San Antonio Cluster 2019

Faculty

  • Laura W. Synnott, FACHE

    Speaker

    <p>Laura Synnott is associate teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She provides operations, project management and strategy-development consulting services to healthcare providers. Ms. Synnott previously served as a hospital operations vice president overseeing ancillary and support departments, as well as construction projects. She has overseen numerous projects including an outpatient surgery addition, an emergency department expansion and a credentials verification organization. She also has served in dozens of consulting engagements.</p><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Ms. Synnott serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar:</div><div><ul><li>Leadership and Accountability in Project Management and Programs &nbsp;</li></ul></div>
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    Associate Teaching Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University
  • Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE

    Author

    <p>Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE is president/CEO of The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc., Glen, New Hampshire, which provides best-practice training and solutions to healthcare systems throughout the United States and beyond. His work focuses on how healthcare systems can adopt best practices and avoid systems failures which can result in loss of public confidence and market share. He works with executive teams, governing boards, medical staff and clinical leadership. He also works with legal counsel to ensure compliance and avoidance of unnecessary risk by demonstrating how leadership can be aligned to achieve exceptional results. Dr. Burroughs serves on the national faculties of both ACHE, where he has been consistently rated as a top speaker, author, educator and facilitator for the past twenty-five years. </p> <!-- <p>Dr. Burroughs serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars: </p> <ul> <li>Leading in a Changing Environment: Focus on Population Health</li> <li>Integrating Quality and Cost in a Pay-for-Value World</li> <li>Optimizing Ambulatory Management for the 21st Century</li> </ul> <p>Dr. Burroughs has also authored the following Health Administration Press publications: </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2271I" target="_blank" class="tracking-internal">Redesign the Medical Staff Model: A Guide To A Collaborative Change </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2362I" target="_blank" class="tracking-internal">Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises</a></li> </ul> -->
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    President & CEO
    The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc
  • Richard J. Priore, ScD, FACHE

    Speaker

    <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;">&nbsp;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&nbsp;</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>
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    Associate Professor
    Tulane University - - New Orleans, LA
  • Christopher L. Laubach

    Speaker

    <div>Chris Laubach is president of the Center for Management Programs, a training and consulting firm based in Agoura Hills, Calif., which provides educational programs to healthcare industry organizations. An educator and consultant for more than 20 years, Mr. Laubach is a frequent lecturer and teacher on negotiation. He also has written numerous publications, including the book Mastering the Negotiation Process: A Practical Guide for the Healthcare Executive.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Mr. Laubach serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar:</div><div><ul><li>Process and Technique of Negotiating</li></ul></div><div>&nbsp;</div>
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    President
    Center for Management Programs
  • Christopher L. Morgan, FACHE

    Speaker

    <div>Christopher Morgan is CEO of Health Strategies LLC, in Ocean Springs, Miss., which provides consulting services to help clients develop and implement health strategies that lead to better healthcare, delivered by the best teams at the very best prices. He has 25 years of proven experience in healthcare administration, strategic planning and health transformation. Mr. Morgan has also served in an array of executive positions in both inpatient and outpatient settings.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Mr. Morgan serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>Transitioning From the Military to Civilian Healthcare&nbsp;</li></ul></div>
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    CEO
    Health Strategies, LLC
  • James R. Porter, MD, FACHE

    Speaker

    <div>James Porter is president,&nbsp;Deaconess Health System Inc., Evansville, Ind. He is board certified in&nbsp;internal medicine and pediatrics and has practiced hospital medicine. He initiated&nbsp;Deaconess Care Integration and led its growth and development into one of the&nbsp;most successful Next Generation ACOs in the country. Under Dr. Porter's&nbsp;leadership, Deaconess also launched the OneCare Collaborative, a clinically&nbsp;integrated network recognized as a national leader for innovation and success&nbsp;in value and risk-based arrangements.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Dr. Porter serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>Critical Success Factors in Moving Toward Value-Based Care&nbsp;</li></ul></div>
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    President
    Deaconess Health System, Inc
  • Thomas A. Atchison, EdD

