SH+, LLC

Michael (Mike) Schweitzer, MD, MBA, President SH+ LLC

International speaker and author on value-based health care. Results-oriented physician executive with extensive leadership, management, clinical and consulting experiences. Expertise in clinical and organizational transformation processes involving performance improvement, quality, team leadership & collaboration development, bundled payments, full risk contract programs, co-management, pay-for-performance, physician-hospital alignment incentives, perioperative surgical home, population health, and strategic planning for Clinically Integrated Networks & ACO’s. Proven ability to lead and manage organizational interfaces while reducing silo barriers with clinicians, hospital and clinic operations, healthcare systems, and senior leadership. Extensive experience with hospitals, health systems, physician practices, supply chain optimization, utilization management, risk management, Joint Commission surveys, contracting strategies, and compliance with state and federal government agencies. Strong focus on reducing variation through high reliability evidence guided principles.

Some of the physician executive roles Dr. Schweitzer include:

•       President SH+ LLC, a healthcare consulting company (December 2019 - present)

·   2023-2025 Contract with Crouse Health, Inc., Syracuse, NY.  Anesthesia contract assessment, clinical leader survey, support for hospital leadership to interview three anesthesia groups, renegotiation of contract, and follow-up.

·   2021-2024 Direct contract with a Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH), a 750-bed community Florida hospital and healthcare system to improve their Quality and Performance Improvement. One consistent focus of the four year engagement was improving external quality ratings such as the CMS Hospital Star Ratings.  The Star ratings include measures of Mortality, Safety of Care, Readmissions, Patient Experience, and Timely and Effective Care.  Initiatives included in part – establishing a performance excellence culture, physician leadership development, cascade a Lean Six Sigma Daily Performance Management System from front line care givers to leaders, implementation of a multidisciplinary Clinical Leadership Council with initially nine evidence-based clinical pathway, develop Nursing Practice Council, a Critical Care Committee, Blood Utilization Committee, and  recommendations for medical staff Bylaws and Rules & Regulations revisions.  In addition, developed a shift from departmental peer review to multidisciplinary peer review committee, preceptor practices, coordinated with and updated TMH Board and executive leadership,  1:1 CMO regular coaching sessions, and recommendations for physician quality performance incentives for their existing co-management agreements, physician employment contracts, and medical director contracts.  

·   2021-2023 Member of the inaugural American Society of Anesthesiologists Healthcare Executives Workgroup and Be the Solution Workgroup which developed the Health Care Executive Member Series Toolkit.

·   2020-2021 Expert Witness Testimony as subcontractor through MBO Partners, Inc to Premier Inc. in a lawsuit representing a large southeastern US hospital system against a major health plan for failure to comply with the legal terms of the contract specifically regarding inappropriate medical necessity denials - both pre-approval and retroactive denials for outpatient procedures and specialty pharmacy drugs for oncology infusions. The health plan settled two days before trial with the health system and the details are protected by a non-disclosure agreement. 

·       2019-2021 Sub-contractor for Global Clinical Consulting providing clinical and revenue cycle claims management advice to attorneys at Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, & Jones, San Francisco, in legal disputes to claw back disputed payments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars with major health plans regarding inappropriate denials of hospital claims for a Los Angeles health system.  In addition, provided advice regarding adjudication of the CMS Medicare Advantage Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) risk adjustment model for capitated payments between a Los Angeles not-for-profit hospital and several large physician groups for ‘per member per month’ (PMPM) shared risk contracts.  Engagement completed successfully for the hospitals.

•       Vice President/Chief Population Health, Verity Health System 2018-2019 with five hospitals, employed physician groups & two skilled nursing facilities responsible for all health plan contracts and Value-Based Care

•       Chief Medical Officer for Population Health 2016-2018 for Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) leading Value-based Medicare alternative payment models. Premier is a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company, providing solutions to two-thirds of all healthcare providers in the U.S.

•       Vice President, Healthcare Delivery System Transformation for Vizient Southeast with 75 Hospitals & Medical Staffs 2013-2016

•       Chief Medical Officer for Baptist Health System (owned by Vanguard then Tenet) with five hospitals in south Texas 2011-2013

•       Chief Medical Officer for two hospitals in Montana owned by Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System - a five state 11 hospital system 2008-2011

•   Practicing Anesthesiologist 1986-2008 Colorado and Montana

Dr. Mike Schweitzer was elected to serve in many state and national physician leadership roles over the years such as President of both the Montana Medical Association and Montana Society of Anesthesiologists. Mike served on several physician boards including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, InterWest Health PPO, Rocky Mountain Health Network, and Texas Surgical Quality Collaborative. Dr. Schweitzer has consulted onsite at over two hundred hospitals.

