Lisa has worked in healthcare for over 25 years. She began her nursing career in the acute care setting working with cardiac patients before transitioning to the ASC setting where she has spent the past 18 years, serving in a variety of clinical and quality leadership roles. Lisa currently serves as a senior director of clinical services for Surgical Care Affiliates where she is responsible for evaluating, selecting and deploying system-wide clinical applications, data and performance analysis, strategic planning, oversight of organization quality outcomes reporting, and benchmarking. Additionally, she has developed clinical quality-related policies, tools and resources, and leads and serves a team of highly talented nurse and analyst leaders. Lisa holds a graduate degree in nursing, majoring in Nursing Informatics, serves on the ASC Quality Collaboration’s Technical Expert Committee, and is extremely passionate about patient safety, continuous improvement and investing in the betterment of others.

Dr. Lerner is president of Chesapeake Urology Associates and medical director of their Summit ASC division. Summit comprises 18 ASCs throughout the state of Maryland and performs over 50,000 surgical procedures on an annual basis. He also oversees the QAPI and Peer Review programs and is a surveyor for AAAHC. He has previously presented at ASCA and Becker's ASC Business and Operations meetings on urology-related topics and received the CASC designation. Dr. Lerner is a member of the Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA) Leadership Development Committee and the American Urology Association Business of Urology Task Force. He has been involved in the regulatory, clinical, financial and operational aspects of ASCs since 1995.

Sandra Jones is president of Ambulatory Strategies, providing management, development, regulatory compliance, accreditation preparation, ASC licensing and CMS certification compliance consulting, and risk management services to surgical centers. Sandra is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management, Certified Administrator Surgery Center, Certified in Health Care Quality Management, and Fellow of the Health Care Financial Management Association.

She is a contributor on the subjects of risk management, regulatory compliance and operational issues for several professional publications. Sandra is a AAAHC accreditation surveyor, serves on the Standards Development Committee for the AAAHC and is a former board member of AAAHC. For nine years, she served on the board of ASCA, where she served on the Governance, Strategic Planning, HIPAA Compliance and other committees.

She recently was on the board of the Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety and now serves on the Advocacy and Education Committees.

Salvatore Puccio is a partner at Garfunkel Wild, P.C., which he joined in 2008. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Arbitration Group and Employment Law Group, which advise clients on a host of litigation issues in both federal and state court, and Appellate Litigation Group, which includes federal and state appeals. Sal's practice primarily focuses on advising and counseling healthcare providers on their day-to-day business operations.

Sal has particular experience in counseling clients concerning the employer-employee relationship, including the defense of age, race, gender, national origin, disability discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits, compliance with workplace regulations and employment statutes, and wage and hour lawsuits. Sal also focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation matters and has represented clients in breach of contract matters, managed care disputes, partnership disputes and breakups, antitrust matters, construction litigation, landlord/tenant disputes and employment disputes.

I have worked extensively with ambulatory surgery centers since 1996 in a variety of roles, including operations, development and sales. This experience includes working for both a large multinational healthcare operator and a privately owned independent ASC. Over this timeframe, I have successfully dealt with a wide variety of governing board physicians and their diverse personalities in order to improve surgery center operations.

Danielle Golino has a national practice focused on complex health care transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures of ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, dental practices, immediate care centers, pharmacies, physician staffing companies, home health agencies, hospitals and medical schools. Danielle is a also national expert in ambulatory surgery center (ASC) transactions and physician practice management (PPM) transactions, assisting a wide variety of clients with ASC acquisitions and PPM platform growth and development on a national scale across a variety of medical specialties. Danielle also has experience structuring transactions to comply with state and federal health care fraud and abuse laws, state licensure issues, corporate practice of medicine prohibitions and other health care regulatory compliance matters.

As president and CEO of Mowles Medical Practice Management, LLC, Amy Mowles has successfully guided numerous new and established ambulatory surgery centers and physicians’ practices through the maze of regulations, licensing, certification and accreditation processes necessary for them to operate at maximum efficiency and profitability. She has successfully developed facilities in all 50 states.

