and research, using both organic growth/new products and acquisitions along the way. He graduated with a BS in business from Trinity University and is a board member of Nashville’s Adventure Science Center and the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation.

Tommy Frist, Jr., MD Chairman Emeritus HCA Inc. 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com One of the godfathers of Nashville’s healthcare. In 1968, Frist founded HCA with his father, the late Thomas F. Frist Sr., and the late Jack C. Massey. Nine years later, he became president of HCA and was named its chairman, president and CEO in 1987 and oversaw the company’s public-toprivate-to-public moves in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. After stepping out of active management following HCA’s merger with Columbia, he returned to the fore later on in the ‘90s to right HCA’s ship following that merger. In 2006, he, family members and other HCA execs were part of HCA’s $33 billion trip to private-equity ownership.

Herb Fritch Chairman & CEO HealthSpring Inc. 9009 Carothers Parkway Suite 501B Franklin 37067 615.291.7000 healthspring.com Fritch is expected to remain at the helm of HealthSpring after its $3.8 billion sale to Cigna in 2012. He built HealthSpring into a top Medicare Advantage plan operators since taking over in 2000. He cobbled together a number of plans in

Since November 1998, Furlong has served as president and CEO American HomePatient, a full service respiratory company. In October 2010, the company completed a second-step merger process and became 100 percent owned by a fund managed by Highland Capital Management, LP. It is no longer publicly traded. Previously, Furlong has served as president of Adirondack Capital Advisors, a financial advisory firm.

G Ronald Galbraith, PhD Chairman & Chief Consulting Officer onFocus Healthcare, Inc. 5141 Virginia Way, Suite 440 Brentwood 37027 615.871.4321 onfocushealthcare.com An industry leader in organizational development and human performance, Galbraith is the founding partner of onFocus Healthcare, Inc. He has worked with hundreds of healthcare organizations and executive teams since founding onFocus in 1985 (then as m21partners), creating practical models for converting strategy into action. Galbraith previously served as vice president for executive development with HCA.

Matt Gallivan VP of Government Relations Community Health Systems 4000 Meridian Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.465.7000 chs.net After serving as the president of the Nashville Health Care Council for more than a decade, Gallivan began working with CHS in 2008, focusing his attention on federal and state government relations. In addition to his work in Washington, Gallivan coordinates interaction and cooperation with officials in the 29 states where CHS has a presence. Previously, Gallivan served for seven years as associate vice president for Europe and the Americas at the Health Industry Manufacturers Association.

Linda Garceau CEO Centerstone Foundation 1101 Sixth Ave. N. Nashville 37208 615.463.6600 centerstone.org Garceau oversees development efforts for Centerstone’s operations in Tennessee and Indiana and for the Centerstone Research Institute. She also coordinates fundraising efforts for Not Alone, a Centerstone company providing support for veterans and their families. Garceau previously served as vice chancellor for development and alumni affairs for the University of Tennessee

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Health Science Center and has worked with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the State University of New York at Binghamton and Dartmouth Medical School.

Stacey Garrett Founding Member & Chair Bone, McAllester, Norton 511 Union St., Suite 1600 Nashville 37219 615.238.6350 bonelaw.com Garrett is a founding member of Bone McAllester Norton and serves as chair of the firm’s Board of Directors. She concentrates her practice in the areas of higher education, corporate transactions, immigration, healthcare and government affairs. Garrett represents physicians, medical practice groups and other healthcare entities and counsels clients in matters concerning contracts, fraud, abuse and compliance issues relating to carriers and intermediaries. She is president of NextStep, Inc. She also serves on the board of directors for Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee and Centennial Pediatrics Foundation.

Paul Gentuso, MD CMO Heritage Medical Associates 222 22nd Ave. N., Suite 100 Nashville 37203 615.284.2222 heritagemedical.com As CMO of Heritage Medical Associates, Gentuso works with physicians and administrators to help ensure the safe, quality delivery of patient care. Before accepting the role of CMO in 2010, Gentuso practiced internal medicine at HMA for six years. Prior to that, he served as a missionary in Africa and worked in an urgent care/occupational medicine setting after his return to the U.S. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, he completed his residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Douglas Ghertner President Change Healthcare Corporation 12 Cadillac Drive, Suite 240 Brentwood 37027 800.655.0732 changehealthcare.com Ghertner joined Change Healthcare after more than 14 years of experience spanning healthcare benefit management to technology-related industry. He spent eight years in leadership positions with CVS CareMark, most recently as senior VP of client solutions. He brings to the transparency company a deep understanding of pharmacy benefit management.

Kelly Gill President, CEO & Director Advocat Inc. 1625 Galleria Blvd. Brentwood, TN 37027 615.771.7575 advocatinc.com Gill was named president and CEO of Advocat, a provider of long-term care services, in September 2011 at the resignation of former CEO William R. Council, III. Gill joined the company in March 2010 as COO. Prior to Advocat, he served as president of Hallmark Rehabilitation, GP, LLC and Hospice Care of the West. From 2001-2008, he was COO of Outpatient Imaging Affiliates. Gill has more than 30 years experience in the long-term care industry.

Tom Gibson President OGA 2932 Foster Creighton Road Nashville 37204 615.289.9691 oman-gibson.com Gibson founded the Holladay Properties Nashville Regional Office in 1986 and has decades of real estate development experience. In partnership with Bond Oman, OGA has developed numerous medical office buildings and healthcare facilities. The Nashville Holladay office currently provides property management and construction services to a portfolio of more than 5.5 million square feet of healthcare space.

Fred Goad Partner Voyent Partners LLC 5123 Virginia Way, Suite C22 Brentwood 37027 615.373.1727 Goad co-founded the venture capital firm Voyent Partners in 2001 with Jim Kever. Prior to launching the private investment company primarily involved in angel investing, Goad was at the helm of Envoy, a provider of electronic transaction processing services for the healthcare industry, for more than 14 years until the company sold to Quintiles in March 1999. He also served as co-chief executive officer of the transaction services division of WebMD Corp. and sits on multiple boards.

“surgical GPS” of the abdomen, in March 2009. A veteran of the medical device industry with two decades of experience, Goode previously led sales efforts and product launches for a number of device and capital equipment companies including Sofamor Danek, Medtronic Surgical Navigation and Accuray.

Darin Gordon Director Division of Health Care Finance & Administration (TennCare) Deputy Commissioner Department of Finance & Administration 310 Great Circle Road Nashville 37243 800.342.3145 tennessee.gov/tenncare Gordon’s tenure with the Bureau of TennCare includes nearly a decade of senior management experience with the agency. He was named the Bureau’s CFO in 2004, playing a key role in developing TennCare’s current leadership team. In 2006, Gordon was named director of TennCare and oversees all aspects of the state’s Medicaid managed care insurance program. In 2011, Gordon was asked to oversee a newly formed division called Health Care Finance and Administration, which encompasses several healthcare-related programs in addition to TennCare, including: Cover Tennessee, Access Tennessee, Cover Kids, the Office of eHealth Initiatives, the Insurance Exchange Planning Initiative and the Office of Health Planning.

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Kriste Goad Senior Vice President Revive Public Relations 209 10th Ave. S., Suite 404 Nashville 37203 615.742.7242 revivepr.com The California healthcare PR firm, listed among the top 15 such firms in the nation, opened its second office in March 2011 and tapped Goad, along with Matt Bassett, to oversee the new Nashville location. Previously, Goad was a principal at Hall Strategies where her clients included health plans, health service firms and health industry associations. From 2003-2008, she was senior director for corporate communications with Healthways. Goad began her career as a newspaper reporter and also served as press secretary for Gov. Don Sundquist.

Craig Goguen President & CEO DSI Renal 424 Church St., Suite 1900 Nashville 37219 615.777.8200 dsi-corp.com Prior to joining DSI Renal, Inc. as CEO, Goguen was COO of Odyssey Healthcare, a $720 million provider of hospice services in the United States. Goguen was responsible for turnarounds in clinical outcomes, revenue growth and profitability. He also has served as vice president and director of operations and business development for dialysis provider DaVita, Inc., a FORTUNE 500 company.

Curtis L. “Skip” Goode President & CEO Pathfinder Therapeutics 2969 Armory Drive, Suite 100A Nashville 37204 615.783.0094 pathsurg.com

Principal The Gordon Group 3102 West End Ave., Suite 650 Nashville 37203 615.385.3541 Gordon, who has been a leader in the healthcare services industry for more than 35 years, founded his private investment firm in 1996. Gordon also founded General Care Corp., an acute-care ownership and management company, in 1969, helping pioneer today’s hospital management sector. Two years after General Care was acquired by HCA in 1980, he co-founded Surgical Care Affiliates, a developer of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers. When HealthSouth acquired SCA in 1996, Gordon stayed on as a HealthSouth director. He was that company’s interim chairman from 2003 to 2004, helping lay the foundation to turn around the company following the Richard Scrushy scandal.

Bill Gracey President & COO BlueCross BlueShield   of Tennessee 1 Cameron Hill Circle Chattanooga 37402 423.535.5600 bcbst.com Gracey oversees operations of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s government and commercial business units. Prior to his appointment, he served as a board member for four years. He retired as the EVP and COO of LifePoint Hospitals in 2009, having held several leadership positions during his tenure with the publicly traded company. He has more than 35 years of management experience in a variety of settings including not-for-profit, investor-owned and private healthcare companies. He also has held leadership roles in a number of state and national healthcare organizations. Gracey serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

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InCharge healThcaRe Bill Grayson Executive Director Saint Thomas Medical Group 4230 harding Road, suite 400 Nashville 37205 615.297.2700 stmg.org Grayson has served as executive director of STMG, a multi-specialty practice with 28 physicians and 6 mid-level providers, since 1995. He is also the founder, co-owner and CEO of Nashville Healthcare Solutions, a medical billing and transcription service company established in 2001. Grayson, who received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and his master’s in Healthcare Administration from Western Kentucky, has more than 20 years healthcare management experience.

Mark Grasela CEO Heritage Medical Associates 222 22nd ave. N., suite 100 Nashville 37203 615.284.2222 heritagemedical.com Grasela is a certified medical practice executive by the American College of Medical Practice Executives, a certified healthcare executive by the American College of Health Care Executives and a certified management accountant by the Institute of Management Accountants. He previously held leadership positions with Saint Thomas Health and Saint Thomas Medical Group.

F. Anthony Greco, MD Director Sarah Cannon Cancer Center 250 25th ave. N. Nashville 37203 615.329.0570 sarahcannonresearch.com In 1993, Greco and John Hainsworth left Vanderbilt to become directors of the newly established Sarah Cannon Cancer Center. During his tenure at Sarah Cannon, Greco has treated thousands of patients and undertaken hundreds of research studies. He specializes in cancers of unknown primary origin, lung cancer and germ cell tumors. Greco is a partner with Tennessee Oncology.

Rick Greene CFO Cumberland Pharmaceuticals 2525 west end ave., suite 950 Nashville 37203 615.255.0068 cumberlandpharma.com

overseeing the medical management approach used by Cogent. He has received many industry accolades and honors including being named one of the 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare and being a past recipient of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s annual award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine.

Vicky Gregg CEO BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 1 cameron hill circle chattanooga 37402 423.535.5600 bcbst.com Having started her career as a nurse, Gregg has a diverse healthcare background that includes clini-

cal care, hospital administration, long-term care, benefits and financing. Nationally recognized for her leadership and ethics, Gregg oversees operations of the state’s largest health insurer. She has held a number of positions within BCBST since joining the company in 1996. Prior to her tenure with BCBST, Gregg spent a decade as a vice president for Humana Corp. She sits on multiple national boards aimed at improving healthcare administration and quality.

Luke Gregory CEO Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt 2200 children’s way Nashville 37232 615.936.1000 childrenshospital.vanderbilt.org

“As physicians, we have so many unknowns coming our way... One thing I am certain about is my malpractice protection.” Medicine is feeling the effects of regulatory and legislative changes, increasing risk, and profitability demands—all contributing to an atmosphere of uncertainty and lack of control. What we do control as physicians: our choice of a liability partner. I selected ProAssurance because they stand behind my good medicine. In spite of the maelstrom of change, I am protected, respected, and heard. I believe in fair treatment—and I get it.

Green stepped into his new role as CFO in October 2011 after serving as the interim VP of finance and accounting since April 2011. Prior to that, Greene worked with Crowe Horwath’s Tennessee healthcare practice, where he served as market leader. He and his team had supported Cumberland’s accounting department in preparation for the company’s IPO and ongoing SEC reporting. Greene also has held executive financial positions with LBMC’s Healthcare Group, Surgical Alliance Corporation and PhyCor. In addition, he spent 14 years with Ernst and Young.

Ron Greeno, MD CMO Cogent HMG 5410 Maryland way, suite 300 Brentwood 37027 615.377.5600 cogenthealthcare.com As co-founder of Cogent Healthcare and chief medical officer of Cogent HMG, Greeno is responsible for developing and managing the company’s national network of hospitalists and

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Gregory assumed the role of CEO and executive director in January 2011. He has worked in healthcare management for nearly three decades. Active in the development of Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks, Gregory is leading Children’s Hospital’s expansion efforts. He’s on the Tennessee Board for Licensing of Healthcare Facilities. Gregory is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Dennis Grimaud Chairman & CEO Diatherix Laboratories Inc. 341 Cool Springs Blvd., Suite 110 Franklin 37067 256.327.0482 diatherix.com Grimaud has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the healthcare and biotechnology industries. His newest venture developed the first molecular respiratory test that can distinguish between viral and bacterial pathogens including H1N1-09 swine flu in a single test with next-day results. Grimaud was a founding member and former director of the Nashville Health Care Council and a founder and former chairman and president of the Tennessee Biotechnology Association. Although Diatherix is headquartered in Huntsville, Ala., Grimaud remains based in Nashville.

Beth Connor Guest Partner Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis 511 Union St., Suite 2700 Nashville 37219 615.850.8938 wallerlaw.com Since joining the firm in 1987, Guest has focused her practice on healthcare transactions and regulations. She represents healthcare providers on alignment strategies including the acquisition and divestiture of healthcare facilities, joint ventures with physicians and other healthcare providers, physician practice acquisitions, and healthcare regulatory issues. Guest is a nationally sought after speaker on healthcare topics and is widely published. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Claire M. Gulmi CFO & Executive VP AmSurg 20 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 500 Nashville 37215 615.665.1283 amsurg.com One of the most prominent women in Nashville’s corporate healthcare scene, Gulmi joined AmSurg, which owns and operates practicebased ambulatory surgery centers, in 1994 as a vice president and chief financial officer. Over the years, she has taken on increasing responsibility with the company and was named secretary in 1997, a director in 2004 and executive vice president in 2006.

Ajay Gupta CFO Sarah Cannon Research Institute 3322 West End Ave., Suite 900 Nashville 37203 615.329.7274 sarahcannonresearch.com With more than a decade of healthcare experience focused on strategy, finance and operational experience, Gupta has honed his skills with a number of firms providing services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Prior to joining SCRI in June 2010, Gupta was CFO of the Imaging & Oncology Services Division of HCA. Other experience includes an associate’s position with Shattuck Hammond Partners and a senior consultant for Andersen Business Consulting.

David C. Guth Jr. CEO Centerstone of America Inc. 1101 Sixth Ave. N. Nashville 37208 615.463.6600 centerstone.org David Guth is CEO of Centerstone of America, which provides a wide range of mental health and addiction services to more than 75,000 people each year in Tennessee and Indiana. Guth focuses on strategic growth, tactical execution and operational oversight. He is a congressional appointee to the national Parents Advisory Council on Youth Drug Abuse and is a member of the board of visitors for the UT College of Social Work. Guth was the recipient of the 2010 Award of Excellence in Visionary Leadership by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare.

the development of Centennial into a 13-location chain that has made a priority of reaching out to the region’s minority patients. He is currently VP of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Jay Hardcastle Jr. Managing Director & Partner Bradley Arant Boult Cummings 1600 Division St., Suite 700 Nashville 37203 615.244.2582 babc.com Hardcastle is a past chairman of the Tennessee Bar Association Health Law Section and of the Nashville Bar Association Health Law committee. He oversaw the former Boult Cummings’ 2008 merger with Alabama-based Bradley Arant and now advises hospitals, surgery centers, physicians, long-term care providers, imaging centers and other participants in the healthcare industry. He also drafts contracts for providers and physicians, and advises clients on Medicare and Medicaid issues.