PUBLICATIONS 

Forty-nine publications and/or news articles regarding topics such as Quality, Performance Improvement, or  Alternative Payment Models in Healthcare:

·   Hospitals Under Pressure: Showcase How Anesthesiologists Control Costs and Maximize Financial Health ASA Monitor, December 2022, Vol. 86, 1–5.

• Keys to Success in Bundled Payments chapter in textbook Pathways to a Successful Accountable Care Organization edited by Peter Gross, MD.  Johns Hopkins University Press. August 2020.

• Perioperative Surgical Home chapter in Faust’s Anesthesiology Review, 5th Edition – Spring 2019

• Success in the New Value-based World: Integration of Key Clinical and Financial Models Management in Healthcare: A Peer Reviewed Journal, Schweitzer M, et al. Volume 3 Number 2 Fall 2018

• Specialists’ Future in Population Health Chapter in Anesthesiologists Clinics – June 2018

• Hospital’s experience with heart-failure bundles could be blueprint for others; Interview with Modern Healthcare; January 27, 2018

• Finding Value in New Perioperative Surgical Care and Payment Models; Premier Inc. Population Health Blog December 14, 2017

• What Could Population Health Possibly Have To Do With Me? ASA Monitor Vol. 81 #7 July 2017

• The Perioperative Surgical Home: More Than Smoke and Mirrors? Anesth Analg. 123(3):524-528, September 2016.

• Perioperative Care and MACRA-Approved APM, ASA Monitor Vol. 80 #4 April 2016

• Perioperative Surgical Home the Future is Now, ASA Monitor Vol. 80 #4 April 2016

• A Long Look at Surgery, Journal of Healthcare Contracting pp 8-12 Feb. 2016

• Martin Health System Pilots New Model to Coordinate Surgical Care, Healthcare Financial Management Association’s (HFMA) Leadership E-Bulletin, September 10, 2015

• The Perioperative Surgical Home: From Concept to Reality, ASA Newsletter, Vol. 79 #4 April 2015

• Clinically integrated networks: One more way hospitals and doctors are being pulled together, an interview in Journal of Healthcare Contracting January 21, 2015 www.jhconline.jhconline.com/linked-together.html

• The Future of Surgical Care in the U.S.: State Surgical quality Collaboratives, Optimized Perioperative Care, and the Perioperative Surgical Home, ASA Newsletter, Vol. 78 #12 Dec. 2014

• Alignment of Perioperative Care with Future Models of Payment, ASA Newsletter, Vol. 78 #10 Oct. 2014

• What is a Perioperative Surgical Home? Roundtable, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons June ·        2014, http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/jun14/advocacy7.asp

• The Role of the Physician Anesthesiologist in the Perioperative Surgical Home, ASA Newsletter, Vol. 78 #4 April 2014

• The Perioperative Surgical Home: What Anesthesiologists Need to Do, Medical Practice Management January/February 2014

• Using Data in Future Models of Anesthesia Care, Int. Anesthesiology Clinics Vol. 51, #4, 81-102; 2013

• The Perioperative Surgical Home Model, ASA Newsletter, Vol. 7 #6 June 2013

• Bundled Payments and Anesthesiologists, ASA Newsletter, Vol. 76 #8 August 2012

• Monthly Chief Medical Officer article for St. Vincent Healthcare Medical Staff Newsletter January 2009-2011

• Can rural anesthesia survive PPACA?, American Society of Anesthesiologists Newsletter, Volume 74 #8, August 2010

• Imagine a New Year in Healthcare, Rocky Mountain Health Network Newsletter, Winter, 2011

• Healthcare delivery transformation-ACO, Rocky Mountain Health Network Newsletter, Fall, 2010

• Healthcare Reform- my view, Rocky Mountain Health Network Newsletter, Summer, 2010

• Clinical Integration and health law changes, Rocky Mountain Health Network Newsletter, Winter, 2010

• Healthcare Reform at the Local Level, Rocky Mountain Health Network Newsletter, Fall, 2009

• What’s Different about Rural Anesthesia Care?, ASA Newsletter, Volume 73 #10, October 2009

