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Thomas A. Atchison, EdD

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<div id="pastingspan1"></div><div id="pastingspan1">Thomas A. Atchison, EdD, is president and founder of Atchison Consulting LLC. Since 1984, Dr. Atchison has consulted with healthcare organizations on managed change programs, team building and leadership development. His clients include senior executives, managers, trustees and physician leaders. He has also consulted the military, healthcare vendors and government agencies on the intangible aspects of healthcare.</div><div> </div><div id="pastingspan1">Dr. Atchison has taught several courses on leadership and change management for ACHE. He has also written numerous articles about motivation, managed change, teambuilding and leadership. His book, <em>Turning Healthcare Leadership Around</em>, was published in October 1990. His newest book, <em>Engagemen</em>t, will be available in the fall 2021.</div><div> </div><div id="pastingspan1">He earned his doctorate degree in organizational behavior at Loyola University of Chicago and is a member of ACHE.</div><div></div><div>Dr. Atchison serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div> <ul> <li> Leading and Managing in Changing Times</li> <li>Achieving Superior Outcomes Through Executive-Physician Partnerships</li> </ul> <p>Dr. Atchison also authored the following Health Administration Press publications:</p><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2447I" title="Reigniting Employee Engagement: A Guide to Rediscovering Purpose and Meaning in Healthcare"><em>Reigniting Employee Engagement: A Guide to Rediscovering Purpose and Meaning in Healthcare</em></a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2004I"><em>Followership: A Practical Guide to Aligning Leaders and Followers</em></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2056I"><em>Leadership's Deeper Dimensions: Building Blocks to Superior Performance</em></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2118I"><em>Leading Healthcare Cultures: How Human Capital Drives Financial Performance</em></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/1131I"><em>Leading Transformational Change: The Physician-Executive Partnership</em></a></li> </ul> </div> <quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

Chip Caldwell, LFACHE

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<p>Chip Caldwell, LFACHE, is chairman of Caldwell Butler & Associates LLC, St. Augustine, Fla. He has served as an executive team performance coach for 20 years and is considered a thought leader in healthcare quality and performance improvement methodology. Mr. Caldwell was the healthcare representative on the U.S. Quality Council, and continues to serve as a member of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board Support Team. He has also authored or co-authored six healthcare management books on cost reduction, accountable change models and the executive role in Lean Six Sigma. A nationally recognized speaker, he has led ACHE seminars for over 15 years.</p> Mr. Caldwell serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars: <ul><li>Achieving Speed, Spread, Scalability and Sustainability for Health Systems</li> <li>Aggressively Improve Margin and Market Growth: 2020 National Research for C-Suite </li></ul> Mr. Caldwell also authored the following Health Administration Press publications: <ul><li><em><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/1124I">Medication Safety and Cost Recovery: A Four-Step Approach for Executives</a></em></li> <li><em>What Top-Performing Healthcare Organization Know: 7 Proven Steps for Accelerating and Achieving Change</em></li></ul>

Kevin S. Cook

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<p>Kevin Cook has more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience. He recently joined Sutter Health after working as a managing principal for Caldwell Butler, a healthcare consulting firm that uses evidence-based methods to improve margin, quality and patient experience. Cook has also served as the COO of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, a five-region, 10-hospital system based in Louisiana and Mississippi. He created the operational infrastructure to move the system from a holding company to an operating company.</p> <p>Cook also led the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s health system for seven years. Before joining UMMC, Cook spent eight years with Mercy Health in Cincinnati. While at Mercy, he was a regional CEO, market CEO and hospital COO serving in both Ohio and Pennsylvania. He also worked for Triad Hospitals in Mississippi. Before his career in hospital operations, Cook worked with Caldwell Butler as a Six Sigma engineer and as director of operations at the Premier Innovation Institute.</p> <p>Cook earned his undergraduate degree from Hobart and William Smith College and holds a master’s degree in business administration from Boston University. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps from 1991 to 1999, rising to the rank of major. Cook is a two-term Council of Teaching Hospitals board member at the Association of American Medical Colleges and serves as ACHE faculty. </p>