Fonda Harris John Hainsworth, MD Chief Scientific Officer Sarah Cannon Research Institute 3322 West End Ave., Suite 900 Nashville 37203 615.329.7274 sarahcannonresearch.com Hainsworth, who has published extensively in the areas of lung cancer, unknown primary cancer and lymphoma, is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. In 1993, Hainsworth and Anthony Greco left Vanderbilt to become directors of the newly established Sarah Cannon Cancer Center. In addition, he is a partner with Tennessee Oncology. As chief scientific officer for SCRI, he is responsible for coordination of the phase II/III clinical trials program including protocol development, data analysis and manuscript preparation.

Rich Hallworth CEO Corizon 105 Westpark Drive, Suite 200 Brentwood 37027 800.218.9114 corizonhealth.com Formerly America Service Group (parent of Prison Health Services), Hallworth joined the company in 2006. The merger between Brentwood-based ASG and St. Louis-based Valitas Health Services resulted in a $250 million deal approved June 1, 2011 by ASG shareholders. The new company, which continues to provide healthcare services to correctional facilities, has corporate headquarters in Brentwood and operational headquarters in St. Louis. Hallworth’s previous experience includes serving as COO of Tufts Health Plan in Boston and as a partner at Ernst & Young.

Eddie Hamilton, MD CEO & Owner Centennial Pediatrics 343 Franklin Road, Suite 210 Brentwood 37027 615.373.2248 centpeds.com Hamilton entered private practice in 1988 at Southern Hills Pediatrics, which became Centennial Pediatrics in 1992 after it relocated to the campus of Centennial Medical Center. In 1994, he created the Nashville Primary Care for Children facility specializing in providing healthcare to children without regard to insurance status. In the past decade-plus, Hamilton has led

Director Bridges to Care 311 23rd Ave. N. Nashville 37203 615.340.5686 btc.nashville.gov Harris serves as the executive director to the Bridges to Care program, a local program linking the uninsured to safety net  providers. She provides oversight to the Metro Tennessee Breast and Cervical Screening Program, helps lead the Safety Net Consortium of Middle Tennessee and is director of health services for the Metropolitan Public Health Department in Nashville.

John Harrison Senior Managing Director Harbert Management Corp. 618 Church St.,  Suite 500 Nashville 37219 615.301.6400 harbert.net Harrison joined HMC in 2000 and serves as senior managing director of its Mezzanine Capital team. He is responsible for sourcing, executing and monitoring investments. Previously, he worked for Finova Mezzanine Capital as VP and eastern regional manager. He is also the former VP of Sirrom Capital Corporation. Prior to joining HMC, Harrison had experience in the commercial banking industry with a focus on lending and credit management prior to joining HMC.

Craig Hartman CFO Simplex Healthcare 6840 Carothers Parkway,   Suite 600 Franklin 37067 800.883.0608  615.226.8088 simplexhealthcare.com Prior to joining diabetes testing supply provider Simplex as CFO, Hartman was director of finance at Psychiatric Solutions and vice president of investor relations at Caremark. Hartman also held multiple leadership roles at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. in corporate finance within the treasury, global research and development and investor relations departments.

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Mike Hassell CEO ConduIT Corp. 3212 west end ave., suite 500 Nashville 37203 615.269.5710 conduitcorporation.com Hassell, co-founder of tech shop ConduIT, has served as CEO for several Vanderbilt start-up companies and was VP of marketing for MedPearl and president of Slingerland Drum Co. He specializes in IT ventures at ConduIT. After receiving a Georgia Tech electrical engineering degree, Hassell received a Harvard MBA before launching his entrepreneurial career.

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As co-founder and CEO of Shareable Ink, Hau brings more than 15 years of experience in healthcare information technology, software development and new venture creation. The MIT grad previously founded PatientKeeper, which became the leading developer of physician information systems with over 15 percent of the country’s acute care hospitals. Hau also was co-founder of ThinkFish Productions, a 3D software company later acquired by Viewpoint Datalabs.

Thomas Henderson, MD Medical Director Faith Family Medical Clinic 326 21st ave. N. Nashville 37205 615.341.0808 faithmedical.org Henderson, board certified by the American Academy of Family Practice, has been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1973. He was a partner in a family practice prior to coming to Faith Family as medical director in 2001. He holds a B.A. degree from Harding University and an M.D. degree from the UT School of Medicine in Memphis.

Tom Herron CEO Centennial Medical Center 2300 Patterson st. Nashville 37203 615.342.1000 centennialmedicalcenter.com Herron, who has more than 30 years of experience in hospital administration, served as CEO of Largo Medical Center in Florida for 10 years before joining Centennial in 2006. Under his leadership, Largo was named a Top 100 Hospital four times. Other major achievements include the establishment of multiple new services, most recently a spine center and orthopedic joint center of excellence.

John S. Hicks Shareholder Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz 211 commerce st., suite 800 Nashville 37201 615.726.7337 bakerdonelson.com The former chair of Baker Donelson’s health law and medical professional litigation group, Hicks has represented health providers, as well as a trade association of managed care organizations, in class action litigation. Clients include one of the nation’s largest health insurance groups and a major health benefits provider. He is on the approved panel of mediators for the U.S. District Court’s Eastern District of Tennessee. Hicks is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and has won numerous regional and national accolades.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Melanie M. Hill Executive Director Tennessee Health Services & Development Agency 500 Deaderick St., Suite 850 Nashville 37243 615.741.2364 tn.gov/hsda Hill presides over the state agency that grants certificates of need. She took the reins of HSDA in 2001 but had held positions of increasing responsibility with the Health Facilities Commission (predecessor of HSDA) since 1998. Prior to that, the registered dietician worked as a nutritionist with the Tennessee Department of Health in the field in West Tennessee and Nashville before segueing into health facility surveying and licensure.

Mike Hill Head of Healthcare Practice Group Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Manner 315 Deaderick St. Suite 1800 Nashville 37238 615.256.0500 h3gm.com Hill is head of his firm’s healthcare and physician services practice groups and regularly advises individual physicians as well as single and multigroup practices on operational matters. Hill is listed in Best Lawyers in America in the area of healthcare law and is a member of the American Health Lawyer’s Association.

Laura Hobson Executive Director Faith Family Medical Clinic 326 21st Ave. N. Nashville 37205 615.341.0808 faithmedical.org Having been a licensed real estate agent for several years, Hobson made a mid-career change and received her master’s degree from the UT College of Social Work in 2007. She was selected to lead Faith Family, which provides primary care to the uninsured, in early 2008.

Chris Holden President & CEO AmSurg 20 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 500 Nashville 37215 615.665.1283 amsurg.com Holden has led AmSurg since 2007 and has more than 21 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He has nursed the company through the recession, which has hurt consumers’ ability to spend on procedures, and is eyeing international expansion. Prior to joining the surgery center chain, Holden was a senior VP and division president of Triad Hospitals, which he helped found in May 1999. From August 1994 until May 1999, Holden held several officer positions with Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. He serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Kell Holland President & CEO Willis of Tennessee 26 Century Blvd. Nashville 37214 615.872.3000 willis.com As president & CEO of Willis of Tennessee, an international insurance brokerage firm, Holland has oversight of the Nashville and Memphis offices, which have a focus on healthcare. His extensive experience in sales for property casualty and em-

ployee benefits, claims and loss control gives him a broad perspective on the industry. Holland sits on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Russell Holman, MD Chief Clinical Officer Cogent HMG 5410 Maryland Way, Suite 300 Brentwood 37027 615.377.5600 cogenthealthcare.com Before joining Cogent HMG, Holman was medical director of hospital services for HealthPartners Medical Group & Clinics. He also was founder and director of the HealthPartners Fellowship Program in Hospital Medicine, one of the nation’s first fellowships dedicated to the professional development of hospitalists. He is a past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine and key liaison to The Joint Commission.

E. Berry Holt III Partner Bradley Arant Boult Cummings 1600 Division St., Suite 700 Nashville 37203 615.244.2582 babc.com Holt, an attorney who focuses mainly on healthcare law, is the past president of the Tennessee Academy of Hospital Attorneys, serves on the advisory Board of Directors of First Tennessee Bank, and the Saint Thomas Medical Clinic. He speaks regularly to various healthcare trade associations with regard to hospital and physician issues, joint ventures, compliance programs and other regulatory matters.

Jim Horrar President & CEO Quorum Health Resources 105 Continental Place Brentwood 37027 615.371.7979 qhr.com Horrar became CEO in 2008 taking on strategic and operational responsibilities for hospital consultant firm Quorum Health Resources. During his tenure, QHR Consulting has improved from thirteenth to seventh largest healthcare management consulting firm in the country, in Modern Healthcare’s ranking, with annual net consulting revenues of more than $100 million. Before joining QHR, he served in a variety of leadership positions with Humana. He sits on the boards of the Nashville Health Care Council and Friends in General – Foundation for Metro Nashville Health Authority.

Stephen Houff, MD CEO Cogent HMG 5410 Maryland Way, Suite 300 Brentwood 37027 615.377.5600 cogenthealthcare.com A founding member, president and CEO of Hospitalists Management Group (HMG), Houff merged with Cogent Healthcare in May 2011. He now serves as CEO of Cogent HMG. A practicing hospitalist since 1993, Houff is a recognized leader in the hospitalist medicine field, a member of the Society of Hospitalist Medicine Workforce Task Force, and a charter member of the Phoenix Group, a hospitalist medicine think tank group.

Jill Howard COO Skyline Madison Campus A Facility of Skyline Medical Center 500 Hospital Drive Madison 37115

615.769.5000 skylinemadison.com Howard oversees operations at the Skyline Madison Campus, which is focused on behavioral health and substance abuse programming through a continuum of care including inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient settings. A nurse by training, much of her nearly 20 years of clinical experience has been in behavioral health and substance abuse treatment, along with a stint as an Emergency Department nurse. Previously director of inpatient services for Skyline Madison, Howard was named COO in 2010.

Scotte Hudsmith President & CEO Parental Health LLC 256 Seaboard Lane, Suite H103 Franklin 37067 615.472.8601 parentalhealth.com In 2009, Hudsmith launched Parental Health, which has developed an in-home health monitoring systems for seniors. Previously, he was an executive VP at Passport Health Communications for two years and president of LBMC Technologies for four years. During his career, he also helped run Syngistix and Sienna Imaging.

Doug Hudson Chairman & CEO Simplex Healthcare 6840 Carothers Parkway,  Suite 600 Franklin 37067 800.883.0608  615.226.8088 simplexhealthcare.com Prior to launching Simplex in early 2007, Hudson founded and was the chairman and CEO of HearingPlanet Inc., which under became the largest online hearing aid distributer in the United States with over 1,100 locations under his leadership. With Simplex, which markets diabetes testing supplies, he attracted $50 million in capital from New Enterprise Associates. That money helped launch a growth boom that saw the company lease almost 100,000 square feet in 2009 and announce plans to hire up to 300 people by 2012.

Christopher Hunter President & CEO Onlife Health 9020 Overlook Blvd. Brentwood 37027 615.844.2100 onlifehealth.com Hunter was named president of Onlife, then still called Gordian Health Solutions, in 2008. He served on Gordian’s board of directors from 2006 to 2008. Prior to joining the company, he was senior VP and treasurer for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which acquired Gordian in 2005. In that role, he had responsibility for corporate development, strategic planning, management reporting and the company’s investment portfolio.

Joe Hutts CEO BreatheAmerica 1 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 200 Nashville 37215 615.665.7100 breatheamerica.com Hutts launched BreatheAmerica in mid-2007 to develop treatment systems for chronic airway diseases. He landed funding from a Nashville Capital Network-backed group of investors in the summer of 2008 and has launched several programs. Prior to BreatheAmerica, Hutts was the founder and CEO of Surgis, a private-equity backed ambulatory surgery center that was sold to United Surgical Partners in April 2006. He also founded and ran PhyCor, a public physician practice management company.

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VUMC Teams with Three Midstate Hospitals By: john howser

Leaders of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Maury Regional Medical Center, Northcrest Medical Center and Williamson Medical Center announced in September affiliation agreements to create new joint programs and services in the counties these hospitals serve. As a first step, the affiliation agreements allow the partners to broaden the scope of health care delivery across Middle Tennessee with an array of services including cancer care, primary care, cardiovascular services, diagnostic imaging services, ambulatory surgery and medical facility development. “We consider each institution to be strong and natural partners as we further our efforts to serve the patients of this region,” said C. Wright Pinson, MBA, M.D., deputy vice chancellor for Health Affairs and CEO of the Vanderbilt Health System. The agreements ensure all organizations will stay independent; each party can still pursue individual initiatives. The agreements allow collaboration to create more efficient, cost-effective patient care by offering new programs and services as well as streamlining overlapping or competing projects. “This expanded affiliation with Vanderbilt will benefit Maury Regional by collaborating with one of the most respected teaching and research hospitals in the nation,” said Robert Otwell, chief executive office for Maury Regional Medical Center. “We can draw upon their clinical expertise and physician recruitment strengths while maintaining our independence as a community hospital.” nashvillemedicalnews.com

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As the nation calls for improved quality of care at lower cost, academic medical centers must find better ways to serve patients throughout the continuum of care by creating improved access and costeffective care delivery systems, said Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The affiliation agreements allow the partners to broaden the scope of health care delivery across Middle Tennessee with an array of services.

“As the landscape of health care changes, it becomes increasingly important to find ways to deliver world class care while remaining cost-effective,” said Scott Raynes, president and chief executive officer of NorthCrest Medical Center. “Broadening NorthCrest’s availability of resources through this partnership is one way we can enhance our services, continue our high quality care and remain good stewards of our organization and our community’s health.” “Amid changes in health care on a national scale, Williamson Medical Center is excited to more formally align itself with the outstanding tertiary services and expertise of Vanderbilt,” said Dennis Miller, FACHE, FHFMA, Williamson Medical Center’s chief executive officer.

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Initiative InitiativeUses UsesTelemedicine TelemedicinetotoProvide ProvideStroke Stroke Expertise ExpertiseStatewide Statewide People People who who livelive in in thethe Southeast’s Southeast’s “stroke “stroke belt” belt” have have a 15% a 15% higher higher riskrisk of of stroke stroke andand suffer suffer stroke stroke mortality mortality 30%-40% 30%-40% percent percent higher higher than than thethe restrest of of thethe nation. nation. One One keykey reason reason forfor thethe disparity disparity is that is that many many people people in in thethe Southeast Southeast don’t don’t have have access access to to immediate immediate intervention intervention forfor stroke. stroke. Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University University Medical Medical Center Center andand Specialists Specialists OnOn Call Call areare partnering partnering to create to create a 24/7 a 24/7 teleneurology teleneurology network network to to bridge bridge thisthis gapgap in Tennessee. in Tennessee. TheThe new new Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Neuroscience Neuroscience Network Network willwill give give hoshospitals pitals immediate immediate access access to to board-certified board-certified neurologists neurologists viavia telemedicine telemedicine forfor patients patients suffering suffering from from stroke stroke andand other other neuneurologic rologic emergencies. emergencies. “The “The Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Neuroscience Neuroscience Network Network is aiscutting-edge a cutting-edge answer answer to to a problem a problem that that hashas already already cost cost ourour state state countless countless lives lives andand dollars,” dollars,” said said Howard Howard Kirshner, Kirshner, M.D., M.D., professor professor

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andand vice vice chair chair of of thethe Department Department of of Neurology Neurology andand director director of of thethe VanderVanderbiltbilt Stroke Stroke Center. Center. “Teleneurology “Teleneurology is is thethe most most efficient efficient way way to to help help stroke stroke patients patients receive receive appropriate appropriate care care andand it’sit’s also also thethe most most cost-effective. cost-effective. WeWe look look forward forward to to rolling rolling outout thisthis netnetwork work to to hospitals hospitals throughout throughout TennesTennesseesee andand helping helping stroke stroke patients patients andand their their families families getget thethe very very best best neuroneurologic logic care care possible.” possible.” Specialists Specialists OnOn Call Call is the is the nation’s nation’s larglargestest clinical clinical telemedicine telemedicine provider. provider. It has It has delivered delivered more more than than 30,000 30,000 emergency emergency consultations consultations to patients to patients nationwide. nationwide.