Amy’s career in healthcare spans nearly 25 years with recognized expertise in licensing, certification and accreditation of healthcare facilities. She has vast experience in managing physician practices, successful payer relations and marketing physician practices. Amy is a leading expert in pain management in the ASC setting. Her practical hands-on knowledge of the business of running a pain practice and her affable nature make her a popular presenter at professional specialty society meetings. Her involvement with CMS policy analysts, ASC and pain management societies as well as state regulatory agencies cemented her reputation as an expert in pain management practices and ASC/practice development. Today, Mowles Medical Practice Management has its finger on the pulse of regulatory policy changes, and Amy is constantly in demand as a faculty speaker, as well as an author and source for numerous publications.

Born and raised in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area, Dr. Jason Wolff graduated from Colorado State University with a major in Microbiology. He attended medical school at Creighton University and graduated Cum Laude with a Doctorate of Medicine (MD) in 2002. During medical school, he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society.

He completed his residency in Anesthesiology at Washington University in St. Louis and served as the Chief Resident in his final year. Dr. Wolff went on to complete an Interventional Pain Management fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. He has board certification in both Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

Dr. Wolff is the Co-founder and Medical Director of iSpine Pain Physicians in the Minneapolis metropolitan area which is a comprehensive interventional pain group with a special emphasis on spine care. The group has multiple providers, multiple locations, and two ambulatory surgical centers.

Arnaldo Valedon, MD is an anesthesiologist practicing outpatient perioperative management for twenty five years. He received his BS at Cornell University and his MD degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He continued his training in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, with sub-specialty training in pediatric anesthesia at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is currently serving as the Medical Director for Outpatient Perioperative Services at WellSpan Health. He is a Past Chair for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC) and a board member of AAAHC-International (Acreditas Global). He is a member of the General Assembly and Executive Committee for the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery (IAAS), and Past President of SAMBA. He has been involved with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) as part of the ambulatory surgery committee.

Dr. Valedon is the president and CEO of Knightstone Consulting Group and has been actively consulting on day surgery and perioperative management in the U.S., Central and South America, India, and the United Kingdom. He has been an invited speaker at multiple conferences nationally and abroad.

Leopoldo Rodriguez, MD, MBA, FAAP, FASA, SAMBA-F, is the Medical Director of the Surgery Center of Aventura and Assistant National Medical Director, Ambulatory Division, Envision Physician Services. As a clinical leader, he Chairs the Envision Ambulatory Anesthesiology Quality Committee, providing a continuous Education Program about best practices in the areas of patient safety, quality, regulatory issues, and support practice development activities.

Dr. Rodriguez is very active in professional affairs:

*President of SAMBA; *President-Elect of the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists, *Chair of the ASA Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care; Member of the ASA and SAMBA committees on Performance and Outcome Measures. *Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, FL; Faculty HCA Anesthesiology Residency Program Kendall Regional Hospital. *MD “Universidad Central de Venezuela” in 1993, Anesthesiology Residency & Chief Resident at Vanderbilt University. MBA at the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Business’, May 2020.

Christopher M. Dembny R.Ph. is president and owner of Dembny Pharmacy Consultants LLC. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy and has been a consultant pharmacist since 1991. He currently provides consulting services to over 160 healthcare entities, including ambulatory surgery centers, free-standing emergency rooms, specialty hospitals, and physician office practices. He served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Pharmacy Association for five years, most recently serving as the vice-president in 2011-12. He also served for 5 years on the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. He provides years of expertise and experience as a consultant pharmacist.

Stacie’s knowledge of what it takes to maintain consistently satisfied clients has positioned her to excel at National Medical Billing Services in her role as the Senior Vice President of Client Development. Stacie joined National Medical in 2008 and is responsible for the oversight of large client accounts, managing more than 50 account representatives whom she educates on technology and operation processes. Stacie produces numerous financial reports and analysis for her clients. Prior to National Medical, Stacie worked at McKesson for over 10 years as the Manager of Payment Posting and Claims (Anesthesia Division).

Stacie earned a B.S. of Business from the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Matt is a certified public accountant and serves as National Medical’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the team at National Medical, Matt was the Controller at Daugherty Business Solutions, which is one of the largest IT services firms in the Midwest. Matt was responsible for financial planning and analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and developing internal controls, and helped the company more than double in size during his tenure. Prior to Daugherty, Matt was a senior corporate auditor at AT&T, and a senior auditor at CliftonLarsenAllen for five years, which is one of the premier middle market public accounting firms in the Midwest. Matt audited risk management, distribution, manufacturing, business services and non-profit organizations.