    Author

    <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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;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>
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    President
    Atchison Consulting, LLC
  • Kevin E. O'Connor

    Speaker

    <div>Kevin O'Connor is a Certified Speaking Professional<sup>TM</sup> and a specialist in educating and coaching professionals charged with leading professional peers&#8212;particularly healthcare leaders and their physician partners. His major areas of focus are leadership, influence, innovation and the development of healthcare executive/physician leader teams. Mr. O'Connor teaches at Chicago's Loyola University and taught previously at Columbia College, Chicago's performing arts school. He holds three master's degrees and is the author or co-author of seven books, including the most recent, <em>Fearless Facilitation</em>.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Mr. O'Connor serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>&nbsp;Possibilities, Probabilities and Creative Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking for Complex Environments</li><li>Never Be Boring: Present Like a Pro</li></ul></div>
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    Consultant/CSP, LCPC, LMFT, NCC
    Kevin E O'Connor & Associates, Ltd
  • Kevin S. Cook

    Speaker

    <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&#8217;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&#8217;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>
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    Market President
    Sutter Health
  • Stephanie J. Underwood

    Speaker

    Stephanie J. Underwood is vice president of Phillips DiPisa &amp; Associates. She has nearly 25 years of experience leading the complex recruitment of highly qualified candidates with hospitals, healthcare systems, academic medical centers and managed care organizations. Previously, she held the title of senior vice president at a healthcare executive search firm based in Atlanta, where she led the firm&#8217;s Philadelphia office and chaired its taskforce on children&#8217;s hospitals. Ms. Underwood is a Member of ACHE and is active in the local Philadelphia area chapter. Earlier in her career she worked in public relations at hospitals in Pennsylvania and Louisiana. Familiar with Lean organizations&#8217; desires to streamline, yet still attract high-quality leaders, her knowledge of her client base is wide-ranging, demonstrating a grasp of how healthcare must bridge the gaps within science, business and culture. Ms. Underwood received her bachelor&#8217;s degree in journalism form Louisiana Tech University.
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    Vice President
    AMN Leadership Solutions, formerly Phillips DiPisa & Associates
  • Leslie Wainwright, PhD

    Speaker

    <div>Leslie Wainwright is chief funding and innovation officer, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovations, Dallas. Her experience includes academic research, pharma/biotechnology and healthcare delivery; working with startups and multinational executive teams in creating growth strategies and alternative business models; and evaluating emerging clinical\care delivery technologies. Dr. Wainwright speaks on future of healthcare, enabling technologies, disruptive innovation and emerging business models. Prior to joining Parkland, she oversaw RTI International&#8217;s Innovation Advisors health practice, guiding the development and adoption of healthcare innovation. She has held executive roles with Sg2, AVIA and Business Models Inc. Dr. Wainwright earned her doctorate in microbiology at Northwestern University, and completed postdoctoral research training at the University of Maryland&#8217;s Center for Vaccine Development.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Dr. Wainwright serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>Applying Design Thinking to Healthcare's Most Pressing Challenges</li></ul></div>
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    Health Strategist
    Do Tank, Innovation Consultancy
  • William Garrison

    Speaker

    William Garrison is a Chicago-based independent health care consultant. He previously led The RTI Center for Health Care Advancement, headquartered in North Carolina, where he leveraged RTI's payment/policy, care delivery and HIT/clinical informatics strengths, enabling transformation. Prior to RTI, he held executive roles with two regional health care systems and a private equity backed provider. With expertise in strategy and operations, he currently helps organizations identify and execute growth strategies. Mr. Garrison's skills in marketing, sales management, enterprise and business-unit strategic planning, and joint venture evaluation and execution puts him at the forefront of change management and business model redesign. He earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his BA from Northwestern University. <br /><br />Mr. Garrison serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar: <ul> <li>Applying Design Thinking to Healthcare's Most Pressing Challenges</li> </ul>
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    Director
    Advocate Aurora Health