• Healthcare Reflections for 2009 and beyond, Rocky Mountain Health Network Newsletter, Winter 2008 cation in Rural Anesthesia Care, ASA Newsletter, Volume 72 #11, November 2008

• Vocal Cord Paralysis after surgery – Review, St. Vincent Healthcare Medical Staff News, Vol. 5 # 10 Oct, 2008

• Captive Insurance can reduce practice costs, Rocky Mountain Health Network Newsletter, Summer 2008

• An update on Montana’s Continuity of Care Record (CCR), Rocky Mountain Health Network Newsletter, Spring 2008

• HealthShare Montana- Statewide HIE, St. Vincent Healthcare Medical Staff News, Vol. 5 # 1 January, 2008

• Investments in health IT save lives, money: Guest Opinion, Co-author, Billings Gazette April 19, 2007 and many other daily and weekly newspapers in Montana

• Committee on Rural Access to Anesthesia Care: Spreading Care Across the Country, ASA Newsletter, October, 2007

• An electronic educational resource for ready reference in the OR, AORN Journal, Vol. 83 #6, June 2006

• Bringing Quality to the Country, ASA Newsletter, Volume 68 # 4, April 2004

• President’s Letter, Bi-monthly, Montana Medical Association Bulletin 1998-1999

• Spend Tobacco Settlement Dollars on Healthcare: Guest Opinion, Billings Gazette December, 1998 and many other daily and weekly newspapers in Montana

• Medical Rural Health Issues, Montana Medical Association Bulletin, April – May, 1997

• Provider Service Network Update, Fall 1996, Montana Medical Association Bulletin

• Reduced Patient Charges Associated with Extubation in Less than Six Hours Following Cardiac Surgery, Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (abst.), October, 1995

• Analysis of Health Care Authority Plans, July 1993, Montana Medical Association Bulletin

• Celebrate Doctors’ Day, Guest Opinion, Billings Gazette, March 28, 1993

• Monitoring Under Anesthesia, chapter in Anesthesiology – A Concise Textbook, edited by T. DeKornfield, 1986

• Guidelines for the Monitoring and Treatment of Patients with Intraspinal Narcotics, a videotape, 1985

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Value-based Care Models Presentations, 2011-2020 - over 100 presentations in different locations

·       Integrated Specialty Care Network – lead monthly educational webinars for Premier’s Population Health and Bundled Payment Collaboratives June, 2020 to November 2020

• Baptist Memorial Healthcare Quality Symposium, The Value Equation: How Quality and Safety Drive Profitability, Memphis, TN April 2019

• AHA’s Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), Physician Leadership in a Value Analysis Program (VAP) Chicago IL August, 2018

• Premier Inc.’s Advisor Live® Webinar Perioperative Surgical Home: Partnering with Specialists to Address Your Biggest Healthcare Blind Spot August 2018

• ACHE Annual Congress on Healthcare Leadership, Success in the New Value-Based Healthcare World: Integration of Key Clinical and Financial Models, Chicago IL March 2018

• Premier Inc. Winter Meeting, Engaging Specialists in Advanced Alternative Payment Models and Specialty Home Plus, St. Petersburg FL March 2018

• Premier Inc. Winter Meeting, Specialty Home Plus, St. Petersburg FL March 2018

• Practice Management, Engaging Specialists in a Perioperative Surgical Home, New Orleans, LA January 2018

• Perioperative Surgical Home Summit, Leading Practices In PSH; Specialty Home Plus, PSH Outcomes; Chicago, IL November 2018

• American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Perioperative Surgical Home Model, San Francisco, CA October 2017

• American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, PSH Collaborative Update, Boston MA October 2017

• Population Health Management Medicare Shared Savings Program Measures, Arlington, VA, September 2017

• Bundled Payment Collaborative Fall Meeting, State of the Union, Arlington VA, September 2017

• Avera Health Leadership Retreat Physicians Accountable for Total Cost of Care, Gary SD, September 2017

• Insights + Innovation Co-management with Service Lines, Huntington Beach, CA August 2017

• Insights + Innovation Specialty Home Plus in Alternative Payment Models, Huntington Beach, CA August 2017

• University of Iowa Health Alliance, Shadow Bundles in an ACO, Davenport Iowa, August 2017

• Adventist Health System Regional Leadership Clinical Care Transformation Orlando, CA July 2017

• Breakthroughs Conference Physician Alignment in Alternative Payment Models Washington, DC June 2017