Matt graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a degree in accounting.

Employers in the healthcare, retail, hospitality, manufacturing and other industries rely on Casey Duhart for advice and representation in labor and employment matters including allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful discharge. Casey also assists clients in investigating, evaluating, and mediating allegations related to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state wage and hour regulations.

Debbie currently provides healthcare consulting services to ASC’s focusing on developing and maintaining comprehensive Infection Control and Quality programs. She assists facilities with survey readiness for CMS and accreditation agencies. Prior to consulting, she was a VP of Operations for a management company overseeing the operations and development of ASC's and surgical hospitals. She has worked in the ASC industry in California since 1993, beginning as an Administrator of a surgery center. Debbie served on the Board of the California Ambulatory Surgery Association for 15 years; including Past President. She continues to date to serve as Chair of the Education Committee, including developing the CASA Infection Control Seminar for over 12 years.

Involved in Hospital Facility Management for 27 years, the last 15 years as the Facility Maintenance Manager at a hospital. Retired from this position November of 2020. Prior to working in Healthcare I spent 10 years as a HVAC service manager. I have been working as a Life Safety Surveyor for AAAHC the last 4 years. I have been an active member in New England Healthcare Engineers Society, New Hampshire Society of Healthcare Facility Managers and the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) since 2006.

Jessica Robertson has built her career in the business and operation of healthcare facilities. She currently serves as Director of Revenue Cycle at in2itive Business Solutions in Overland Park, KS. Throughout her career, Jessica has placed an emphasis on applying strategic thinking to advance operations, decrease expenses, improve customer satisfaction, maximize revenue, and increase growth for the clients and organizations she serves. Prior to joining in2itive, Jessica earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Capella University while gaining valuable experience throughout her 10-year career with HCA Healthcare. At HCA, Jessica held various roles beginning with checking in patients, working her way up to practice management, and eventually centralized business office management where she served 8 Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Jessica is a former Certified Professional Coder and is currently studying to secure the credentials of Certified Revenue Cycle Executive later this year.

Bonnie Ferguson serves in the role of Clinical Director of Quality and Patient Safety for Surgical Care Affiliates. Bonnie is a skilled healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, with 20 years of experience in the ASC industry. In 2015, Bonnie was named as one of Becker’s 135 ASC Leaders to know. Bonnie received her BSN from Austin Peay State University and is currently pursuing an MSN from Walden University. Bonnie has been an AAAHC surveyor since 2008, is a member of AAAHC surveyor education governance board, and serves on the ASC Quality Collaboration’s Technical Expert Committee. She is passionate about clinical quality and patient safety.

Kelly Bemis, RN, BSN, is the Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) for Azura Vascular Care and National Cardiovascular Partners (NCP), both subsidiaries of Fresenius Medical Care of North America (FMCNA). In that capacity, Ms. Bemis is responsible for the overall strategy, direction and oversight of all clinical aspects of both organizations, to include facility certification, governance and regulatory compliance; physician relations; medical research; and the monitoring and reporting of comprehensive quality outcomes.

Ms. Bemis has spent her entire career in the healthcare, first in patient care, and later in a succession of high-level management and oversight roles. Ms. Bemis is a member of the Joint Commission’s Ambulatory Care Advisory Council, and represents NCP as a member of the Outpatient Endovascular and Interventional Society (OEIS). Her work has been published in several leading healthcare publications and national journals.

I completed cardiology fellowship with emphasis in Interventional Cardiology at University of Maryland Medical System in 1992. I have remained in private practice for 29 years in general cardiology, interventional cardiology and as an implanter of pacemakers, ICD's and BiV ICD's.

In 2016 we opened Alexandria Heart and Vascular Center in connection with Fresenius Medical Care. I have served as the local medical director for the lab and now serve as the national medical director for NCP, a division of FMC, and as a physician champion for strategic sourcing.

Dennis Wichern is a partner in Prescription Drug Consulting LLC, focusing on medical prescriber protection, compliance, and risk mitigation. His experience includes 30 years of public service as a DEA Special Agent retiring in 2018 as the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division where he directed all federal operations in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota with a team of approximately 550 employees.