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Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University University Medical Medical CenCenterter is the is the first first health health care care institution institution in the in the state, state, andand third third in the in the nation, nation, to to implement implement a Level a Level 1 Cardiac 1 Cardiac EmerEmergency gency System System to to deliver deliver coordinated, coordinated, expedited expedited care care forfor heart heart patients. patients. Modeled Modeledafter afterthethesuccessful successful STEMI STEMINetwork Network(which (whichaims aimsto to getgetmyocardial myocardialinfarction infarctionpatients patients into into thethe cath cath lablab as as quickly quickly as as pospossible) sible)and andthethehypothermia hypothermiaafter after cardiac cardiac arrest arrest program, program, this this system system extends extends a high a high level level of of care care to to pa-patients tientssuffering sufferingfrom fromcardiogenic cardiogenic shock, shock, acute acutepulmonary pulmonaryembolism embolism and and aortic aortic dissection. dissection. “Aortic “Aortic dissection dissection mortality mortality is is 1%1% perper hour,” hour,” said said Joseph Joseph Fredi, Fredi, M.D., M.D., as-assistant sistant professor professor of of medicine medicine andand di-director rector of of thethe STEMI STEMI Network. Network. “These “These areare things things that that willwill killkill people people if not if not dealt dealt with with rapidly rapidly andand properly.” properly.” The The goal goal of of thethe Level Level 1 system 1 system is is to toquickly quicklyrecognize recognizeandanddiagnose diagnose catastrophic catastrophic heart heart problems problems that that areare very very time time dependent. dependent.

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Robotic RoboticSurgery SurgeryNow Now Offered Offeredfor for Colorectal ColorectalCases Cases By:By: craig craig Boerner Boerner

Vanderbilt Vanderbiltcolorectal colorectalsurgeons surgeonsnow now have have improved improved mobility mobility andand precision precision when whenperforming performingoperations, operations,espeespecially cially in in thethe pelvic pelvic area, area, thanks thanks to to thethe da da Vinci Vinci robot. robot. TheTherobot robotwillwillreduce reducerecovery recovery times times compared compared to to open open operations operations while while improving improving surgeons’ surgeons’ ability ability to to make make precise precise maneuvers maneuvers in in hard-tohard-toreach reach spaces, spaces, said said Paul Paul E. E. Wise, Wise, M.D., M.D., associate associate professor professor of of Surgery Surgery andand di-director rector of of thethe Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Hereditary Hereditary Colorectal Colorectal Cancer Cancer Registry. Registry. With With thethe robot, robot, wewe areare able able to to getget excellent excellent visualization, visualization, and and wewe areare easily easily able able to to access access hard-to-reach hard-to-reach spaces spaces in in thethe pelvis pelvis and and elsewhere. elsewhere.

VUMC VUMC hashas established established itself itself as as a a leader leaderin inrobotic roboticsurgery surgeryin inproceprocedures dures ranging ranging from from prostatectomy prostatectomy to to hysterectomy hysterectomy to to gastric gastric bypass. bypass. TheThe da da Vinci Vinci Surgical Surgical System System comcombines bines thethe benefits benefits of of minimally minimally in-invasive vasive laparoscopic laparoscopic surgery surgery with with thethe ease ease of of traditional traditional open open surgery. surgery. “When “WhenI perform I performa laparoscopic a laparoscopic rectal rectalcancer canceroperation, operation, thetheneeded needed exposure exposure in in thethe pelvis pelvis cancan be be difficult difficult to to visualize,” visualize,” said said Wise. Wise. “With “With thethe ro-robot, bot, wewe areare able able to to getget excellent excellent visuvisu-

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Teamwork, Collaboration Drive Pediatric Urology’s Success By: jeremy rush

At least quarterly, doctors in the Division of Pediatric Urology gather for a “difficult case conference.” The group, led by division chief John W. Brock III, M.D., pores over projected images and video of their most perplexing cases. Doctors present details to their peers, and the floor is open for suggestions on how to best treat the patients. Brock and his team say their recipe for success is always putting the patient first, and then creating a collaborative environment.

The meeting is a glimpse into the team-oriented approach and camaraderie that have helped make the Pediatric Urology division at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt one of the top programs in the country. U.S. News & World Report recently ranked the program in the nation’s top five in its annual listing of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. In short, Brock and his team say their recipe for success is always putting the patient first, and then creating a collaborative environment. “The open-door policy is absolutely essential for the way that we practice,” says staff member John Thomas, M.D. The Pediatric Urology division at Children’s Hospital sees more than 14,000 children each year with problems of the genitalia or urinary tract (kidneys, ureters and the bladder). The team does more than 2,200 surgeries a year, including innovative robotic surgeries, complex urologic reconstruc-

tions and a world-renowned in utero procedure to repair spina bifida. There’s almost zero turnover within the department, with seasoned team members Brock, Mark Adams, M.D. and John Pope IV, M.D., totaling nearly 100 years worth of experience between them. Furthermore, a new, sought-after crop of surgeons, researchers and doctors including Clayton, Thomas and Stacy Tanaka, M.D., has joined the ranks. The division has expanded its care with specialty and off-site clinics to address bladder wellness, pediatric kidney stones, transition to adult care and spina bifida. The team has also helped open a surgical center in Guatemala to serve children in need. Robert Mallard, M.D., a community physician for more than 30 years with Heritage Medical Associates, says there’s no question where he sends his patients in need of specialty care. He says doctors and nurses in Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Urology division go out of their way to see children promptly, and their follow-up is impeccable. “I really do feel like we work as a team,” said Mallard. “It’s not like I’m sending my patients to Pediatric Urology and then dropping out. They immediately render opinions and communicate, and then we work together to do the best thing for the patients. They’re really a model of how clinical care should be done between the generalist and the specialty division.”

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Health Care Publication Lauds VUMC’s Cardiology Program By: kathy whitney

Becker’s Hospital Review has named Vanderbilt University Medical Center to its 65 Hospitals with Great Cardiology Programs list, which recognizes the top hospitals for heart care in the U.S. Resources from prominent, reputable health care sources were used to form the list, among them Thomson Reuters, the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the American Stroke Association, the American Heart Association, U.S. News & World Report and HealthGrades. The top 65 hospitals are noted for groundbreaking research, high-quality care and state-of-the-art treatments for heart disease. The hospitals have also extended their care to educate their communities about heart health, with a focus on preventive care. “We are honored to be named to this list of prestigious organizations that join us in our efforts to prevent and treat the No. 1 killer of men and women in this country,” said Keith Churchwell, M.D., executive director and chief medical officer of Vanderbilt Heart. “Having Becker’s Hospital Review recognize us as a leader in the field of cardiology is yet another indication that the work we do here is important and is garnering national attention.”

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Jeffrey L. Hymes, MD President Nephrology Associates PC 28 White Bridge Pike, Suite 300 Nashville 37205 615.356.4111 tnkidney.com Board certified in internal medicine, nephrology and critical care, Hymes is president of the 30-physician nephrology practice serving Middle Tennessee. He was a co-founder of REN Corporation in 1986 and National Nephrology Associates (NNA) in 1998. He was NNA’s president and CMO from 1998 to 2004. Hymes is associate chief medical officer for Fresenius Medical Care of North America and chairman of its Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.

Ernie Hyne II Shareholder Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Manner 315 Deaderick St., Suite 1800 Nashville 37238 615.256.0500 h3gm.com Hyne, a practicing attorney, has served as H3GM’s managing partner, as well as head of the firm’s corporate practice group. Many of the businesses that Hyne represents are active healthcare companies in the hospital, rehabilitation and longterm care industries. Hyne has been listed among the Best Lawyers in America annually since 2005. He is a member of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations and was inducted as a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation in 1997.

I Michael Iskra COO Simplex Healthcare 6840 Carothers Parkway,   Suite 600 Franklin 37067 800.883.0608  615.226.8088 simplexhealthcare.com Iskra has nearly two decades of domestic and international experience in the medical diagnostics industry. Prior to joining diabetes testing supply company Simplex, he was EVP and general manager of the Diabetes Division for CCS Medical. He also held a vice president’s position in Siemens Medical Solutions’ European office.

J Grant Jackson General Partner Council Capital 150 2nd Ave. N., Suite 415 Nashville 37201 615.255.3707 councilcapital.com Jackson has been involved in all aspects of venture investing for 10 years, focused particularly in the healthcare services and healthcare IT sectors. His venture capital investment background includes board level experience in all stages of the portfolio company life cycle, helping him build managerial, financial and operational skills in multiple industries. Before joining Council, Jackson led healthcare services and healthcare IT investing efforts for The Aurora Funds in Durham, N.C.

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Joey Jacobs Chairman & CEO Acadia Healthcare 830 Crescent Centre Drive, Suite 610 Franklin 37067 615.861.6000 acadiahealthcare.com Healthcare veteran Jacobs took the reins at Acadia in February 2011 after the company he cofounded, Psychiatric Solutions (PSI), was acquired by Universal Health Services in November 2010. Prior to founding PSI, Jacobs spent 21 years in various leadership positions with HCA, eventually rising to president of the Tennessee Division. He brings extensive behavioral health experience to Acadia, which was launched in 2005 to develop and operate facilities nationwide offering psychiatric and addiction services. Jacobs is a past chair of the Nashville Health Care Council and sits on the board of Cumberland Pharmaceuticals.

Harry Jacobson, MD Co-founder TriStar Technology Ventures 3401 West End Ave., Suite 310 Nashville 37203 615.515.9880 tstventures.com One of Nashville’s top healthcare entrepreneurial engines, Jacobson has founded or co-founded 10 companies including Renal Care Group and Ambulatory Services of America. After more than a decade as vice chancellor for Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University and CEO of the medical center, Jacobson retired from the post in March 2009. During his tenure, the medical complex more than tripled revenues to $2.5 billion, built the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital and expanded into the 100 Oaks area. In 2009, Jacobson co-founded TriStar, one of the initial six early-stage venture capital groups chosen to be a TNInvestco firm. By 2011, the company’s TriStar Technology Fund had eight companies in its portfolio including Diabetes Care Group, VenX and PathFinder.

David Jarrard Partner Jarrard Philips Cate & Hancock 219 Ward Circle, Suite 3 Brentwood 37027 615.254.0575 jarrardinc.com A key advisor to hospital leaders locally and around the country, Jarrard co-founded his public affairs firm in early 2006 when he was president of the Ingram Group. Prior to that, he built extensive experience in public relations as vice president of communications for Whittle Communications and a partner at McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations. He began his career as a reporter for The Tennessean.

Michele Johnson Managing Attorney Tennessee Justice Center 301 Charlotte Ave. Nashville 37201 615.255.0331 tnjustice.org In 1996, Johnson joined Gordon Bonnyman to launch the Tennessee Justice Center, a nonprofit law firm providing services to low-income clients, particularly in the area of health law. The focus of her nationally-recognized legal work has been children with special healthcare needs. Prior to founding TJC, she worked with low-income families to help them obtain the medical care the law and their doctors said they should have through the Lynhurst Foundation. Johnson sits on numerous boards including the Nashville Bar Association and is president-elect of the board for Tennessee Voices for Children.

R. Milton Johnson President & CFO HCA 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com Johnson moved into the president’s role in February 2011. Responsibilities include departments of treasury, government programs, investor relations, development, managed care, controller, performance improvement and IT&S, as well as the Shared Services and Strategic Resources groups. A CPA, Johnson joined HCA in 1982 as a tax manager, moved to HCA spinoff HealthTrust, then rejoined the hospital operator when HCA and HealthTrust merged in 1995. He was appointed to the HCA board in 2009. Johnson serves on boards for Siloam Family Health Center, Oasis Center, Belmont University, HCA Foundation and Sarah Cannon Research Institute.

Philip Johnston, PharmD Dean Belmont University School of Pharmacy 1900 Belmont Blvd. Nashville 37212 615.460.6746 belmont.edu/pharmacy Johnston worked from 1973 to 1982 for the UT College of Pharmacy, and he spent more than 20 years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. For nine years, he taught as an adjunct faculty member at Belmont’s School of Physical Therapy, and in early 2007 joined Belmont full time as the founding dean of the School of Pharmacy.

William Johnston Senior Advisor The Carlyle Group Nashville 202.729.5626 carlyle.com Johnston joined The Carlyle Group as an advisor in 2006 and is focused on opportunities in the healthcare sector through the Carlyle’s U.S. Buyout fund. An attorney with 37 years of experience in the investment banking, investing and healthcare sectors, Johnston previously served as chairman of the board for Renal Care Group, a specialized provider of dialysis services. He was instrumental in negotiating its $4 billion acquisition by Fresenius Medical Care in 2006.

K A.J. Kazimi Chairman & CEO Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2525 West End Ave., Suite 950 Nashville 37203 615.255.0068 cumberlandpharma.com In 1999, Kazimi founded Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, a specialty company that acquires marketed and late-stage development pharmaceutical products to grow distribution to targeted, underserved physician segments. Kazimi has more than 20 years experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including an 11-year stint as president and COO of Therapeutic Antibodies Inc., where he oversaw operations in three countries while steering the company through more than $100 million in debt and equity financings. He took Cumberland public in August of 2009 and is working to expand the company’s product lineup in the U.S., Canada and Australia. He serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Paul H. Keckley, PhD Executive Director Deloitte Center for   Health Solutions 555 12th St. NW, Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20004 202.879.5600 deloitte.com/us/healthsciences Nashville-based Keckley oversees the national health research arm of Deloitte LLP. A prolific author, sought-after keynote speaker and regular contributor to national media outlets, Keckley has more than 30 years experience in health services research and academic medicine. Widely recognized as an expert on health reform, he previously held leadership roles at Vanderbilt and served as chairman of Interdent, CEO of EBM Solutions, CEO of Aveta and principal of The Keckley Group.

Renee Kessler COO Baptist Hospital 2000 Church St. Nashville 37236 615.284.5555 baptisthospital.com Kessler, who has more than 20 years of experience in hospital administration, joined Baptist in February 2007 to oversee hospital operations. She most recently served as COO and administrator of Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J. Prior to that, she held several executive positions, including COO and interim president during an eight-year tenure with St. Joseph Medical Center in Maryland. She has a master’s in healthcare administration.

Jim Kever Partner Voyent Partners LLC 5123 Virginia Way, Suite C22 Brentwood 37027 615.373.1727 Kever co-founded the venture capital firm Voyent Partners in 2001 with Fred Goad. Prior to launching the private investment company primarily involved in angel investing, Kever spent 18 years in the leadership of Envoy, a provider of electronic transaction processing services for the healthcare industry. He joined the company in 1981 as treasurer and general counsel and served as president and co-chief executive with Goad by the time Envoy sold to Quintiles in March 1999. He also served in the executive leadership of Quintiles and WebMD prior to launching Voyent.

Peter Kindrachuk President & COO Southwind, A Division of The Advisory Board Company 210 25th Ave. N., Suite 1200 Nashville 37203 615.385.2126 southwind.advisory.com Kindrachuk brings more than 25 years of experience with physician practice management and managed care risk contracting to his executive duties at Southwind, which is a division of The Advisory Board Company. In addition to overseeing daily operations and providing consultation for clients in his areas of expertise, Kindrachuk serves as interim CEO for select Southwind management engagements. Prior to joining Southwind, he was a senior VP and general manager for North American Medical Management, a division of Aveta Health (formerly PhyCor) and has years of practice administration experience.

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Executive VP HCP Inc. 3000 Meridian Blvd., Suite 200 Franklin 37067 615.324.6198 hpci.com Executive VP for Medical Office Properties at HCP since 2008, Klaritch joined the healthcare real estate firm in 2003 as senior VP. Prior to that, he was a founding member and CFO of MedCap Properties. Klaritch has more than 28 years of operational and financial management experience in the hospital and medical-office sectors. He is a CPA and Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Klaritch serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

David Klements President & CEO Qualifacts Systems 200 Second Ave. S. Nashville 37201 866.386.6755 qualifacts.com Prior to his becoming president of Qualifacts, the largest provider of Software-as-a-Service and web-based electronic health records for the behavioral health and human services market, Klements held a number of leadership positions with various early-stage technology concerns and was vice president with SunGard Availability Services and general manager of Inflow. Klements is actively involved with the Nashville Technology Council, HIMSS and the Nashville Chamber of Commerce.