Patsy Engel

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<div>Patsy Engel is on the faculty of Catalysis, Appleton, Wis., a company focused on educational programs and resources designed to transform healthcare value, where she teaches the management system curriculum in the U.S. and Canada. Ms. Engel is a registered nurse with 25 years of clinical experience, and a certified asthma educator. She holds a Lean Bronze Certification from the SME/AME (manufacturing associations). Ms. Engel previously held various positions at ThedaCare, northeast Wis., including that of Director of Spread and Best Practice in the hospital division. She was integral in the development of ThedaCare’s lean management system and served as an improvement coach and mentor at all levels of that organization.</div><div> </div><div>Ms. Engel serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar:</div><div><ul><li>Achieving a Sustainable Transformation to Operational Excellence </li></ul></div>

Michael E. Frisina, PhD

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<p>Michael E. Frisina, PhD, is founder/CEO of The Frisina Group LLC, Elgin, S.C., and The Center for Influential Leadership. He is an author, educator and consultant specializing in healthcare leadership and performance improvement. He is also an internationally known speaker and the author of <em>Influential Leadership: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Organization, Change Health Care. </em>Dr. Frisina was previously assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and assistant professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He has held administration positions in both military and civilian healthcare systems at various levels of increasing responsibility.</p> <p>Dr. Frisina serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</p> <ul> <li>Behavior Smarts: Increasing Healthcare Leadership Performance</li> <li>Leading for Success: Creating a Committed Workforce</li> <li>Professional Burnout in Healthcare: Lead Your Organization to Wellness</li> <li>Leading from Your Upper Brain - A Neuroscience Approach to Driving Performance<br /> </li> </ul> <p> Dr. Frisina has also authored the following Health Administration Press publications:</p> <p><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2451I"> <em>Leading With Your Upper Brain: How to Create the Behaviors That Unlock Performance Excellence</em> </a></p> <p><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2275I"><em>Influential Leadership: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Organization, Change Health Care</em></a></p>

Marta Karlov

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<div>Marta Karlov is an operational excellence professional with American Family Insurance, Madison, Wis. Ms. Karlov helps design and implement lean deployment roadmaps for organizational culture change. Prior to her current role, she was director of transformation journeys, Catalysis Inc. in Appleton, Wis. She has been on the ACHE faculty since 2015 and is adjunct faculty in the master of business in operational excellent program at Ohio State University. She earned a master’s degree in public health management from Emory University, a certificate in environmental management from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Illinois—Chicago.</div><div> </div><div>Ms. Karlov serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>Achieving a Sustainable Transformation to Operational Excellence </li></ul></div>

Jake Poore

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<p>Jake Poore is on a mission to change healthcare one doctor, one nurse, one hospital at a time.</p> <p> A former Disney executive, Mr. Poore led training programs for 65,000 employees and helped launch The Disney Institute corporate training center. </p> <p> As the president and chief experience officer of Integrated Loyalty Systems, Mr. Poore and his team have developed the comprehensive blueprints and methodology that help thousands of healthcare professionals worldwide create alignment and accountability by teaching them how to hardwire both quality and human kindness.</p> <p> He is an entrepreneur, a sought-after international speaker, and author of the new book and online training, "99 Lessons Learned from Disney To Improve the Patient Experience".</p>

Richard J. Priore, ScD, FACHE

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<div></div><p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Richard Priore</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, ScD, FACHE,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> is president/CEO, Excelsior HealthCare Group, St. Paul, Minn. Excelsior is an outcomes-driven healthcare management consulting firm specializing in the assessment, execution and speed of measurable results in improving organizational performance. Dr. Priore is also a Distinguished Service Professor at St. Paul's University of St. Thomas, also in St. Paul, teaching graduate economics and management courses. He has served as the CEO for several investor-owned hospitals and as a hospital turnaround expert and managing director for the Hunter Group.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Dr. Priore serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</span></p> <ul style="0in" type="disc"> <li><span style="font-size: 18px;">Breakthrough Physician Alignment: Creating a Win-Win for Optimizing Organizational Performance</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Integrating Quality and Cost in a Pay-for-Value Era </span></li><li><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Direct Contracting with Employer Groups: What Healthcare Leaders Should Know</span></li><li><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Making the Business Case for Quality<br /></span></li></ul>