Dennis is a recognized expert on the dangers of heroin and the prescription drug opioid epidemic and routinely speaks to healthcare providers to identify methods to better safeguard their practices and reduce the professional and operational risks emanating from these threats. Dennis was the first to develop basic and advanced CME prescription drug classes focusing on prescriber safeguards, ASC's, DEA compliance, MAT, pain and drug destruction.

Lisa Berus is Director of Clinical Education and Training for Surgical Care Affiliates. Lisa has 30 years of experience in the ASC industry and has been doing infection prevention for over 25 years. She has developed programs to train new infection preventionists and is certified in sterile processing and holds the CAIP certification.

Lisa has worked in every area of the surgery center including circulating, scrubbing, safety officer, infection preventionist, business office manager, administrator and corporate clinical leader. She has been the project manager for multiple de novo surgery center builds and renovation projects. Lisa is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Lisa has a BSN from the University of Cincinnati and a MSN and MEd from Xavier University.

Dr. Norris joined Tenet Healthcare and United Surgical Partners International in December 2016 and serves as the Vice President of Clinical Operations and Group Chief Nursing Officer with oversight for USPI’s hospital service line, nursing practice, and education. She also serves as an Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Nursing Sciences and Clinical Practices.

As a clinician, Tamala worked in acute care hospitals in various departments and was a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner. After leaving the bedside she transitioned into quality management serving as a hospital then system leader of Quality, Patient Safety, Risk Management, and Regulatory Operations before joining Tenet Healthcare and USPI. While at Tenet and USPI, Tamala has grown her knowledge of the ambulatory surgery environment leading clinical operations nationwide for USPI’s surgical hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers in Dallas and Houston. She has published her research on workplace violence and also performs speaking engagements on topics related to quality of care, patient safety, performance improvement, and nursing retention.

Tamala holds a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from South University and a Doctorate in Healthcare Administration from Walden University.

Laurie has been in the ASC industry for 25 years, serving 18 in leadership roles. Her certifications include Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR), Certified Registered Nurse First Assist (CRNFA), Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC), as well as Certified Ambulatory Infection Preventionist (CAIP). She is also a Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC).

Prior to relocating to Cape Cod MA, she served as an executive board member and secretary for the New Hampshire ASC Association. Laurie has provided clinical and administrative leadership for both large and small multi-specialty ASCs. She currently is a deemed-status surveyor for AAAHC, sits on the education committee for ASCA , is the Director of Nursing Services for a national ASC consulting company, provides legal nurse consultant expertise and is on-staff in two ASCs.

Becky is an avid proponent of the ASC industry and is certified as a Surgery Center Administrator. She has employed at a multi-specialty, independent surgical center in a leadership capacity for the past twelve years.

With a background in health information management, performance improvement, healthcare compliance and revenue cycle management, her career expands the entire healthcare spectrum, encompassing acute care, long term care, psychiatric care, outpatient clinics, and outpatient surgery. As a hands-on Administrator, she has had countless interactions with patients who undergo a procedure, only to learn later that they are unable to pay their patient responsibility in a timely manner. Becky’s is dedicated to providing out of pocket quotes to patients prior to receiving their care so they are able to make informed financial decisions in the same manner as they make informed patient care decisions.

Michelle George is Senior Director of Clinical Services with Surgical Care Affiliates. Michelle has over 35 years of experience as a registered nurse. She has worked in various areas of nursing including critical care, emergency and trauma, and surgical services. Michelle has served in multiple hospital and ambulatory surgical center leadership roles, served on professional advisory boards, as affiliate faculty to a nursing program and professional speaker to professional and state healthcare organizations. She has authored various nursing journal articles and been contributing author to a healthcare textbook. Michelle completed a Master’s in Nursing Administration program at San Diego State University and holds a Certified Administrator Surgery Center certification. She serves on the ASCA Education Committee, is the immediate past-president for ASC Quality Collaboration Board of Directors and is the current President for California Ambulatory Surgery Association.

