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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> </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>

Mark J. Bittle, DrPH, FACHE

<div>Mark Bittle is director of the master of health administration program and responsible for the leadership and management curricula for the MHA, MPH and DrPH degree programs at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He teaches graduate courses in healthcare financing, leadership and management and operations and strategy. Prior to joining the full-time faculty, Dr. Bittle held senior executive positions in both academic and community health systems throughout most of his 20-plus year career.</div><div> </div><div>Dr. Bittle serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>Health Systems as Stewards of Health: Socially Responsible and Strategic Collaboration </li></ul></div>

About Mark J. Bittle, DrPH, FACHE
Senior Scientist & Program Director
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 N Broadway - Hampton Hse Rm 539
Baltimore, MD 21205
Email: mbittle1@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 877-2603

Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE

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<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>

About Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE
President & CEO
The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc

James E. Gaston

Speaker

<div>James Gaston is the senior director, maturity models,at HIMSS Analytics in Chicago, with more than 24 years of healthcare information technology experience. In his current role, Mr. Gaston facilitates maturity model development and awareness, and serves as an expert resource with regard to clinical and business intelligence, as well as analytics in healthcare. He is responsible for the DELTA Powered Analytics Assessment and the Continuity of Care maturity models, among other duties at HIMSS Analytics.</div><div> </div><div>Mr. Gaston serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>The Strategic Use of Healthcare Analytics </li></ul></div>

John M. Harris

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<p><strong></strong></p> <p>John Harris is a director with Veralon, a healthcare management consulting firm in Philadelphia. His work focuses on mergers and acquisitions, strategy and the transition to value-based payment. He leads strategic planning processes and serves as a consultant to health systems and hospitals, accountable care organizations, clinically integrated networks, physician–hospital organizations and health plans. Mr. Harris is also a frequent speaker for the American Association of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems, the Healthcare Financial Management Association and other organizations, and is a guest expert on The Wharton School’s Sirius XM radio station.</p> <div> Mr. Harris serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div> <ul> <li>Advanced Strategic Planning to Transform Your Organization</li> <li>Hospitals and Health Systems of the Future: Transforming to Thrive</li> <li>Strategic Planning: From Formulation to Action</li> </ul> <div>Mr. Harris has also authored the following Health Administration Press publications:</div><div><ul><li><em><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;Times New Roman"; color:blue;"><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2337I"><span style="color:blue">Healthcare Strategic Planning, Fourth Edition</span></a></span></u></em> </li></ul></div><div> </div><div> </div>

Meredith C. Inniger, FACHE

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<div>Meredith Inniger is a manager with Veralon Partners Inc., in Philadelphia, a national healthcare consulting firm with expertise in strategy, mergers and transactions, clinical transformation and network integration and valuation. Ms. Inniger brings over 10 years of experience in academic and community health system operations to provide focused and actionable strategies for her clients. She advises healthcare leaders on strategic planning for service lines and ambulatory care, with an additional emphasis on strategies for population health. She holds a master’s degree in health administration and a bachelor’s degree, both from The Ohio State University.</div><div> </div><div>Ms. Inniger serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>Advanced Strategic Planning to Transform Your Organization </li></ul></div>

About Meredith C. Inniger, FACHE
Principal
Veralon

Chad W. Konchak

Speaker

<div>Chad Konchak is the director of clinical analytics at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Ill. He oversees the team responsible for NorthShore’s clinical reporting, analysis and predictive modeling efforts, which focus on leveraging and delivering data and actionable insights that improve the quality of care and identify variations in clinical practice.  Mr. Konchak and his team developed an analytical system that identifies patients with undiagnosed hypertension using algorithms developed from clinical data that are delivered via real-time clinical decision support.</div><div> </div><div>Mr. Konchak serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>The Strategic Use of Healthcare Analytics </li></ul></div>

Michael Nowicki, EdD, LFACHE, FHFMA

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Michael Nowicki, EdD, FACHE, is a professor of health administration at Texas State University, where his teaching, research and service have been recognized with several university awards. <div> </div> <div id="pastingspan1"></div> <div id="pastingspan1">Prior to joining academe, Dr. Nowicki was director of process management in the Hospital Division of Humana for six years. Dr. Nowicki has also held a variety of administrative positions at Valley Medical Center, Fresno, Calif.; Hutzel Hospital, Detroit; Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; and Lubbock (Texas) Medical Center. Dr. Nowicki has provided training support to healthcare organizations such as University of California—San Diego, Defense Health Agency, Spectrum Health, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Cardinal Health, Kaiser Permanente, HCA, Baylor Healthcare System and Howard University Hospital.</div> <div> </div> <div id="pastingspan1"></div> <div id="pastingspan1">Dr. Nowicki is board certified in healthcare management as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He served ACHE as Regent for Texas—Central & South, chair of the Book of the Year Committee and as a member of the Finance Committee. He is also a co-founder and past president of the Central Texas Chapter—ACHE.</div> <div> </div> <div id="pastingspan1"></div> <div id="pastingspan1">He received his doctor of educational policy studies and evaluation from the University of Kentucky, his master of healthcare administration from The George Washington University and his bachelor of political science from Texas Tech University.</div> <div> </div> <div id="pastingspan1"></div> <div id="pastingspan1">Dr. Nowicki has written numerous articles on leadership in financial management and has presented financial management seminars to audiences worldwide and in the U.S.</div> <div></div> <p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#231F20"></span></p> Dr. Nowicki serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars: <ul> <li>Fundamental Financial Skills for Healthcare Organization Success</li> <li>Healthcare Finance, Board of Governors Exam Review Course</li> </ul> <div> Dr. Nowicki also authored the following Health Administration Press publication:</div> <div> <ul> <li><em><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2443I">Introduction to the Financial Management of Healthcare Organizations, Eighth Edition</a></em></li> </ul> </div>

About Michael Nowicki, EdD, LFACHE, FHFMA

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

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> </div><div>Ms. Synnott serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar:</div><div><ul><li>Leadership and Accountability in Project Management and Programs  </li></ul></div>

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Thomas A. Atchison, EdD

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Mark J. Bittle, DrPH, FACHE

Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE

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James E. Gaston

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John M. Harris

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Meredith C. Inniger, FACHE

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Chad W. Konchak

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Michael Nowicki, EdD, LFACHE, FHFMA

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Richard J. Priore, ScD, FACHE

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Laura W. Synnott, FACHE

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