• AMA Leadership, Introduction & Opportunity around Consulting Services, Chicago, IL March 2017

• University of Kentucky, Engaging Specialists in Population Health, Lexington, KY Feb. 2017

• American College of Cardiology, Implementing Episode Payment Models, Washington DC, Feb 2017  

• Adventist Health System, Develop Clinical Care Transformation Across the System, Orlando, FL Feb 2017

• University of North Carolina, Population Health for Specialists, Feb. 2017

• Practice Management, Calculating and Demonstrating Value, Dallas, TX Jan, 2017

• New York Pharm Forum, Patient Centricity in Global Healthcare, NY,NY, Dec 2016

• CMMI Innovation proposal in person to CMS, Specialty Home Plus, Baltimore MD, Oct., 2016

• Johns Hopkins, Medicare Shared Savings Program – Opportunities for Success, Baltimore, MD Oct., 2016

• Verity Hospitals, LEAN Champions Transform Healthcare, 2 day Seminar, San Jose, CA, Oct. 2016

• Trinity-Holy Cross Physician Retreat, Nuts and Bolts for Success in 2017 with Alternative Payment Models, Fort Lauderdale, FL Oct. 2016

• Adventist Health, CJR and the Perioperative Surgical Home - a Model for Success, Glendale, CA Oct. 2016

• Texas Society of Anesthesiology Perioperative Surgical Home and Population Health, San Antonio Sept. 2016

• Population Health Summit, Engaging Specialists in New Models of Care, Dallas, TX September 2016

• CJR and Perioperative Surgical Home, Kaleida Health, Buffalo, NY August, 2016

• Bon Secours Health System, Leading Practices for Hospitalist Interdisciplinary Rounds, July 2016, Richmond

• Premier Inc. Population Health Collaborative National Summit, Best Practices in Bundled Payments; June 2016, National Harbor

• Premier Inc. Population Health Collaborative National Summit, Perioperative Surgical Home, June 2016, National Harbor

• Lahey Health, Population Health Management, June 2016, Burlington, MA

• Perioperative Surgical Home Summit -Transition of Care in the PSH: From Hospital to Home; June 2016, Chicago

• Perioperative Surgical Home Summit - Population Health and Accountable Care Organizations June 2016, Chicago

• Texas Medical Association, Threats to and Opportunities for Healthcare Systems, April 2016, Dallas

• Bon Secours Clinical Integration Committee, Population Health Management, May 2016, Richmond

• Bundled Payment Collaborative Webinars – “Managing the Pre-hospital/Pre-episode Phase of Care; “Managing the Post-hospital/Post episode Phase of Care; Keeping Costs Down for 45 to 90 Days Post-discharge”;  Collaboration - Key to Fragility Fractures;           Premier, Inc. April-June 2016

• Bon Secours Physician Leadership, Overview of Clinically Integrated Network, April 2016, Williamsburg

• Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, PSH Learning Collaborative Update, Feb., 2016

• Practice Management, Co-Management Agreement – a Win-Win-Win, and Identifying Metrics to Measure Success of PSH (three           different presentations); Jan 2016, San Diego

• ASA Annual Meeting October 2015, Lessons Learned from the Perioperative Surgical Home Learning Collaborative, San Diego

• Premier Inc.’s Bundled Payment Collaborative, Lessons from the Perioperative Surgical Home Learning Collaborative,    Webinar August, 2015

• Southern Orthopedic Surgeons, Alternative Payment Models and CCJR, Montgomery, AL, August, 2015

• VHA Southeast, Alternative Payment Model – CCJR Collaborative, Webinar open to the public August, 2015

• Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) Summit, “Synchronizing the PSH with your hospital’s Quality Department”, U. of CA Irvine, June 2015

• Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) Summit, “Lessons Learned from the ASA PSH Learning Collaborative”, U. of CA Irvine, June 2015

• Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) Summit, - “Re-engineering Post Acute Care”,  U. of CA Irvine, June 2015

• Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) Summit, - “Co-management Agreements”, U. of CA Irvine, June 2015

• ACHE Annual Meeting Implementing Perioperative Surgical Homes and Building the Patient-Centered Hospital Home, Chicago, March 2015

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatric Perioperative Surgical Home, Phoenix, AZ, March 2015

• Kentucky Society of Anesthesiologists Introduction to the Perioperative Surgical Home, March 2015

• MGMA Anesthesia Conference, The Future of Anesthesia Practice, Chicago, April 2015