Greg DeConciliis began his career as a Physician Assistant in Orthopedics in 1999 at New England Baptist Hospital. In May of 2004, he left the hospital to start-up Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites in Waltham, MA, an Orthopedic and Pain Management ASC. BOSS, as the Center is known, averages around 450 cases per month, and consistently achieves monthly profit margins over 50%. Greg also works with an additional multi-specialty ASC in Norwood, MA. Greg is also President of the Massachusetts Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Greg has been named one of the top Administrators to Know numerous times in Becker’s ASC Review; has authored numerous articles for the outpatient surgery industry, speaks nationally, and he continues to be active as a Physician Assistant, still scrubbing in on complex cases each week.

Cristina Bentin, CMA, CPPM, CCS-P, COC, is the president of Coding Compliance Management, LLC, a healthcare consulting company specializing in Ambulatory Surgery Centers with emphasis on business operations assessments, HIPAA training, coding support/audits and training. Ms. Bentin is recognized as an ASC revenue cycle educator, speaker, and writer with over 29+ years of hands-on experience in ASC multi-specialty facility and physician office revenue cycle operations. Cristina's expertise extends to her involvement in federal fraud investigations to include her role as expert witness. Cristina currently serves on the education and programs committee for the ASC Association.

Vangie Dennis is the AVP of AnMed Health in the Anderson, South Carolina. She is on the editorial board for the Journal: Clinical Laser Medicine and Surgery, OR Today and Outpatient Surgery.

Vangie serves on the Board of Directors for Laser Institute of America, chair for the National Certification on Lasers, Board of Laser Safety Commissions, representative for the ANSI and presently the National Treasurer for AORN Board of Directors.

She is the recipient of the 1996 Nursing Excellence Award from the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, 2011 R. James Rockwell Jr. Educational Achievement Award, 2011 AORN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Nursing Education, 2018 Distinguished Nurse of the Year for the Georgia March of Dimes and 2019 OR Manager of the year, and the perioperative nurse of the year for the Georgia Council of Nurses. Vangie is currently running for President -Elect for National AORN.

Grace Thornhill received her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus. During her 13 year career in the Biology Dept at the University of Wisconsin, Grace ran a research program in microbial ecology focusing on interaction of bacteria in aquatic environments. Transitioning to a career in industry, Grace had several positions including running a contract lab specializing in microbiology method development followed by a stint working on the development of “green” antimicrobial chemicals. Grace became a national expert in microbial strain identification and tracking which resulted in her becoming a sought after speaker at national and international conferences. Grace was at 3M where she developed their program in Infection Prevention for Reprocessing Flexible Endoscopes with a focus on transmission of multi-drug resistant pathogens. Currently, Grace is an Infection Prevention Fellow at Boston Scientific serving as a subject matter expert in endoscope-associated infections.

Naya Kehayes is a Principal and Ambulatory Surgery Practice Leader at ECG Management Consultants. Prior to ECG, she was the Founder and CEO of Eveia Health Consulting. She has spent more than 25 years in the healthcare industry and 20 years in consulting. She has devoted her career to working with ASCs, surgical hospitals and surgeons, and has a proven track record as a strategic adviser to clients in ASC operations, managed care contracting, reimbursement, and financial analysis. Naya is a member of the ASCA Government Affairs Committee. She is a board member, the Payment Policy Chair and past President of the Washington Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. She has numerous publications, is a national speaker and a lecturer at Yale University School of Public Health. Naya earned a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a Masters of Public Health from Yale University.

John Goehle is the Chief Operating Officer and partner with Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies, LLC - a Rochester, New York-based ASC management and consulting services company.

Prior to forming AHS, Mr. Goehle developed and managed two Rochester New York-based ambulatory surgery centers and provided management consulting services for a wide range of health care organizations, primarily in the Northeast.

Mr. Goehle has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Ithaca College in Upstate New York. He holds the prestigious Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC) credential. He is also a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. Mr. Goehle is also an accreditation surveyor with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC).

Mr. Goehle is the host of the ASC Podcast with John Goehle available on iTunes and Google Play. He is also a frequent speaker on health care finance, technology and administration and has authored or co-authored eight books related to the ASC Industry including Ambulatory Surgery Center Governance: A Guide for Ambulatory Surgery Center Owners & Governing Body Members and The Survey Guide for ASCs: A Guide to the CMS Conditions for Coverage & Interpretive Guidelines for Ambulatory Surgery Centers. He is a former board member with the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association and one of the founders of the New York State Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers.

