2025 San Diego Cluster Faculty

Jim Austin

Author

<div>Jim Austin<strong> </strong>heads JH Austin Associates Inc., Chicago, where he combines business strategy and organizational development theory with extensive industry experience to guide organizations. He is also an adjunct senior lecturer at Brown University, Providence, R.H., in the Executive Master of Healthcare Leadership program, and a faculty member at Duke Corporate Education, headquartered in Durham, N.C. Mr. Austin is a lecturer/consultant at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he tailors and delivers senior-level seminars on strategy, strategic execution, scenario planning and critical thinking at a number of leading companies. Mr. Austin is a former senior executive at Baxter Healthcare. </div> <div> </div> <div>Mr. Austin serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar:</div> <ul> <li>Leading Strategic Change</li> </ul> Mr. Austin also authored the following Health Administration Press publications:<br /> <ul> <li><em><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2355I">Transformative Planning: How Your Healthcare Organization Can Strategize for an Uncertain Future</a></em></li> </ul>

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>

Attila J. Hertelendy, PhD

Speaker

<p>Attila Hertelendy, PhD, has over 28 years of leadership experience as a hospital administrator and executive in the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Canada. He has an extensive background in emergency and disaster management and digital health. He is a frequent international keynote speaker on crisis leadership, disaster and emergency management, global health security, climate change, disaster informatics and digital health.</p> <p>At Florida International University, Hertelendy is an associate professor in the College of Business and has a secondary appointment at the Wertheim College of Medicine. He teaches leadership, organizational behavior and management of healthcare. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. He is the director of the Middle East hub for the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education.</p> <p>Hertelendy is the co-research director for the Disaster Medicine Fellowship and faculty at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital. His research interests explore healthcare resiliency and the intersection between climate change, health and disaster medicine. He studies the health implications of climate change and how technology can be used to improve both the delivery and sustainability of healthcare during disasters.</p> <p>He is the author of more than 100 published articles and numerous book chapters. He also serves as the deputy editor for <em>Disaster Medicine and Public Health</em> and associate editor for the <em>Journal of Emergency Management</em>. He ison the editorial board for the <em>Journal of Climate Change and Health</em>. </p>

About Attila J. Hertelendy, PhD
Assistant Professor
Florida International University

William F. Martin, PsyD

Speaker

<p>Marty Martin serves as professor in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University. In this role, he has launched several graduate degree programs, from a Master of Business Administration/Master of Science degree program with Rush University to a Master of Science degree program in health informatics. Dr. Martin has written more than 100 refereed journal articles and two books. His scholarly work has been featured by <em>USA Today</em>, <em>The Wall Street Journal </em>and <em>The Washington Post</em>. Prior to this role, he served as director of diversity at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and later as senior executive for institutional diversity at DePaul University. Earlier in his career, Dr. Martin worked at AT&T in health affairs, at The National Institutes of Health and at Tulane University Hospital & Clinic. He continues to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion but with an emphasis on anti-racism and implicit bias coaching and training. Dr. Martin currently serves on several boards, including the Center for Health Innovation, and is involved in the digital health startup ecosystem in Chicago. In 2019, he launched his own digital sleep health platform. Dr. Martin also coaches clients on practicing mindful leadership, achieving performance optimization by syncing their schedule with their chronotype, and managing internal and external distractions. As a coach, he draws on both his knowledge and skills as a licensed clinical psychologist and advanced training in sports and performance psychology. </p> <p>Dr. Martin serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</p> <ul> <li>Big Data and Analytics: A Perspective for Healthcare Leaders Online Seminar</li> <li>Leading with Influence, Not Authority Online Seminar</li> </ul>

Michael A. Mayo, DHA, FACHE

Speaker

<p>Michael A. Mayo, DHA, FACHE, is president and CEO of Baptist Health. Mayo has more than 32 years of health executive experience, including his previous role as Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville hospital president.</p> <p>As CEO, he oversees five hospitals: Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Baptist Medical Center South, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Baptist Medical Center Nassau and Wolfson Children's Hospital, along with four satellite emergency centers, 55 primary care offices, more than 13,000 team members and 1,762 physicians.</p> <p>During his career, Mayo has served as CEO of Orange Park Medical Center, Frankfort Regional Medical Center and Memorial Hospital Jacksonville as well as president of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center and the flagship facility of the Methodist Health System. From 1989 to 1999, Mayo held progressive leadership positions with Baptist Health System of Birmingham, Ala., where he first joined as an administrative fellow. </p> <p>Mayo earned his Doctor of Health Administration from the Medical University of South Carolina, his Master of Science in health care administration from Texas Woman’s University and his Bachelor of Science in human resource management from the University of Alabama. He is board certified in healthcare management as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. From 2019 to 2022, he served on ACHE’s Board of Governors. Mayo has also served ACHE as the Regent for Florida—Northern and Western, and as a member of the <em>Healthcare Executive</em> Editorial Board and Regents Advisory Council.</p> <p> Mayo serves in various community leadership positions, including chairman of the University of North Florida Healthcare Administration Advisory Board and adjunct professor, Master of Health Administration program at UNF Brooks College of Health.</p>

About Michael A. Mayo, DHA, FACHE
President and Chief Executive Officer
Baptist Health System

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’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’s Center for Vaccine Development.</div><div> </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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