• North American Anesthesia Partners, Implementation of a PSH – Leadership Required, Washington DC, May 2015

• Professional Women in Healthcare Regional meeting, Tampa, Jan. 2015, Trends, Value-Based Purchasing, New Models of           Healthcare, and Its Effect in Your Marketplace

• Academy for Physician Advancement And Transformation, Atlanta, Jan. 2015, Trends, Value-Based Purchasing, New           Models of Healthcare, and Its Effect in Your Marketplace

• Memorial Health System, Hollywood, FL Why a Perioperative Surgical Home, February, 2015

• Memorial Health System, Hollywood, FL Implementation of a Perioperative Surgical Home, February, 2015

• ASA Annual Meeting, 2 different panel presentations on Perioperative Surgical Home, New Orleans, Oct. 2014

• American Hospital Association Physician Leadership Forum, The Perioperative Surgical Home: Perspectives, San Diego, CA, July 2014

• Academy for Physician Advancement And International Anesthesia Research Society, Perioperative Surgical Home – No Outcome, No Income, Montreal, Quebec, Canada May, 2014

• Transformation Webinar, Healthcare Business and Financial Perspective: Trends and New Models of Care Solutions, Tampa, FL May 2014

• VHA Navigating to Excellence Panel on Clinically Integrated Networks and Delivering Care across the Continuum Las Vegas, April 2014

• Academy for Physician Advancement And International Anesthesia Research Society, Perioperative Surgical Home – No Outcome, No Income, Montreal, Quebec, Canada May, 2014

• Transformation Webinar, Healthcare Business and Financial Perspective: Trends and New Models of Care Solutions, Tampa, FL May 2014

• VHA Navigating to Excellence Panel on Clinically Integrated Networks and Delivering Care across the Continuum Las Vegas, April 2014

• Perioperative Surgical Home Summit, PSH Learning Collaborative, Newport Beach, CA June 2014

• Florida Society of Anesthesiologists, Perioperative Surgical Home, Palm Beach, FL June 2014

• North/South Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists, Perioperative Surgical Home, Pine Hurst, NC, Sept. 2014

• ASA Practice Management – Making Co-management Agreements work for Anesthesiology; Dallas, January, 2014

• ASA Practice Management – Connecting the Dots from the Healthcare System Perspective; Dallas, January, 2014

• ASA Practice Management – Beyond Payment for Service; Dallas, January, 2014

• ASA Annual Meeting - Surgical Home – a Health System View; San Francisco , October, 2013

• ASA Annual Meeting - Statewide Surgical Quality Collaboratives; San Francisco , October, 2013

• ASA Annual Meeting - Financial Models for Perioperative Surgical Home; San Francisco , October, 2013

• American College of Surgeons SQA, Perioperative Surgical Home, Washington DC September, 2013

• VHA Southeast Trustee and Physician Meeting, Perioperative Surgical Home, Amelia Island September 2013

• Lakeland Regional Med. Center Board Retreat, Keynote Innovation in Healthcare, Long Boat Key, Sept. 2013

• ASA Board, Perioperative Surgical Home Webinar, August 2013

• Potential Practice Models – Five locations -  Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center, Guntersville, AL May 2013; VHASE Physician Leaders Network, Alabaster, AL June, Marshall Medical Center, Anniston, AL; Calhoun County Medical Society, Anniston, AL July 2013

• VHASE Healthcare System Integration Council, Alabama Medicaid Legislation for Full Risk, Alabaster, AL June 2013

• American College of Physician Executives, Acute Care Episode – Drawing an Ace to Win; New York, April 2013

• Southern University Anesthesia Department Chairs, Perioperative Surgical Home, the Texas Surgical Quality Collaborative; April 2013 Houston , TX

• Southern University Anesthesia Department Chairs - ACO’s and Anesthesia; April 2013 Houston, TX

• Team Health Future Payment Models; Orlando, FL

• Top 5 Upcoming Changes April 2013; Orlando, FL

• ASA Practice Management - ACOs – What to develop;  Las Vegas, January 2013

• ASA Practice Management - ACOs –Future Models of Anesthesia Practice; Las Vegas, January 2013

• ASA Practice Management - Perioperative Surgical Home Model, Las Vegas, January 2013

• Texas Society of Anesthesiologists “Perioperative Surgical Home” September 2012, San Antonio, TX

• Future Healthcare Payment Models ASA Annual meeting October 2012, Washington DC