Lori Pacheco is a Certified Registered Nurse in Ophthalmology (CRNO) with 27 years of ophthalmic experience. Lori’s background primarily lies in the ambulatory care setting. She has extensive experience in the intraoperative environment as a scrub nurse and circulator.

In addition to her work as an intraoperative staff nurse, Lori worked as the Director of Clinical Services for one of the largest physician owned ophthalmic practices in the United States and as the Clinical Director for their multispecialty ophthalmic surgery center in Cape Cod.

Lori has served in various volunteer capacities in nursing and outreach projects in developing countries around the globe. Lori currently works for ORBIS International as the Sr. Manager of Volunteer Faculty Relations.

Lori has written publications and lectured on the industry standards and guidelines in central sterile processing and most recently on the care and handling of hazardous drugs and USP 800.

Lori is on the Board for the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses and dedicated to being a resource for ophthalmic nurses on a national and international platform.

In 2004, I graduated with my BSN in nursing and began my nursing career in a hospital setting. In 2007, I received a job opportunity with Roanoke Valley Center for Sight LLC (RVCS), an ophthalmic ambulatory surgery center located within my community. I served as a floor nurse for the next 9 years working with multiple ophthalmic surgeons and their patients in the high volume, two operating room facility. In 2016, I was offered the Clinical Director position at RVCS. At the time, construction had just begun on a second ophthalmic ASC and I took over responsibility for this project from the previous director. The second ASC opened for patient care in January 2018, right as it was decided that construction of a third ASC would begin that same year. Our third facility opened in August 2019 and a fourth surgery center is planned to open in 2021.

As a nationally recognized ASC revenue cycle leader, Rebecca has successfully managed all areas of revenue cycle management for more than 15 years. Rebecca began in ASC leadership as Business Director for two high volume, multi-specialty surgery centers in south Florida.

Rebecca joined SurgCenter Development in 2008 as Director of A/R & Materials where she worked to help develop over 15 ASCs with a focus on deploying successful revenue cycle and business office processes. Rebecca then went on to become VP, Revenue Cycle & Managed Care Contracting for a surgery center/surgical hospital management company directing a CBO for its 18+ Clients.

Currently Rebecca serves as President of NSN Revenue Resources, where she has built an unmatched team with diversified experience. NSN currently has 111 ASC clients, 160+ team members and prides itself on serving its clients through excellence in customer service, reimbursement strategy, company culture and team development.

Kathleen Hickman, RN, BSN, MS, CASC currently serves as the President and Administrator of Dutchess Ambulatory Surgical Center since 2000. She has practiced as a Registered Nurse for 33 years, holding various positions such as Emergency Department staff RN and hospital supervisor. In addition, she has held several administrative/ managerial positions in companies such as Kaiser Permanente, HealthQuest and Dutchess Ambulatory Surgical Center. She achieved the CASC certification in 2002. Kathy has also served as an ASC consultant in building design with different architectural firms.

As the Quality Improvement Coordinator for several organizations, Kathy strives to provide excellent customer service. She recently developed a transportation service, in conjunction with a legal firm, to manage the transportation needs of patients in the ambulatory care setting. This proved to be a very beneficial program for patients and provides a valuable service to those in need.

Kimberly Kempton-Serra is a Partner at Garfunkel Wild, P.C., and is a member of the firm's Health Care and Business Practice Groups. She advises clients on a host of health care and general commercial matters, including business structuring, federal and State law regulatory compliance, mergers, sales and acquisitions of various health care entities, technology contracts, and employment related matters. Ms. Kempton-Serra regularly advises single and multi-specialty ambulatory surgery centers on a host of issues, including establishment, syndication, corporate matters and compliance.

Ann Geier is Chief Nursing Officer for Surgical Information Systems (SIS), a leader in perioperative information systems. In this role, she consults with clients on best practices and strategies to enhance efficiency, improve compliance and deliver high quality patient care.

Ann Geier has worked in the ASC industry for over 35 years and is a recognized expert. She has been responsible for every aspect of ASC financial & clinical operations, and has been a surveyor for Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) since 2006.