About Richard J. Priore, ScD, FACHE
Associate Professor
Tulane University - - New Orleans, LA

Jody R. Rogers, PhD, LFACHE

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<div>Jody Rogers is a professor in the healthcare administration graduate program at Trinity University in San Antonio. Dr. Rogers has more than 30 years of experience as a healthcare executive in public and private healthcare organizations and is a certified master facilitator of The Leadership Challenge. He obtained his master’s degree in healthcare administration from the U.S. Army–Baylor University and his doctorate in health services research, policy and administration from the University of Minnesota.</div><div> </div><div>Dr. Rogers serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>The Courage to Lead: Critical Skills for Healthcare Leaders </li></ul></div>

About Jody R. Rogers, PhD, LFACHE
Visiting Professor
Trinity University

Brian J. Silverstein, MD

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<div>Brian Silverstein is a director with The Chartis Group in Chicago. Dr. Silverstein is a national healthcare thought leader with extensive consulting and operational expertise, including a focus on population management. He previously was managing partner, HC Wisdom LLC, in Glencoe, Ill., and senior vice president at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, where he ran one of the country’s largest primary ACO/PCMH programs with over 1 million patients and 3,500 providers. Dr. Silverstein’s consulting career included roles as managing director of the Geisinger Consulting Group and senior vice president at the Camden Group. Dr. Silverstein received his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his internship in internal medicine with McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University.</div><div> </div><div>Dr. Silverstein serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>Achieving Superior Outcomes Through Executive-Physician Partnerships</li></ul></div>

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Chief Population Health Officer
Innovaccer

Harjot Singh, MD

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<p>Harjot Singh, MD, is an advisor who creates programs that help leaders make their leadership work. He sees his work like how Yoda helped Luke in “Star Wars” discover his potential like a powerful Jedi warrior he would become, and not the farm boy he was or the starfighter he wanted to be. He is a practicing physician, chief of telepsychiatry service at Kingsview Behavioral Health and faculty at American College of Healthcare Executives. His work is informed by all three of those perspectives. Since 2016, he has coached and trained physicians and leaders on topics such as engagement, influence, productivity, turnover, burnout, public speaking and career advancement. He is a nationally recognized conference speaker, and he has written several articles for national publications and textbook chapters.</p> <p>Dr. Singh serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars: </p><ul> <li>Professional Burnout in Healthcare: Lead Your Organization to Wellness </li> </ul> <p> </p>

Mark J. Werner, MD

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<div>Mark Werner is national director, Clinical Consulting, with The Chartis Group and Chartis Physician Leadership Institute in Chicago. In this role, he leads clinical consulting efforts across the firm, focusing on enterprise physician alignment and leadership, medical group performance, adoption and change management, performance innovation, population health, provider-payer relationships and the translation of strategy into clinical operations. Dr. Werner brings more than 25 years’ experience providing transformational healthcare leadership in integrated health systems, academic medical centers, clinically integrated networks, multispecialty physician groups and health plans.</div> <div> </div> <div>Dr. Werner serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div> <div> <ul> <li>Breakthrough Physician Alignment: Creating a Win-Win for Optimizing Organizational Performance</li> </ul> </div>

Clearwater Beach Cluster 2020

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Thomas A. Atchison, EdD

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Chip Caldwell, LFACHE

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Kevin S. Cook

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Patsy Engel

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Michael E. Frisina, PhD

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Marta Karlov

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Jake Poore

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Richard J. Priore, ScD, FACHE

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Jody R. Rogers, PhD, LFACHE

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Brian J. Silverstein, MD

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Harjot Singh, MD

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Mark J. Werner, MD

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