• Practice Management Conference, Bundled Payments, January 2012 Orlando, FL

• Team Health “Future Payment Models”; March 2012 Las Vegas, NV

• Team Health “Surgical Home”; March 2012 Las Vegas, NV

• Vanguard Baptist Health System Physician Leadership, Care Reliability in Major Large & Small Bowel Procedures, San Antonio, TX May 2012

• WY Anesthesiology Society - “Future Payment Models”; June 2012 Jackson Hole, WY

• WY Anesthesiology Society “TeamSTEPPS”; June 2012 Jackson Hole, WY

• World Congress Leadership Summit on Project Management, “Patient Centered Medical Home” and “Bundled Payment Programs in an ACO” December 2011 Cambridge, MA

• World Congress Leadership Summit on Project Management, “Bundled Payment Programs in an ACO”;  December 2011 Cambridge, MA

• Premier Readiness Collaborative for ACOs “Development of Bundled Payments” June 2011 Charlotte, NC

•  World Congress Leadership Summit on Process Improvement and Business Excellence in Health Care, “First Steps in Creating Accountable Care Organizations”, Chicago, April 2011

•  Sisters of Charity Leadership Academy - “ACOs and Bundled Payments”; Denver, CO March 2011

•  Sisters of Charity Leadership Academy - “TeamSTEPPS”, Denver, CO March 2011

Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act (MACRA) Implications 2015-16 - over 40 locations

Dignity Health, Bakersfield, CA, Adventist Health System, Orlando, CA, Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association CIN, Rochester, NY, Virginia Cardiac Services Quality Initiative, Richmond, VA, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, PA, Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, NY, SUMMA, Akron, OH, Population Health Summit Dallas, TX, Aurora Health, Milwaukee, WI, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA,SSM Health, St. Louis, MO, Pioneer/Next Gen ACO Conference, MD, Texas Medical Association, TX, Emory St. Joseph, GA, Premier Population Health Collaborative National Summit, MD, Lahey Health, MA, Piedmont (multiple hospital medical staffs separately) GA, Billings Clinic, Billings, MT, Adventist Health System, FL, Banner Health, AZ, Memorial Health, FL, Mercy Health, OH, Southern Alabama Medical Center, AL, Boca Raton Regional Medical Center, FL, Jupiter Medical Center, FL, Bon Secours, VA, Calhoun Medical Society, AL, Orlando Health, FL, Louisiana Heart Hospital, LA, Baptist Health System, AL, Halifax Health, FL, DCH, AL, Learning Healthcare System ASD, NC, Parrish Medical Center, Titusville, FL, Coosa Valley Medical Center, AL, Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, IN, Bethesda Health, FL, Perioperative Surgical Home Collaborative, IL, Hendrick Health, TX, Jefferson Health, New Orleans, LA, Marshal Medical Center, AL, Academy for Physician Advancement And Transformation, GA, Martin health, FL, Northeast Alabama Medical Center, AL, Central Florida Health Alliance, FL, Cabell Huntington Hospital, Huntington, WV

Academy for Physician Advancement and Transformation (APAT) 2014-2016 Atlanta, GA - eight presentations

Healthcare Business Trends and Alternative Models of Care Solutions, Effectively Managing Disruptive Provider Behavior, Everything You Need to Know about Healthcare Finance, Engaging and Aligning Physicians around Organizational Goals, Medical Staff Leadership Roles, Alternative Payment Model Deep Dive – How to be Successful in Bundled Payments, Physician Champions Leading and Managing Change, Leading Productive Meetings

 Clinical Integration and Health Reform 2010-2011 – twelve separate presentations

Rocky Mountain Health Network Annual meeting January 2010 Billings; Sisters of Charity Health System Senior Leadership Team August 2010, Denver; Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists ‘ACOs’ January 2011, Atlanta; Billings Chamber of Commerce Leadership Council 2010, & 2011; Montana Hospital Association Annual meeting speaker for Electronic Health Record (EHR) education 2010

Prior to 2010: Many varied topics to many different groups in different locations - available upon request.

EDUCATION

Advanced Training Program Healthcare Delivery Systems at Intermountain Healthcare, 2009

Regis University Denver MBA with focus in Healthcare Management, 2008

University of Michigan Anesthesiology Residency, 1984

University of Colorado Health Science Center, Doctor of Medicine (MD), 1980

The Colorado College, Bachelor of Arts, 1976