Philip Krebs Senior Managing Partner Avondale Partners LLC 3102 West End Ave., Suite 1100 Nashville 37203 615.467.3482 avondaleonline.com Krebs is a co-founder of Avondale and a member of the firm’s board. He was formerly managing director and head of investment banking at SunTrust Equitable Securities, which he joined in 1996. Prior to Equitable, he spent 10 years at Lehman Brothers in New York where he was a managing director and co-head of the company’s Merchandising Group. From 1989-1994, he was at the helm of Lehman’s Equity Capital Group. Other experience includes Blyth Eastman Paine Webber and Accenture.

Neil Krugman Member Dickinson Wright 424 Church St., Suite 1401 Nashville 37219 615.620.1701 dickinson-wright.com With a long history in healthcare law, Krugman provides counsel to companies in the hospital, managed care, practice management, pharmacy, retail medicine, diagnostic imaging and dental fields on a full range of regulatory and operational issues including adoption of compliance policies, anti-kickback and fraud issues, organizational structure and acquisitions. Previously, he was with the law firm Waller Lansden and has served as assistant general counsel of Equicor and was a vice president of Cigna Healthplan.

Jim Lackey Operating Executive FOCUS Search Partners 104 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 210 Nashville 37205 615.330.1829 focussearchpartners.com After leading Passport Health Communications from startup to established healthcare technology and information firm, Lackey has joined FOCUS Search Partners (previously Kraft Search Associates), a national healthcare executive recruitment firm for senior level positions. Prior to his more than decade of leadership as president, CEO and chairman of the board at Passport, Lackey served as president of FOCUS Healthcare Management, the nation’s largest workers’ compensation preferred provider organization. Before that, he was VP of administration and one of the founding officers of Coventry Corp. He serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

John Lam Co-founder & Chief Creative Strategist Lam-Andrews Advertising 1201 Eighth Ave. S. Nashville 37203 615.297.7717 lam-andrews.com Lam, who co-founded this healthcare communications firm in 1991, oversees creative operations and is a leader in client strategy and brand development providing strategic planning and creative concepts to develop effective communications tools. He has helped develop many of the leading healthcare brands in Nashville from their inception, working with clients such as AmSurg, BioMimetics, Diabetes Care Group, LifePoint Hospitals and Quorum Health Resources, among others.

Sara Lankford Partner Carter Lankford CPAs 1114 17th Ave. S., Suite 101 Nashville 37212 615.320.0225 clcpas.com Lankford co-founded her firm in 2005, four years after she and partner Lucy Carter had merged their previous firm into Horne’s local healthcare group. She is past president of the National CPA Healthcare Advisors Association and served as chair of the Management Consulting Services committee of the Tennessee Society of CPAs. Her articles have appeared in The Practicing CPA, Professional Practice Advisor, and Healthcare Financial Managers Journal, among other publications.

Garry Latimer Founder & CEO DiaTech Oncology 9208 Heritage Drive Brentwood 37027 615.377.9668 diatech-oncology.com Latimer is founder and CEO of DiaTech Oncology, a clinical pathology lab providing patient specific anticancer drug sensitivity testing and diagnostic hematopathology. Latimer has held senior VP positions in the clinical laboratory industry for over 30 years. He has led an international healthcare consulting group to formulate privatization projects in socialized healthcare systems, served in senior management with HCA’s Clinical Laboratory Division, helped found Laboratory Corporation of America, and was COO of Meridian Corporate Healthcare.

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InCharge healThcaRe Kevin Lavender Senior VP & Managing Director of National Commercial Banking Fifth Third Bancorp 424 church st. Nashville 37219 615.687.3115 53.com After overseeing Fifth Third’s national healthcare lending group for nearly five years, Lavender was named director of National Commercial Banking in 2010 with oversight of seven divisions — national healthcare, large corporate, government/ public funds/higher education, mid corporate, international sales, treasury management sales and financial institutions. Previously, Lavender served as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions. He was co-founder and EVP of MediSphere Health Partners and began his career as group VP of corporate healthcare lending at SunTrust. He has served on the board of directors for AmSurg Corp. since 2004.

George Lazenby IV CEO Emdeon 3055 lebanon Road Nashville 37214 615.250.1799 emdeon.com In 2007, Lazenby was named CEO of Emdeon, a healthcare consultant firm providing revenue cycle payment services and other transactionoriented products. Before that, he served as EVP of Emdeon’s provider services division, which represents half the company’s revenue. He oversaw Emdeon’s $367 million IPO in the summer of 2009 and is leading its acquisitionoriented expansion into ancillary services like fraud prevention. Previously, Lazenby served as COO of Medifax EDI, which Emdeon acquired in 2003. He serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

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Ben Leedle, Jr. President & CEO Healthways Inc. 701 cool springs Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.614.4929 healthways.com After joining the disease-management company in 1985, Leedle was elected to Healthways’ board of directors in September 2003 and named CEO. In 2011, he also took on the role of president. Leedle sees growth in partnerships with regional health plans and direct contracting with physicians and hospitals. Leedle has also Healthways into international waters with several overseas contracts. He is the 2011-2012 chair of the Nashville Health Care Council and is an active member of a number of national healthcare CEO roundtables.

Jim Lewis Managing Partner & CEO Cumberland Consulting Group 720 cool springs Blvd., suite 550 Franklin 37067 615.373.4470 cumberlandcg.com Leader of Cumberland Consulting Group, Lewis has 26 years of consulting experience and over 30 years of technology implementation experience. He previously was a partner with Ernst & Young and a vice president with CapGemini Ernst & Young for 14 years. Lewis is a specialist in the design, development and implementation of various technology solutions including healthcare.

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Lewis leads the four-hospital system anchored by Sumner Regional Medical Center. She took the helm at HighPoint, part of the LifePoint Hospitals network, in September 2010. That same year, she was named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of “50 Women Hospital & Healthcare Leaders” and was included in 2011 in the company’s list of “291 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know.” Previously, she served as CEO of LifePoint’s Jackson Purchase Medical Center and before that was an administrator at Parkway Regional Hospital, both in Kentucky. Lewis is a CPA and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Nora Liggett Partner Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis 511 Union St., Suite 2700 Nashville 37219 615.850.8908 wallerlaw.com Liggett assists physician groups, hospitals and other provider facilities with licensing, CON applications, and state regulatory issues. She coauthored the chapter on “Corporate Compliance Plans” in Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Practical Perspectives, published by the Bureau of National Affairs and the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association. She advises providers on a variety of regulatory compliance issues including Medicare fraud and abuse and physician self-referral prohibitions, HIPAA and EMTALA. She is chair of the Health Law Committee of the Nashville Bar Association.

Looney leads the firm’s healthcare regulatory practice. She provides counsel to hospitals, physician groups and outpatient services providers on day-to-day operational issues related to recruitment and employment and maintaining ongoing compliance with Stark and anti-kickback regulations. She also counsels healthcare clients on regulatory issues tied to mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Prior to joining Waller Lansden, she was co-chair of the healthcare practice group at Adams & Reese/Stokes Bartholomew. Before law school, she worked as a healthcare consultant for Research and Planning Consultants in Texas.

James E. Looper, Jr. Partner Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P.C. 611 Commerce St., Suite 3000 Nashville 37203 615.313.9911 hbss.net

Richard Lodge Member Bass Berry & Sims 105 Third Ave. S., Suite 2800 Nashville 37201 615.742.6254 bassberry.com Lodge is practice leader of Bass’ administrative, tax & government relations group. He is a registered lobbyist for business interests including financial institutions and healthcare providers. He provides state contracting advice for entities contracting with TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid program. Lodge is former chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party and served as legislative director for U.S. Senator Jim Sasser.

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President & CEO Saint Thomas Health Affiliates Chief Strategy Officer Saint Thomas Health 102 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 800 Nashville 37205

During his 25-year tenure with Saint Thomas Health, Littrell has served in progressively responsible executive roles. His current position has him overseeing strategic planning and growth opportunities for the health system and its ancillary affiliates. A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Littrell is often tapped to serve as a thought leader on Ascension Health strategic committees to help shape the direction of the larger, national healthcare system.

Lynch was the chairman of the board of directors from the company’s founding in 1999 until August 2005 and remains its day-to-day chief. He has spent his career in healthcare management, product development and in academic medicine and dentistry. In late 2008, BioMimetic won an important patent for its regenerative tissues and specializes in orthopedic treatment. Lynch also has led BioMimetics’ push to commercialize its Augment bone graft product in Canada and the U.S. He serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

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Before being promoted to CMO of Tennessee’s Medicaid program in 2004, Long served as the assistant commissioner for the state’s Bureau of Health Services. She joined the Tennessee Department of Health in 1988 as a medical consultant specializing in maternal and child health. In 1997, she was awarded the Special Administrator’s award by the Health Care Financing Administration for creating a network of HIV/ Aids Centers of Excellence in Tennessee. Long is a past president of the Tennessee Public Health Association. She is a past Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree.

Looper represents healthcare clients on numerous aspects of their business. Prior to attending law school, he attended graduate school in pharmacology and medical school. As a result, his practice is focused in the areas of medical malpractice defense, state board compliance issues, and healthcare. Looper also advises clients on issues ranging from HIPAA to EMTALA and represents clients in the areas of privileging, credentialing, and other licensing related issues.

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Scott MacKenzie CEO Passport Health   Communications 720 Cool Springs Blvd.,   Suite 200 Franklin 37067 615.661.5657 passporthealth.com MacKenzie, who has 25 years experience in information technology, became CEO of the healthcare revenue cycle management firm in April 2009. Prior to joining Passport, he was president of RelayHealth Pharmacy Solutions, a division of McKesson, where he was responsible for the business unit’s turnaround. Before that, he spent six years in various leadership positions with Cerner. He has also held managerial posts with AT&T, General Electric and EDS.

Timothy Mangrum, MD Medical Director Saint Thomas Medical Group 4230 Harding Road, Suite 400 Nashville 37205 615.297.2700 stmg.org Mangrum was named medical director of STMG, a multi-specialty practice with 28 physicians and 6 mid-level providers, in April 2011. A native Nashvillian, he received his medical degree from UT Memphis and completed a combined internal medicine and pediatric residency program at Vanderbilt. He is board certified in both specialty areas.

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Vice President & CFO Healthways 701 Cool Springs Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.614.4929 healthways.com Lumsdaine joined Healthways in 2002 and became CFO in 2011. He’s responsible for enterprise risk management, including all financial functions, investor relations, regulatory compliance, procurement and project management. Previously, he was controller and chief accounting officer. Before joining Healthways, Lumsdaine was treasurer and controller for Logisco Inc. He started his career with the Nashville office of Ernst & Young, spending eight years primarily focused on the healthcare industry.

Managing Shareholder Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Manner 315 Deaderick St., Suite 1800 Nashville 37238 615.251.1066 h3gm.com Manner is H3GM’s managing shareholder and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Previously, the Yale-educated attorney worked in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as a special assistant U.S. attorney in Alexandria, Va. In 2011, Manner was named “Nashville’s Corporate Governance and Compliance Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America. A founding member of the Tennessee Biotechnology Association, he is an active member of the healthcare business community.

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InCharge healThcaRe Nancy Denning Martin Executive Director Hospital Hospitality House 214 Reidhurst ave. Nashville 37203 615.329.0477 hospitalhospitalityhouse.org

With over 30 years of experience, Marzialo is a registered architect in 43 states. She leads Gould Turner Group’s planning, programming and design efforts. The firm, which she joined in 1981, has designed healthcare facilities across the country and several commercial buildings in Nashville, including Belle Meade Plaza, Palmer Plaza and Hermitage Community Center.

As executive director of HHH, Martin is responsible for development, fundraising and programming. Founded in 1974, the Hospital Hospitality House provides a home away from home for families and patients facing a medical crisis. In 2008, Martin was named a “Women to Watch” honoree by Nashville Medical News.

Prior to co-founding ASA — which secured $75 million in capital in 2008 — Martin served as EVP and COO for Nashville-based Renal Care Group, where he had overall management responsibility for Renal Care Group’s dialysis operations. He helped lead the company’s 450 outpatient dialysis centers treating over 30,000 patients to reach annual revenues of $1.5 billion, culminating in Renal Care Group’s $4 billion sale to Fresenius Medical Care in 2006.

CEO Health Connect Partners 77 Business Park drive lebanon 37090 615.449.6234 hlthconnectpartners.com Mason is co-founder and CEO of Health Connect Partners, a healthcare education firm specializing in industry-specific conferences. HCP was founded in 2006 and conducts five educational conferences each year in four markets: pharmacy, OR & surgery, radiology and healthcare IT. Before co-founding Health Connect Partners, Mason led the healthcare-software-automation company BCX Technology as president and founder before selling it in 2003 to Omnicell.

President & CEO Nashville Technology Council 105 Broadway, suite 200 Nashville 37201 615.873.1284 technologycouncil.com Massey took the helm in September 2011, joining NTC to enhance member engagement and workforce development. Before NTC, she founded and led The CIO Collaborative, a management consulting firm serving the public sector. She was a senior fellow with the Center for Digital Government. Massey is a former columnist for Public CIO Magazine. She continues to serve as an assistant professor for the University of Maryland, University College, where she teaches information systems management.

Phil Mazzuca COO IASIS Healthcare Corp. 117 seaboard lane, Bldg. e Franklin 37067 615.844.2747 iasishealthcare.com

Steven J. Mason, Jr. President & CEO onFocus Healthcare 5141 virginia way, suite 440 Brentwood 37027 615.871.4321 onfocushealthcare.com

Linda Marzialo President & CEO Gould Turner Group 4400 harding Road, suite 1000 Nashville 37205 615.297.3122 gouldturnergroup.com

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Tim Martin Chairman, President & CEO Ambulatory Services of America 320 seven springs way, suite 220 Brentwood 37027 615.250.1799 asaambulatory.com

to that, he served as director of operations and COO of Camelot Care Centers and Camelot Community Care, and he also has worked as a management consultant for a national healthcare consulting firm.

Mason is a senior executive with 15-plus years of experience starting, expanding and operating market-leading technology and healthcare services companies. He co-founded Qualifacts Systems in 2000 and served as its president and CEO until joining onFocus in 2006. Prior

Mazzuca oversees all aspects of the company’s hospital operations. Earlier in his career, he served as president of the Texas and Florida markets for Iasis. Prior to his return to Iasis in an executive leadership role, he served as CEO of Brim Holdings and EVP and COO of MedCath Corporation.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Jennifer McAnally Director Tennessee Regional Extension Center 49 Music Square West, Suite 402 Nashville 37203 615.244.2007 tnrec.org As director of tnREC, a division of Qsource, McAnally is leading Tennessee providers through one of the largest work process transitions in healthcare history as practices transition to electronic health records. McAnally joined Qsource, the state’s Quality Improvement Organization, in 2005 and was tapped to lead the healthcare consulting firm’s tnREC efforts in 2010. Prior to that, she worked with a large multi-specialty healthcare group in Memphis. She holds a master’s in informatics and information management and has added qualifications in EHRs and HIT. McAnally is a past Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree.

Andrew McDonald Director, Healthcare Consulting Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain 5250 Virginia Way Brentwood 37024 615.309.2474 lbmc.com As lead hospital/physician integration team leader, McDonald is experienced in providing billing/coding/collection services, strategic planning, human resource management, financial analysis, IT assessment, practice development and general practice-management services. During his 25-year healthcare administration career, he has worked in the hospital, home care and practice management environments. He has been a consultant in the practice management field for 16 years, while holding university adjunct faculty positions. McDonald is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Howard McLure Chairman & CEO Change Healthcare Corporation 12 Cadillac Drive, Suite 240 Brentwood 37027 800.655.0732 changehealthcare.com McLure came out of retirement in 2011 to join Change Healthcare. The former president of CVS/Caremark Pharmacy Services now oversees the cost transparency company that provides employees and employers with cost information relevant to their health plan, market and most common healthcare purchases. Prior to his work at CVS/Caremark, McLure spent 14 years in senior management at Magellan Health Services, a psychiatric hospital and behavioral management care firm.

Scott McQuigg CEO HealthTeacher 209 10th Ave. S., Suite 350 Nashville 37203 800.514.1362  healthteacher.com McQuigg leads the K-12 healthcare education company, formerly known as ConnectivHealth. He previously was co-founder and CEO of Nashville-based HealthLeaders Inc., a business media and information company. Before his time at HealthLeaders, McQuigg gained experience with national media through his 10 years of service with American City Business Journals as president and publisher of the Nashville Business Journal.

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Shareholder, Chair Health Law Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz 211 Commerce St., Suite 800 Nashville 37201 615.726.5600 bakerdonelson.com

Senior Consultant Kraft Healthcare Consulting 555 Great Circle Road, Suite 200 Nashville 37228 615.782.4294 kraftcpas.com

Chair of the firm’s health law practice group, McSween is a counselor to both nonprofit and for-profit healthcare providers, including hospitals, specialty providers and physician groups on a national basis. His practice concentrates primarily in healthcare mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He represented UT Medical Center in its transfer from the University of Tennessee to a private nonprofit foundation and worked with a national dialysis provider in its recent sale. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Miller specializes in Medicare/Medicaid cost reports and other third-party reimbursement issues for hospitals and healthcare facilities. She’s lead consultant for specialty engagements such as change of ownership and community physician needs assessments. Her experience includes Medicare reimbursement, physician practice administration and hospital administration. She holds a master’s in healthcare administration and an MBA and is recognized by the Healthcare Financial Management Association as a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional.

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Founder Clayton Associates 5121 Maryland Way, Suite 300 Brentwood 37027 615.320.3070 claytonassociates.com

President Earl Swensson Associates 2100 West End Ave., Suite 1200 Nashville 37203 615.329.9445 esarch.com

The godfather to many a Middle Tennessee healthcare venture, McWhorter now serves as the chairman of the private equity firm that bears his name and specializes in healthcare IT investments. In the past, he has held top executive positions at HCA and HealthTrust Inc. In 2008, he founded medication therapy management firm PharmMD and currently serves on its board. He has held a number of leadership positions in national healthcare organizations.

Scott Mertie President Kraft Healthcare Consulting 555 Great Circle Road,   Suite 200 Nashville 37228 615.782.4292 kraftcpas.com Mertie consults on various reimbursement issues and Medicare and Medicaid cost reports for healthcare clients throughout the United States. His clients include medical/surgical, psychology, rehabilitation, and long-term acute-care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and rural health clinics. He is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, American Health Lawyers Association, Tennessee Hospital Association and Leadership Healthcare.

Dennis Miller EVP & CEO Williamson Medical Center 4321 Carothers Pkwy. Franklin 37067 615.435.5000 williamsonmedicalcenter.org CEO since 2002, Miller has recently led WMC through a $100 million expansion and construction project to update and broaden service lines. The independent, 185-bed medical center recently announced an affiliation agreement with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to expand services in Williamson County. Miller has more than 30 years administrative experience encompassing a broad spectrum of inpatient care. A CPA, he is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and of the Hospital Financial Management Association.

Miller leads the firm’s design of healthcare facilities from coast to coast. He is a veteran architect, lecturer and author. He and ESA chairman Earl S. Swensson co-authored the books, New Directions in Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design (1995) and Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design (2002 revised edition).

Russ Miller Executive VP Tennessee Medical Association 2301 21st Ave. S. Nashville 37212 tnmed.org In the summer of 2011, Miller was promoted from senior VP to executive VP and named the successor of CEO Don Alexander when he retires in 2012. Miller, who has been with the TMA since 1987 and was named senior VP in 1996, is responsible for the creation and direction of all corporate communications efforts. More recently, Miller’s additional responsibilities have included creation and implementation of the TMA’s strategic plan and oversight of information technology systems. In 2007, he earned his Certified Association Executive designation from the American Society of Association Executives.

Mike Mirt President HealthSpring Inc. 9009 Carothers Parkway,   Suite 501B Franklin 37067 615.291.7000 healthspring.com Mirt was hired as president for the Medicare Advantage plan provider in November 2008. Previously, he was EVP and COO of AmeriChoice, a UnitedHealth Group company and public-sectorfocused managed care organization, as well as a private consultant. Before that, he was a regional president for Cigna Healthcare from 1999 to 2003.

Jim Moore CEO Cumberland Heights P.O. Box 90727 Nashville 37209 615.352.1757 cumberlandheights.org A former patient, Moore has served as the head of the addiction treatment center since 1990, managing the facility’s more than 100 beds

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Jason Morgan Co-Founder & COO iPractice Group 51 century Blvd., suite 125 Nashville 37214 615.574.6100 ipracticegroup.com Morgan has more than 15 years of HIT experience working with hospitals, health systems, consulting firms and HIT vendors. He began his healthcare career as a paramedic and clinical instructor before moving into information technology. Over the past 11 years, he managed the implementation of enterprisewide EHR systems for mutli-hospital health systems throughout the country. He co-founded iPractice Group with partner Ting Chang in 2009.

Derek Morkel President & CEO HealthTech Management Services, Inc. 450 duke drive, suite 210 Franklin 37067 615.309.6053 ht-llc.com HealthTech Management Services, Inc., formerly Brim Healthcare, named Derek Morkel president and CEO in 2010 to lead the private company, which manages hospital operations, provides revenue cycle services, engages in physician recruiting and provides software solutions. Morkel was a senior vice president of Brim Healthcare and has more than two decades experience in healthcare and information technology. Previous experience includes senior roles with MedCath Corporation, Craneware, Inc. and IASIS Healthcare.

Rock Morphis Managing Director Heritage Group LLC 40 Burton hills Blvd., suite 250 Nashville 37215 615.263.7833 heritagegroupusa.com Morphis co-founded Heritage Group, an investment and advisory firm focused on early stage healthcare opportunities, in 1986. Over the years, Morphis has served in a number of executive positions within Heritage Group’s portfolio of companies. Currently, he serves as chairman of Precedent Health, Inc. From 2006-2011, Morphis was CEO of US RadioSurgery before the developer and operator of stereotactic radiosurgery centers was sold to a public company for $53 million in 2011. He also serves on numerous boards and is an advisor to Carlyle Group in Washington, D.C. Morphis serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Dennis Morrison, PhD CEO Centerstone Research Institute 620 S. Gallatin Road Madison 37115 615.460.4302 centerstoneresearch.org Morrison was CEO of the Center for Behavioral Health in Bloomington, Ind., until May 2008, when CBH affiliated with Quinco Behavioral Health Systems and Centerstone. As a result of the merger, Centerstone Research Institute was formed, and Morrison was named CEO. Morrison served in the U.S. Navy as an aerospace physiologist where he trained, among others, members of the Top Gun program in aviation physiology and water survival.

Charles Mouton, MD Dean & Senior VP for Health Affairs Meharry Medical College 1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd. Nashville 37208 615.327.6337 mmc.edu Effective July 1, 2010, Mouton took the reins as dean of the medical school. As chief academic and administrative officer, he is responsible for academic programs, student affairs, graduate medical education, curriculum development and financial management of Meharry’s largest academic unit. Board certified in family medicine with a certificate of added qualifications in geriatrics, he most recently served as chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Howard University in Washington, DC.

N Michael Neuss, MD CMO Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Henry-Joyce Cancer Clinic 1301 Medical Center Drive, Suite 1710 Nashville 37232 615.936.8422 vicc.org A medical oncologist, Neuss was recruited to Vanderbilt in 2011 to serve in the new position of CMO for VICC’s clinical enterprise. Previously, the Duke-trained physician spent 25 years with Oncology/Hematology Care in Cincinnati. By the time he retired his position as vice president of the group at the end of 2010, the practice had grown from two physicians to 48 oncologists and 300 staff members practicing at 15 locations. Neuss is active with the American Society of Clinical Oncology, chairing the national organization’s Quality Oncology Practice Initiative and serving on the Clinical Practice Committee.

project management firm that has properties in 35 states and manages about 100 facilities representing more than five million square feet of medical space in conjunction with the firm’s sister company, Holladay Properties Nashville. In 2009, Oman announced the formation of a new $40 million medical real estate investment fund.

David Osborn General Manager Nashville Medical Trade Center 2100 Stemmons Freeway   Dallas 75207 866.878.8778 nmtc.com Osborn joined Dallas-based developer Market Center Management Co. in 2009 to lease space in the planned Nashville Medical Trade Center. The Nashville project has announced a handful of confirmed tenants including Lipscomb University, HIMSS, Steelcase, and SpecialtyCare, but recently admitted the projected opening date of 2013 would have to be pushed back. Osborn was previously the founding executive director of The HealthCare Solutions Group, a Nashville think tank formed by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Nashville Health Care Council.

Steve Otto CEO Skyline Medical Center 3441 Dickerson Pike Nashville 37207 615.769.2000 skylinemedicalcenter.com Otto has been with HCA, TriStar Health System’s parent company, for two decades. He was named CEO of Skyline in July 2009 and has extensive hospital administration experience. From 2005-2009, Otto served as the COO for Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and Sunrise Children’s Hospital in Las Vegas. Before that, he was CEO for River Park Hospital in McMinnville, Tenn., and COO and CFO for Terre Haute Regional Hospital in Indiana. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Robert Otwell CEO Maury Regional Medical Center 1224 Trotwood Ave. Columbia 38401 931.381.1111 mauryregional.com Otwell has led Maury Regional for more than seven years, building a network from Spring Hill to Lewisburg serving more than 260,000 people. Under his leadership, the system has garnered accolades. MRMC has been named one of the nation’s Top 10 health systems and Top 100 hospitals by Thompson Reuters and attained the Premier Award for High Value Health Care, which puts the facility in the top 1 percent of hospitals in the nation. He serves on the board of directors for the Tennessee Hospital Association.

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O Bond Oman CEO OGA 2932 Foster Creighton Road Nashville 37204 615.312.0253 oman-gibson.com Oman has been in the medical real estate business since 1985 and specializes in medical office leasing and investment property. His firm is a national real estate development and

Senior Managing Director FTI Consulting 5310 Maryland Way Brentwood 37027 615.324.8500 fticonsulting.com Overstreet is a senior managing director in FTI’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice. He has assisted numerous healthcare clients in the development and implementation of strategies for improving operations and regulatory compliance and is experienced in managing organizational transition. Prior to his years in advisory services, Overstreet worked at a large academic hospital and an urban community hospital. He also served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Thomas Ozburn CEO Southern Hills Medical Center 391 Wallace Road Nashville 37211 615.781.4000 southernhills.com Ozburn has been CEO at TriStar’s 132-bed Southern Hills facility since the beginning of 2008. During his tenure, he has overseen renovation and expansion projects on the hospital campus. Prior to that he served as COO for Summit Medical Center. In 2011, Ozburn was named to the board of directors for Nashville-based charity Soles4Souls. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

P Christopher Palombo CEO Dispensary of Hope 566 Mainstream Drive, Suite 150 P.O. Box 281496 Nashville 37228 888.428.4673 dispensaryofhope.org In 2011, Palombo was named CEO of the Dispensary of Hope, a not-for-profit social venture that provides medication to uninsured patients. A minister, Palombo also has worked as an independent healthcare consultant and an internal program development consultant with Ascension Health. His expertise includes integrating safety net healthcare resources, health system community benefit planning, nonprofit fund development and sustainability planning, and the creation and evaluation of large-scale population health programs.

Christopher Parks Founder & Chief Development Officer Change Healthcare Corporation 12 Cadillac Drive, Suite 240 Brentwood 37027 800.655.0732 changehealthcare.com Parks’ company is at the vanguard of the healthcare consumerism movement and aims to help self-insured employers, health plans and third-party administrators save money on healthcare through smarter purchasing habits. He’s also a founding member of JumpStart Foundry, a microfund for emerging companies. Parks’ previous experience includes positions with Global Healthcare Exchange, National Seating and Mobility and HealthCare Microsystems.

Jeffrey Patton, MD CEO Tennessee Oncology 300 20th Ave. N., Suite 301 Nashville 37203 615.329.0570 tnoncology.com Patton serves as CEO of Tennessee Oncology, a growing practice that now employs nearly 60 oncologists and covers 16 counties in Middle Tennessee. Patton, who is board certified in medical oncology and internal medicine, has been with the practice since 1997. Previously he was with The Lewis Gale Clinic in Virginia. He completed his internship, residency, and fellowship in hematology/oncology at Wake Forrest. In addition to his administrative duties, Patton sees patients out of the Southern Hills office.

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InCharge healThcaRe William Paul, MD Director of Health Metro Public Health Dept. 311 23rd ave. N. Nashville 37203 615.340.5616 health.nashville.gov Board-certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases, Paul spent nearly 15 years with the Chicago Department of Public Health, where he engineered a response to the 2002 West Nile Virus outbreak. As Nashville’s health director, Paul recently led the initiative for menu labeling in Nashville, which would require restaurants to provide nutritional information about their food.

Joey Peay CEO Murfreesboro Medical Clinic 1272 Garrison dr. Murfreesboro 37129-2598 615.893.4480 mmclinic.com Peay has been at the helm of MMC for eight years, overseeing a period of astounding ground and construction of a new facility. He was CFO for four years before that. A CPA, he spent the first 10 years of his career with KPMG, leaving in 1998 as a senior manager. Peay is a certified medical practice executive by the American College of Medical Practice Executives.

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tion. Pinson has been on faculty at Vanderbilt since 1990. In July 2011, he began a three-year term on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Deputy Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Vanderbilt University Medical Center CEO Vanderbilt Health Systems 1161 21st ave. s., d-3300 Medical center N., Nashville 37232 615.343.9324 mc.vanderbilt.edu

Keith Pitts Vice Chairman Vanguard Health Systems 20 Burton hills Blvd., suite 100 Nashville 37215 615.665.6000 vanguardhealth.com

Pinson wears many hats at Vanderbilt with broad oversight of adult care. Formerly the CMO, Pinson assumed greater leadership responsibilities in 2009 as part of the executive team put in place by Jeff Balser, MD. In addition to his administrative duties, Pinson is a renowned surgical oncologist with a specialty in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and liver transplantation. He is a past president of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Associa-

Pitts has held his role since 1999. Prior to joining Vanguard, he was the chairman and CEO of Mariner Post-Acute Network and its predecessor, Paragon Health Network. He served as OrNda HealthCorp’s EVP and CFO — alongside Charlie Martin — and has as been a consultant to healthcare organizations for 15 years. Pitts serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

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Jonathan Perlin, MD CMO & President, Clinical Services HCA Inc. 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com Perlin is responsible for clinical strategy and performance at HCA’s 169 hospitals and 115 outpatient centers. Before joining HCA in 2006, Perlin was Under Secretary for Health in the Department of Veterans Affairs. As the most senior physician in the federal government and CEO of the Veterans Health Administration, he led the country’s largest integrated health system.

Tim Petrikin CEO e+CancerCare 104 woodmont Blvd., suite 500 Nashville 37205 877.392.7226 eplushealthcare.com Petrikin co-founded the outpatient cancer care center company — backed by longtime local healthcare entrepreneur Charlie Martin — in 2002. Before serving as vice president of development for Ambulatory Resource Centres, Petrikin developed ambulatory surgery and diagnostic imaging joint ventures for Martin-led hospital management company OrNda.

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vicc.org A renowned researcher, Pietenpol has led the NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center since 2007. She is widely published and serves as associate editor or on editorial review boards for a number of scientific journals. As associate director, she led the center’s basic science and translational research programs since 2002; and for the past 12 years, she has instructed medical and graduate student courses at Vanderbilt University. Pietenpol is a past Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE James Pope, MD VP, Chief Science Officer Healthways 701 Cool Springs Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.614.4929 healthways.com After 26 years of private practice in Tampa, Pope joined Healthways as CMO in 2003. In his current role, he oversees medical and scientific integrity, analytic consultative services, process quality improvements, outcomes and applied research. He also served on the faculty at Wake Forest’s Bowman Gray School of Medicine.

psychiatric facilities and acute care hospitals whom she advises on a wide range of regulatory and operations issues. She also provides counsel on fraud and abuse matters, state and federal anti-kickback regulations and self-referral prohibitions. A member of the American Health Lawyers Association, she has been recognized by multiple publications for her work in healthcare. The Nashville Post named her a “Healthcare 100” designee, and she is a former Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree. Powers sits on the board of the Tennessee Pediatric Association Foundation.

Beth Price CEO Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center 691 Preston Research Building  2220 Pierce Ave. Nashville 37232 615.936.1782

Kirk Porter Senior VP Bank of America 414 Union St. Nashville 37219 615.749.3137 bankofamerica.com Porter has been Bank of America’s local healthcare point man since April of 2005. Before that, he served in a similar role at First Tennessee and spent seven years as managing director at US Bank. In his current position, Porter deals specifically with providing capital to healthcare companies. He serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

David Posch CEO Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinics 1301 Medical Center Drive 3812 TVC Nashville 37232-5100 615.343.5013 mc.vanderbilt.edu In September 2011, Posch, who was already serving as CEO of The Vanderbilt Clinic and executive director of Vanderbilt Medical Group, added to his responsibility by taking over chief executive duties of Vanderbilt University Hospital, as well. The new umbrella position is the first time oversight of VUH and TVC have been combined in a single leadership role since 1995. Prior to Posch’s arrival at Vanderbilt in 1999, he held administrative positions with the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Charlie Powell CEO Saint Thomas Physician Services 102 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 800 Nashville 37205 615.284.7847 sths.com Powell leads Saint Thomas Physician Services, which includes more than 250 physicians under an employed physician model and management services organization of various primary care and specialty practices across Middle Tennessee as part of Saint Thomas Health. Previously, he served as CEO of Saint Thomas Heart, the state’s largest, private cardiology practice. Before joining Saint Thomas Health, Powell was CEO of Northeast Georgia Heart Center and had also worked with multi-specialty physician groups for more than 10 years in Oklahoma and North Carolina.

Patsy Powers Of Counsel Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis 511 Union St., Suite 2700 Nashville 37219 615.850.8808 wallerlaw.com Powers manages the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group. Her practice focuses on surgery centers,

vicc.org After joining VICC in 2007, Price became CEO of the NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center a year later. Prior to the move to Vanderbilt, she served as COO of the Sarah Cannon Research Institute. Price also spent six years in Boston as a senior manager for the healthcare division of Accenture and served in leadership positions at Partners Health Care System, Massachusetts General Hospital and Roger Williams Medical Center. She is a past Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” Honoree.

In November 2011 Raynes, who joined Northcrest Memorial in 2005, was installed as chairman of the Tennessee Hospital Association board of directors during the annual meeting. Raynes has 18 years of executive hospital leadership experience. Immediately prior to Northcrest, he served as president and CEO of Preston Memorial Health System in Kingwood, WV.

Marty Rash Chairman & CEO RegionalCare Hospital Partners 103 Continental Place, Suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.844.9800 regionalcare.net In 2009, Rash and John Rutledge launched hospital company RegionalCare and have been on an acquisition spree since securing its initial $300 million equity backing from Warburg Pincus. Most recently, RegionalCare completed a merger with Essent Healthcare, which was finalized in November 2011. Previously, Rash was chairman and CEO of Province Healthcare, which he grew to 21 hospitals and took public before selling to LifePoint in 2004 for $1.7 billion. Before Province, he held EVP and COO roles at Community Health Systems and earlier in his career served in various administrative roles for community hospitals. Rash currently sits on the board of HeatlhSpring and is a past chairman of the Federation of American Hospitals.

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R Amy Radcliff President & COO e+CancerCare 104 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 500 Nashville 37205 877.392.7226 epluscancercare.com Radcliff is responsible for the ongoing growth of e+CancerCare’s current PET/CT centers, the management of key relationships with hospitals and physician groups, and the continued business development of opportunities in radiation therapy and integrated cancer care centers. With more than 18 years of sales and sales management experience, Radcliff has developed and managed regional and national sales teams focused on organic growth of new technologies.

Keith Radecic CEO Radiology Alliance 210 25th Ave. N., Suite 602 Nashville 37203 615.312.0600 radalliance.com As CEO of Radiology Alliance, Radecic brings more than 21 years of medical practice management, finance and multi-specialty medical billing experience to the table. Prior to joining Radiology Alliance, he managed six national billing and practice management operations for MED3OOO, Inc. He also served as regional executive for McKesson, where he managed financial control functions for 25 radiology practices in Ohio and South Texas.

Scott Raynes President & CEO Northcrest Medical Center 100 Northcrest Drive Springfield 37172 615.384.2411 northcrest.com

Member Bass Berry & Sims 105 Third Ave. S., Suite 2800 Nashville 37201 615.742.6283 bassberry.com Reisz’s practice involves representing hospitals, ancillary service providers and large physician groups. She previously served as a member of the board of directors of the Nashville Health Care Council and is a past chair of the Health Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association. Reisz is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Health Law.

Karen Rhea, MD CMO Centerstone of Tennessee 110 Sixth Ave. N. Nashville 37208 615.463.6600 centerstone.org Rhea oversees Centerstone’s medical services staff and manages its psychiatric services throughout Middle Tennessee. Before coming to the behavioral healthcare company, Rhea was a founding partner in the Franklin Children’s Clinic, where she practiced pediatrics. Rhea was elected a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in December 2008 and honored with the 2011 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Will Rice Executive Director Office of e-Health Initiatives State of Tennessee 310 Great Circle Road, 4th Floor, East Wing Nashville 37243 615.507.6477 tn.gov/ehealth In March 2010, Rice was named the new executive director of the Office of e-Health Initiatives to lead day-to-day operations, manage the implementation of the statewide health information exchange strategic plan and integrate HIT statewide. Previously, Rice was a health informat-

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InCharge healThcaRe ics senior consultant with the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health. He also coordinated operations for MidSouth eHealth Alliance and Middle Tennessee eHealth Connect, regional health information organizations in Memphis and Nashville.

L. Glynn Riddle Executive VP & CFO Advocat Inc. 1621 Galleria Blvd. Brentwood 37027 615.771.7575 advocatinc.com The former Envoy VP joined Advocat in 2002, first as controller of the long-term care provider’s assisted living division. Later that year, he took on his current roles, plus the principal accounting officer title in the nursing home chain’s three-person management team. Prior to his three years at Envoy, Riddle spent six years as VP and controller at Comdata Corp. Riddle was recently named ‘CFO of the Year’ by the Nashville Business Journal.

Wayne Riley, MD President & CEO Meharry Medical College 1005 dr. d.B. Todd Jr. Blvd. Nashville 37208 615.327.6000 mmc.edu The primary care general internist, who became Meharry’s 10th president and CEO in 2007, is a member and Master of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians and also chairs the NIH’s National Advisory Council for the Institute of Minority Health Disparities and the Association for Minority Health Professions Schools. His expansive vision for Meharry garnered a historic $18 million gift from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish a health policy center. Riley advocates for access to healthcare by testifying before Congress and advising the White House on health reform issues. He serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Stephen Riven Senior Managing Partner Avondale Partners 3102 west end ave., suite 1100 Nashville 37203 615.467.3458 avondaleonline.com Riven was a managing director and member of the board of Equitable Securities Corporation, where he was co-head of Institutional Equity Sales. From 1966-1989, he was a general partner of the J.C. Bradford Company. He also served as a member of the board of the Equitable Trust Company and presently sits on the board of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Dawn Rudolph President & CEO Saint Thomas Hospital 4220 harding Road Nashville 37205 615.222.2111 sths.com Rudolph began her duties with Saint Thomas Hospital in November 2010. Previously, she served as CEO of St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind. She began her healthcare career at St. Joseph’s in 1990, advancing from a project coordinator to ever-increasing roles of responsibility within the Lutheran Health Network. A diplomat of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Rudolph was recently named one of the “291 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know” and one of the “56 Women Hospital and Healthcare Leaders to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review. She is chair for the 2011-2012 Nashville Go Red for Women campaign with the American Heart Association.

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InCharge healThcaRe Meg Rush, MD Chief of Staff & Acting Chair, Department of Pediatrics Monroe carell Jr. children’s hospital at vanderbilt 2200 children’s way Nashville 37232 615.936.1000 childrenshospital.vanderbilt.org Rush, a neonatologist and assistant professor of pediatrics, serves in the senior administrative role as the chief of staff for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. She assists in the development and implementation of clinical operations and practice standards of the medical practice in Children’s Hospital and provides oversight of medical staff governance together with the physician-in-chief and surgeon-in chief. In 2011, she was named acting chair of the Department of Pediatrics, one of the medical center’s larges and most influential departments.

John Rutledge President & COO RegionalCare Hospital Partners 103 continental Place, suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.844.9800 regionalcare.net In 2009, Rutledge and Marty Rash launched hospital company RegionalCare and have been on an acquisition spree since securing its initial $300 million equity backing from Warburg Pincus. Most recently, RegionalCare completed a merger with Essent Healthcare, which was finalized in November 2011. Previously, Rutledge served as COO, and later president, of Province Healthcare, which was sold to LifePoint in 2005 for $1.7 billion. Prior to that, he was a regional VP for Community Health Systems.

Paul Rutledge President – Central Group HCA Inc. 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com As president of HCA’s Central Group, Rutledge is responsible for 61 hospital operations in Tennessee, nine other states and London, England. Prior to this role, he was president of HCA’s MidAmerica Division. He’s served in leadership capacities with the hospital giant for three decades. He is former president of Centennial Medical Center and of TriStar Health System. Rutledge is a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives.

S Mike Schatzlein, MD President & CEO Saint Thomas Health 102 woodmont Blvd., suite 800 Nashville 37205 615.284.7847 sths.com Schatzlein, a cardiac surgeon, was tapped in 2010 by Ascension Health to lead Saint Thomas Health. He also serves as Ascension’s Ministry Market Leader for Nashville and Birmingham. Prior to moving to Nashville, he was president and CEO for the eight-facility Lutheran Health Network based in Indiana. He also served as CEO of Lutheran’s St. Joseph and Dupont hospitals. Before moving into administration, Schatzlein was chief of transplantation at Lutheran Hospital and was a founder of the Northern Indiana Heart Institute. In July 2011, he began a three-year term on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

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chs.net Seifert is responsible for the legal aspects of a variety of areas within the company, including acquisitions/development, SEC and corporate governance, and litigation and management of the legal department. Prior to joining CHS in 1998, she was with Columbia/HCA, where she served as VP and associate general counsel. Before that, she was in private law practice in Dallas.

Sheriff, former chair and CEO of American Retirement Corp., joined Brookdale as co-CEO in July 2006 when the two companies merged. He had led the retirement living company for more than two decades, building ARC into an industry leader. Earlier in his career, Sheriff served as president and CEO of Ryder’s Truckstops of America division. He serves on the board of directors for a number of organizations, including Belmont University and the Nashville Health Care Council.

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At the time of this writing, there are 691 days left before the implementation date (October 1, 2013) of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) in the United States. That might seem like a long time, but there is no time to waste even for providers who are well underway in the planning stages. Five national surveys conducted since late 2009 by WEDI show that approximately two thirds of payers and providers that responded have not even completed a impact assessment, which should be the first step towards ICD-10 implementation. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! A change of this magnitude in the classification of diseases and procedures utilized for quality reporting and reimbursement is unprecedented in this country – and perhaps even the world. Other countries do not use ICD codes to determine reimbursement for health care services. In the United States, payers will be required by law to pay from ICD-10 codes. Resources abound for planning, readiness assessment, and implementation tools (http://www.ahima.org/icd10/resources.aspx) many of which are available at no charge. A recently published Role-Based Training Tool (http://www.ahima.org/icd10/role.aspx) is designed not only for facilities and physicians, but also for health plans and academic institutions with well-defined timelines for planning and training activities. Predicting and preparing for the financial impact of ICD-10-CM/PCS is more problematic. With the number of variables and unknowns involved, it is impossible to accurately quantify the additional financial resources that will be necessary, and even more so, the immediate and perhaps long term loss of revenue providers will experience. A brief (and not exhaustive) list of the necessary steps associated with the implementation that have a financial impact follows. • IT, clinical, and financial systems upgrades – both software and hardware. Downstream systems and interfaces should not be overlooked. • Pre- and post- go live vendor support. • Testing the upgrades – running parallel systems before the go-live date • Collaboration with payers • Revision of business rules and contracts • Evaluation of clinical documentation and improvement processes • Determining training needs throughout the organization – including physicians • Actual training costs – these may include educational needs beyond actual coding, such as , anatomy and physiology refresher courses • Loss of productivity, estimated to be as much as 50% at the outset; revenue will decline initially and perhaps for years to come • Need for additional skilled coders and the impact of a potential shortage of coders • Possible use of computer-assisted coding and/or outsourcing during implementation phase In conjunction with the TN Hospital Association and DocuVoice, we are offering these learning opportunities: ICD-10: Preparing for the Fallout January 25 – Memphis – Baptist Memorial Healthcare January 26 – Nashville – Tennessee Hospital Association January 27 – Knoxville – Parkwest Medical Center Seminar Description The implementation date for ICD-10 is quickly approaching and will compound the financial stress on healthcare providers. Often referred to as the ‘Y2K of healthcare’, the cost and impact of ICD-10 implementation estimated to be between $2 and $6 billion for hospitals. Beyond implementation, financial challenges will as coding/billing productivity be reduced. This seminar is designed to: • evaluate the financial impact of implementing ICD-10 for your organization • action items necessary now for successful implementation • provide tools to minimize and survive the economic challenges ICD-10 will create To learn more go to www.tha.com and click Education.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Bernie Sherry President & CEO Baptist Hospital 2000 Church St. Nashville 37236 615.284.5555 baptisthospital.com Sherry joined Baptist as president and CEO in June 2003. He is responsible for leading the largest not-for-profit community hospital in Middle Tennessee with 683 licensed beds and nearly 2,000 associates. Prior to joining Baptist and Saint Thomas Health, Sherry worked at the Greenville University Hospital System, a 1,100-bed multi-hospital system located in Greenville, S.C. His is a diplomat of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Rhonda Sides Principal Crosslin & Associates, P.C. 2525 West End Ave., Suite 1100 Nashville 37203 615.320.5900 crosslinpc.com For nearly two decades, Sides, a CPA, has specialized in all aspects of physician practice management. She lectures nationally for various healthcare and financial organizations, is the co-author of two books, and is a recognized contributor to a variety of publications regarding healthcare, business management and litigation support. Sides also is the VP of healthcare services for STAT Solutions, a subsidiary of Crosslin & Associates.

Mark Sims CEO StoneCrest Medical Center 200 StoneCrest Blvd. Smyrna 37167 615.768.2000 stonecrestmedical.com Sims came to StoneCrest in 2009 after serving as CEO of TriStar’s Parkridge East and Parkview Valley hospitals in Chattanooga. Previously, he served as CEO of Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, Tenn., from 2004 to 2005 and as the COO for Skyline Medical Center in Nashville from 2001 to 2004. Sims has been with TriStar since 1993 and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Saurabh Sinha Co-founder & CEO emids Technologies 624 Grassmere Park, Suite 1 Nashville 37211 615.332.7701 emids.com As CEO of the healthcare IT company, Sinha has led emids to several awards including recognition in BusinessTN’s “Hot 100” and the Nashville Chamber’s “Future 50.” He focuses on the company’s global delivery capabilities with an emphasis on service. His previous experiences include successful years at Wipro, Nokia and Northern Telecom. He is a board member of the Nashville Technology Council and is actively involved in a number of community and professional organizations.

Chapman Sledge, MD Medical Director Cumberland Heights P.O. Box 90727 Nashville 37209 615.352.1757 cumberlandheights.org Sledge was named medical director for Cumberland Heights in 2009. Previously, he was medical

director of addiction treatment at Pine Grove Behavioral Health in Hattiesburg, Miss. Sledge is an active member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and has served in various leadership capacities from council chair to board of directors. In 2009, he was among the first class of physicians to receive certification by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Chapman serves on the Medical/Scientific Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependence.

Micki Slingerland COO Centennial Medical Center 2300 Patterson St. Nashville 37203 615.342.1000  centennialmedicalcenter.com Slingerland has worked at HCA for more than 30 years, the past 14 at Centennial Medical Center, where he was named COO in 2006 and served as CFO for 10 years before that. He has also served as CFO for Indian Path Medical Center in Kingsport, VP of finance for Pocono Medical Center in Pennsylvania, and director of finance at Richmond Community Hospital in Virginia.

Dan Slipkovich Co-founder, Chairman & CEO Capella Healthcare 501 Corporate Centre Drive, Suite 200 Franklin 37067 615.764.3000 capellahealth.com Slipkovich co-founded Capella Healthcare with Tom Anderson in 2005. As CEO, he oversees the company’s strategies, operations, finances and corporate governance. Formerly, he was president and COO of Province Healthcare, where he oversaw operations of 21 non-urban hospitals. He began his career as a hospital CFO for HCA and eventually became corporate senior VP. Slipkovich was instrumental in the LifePoint spin-off from HCA. As a result, he joined LifePoint as division president. He is a member of the Board of Governors for the Federation of American Hospitals.

Dee Anna Smith CEO Sarah Cannon Research Institute 3322 West End Ave., Suite 900 Nashville 37203 615.329.7274 sarahcannonresearch.com Smith has more than a decade of experience in clinical research and is responsible for carrying out the strategic mission and vision for SCRI, which she joined in 2005 as CIO. Smith was named CEO in 2006. Previously, she founded and served as CEO of SiteWorks Solutions, a provider of customized, web-based site management systems for the clinical trials industry that was acquired by Oracle in 2004. She is a past Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree and a current board member for the Nashville Health Care Council. Smith is chair for the ASCO 2011 Practice Management and Information Technology Committee.

Marty Smith President, Division III Operations Community Health Systems 4000 Meridian Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.465.7000 chs.net

he was promoted to CEO of a medical center in Pennsylvania. Prior to CHS, he worked from 1992 to 1998 in various administrative positions for Health Management Associates in Alabama, Florida and Oklahoma.

Rich Smith President eDoc4u 3212 West End Ave, Suite 500 Nashville 37203 615.269.5710 edoc4u.com Smith joined eDoc4U in 2002 to launch commercial business operations in healthcare employer and provider markets. Over the past six years, he has managed eDoc4u’s growth as a leading provider of automated health screening technology and preventive care web services. Smith brings to the company over 25 years of executive experience in international IT and healthcare companies.

Wayne Smith Chairman, President & CEO Community Health Systems 4000 Meridian Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.465.7000 chs.net Since Smith came on board in 1997, CHS has seen net revenues grow from just under $750 million to over $13 billion in 2010. He is nationally recognized as a healthcare leader with nearly 35 years experience in the industry. Prior to joining CHS, Smith was with Humana Inc., where he held a variety of senior management positions, including president and COO. He has been selected by Modern Healthcare Magazine as one of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” eight years running. Smith currently serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council and is a past board chair.

Janet Southerland, DDS, PhD Dean Meharry Medical College 1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd. Nashville 37208 615.327.6000 mmc.edu Southerland took the helm of Meharry’s School of Dentistry in March 2011. Prior to that, she was chair of the Department of Hospital Dentistry and chief of oral medicine service at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry. As dean, she is chief administrative and academic officer responsible for developing academic programs, maintaining the quality of the dental curriculum, recruiting faculty and developing research programs.

Joseph A. Sowell, III Senior VP & Chief Development Officer HCA Inc. 1 Park Plaza Nashville 37203 615.344.9551 hcahealthcare.com Sowell was named to his post with HCA in November 2009. He is responsible for all activities related to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for the hospital giant, which operates 163 hospitals and 105 ambulatory surgery centers in 20 states and England. Previously, he was a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, where he co-managed the firm’s corporate and commercial transactions group.

With 20 years of healthcare experience, Smith is primarily responsible for facilities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Tennessee. He joined CHS in 1998 as a hospital CEO in Cleveland, Tenn. In 2003,

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InCharge healThcaRe Bill Spalding Co-founder & Principal Crawford Spalding Group 12 cadillac drive, suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.309.9200 crawfordspalding.com Before co-founding Crawford Spalding Group, an advisory and management services firm, Spalding and his partners orchestrated Caremark’s merger with CVS to form a Fortune 20 company. Spalding served as EVP of Caremark and then CVS Caremark. Prior to 2005, Spalding was a senior partner in the Atlanta office of law firm King & Spalding.

Teresa Sparks Senior VP & CFO Symbion Healthcare 40 Burton hills Blvd., suite 500 Nashville 37215 615.234.5900 symbion.com Sparks was named senior VP and CFO in August 2007. She previously served as corporate controller from the company’s inception and was named VP in December 2002. Prior to joining Symbion, she served as assistant controller for HealthWise of America, a managed care organization, and senior healthcare auditor for Deloitte & Touche in Nashville.

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Karen Springer Senior VP of Operations Saint Thomas Health 102 woodmont Blvd., suite 800 Nashville 37205 615.284-7847 sths.com Springer joined Saint Thomas Health in March 2011 with oversight of operations for the system, which is part of Ascension Health. Previously, she was COO/EVP of Lutheran Hospital of Indiana in Fort Wayne, a position she held since 2007. As COO of Lutheran Hospital, Springer oversaw the operations of the acute care hospital, as well as providing key leadership to 16 divisions including emergency care and all ancillary and support services.

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Tom Starling President & CEO Mental Health America of Middle TN 295 Plus Park Blvd., suite 201 Nashville 37217 615.269.5355 ichope.com Starling is a veteran at leading health-related nonprofits in Middle Tennessee. Since 2009, he has directed efforts at Mental Health America, which focuses on suicide prevention, Alzheimer’s support, professional CEUs, advocacy and community education. He holds degrees in ethics, theology and educational administration. Starling also has experience as a healthcare contracting specialist and as VP of Operations for HEOPS Inc.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE William Stead, MD Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs & Chief Strategy & Information Officer Vanderbilt University Medical Center 416 Eskind Biomedical Library 2209 Garland Ave. Nashville 37232 615.936.1424 mc.vanderbilt.edu Stead is crafting systems to fundamentally change the way communication and care are delivered to increase effectiveness, efficiency and outcomes. He is a founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and past president of the organization, past chair of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, a presidential appointee to the Commission on Systemic Interoperability and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine. He was instrumental, while at Duke, in crafting one of the first practical electronic medical record systems.

James Stefansic, PhD Co-founder & COO Pathfinder Therapeutics 2969 Armory Drive, Suite 100A Nashville 37204 615.783.0094 pathsurg.com An expert in the field of image-guided surgery, Stefansic helped found Pathfinder Therapeutics in 2004 and joined the company full-time as the COO in early 2005. Previously, he was a research assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. In his role at Pathfinder, Stefansic oversees operational duties including finance and funding, business development and FDA approvals. He has also served as principal investigator for Pathfinder’s small business innovative research grants.

Thomas Stephenson CEO Healthcare Management Systems 3102 West End Ave., Suite 400  Nashville 37203 615.383.7300 hmstn.com Stephenson has worked at HMS for more than 20 years. He has held positions ranging from programmer/analyst to VP of customer services to COO, giving him broad operational knowledge. Stephenson was named president in 2005 and is responsible for leading HMS in daily operations as the company provides hospital information programs and services.

Mike Stoll CEO The Little Clinic 8 Cadillac Drive, Suite 250 Brentwood 37027 615.425.4200 thelittleclinic.com In April 2010, Stoll was named CEO of The Little Clinic, the Brentwood-based subsidiary of Kroger Co. Prior to his appointment to oversee operations of the walk-in clinics, he spent 34 years with the grocery chain, most recently as VP of corporate benefits at the company’s Cincinnati headquarters. In that role, he played a key part of developing the healthcare strategy and pension plan for Kroger’s large workforce.

Bob Stone Co-founder & VP Healthways Inc.  701 Cool Springs Blvd. Franklin 37067 615.614.4929 healthways.com

Stone co-founded Healthways in 1981 as American Healthcorp and has served on the company’s executive team for the past 29 years. A recognized pioneer in the industry, he was a charter board member and former president of DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance. His widely read blog, Turn to Stone, offers expertise on industry issues. Prior to Healthways, Stone held leadership positions at hospitals in New Jersey and with New York Medical College.

Alan Strauss CFO Saint Thomas Health 102 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 800 Nashville 37205 615.284-7847 sths.com Strauss was named chief financial officer of Saint Thomas Health in May 2006 and has more than 30 years of healthcare finance experience, specializing in effecting rapid advances in multifacility organizations. Fourteen years of his career were spent at Saint John’s Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. where he served as CFO and operations leader and as the CEO of Vinserra, a for-profit affiliate of the Health Center.

Phil Suiter President & CEO digiChart 100 Winners Circle, Suite 450 Brentwood 37027 615.777.2727 digichart.com Suiter, a successful entrepreneur and investor, has more than 25 years of experience founding, leading and growing healthcare and information technology businesses. Before joining digiChart, he was president and CEO of Transaction Tracking Technologies, a privately held transaction processor. Healthcare businesses Suiter has founded or led include Gordian Health Solutions (now Onlife Health), Stinger Medical, NotifyMD, Medical Properties of America, Vivra Specialty Partners and Medstat/Inforum. He also has held leadership roles at Vanderbilt University including director of strategic projects for VUMC’s Department of Medicine and earlier at Vanderbilt’s Center for Better Health and Office of Technology Transfer.

Riley Sweat Managing Director & Co-Head of Health Care Investment Banking Raymond James & Associates 2525 West End Ave., Suite 925 Nashville 37203 615.321.8075 raymondjames.com Sweat joined Raymond James & Associates in 2001. From 1989 until 2001, he served as managing director and head of healthcare investment banking for SunTrust Equitable Securities. Prior to that, he spent five years working for First Union Bank, where he was involved primarily in mergers and acquisitions.

T Jerry Taylor Member Farris Mathews Bobango PLC 618 Church St., Suite 300 Nashville 37219 615.726.1200 farrismathews.com Taylor’s practice concentrates in the areas of healthcare, administrative law, government law, and commercial real estate finance. He was

an assistant state attorney general from 1987 to 1992 and general counsel to the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission from 1992 to 1994. Taylor also is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

William C. Thompson, MD CMO Baptist Hospital 2000 Church St. Nashville 37236 615.284.5555 baptisthospital.com Thompson has been a member of Baptist Hospital’s medical staff since 1988 and was named chief medical officer in 2007. As CMO, he directs decisions impacting the hospital’s medical staff and clinical programs. Most recently, Thompson was physician director of clinical transformation for Ascension Health. From 1996 to 2005, Thompson was CEO and partner for Nashville Inpatient Management Services and was instrumental in developing Nashville’s first hospitalist program.

Curt Thorne President & CEO MedSolutions 730 Cool Springs Blvd.,  Suite 800 Franklin 37067 615.468.0600 medsolutions.com Thorne joined MedSolutions in 1998 to lead the radiology benefits management company. In his role, he oversees corporate strategy, company operations, new business development and all functions related to the company’s managed care contracts. Prior to MedSolutions, Thorne was president and COO of a California-based specialty physician management company. He also served in senior management positions with Aetna Healthplans, The Travelers and Cigna.

Byron Trauger Partner Trauger & Tuke 222 Fourth Ave. N. Nashville 37219 615.256.8585 tntlaw.net A large portion of Trauger’s practice focuses on advising healthcare entities on strategic and regulatory issues. He has chaired a Tennessee gubernatorial campaign and two Nashville mayoral campaigns. A Rhodes scholar and Yale Law School graduate, Trauger also has extensive business experience, having chaired the board of publicly-traded managed care insurer Coventry Health Care and serving on the boards of privately held healthcare and technology companies. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Tennessee Bar Foundation, and the Nashville Bar Foundation.

David Tribble, MD CMO Alive Hospice 1718 Patterson St. Nashville 37203 615.327.1085 alivehospice.org Tribble, whose career has focused on end-of-life care, began his hospice work in 1982. In 2008, he moved to Nashville from the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in South Bend, Ind., to direct the interdisciplinary team covering all aspects of patient care in the various settings served by Alive Hospice. Tribble is a member of the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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InCharge HEALTHCARE Mike Tudeen President & CEO Inspiris 10 Cadillac Drive, Suite 350 Brentwood 37027 615.986.9201 inspiris.com Tudeen heads two companies, INSPIRIS and Evercare, both providing hands-on care to chronically ill, medically complex populations. His organization partners with managed-care health plans, primarily Medicare and Medicaid, and contracts with federal and state governments to improve care and lower medical expenses for underserved, high-costs individuals. Previously Tudeen was COO for National Seating & Mobility. He served for 12 years in key roles at what is now Healthways.

Robert Tuke Partner Trauger & Tuke 222 Fourth Ave. N. Nashville 37219 615.256.8585 tntlaw.net Tuke represents Meharry Medical College and has written numerous articles on ethics, healthcare and adoption law. A graduate of and adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law, Tuke was a principal draftsman of Tennessee’s revised Adoption Code. He served a term as chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party, ran for U.S. Senate and has a leadership role in numerous nonprofit organizations in Nashville. Tuke is a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation and the Nashville Bar Foundation.

Mark Tulloch COO HealthSpring Inc. 9009 Carothers Parkway,   Suite 500 Franklin 37067 615.291.7000 healthspring.com Tulloch has served in his current role for the Medicare Advantage plan provider since March 2009 and has been in an executive leadership position with HealthSpring since joining the company in July 2006. Previously, he served for three years as senior VP of operations for United Surgical Partners International, an owner and operator of short-stay surgical facilities, and in a variety of roles including president and COO during his seven years with USPI subsidiary OrthoLink Physicians Corporation.

Buddy Turner President & CEO Behavioral Centers of America 3100 West End Ave., Suite 1000 Nashville 37203 615.463.3200 bca-corp.com Turner, who was named CEO of Behavioral Centers of America in April 2011, has more than 15 years healthcare management experience in both the non-profit and proprietary sectors of behavioral health. Prior to joining the company as SVP of Operations in 2008, he was divisional VP with Universal Health Services with oversight of residential treatment facilities in four states including Tennessee. He also held executive positions with Keystone Education and Youth Services, Children’s Comprehensive Services and Acute Care Psychiatric Hospital.

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Member Sherrard & Roe PLC 150 Third Ave. S., Suite 1100 Nashville 37201 615.742.4200 sherrardroe.com

Mary Layne Van Cleave COO Tennessee Hospital Association 500 Interstate Blvd. S. Nashville 37210 615.256.8240 tha.com Van Cleave joined the THA in 1996 and was named COO in 2007. In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations at THA, she also serves as executive VP for THA Information Services, which provides data to members for planning and evaluation. The department also has oversight of the THA Health Information Network, which was formed in 2000 to assist member hospital in meeting reporting requirements mandated by state and federal law.

Voigt heads Sherrard & Roe’s healthcare practice and has broad experience across a spectrum of legal issues ranging from regulatory compliance to hospital-physician integration to mergers and acquisitions. He is a member and past chairman of the Health Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association and a former officer of Friends in General, the support foundation for Metro General Hospital. His work in health law has been recognized by a number of publications including “The Best of the U.S.” and “Guide to Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers.”

David Vandewater President & CEO Ardent Health Services One Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 250 Nashville 37215 615.296.3000 ardenthealth.com Prior to joining Ardent’s predecessor Behavioral Health Corp., Vandewater served as president and COO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. He has served in executive positions ranging from CEO of Vista Hills Medical Center in El Paso to EVP and COO at Republic Health Corp. At Ardent, Vandewater has built a company with hospital systems in the Albuquerque and Tulsa markets that earlier this year wrapped up a $475 million refinancing. He is past chairman of the Federation of American Hospitals, which represents investor-owned and -managed community hospitals throughout the United States.

Doug Varney Commissioner Tennessee Department of Mental Health Cordell Hull Building, Third Floor Nashville 37243-0675 615.532.6500 tn.gov/mental Varney was named commissioner of the Department of Mental Health under Governor Bill Haslam in January 2011. Prior to the appointment, Varney was president and CEO of Frontier Health, working his way to the executive post from positions as a psychological examiner, counselor and therapist. Varney is an adjunct professor at East Tennessee State University. He was past president of the Tennessee Association of Mental Health Organizations.

Robert N. Vero, EdD CEO Centerstone of Tennessee 1101 Sixth Ave. N. Nashville 37208 615.463.6600 centerstone.org Vero serves as CEO of Centerstone of Tennessee and has worked in private and communitybased behavioral healthcare since 1976. He also has worked as a psychological consultant to the Nebraska State Highway Patrol and the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department and is a two-time winner of the Tennessee Association of Mental Health Organization’s Volunteer Leadership Award.

Melissa Waddey Senior Director, Strategic Resource Group LifePoint Hospitals 103 Powell Court Brentwood 37027 615.372.8500 lifepointhospitals.com Board chair of Nashville’s Leadership Health Care, Waddey is a proven strategic planning, hospital operations and product/service line development expert. Before joining LifePoint in 2010, she was COO of Summit Medical Center and HCA’s Skyline Medical Center – Madison Campus. Now, Waddey helps LifePoint’s hospital teams identify strategic growth opportunities within their markets. She is also responsible for developing and leading LifePoint’s health reform initiatives. In addition, she serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.

Steve Wade Executive Director Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance 301 21st Ave. N. Nashville 37203 615.329.6600 toa.com Wade has led the administrative side of TOA since 2003. He has been managing large physician practices and practice management systems for close to two decades. Prior to joining TOA, he worked as an administrator in the outpatient psychiatric field and was a market manager for HCA Physician Services. He also served as president of EnableComp, a worker’s compensation revenue cycle management firm based in Franklin. He is a certified medical practice executive by MGMA.

Mark Wainner VP Financial Operations AmSurg Corporation 20 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 500 Nashville 37215 615.665.1283 amsurg.com Wainner, a 14-year AmSurg veteran, has held a management posts covering business development, center operations and profit and loss responsibilities. His current position encompasses managed care contracting, revenue management and materials management. AmSurg acquires, develops and operates more than 225 ambulatory surgery centers in partnership with physicians in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Wainner also serves as board vice chair for Leadership Health Care, an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council that fosters the talents of Nashville’s next generation of healthcare industry leaders.

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InCharge healThcaRe Kent Wallace President & COO Vanguard Health Systems 20 Burton hills Blvd., suite 100 Nashville 37215 615.665.6000 vanguardhealth.com Wallace has served in his present role since 2005. Prior to being named as Vanguard’s president and COO, he served for three years as market president for Vanguard’s Texas Region including five acute care hospitals and other related health care services. Prior to Vanguard, he was group president for Province Healthcare, Columbia/HCA and HealthTrust. Wallace has more than 25 years of healthcare operations experience.

Leigh Walton Member & Co-chair Healthcare Practice Area Bass Berry & Sims 105 Third ave. s., suite 2800 Nashville 37201 615.742.6201 bassberry.com Walton led Bass’ healthcare regulatory group when HCA sold itself to a private-equity group in 2006. She joined Bass Berry in May of 1979 and was named a member of the firm in 1984. She is a former co-chair of the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group and is experienced in handling acquisitions, hospital syndications, joint ventures and financing transactions. Walton chairs the ABA’s Mergers & Acquisitions Committee with members from 40 countries. She has won numerous regional and national accolades and was a 2010 Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree.

Denise W. Warren Senior VP & CFO Capella Healthcare 501 corporate centre drive, suite 200 Franklin 37067 615.764.3000 capellahealth.com Warren has more than 25 years of diverse financial experience including serving as a senior equity analyst and research director for Avondale Partners LLC and Merrill Lynch in New York where she was named to the “Wall Street Journal All-Star Research Team.” She was also CFO for Gaylord Entertainment Company. In 2009, Warren was honored as “CFO of the Year” in the category of large, private companies by the Nashville Business Journal and was named a 2011 “Woman to Watch” by Nashville Medical News. She sits on the Federation of American Hospitals Board of Governors.

Christopher M. Was Member Miller & Martin 150 Fourth ave. N., suite 1200 Nashville 37219 615.744.8527 millermartin.com As co-chair of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group, Was advises Tennessee nonprofit behavioral health providers with respect to managed care and compliance. He deals extensively with Medicaid matters on behalf of providers. Was also advises nonprofit clients regarding exempt organization tax law and general nonprofit corporate law issues. He handles federal and Tennessee state tax law controversies.

Nancy West President & CEO Siloam Family Health Center 820 Gale lane Nashville 37204 615.298.5406 siloamhealth.org West joined Siloam in 1998 as the first paid staff member seven years after the faith-based healthcare organization first opened its doors to serve the uninsured and underinsured. As president and CEO, she has led the organization from seeing a dozen patients for four hours a week in a 1,000 square-foot facility to completing more than 18,000 patient encounters annually during a 45-hour work week at their 12,000 square-foot facility, which was built in 2005 and is run with a pool of 500 volunteers and more than 20 staff members. West is a previous Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree.

Ming Wang, MD, PhD Founder Wang Vision Institute 1801 west end ave., suite 1105 Nashville 37203 615.321.8881 wangvisioninstitute.com Perhaps Nashville’s most visible healthcare entrepreneur, Wang was among the first doctors in the United States to specialize in bladeless LASIK technology. A Harvard and MIT graduate, Wang is one of the few eye surgeons to hold both a medical degree and a doctorate in laser physics. He is widely published, holds several patents for biotechnology vision innovations and heavily participates in ophthalmic research. He is also involved in expanding healthcare options in his native China.

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Brian R. Wiese

President & CEO Delta Dental of Tennessee 240 Venture Circle Nashville 37228 888.281.9396 deltadentaltn.com

Partner KPMG LLP 401 Commerce St., Suite 1000 Nashville 37219 615.248.5645 kpmg.com

Wenk joined Delta Dental as COO in March 1997 before being named to his current position in January 2000. He also leads several for-profit side businesses for Delta’s parent, Renaissance Health Service Corp. Prior to his role at Delta, he spent 20 years in private practice. He is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists

Carl Whitmer

With more than 30 years of healthcare experience, Wiese is partner-in-charge of KPMG’s Tennessee healthcare practice. He works with nonprofit and for-profit providers and payers including academic medical centers, health systems, hospitals, managed care organizations, renal dialysis companies and others. He is serving his third term on the Nashville Health Care Council board.

Ellyn Wilbur

President & CEO IASIS Healthcare Corp. 117 Seaboard Lane, Bldg. E Franklin 37067 615.844.2747 iasishealthcare.com Whitmer joined IASIS soon after its founding as vice president and treasurer, then rose to CFO as the company experienced substantial growth in acute care operations and expanded managed care operations. He was named to his current position in 2010. Before IASIS, Whitmer held executive positions at PhyCor, a physician practice and IPA management company.

Jeff Whitehorn CEO Summit Medical Center 5655 Frist Blvd. Hermitage 37076 615.316.3000 summitmedicalcenter.com Whitehorn has led Summit Medical Center since June 2003. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he served in the same position for Southern Hills Medical Center. A CPA and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, he joined HCA in 1992. Whitehorn also served as CEO for two HCA hospitals in Georgia earlier in his career. A civic leader, he also serves on the Government Affairs committee of the Tennessee Hospital Association.

David Whitten CEO Anesthesia Medical Group 110 29th Ave. N., Suite 202 Nashville 37203 615.327.4304 amg-group.com Whitten has served as CEO of AMG since 1999. Prior to that he was a senior executive with PhyCor and at a number of academic institutions. He was also a founder and CEO of Syus, Inc. AMG includes 64 physicians and 170 certified registered nurse anesthetists and provides anesthesia services to multiple area hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.

Mike Wiechart Senior VP & COO Capella Healthcare 501 Corporate Centre Drive, Suite 200 Franklin 37067 615.764.3000 capellahealth.com Wiechart leads all of Capella’s operations and is also involved in mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Capella in 2009, he held senior leadership positions with LifePoint Hospitals and was one of the company’s founding employees. After working in finance and operations for HCA, Wiechart became VP of operations for Province Healthcare before moving to LifePoint.

Executive Director Tennessee Association of Mental Health Organizations 42 Rutledge St. Nashville 37210-2043 615.244.2220 tahmo.org In 2011, TAMHO promoted Wilbur, who served as the organization’s director of Policy and Advocacy, to the top spot. She previously held management positions with Magellan Health Services in Nashville and Case Management, Inc. in Memphis. TAMHO represents Community Mental Health Centers and other not-for-profit corporations that provide community-based behavioral health services.

Earl Winter Chairman, CEO & Founder nTelagent 5500 Maryland Way, Suite 200 Brentwood 37027 615.349.1999 ntelagent.com Winter has steadily grown his revenue cycle management firm’s client base to acute-care hospitals nationwide and regularly completed funding rounds along the way. He spent eight years at Nortel Networks, where he was one of the founding members of the Meridian Norstar Division. Before that, he spent more than 10 years in electronic commerce and business process outsourcing at GE Information Services, Sterling Commerce, MSX and ClientLogic.

Leslie Wisner-Lynch, DDS, DMsc President & CEO Tennessee Technology Development Corporation 230 Fourth Ave. N, Suite 601 Nashville 37219 615.673.4419 tntechnology.org Wisner-Lynch joined TTDC in 2010 with over 15 years of experience in regenerative therapeutics. She was instrumental in the relocation of start-up biopharmaceutical company BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. to Tennessee and served as director of Applied Research while helping bring their first product to market. She serves on multiple boards for organizations advancing science and technology business development and education and is the governor’s designated chair for the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Innovation Network Advisory Council.

Bryant C. Witt Of Counsel Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P.C. 611 Commerce St., Suite 3000 Nashville 37203 615.313.9911 hbss.net Witt has extensive experience in all aspects of the representation of hospitals, physicians and

other healthcare organizations and handles complex regulatory issues. He also has substantial trial experience defending healthcare entities in professional liability matters and business litigation and representing providers in complex or catastrophic injury cases including birth trauma and wrongful death. Witt is a member of the American Health Lawyer’s Association.

Pamela Womack CEO Mental Health Cooperative 275 Cumberland Bend Dr. Nashville 37228 615.330.1674 mhc-tn.org CEO since MHC’s founding in 1993, Womack led the development of this first agency focused exclusively on Davidson County-area persons with serious mental illness. Initially providing case management, psychiatry and mobile crisis services, MHC today offers integrated care that includes community-based case management, psychiatric clinic, psychotherapy and 24-hour emergency services.

Tom Wylly Senior Partner Brentwood Capital Advisors 1600 Division St., Suite 520 Nashville 37203 615.690.1700 brentwoodcap.com One of the city’s go-to healthcare finance intermediaries, Wylly was co-head of the corporate finance department of J.C. Bradford & Co. He joined J.C. Bradford in February 1980 and was named partner five years later. Before that, Tom was with Wachovia as a corporate banking officer responsible for Middle and Eastern Tennessee.

Y Jeanne Yeatman Director Vanderbilt LifeFlight 1211 Medical Center Drive Nashville 37232 800.288.8111 vulifeflight.com Yeatman oversees one of the largest academic medical center-based transport programs in the country with an average of more than 3,000 transports annually, a $10 million budget and more than 150 employees. In addition to her clinical expertise, the former flight nurse also holds two master’s degrees in business administration and organizational management. In addition to critical care service by rotor, fixed wing and ground transportation, Yeatman was also instrumental in launching an Event Medicine division to provide emergency care and transport services at many area entertainment and sporting events.

Caroline Young President Nashville Health Care Council 211 Commerce St., Suite 100 Nashville 37201 615.743.3140 healthcarecouncil.com Young joined the Council in 2004 as VP and executive director of its Leadership Health Care organization and moved into the top spot in early 2008. As president of the Council, she is the lead voice for Nashville’s $70 billion healthcare industry. Previously, she served as founding executive director of the Tennessee Biotechnology Association. She is a past Nashville Medical News “Women to Watch” honoree.

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Index By Company 2nd Generation Capital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Acadia Healthcare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Advantage Behavioral Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Advocat Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 42 Aegis Sciences Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Alive Hospice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Ambulatory Services of America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 34 American HomePatient Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 AmSurg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 24, 33, 48 Anesthesia Medical Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Ardent Health Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 48 Avondale Partners LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 42 Baker Donelson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 11, 22, 36 Bank of America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Baptist Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 44, 46 Bass Berry Sims. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 32, 40, 49 Behavioral Centers of America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Belmont University School of Pharmacy. . . . . . . . . . . . 29 BioMimetic Therapeutics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19 Bone McAllester Norton PLLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 18 Bradley Arant Boult Cummings. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 8, 20, 24 BreatheAmerica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Brentwood Capital Advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Bridges to Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Brookdale Senior Living Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Capella Healthcare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 44, 49, 50 CareHere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 10 Carlyle Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Carter Lankford CPAs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 30 Centennial Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 44 Centennial Pediatrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Centerre Healthcare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 12, 16 Centerstone Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Centerstone of America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Centerstone of Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40, 48 Centerstone Research Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 14, 38 Change Healthcare Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,36, 38 Chinaco Healthcare Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Clayton Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Cogent HMG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15, 19, 24 Community Health Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 16, 43, 44 ConduIT Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Corizon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Council Capital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 29 Crawford Spaulding Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 45 Cressey & Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 16 Crosslin & Associates PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 44 Cumberland Consulting Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Cumberland Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36, 44 Cumberland Pharmaceuticals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 29 Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Delta Dental of Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 DiaTech Oncology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Diatherix Laboratories Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Dickinson Wright. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 digiChart Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 46 Dispensary of Hope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 DSI Renal Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 e+CancerCare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 40 Earl Swensson Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 eDoc4u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 44 Emdeon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 emids Technologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Faith Family Medical Clinic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 24 Farris Mathews Bobango PLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Fifth Third Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 31 FOCUS Search Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 30 Frist Clinic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 FTI Consulting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 38 Gordon Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Gould Turner Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Gresham Smith & Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 37

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Hall Booth Smith & Slover PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 50 Harbert Management Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Hart Freeland Roberts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Manner . . . . 24, 29, 32 HCA Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7, 8, 10, 16, 29, 39, 43, 44 HCCA International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 HCP Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Health Connect Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Healthcare Management Systems Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Healthcare Realty Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 HealthSpring Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 36, 48 HealthStream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 HealthTeacher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 HealthTech Management Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 HealthTrust Purchasing Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Healthways. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11, 31, 32, 40, 46 Hendersonville Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Heritage Group LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Heritage Medical Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19 HighPoint Health System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hospice Compassus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Hospital Hospitality House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 IASIS Healthcare Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 50 Inner Design Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Insight Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 12 Inspiris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 iPractice Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 37 Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 29 KPMG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Kraft Healthcare Consulting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Lam-Andrews Advertising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 30 Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 36 Laura Campbell & Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Leadership Health Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 LifePoint Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 10, 12, 48 Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy. . . . . . . . . . . 12 Little Clinic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 Mainland Morgan & Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Maury Regional Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 MedSolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Meharry Medical College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 42, 44 Mental Health America of Middle Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Mental Health Cooperative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Meridian Surgical Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Metro Nashville Hospital Authority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Metro Public Health Dept.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Middle Tennessee Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Miller & Martin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 14, 49 MissionPoint Health Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 7, 19, 43 Murfreeesboro Medical Clinic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Nashville Academy of Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Nashville Capital Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Nashville Health Care Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Nashville Medical Trade Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Nashville Technology Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 National Healthcare Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Nephrology Associates PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 NorthCrest Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 nTelagent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Office of e-Health Initiatives, State of Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 OGA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 38 onFocus Healthcare Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 34 Onlife Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Parental Health LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Passport Health Communications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Pathfinder Therapeutics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 46 PathGroup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 PatientCredit Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Petra Capital Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 15

PharmMD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Premier Radiology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Qualifacts Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Quorum Health Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Radiology Alliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Radsource, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Raymond James & Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 RegionalCare Hospital Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 40, 43 Regions Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Revive Public Relations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 18 Saint Thomas Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 32, 43, 45, 46 Saint Thomas Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 42 Saint Thomas Medical Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19, 32 Saint Thomas Physician Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Sarah Cannon Cancer Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Sarah Cannon Research Institute. . . . . . . . . . 8, 20, 33, 44 Shareable Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sherrard & Roe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Siloam Family Health Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Simplex Healthcare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 24, 29 Skyline Medical Center & Madison Campus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 38 Southern Hills Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Southwind, A Division of Advisory Board Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 30 Specialty Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 State of Tennesse50e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Stonecrest Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Summit Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Symbion Healthcare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 16, 45 TennCare Bureau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 32 Tennessee Association of Mental Health Organizations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Tennessee Department of Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Tennessee Department of Mental Health. . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Tennessee Health Services & Development Agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Tennessee Hospital Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 48 Tennessee Justice Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 29 Tennessee Medical Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6, 36 Tennessee Nurses Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tennessee Oncology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 48 Tennessee Regional Extension Center (tnREC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Tennessee Technology Development Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Trauger & Tuke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 48 TriStar Health System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 11 TriStar Technology Ventures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 United Neighborhood Health Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 University Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Urology Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 US Radiosurgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Vanderbilt Heart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Vanderbilt Home Care Services, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 39, 40 Vanderbilt LifeFlight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Vanderbilt School of Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6, 33 Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics. . . . . . . . . . . 40 Vanderbilt University Medical Center. . . . . . . . . 14, 39, 46 Vanguard Health Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 39, 49 Vivere Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Voyent Partners LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 30 Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 20, 32, 40 Wang Vision Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Williamson Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 36 Willis Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Women’s & Children’s Hospital at Centennial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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