Ann’s extensive clinical background is in the operating room, where she served in every capacity. She is an active member of AORN and ASCA, and she represented ASCA on the Board of Directors of AAAHC.

She was selected by the Board of Ambulatory Surgery Certification (BASC) Nominating Committee to serve on the BASC Board through 2021 and is currently the secretary/treasurer.

Ann has an MS in Health Services Administration from the University of St. Francis. She is CASC & CNOR certified. She regularly speaks at national meetings and contributes articles to Outpatient Surgery Magazine, ASC Focus, Becker’s ASC Review. She has written an e-book, Admin 101: What Every New ASC Administrator Needs to Know available at www.sisfirst.com.

She is a world traveler; enjoys teaching and mentoring up-and-coming ASC leaders, and public speaking.

Surgery Center Administrator since 2008 in various facilities of different sizes and specialty mix. Strong performance of increasing block utilization through physician recruitment.

Mary learned to scrub and circulate in the OR and was appointed the Director of Nursing role for a startup surgery center in 1998. She then became the Administrator 2001. Mary also held positions such as Regional Manager and Clinical Consultant for Health Inventures. She assisted start up centers as they became certified and helping centers achieve or maintain accreditation. Additionally, Mary has served as a Group Clinical Director for Surgical Care Affiliates responsible for the clinical results for 18 centers in the Midwest. She currently is a Senior Consultant for Amblitel. She frequently speaks at Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) meetings. Mary was one of the founding members of the Iowa ASC Association and served as the first President as well as multiple recurrent appointments as president. Mary currently serves on the Board of Ambulatory Surgery Certification (BASC) for ASCA and is one of the speakers for the Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC) prep course.

Mrs. Young has served as the Administrator of Surgery Center of Farmington for the past 20 years. The Surgery Center of Farmington has two operating room and two procedure room and provides multi-specialty outpatient surgical services. This facility has 20 physicians and allied health professionals on staff.

Mrs. Young’s accomplishments have included successful three-year Accreditations with AAAHC, C.A.S.C. certification (Certified Administrator Surgery Center) in 2007, C.A.I.P certification (Certified Ambulatory Infection Preventionist), in 2018. She currently serves on the MASCA board (Missouri Ambulatory Surgery Center Association board), BASC board (Board of Ambulatory Surgery Center Certification), and has served on ASCA/ASF board. Mrs. Young has spoken at several ASCA conferences, ASCA’s webinars, and assisted with writing an education module on credentialing for MedTrainer.

Experienced nurse with 35 years Med/Surg and OR experience including ASC Manager through Executive level experience. Currently working as the Director of Clinical Operations for Surgical Management Professionals. The current role allows previous experiences in the front line and in a middle manager role to take a seat in discussions at the board level related to operational efficiency and clinical excellence needs. Experience and involvement in starting or turning around 10 new ASC's including establishing best practices in the facility to meet accreditation standards, staffing patterns/ moral and in the materials management arena based on KanBan concepts and just in time delivery methods has lead to successful and profitable ASC's throughout the nation as well as centers with low staff turnover rates. Frequent contributor on clinical and operational topics on ASCA listserve, speaker at Becker's as well as an article contributor to ASC Focus, Outpatient Surgery.

Rena Courtay is currently the President of Solutions for Outpatient Surgery, an ASC consulting firm. Prior to this Rena was the Vice President, Executive Director of HSS (Hospital for Special Surgery) Florida. Rena has over 25 years of experience in the ASC industry and has been an operating room nurse, a DON, a surgery center Administrator and spent over 15 years as an RVP for HCA and Surgical Care Affiliates. Rena is also on the Board of Directors of the Florida Society for Ambulatory Surgery Centers and its immediate Past President. She is the Education Chair for the Florida Society and also serves on the ASCA education committee. Rena earned her BSN from The Ohio State University and her MBA from Youngstown State University.

Dr. JP (Jean-Pierre) Ouanes is an anesthesiologist affiliated with the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and Assistant Clinical Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr Ouanes completed specialty training in Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. As faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine he engaged in educating students and trainees over the last decade. He was involved in clinical research, and played an active role in clinical program development. Dr Ouanes he was director of regional anesthesia program at Hopkins prior to transitioning to the HSS FL as site director for the Ambulatory Surgery Center. Dr. Ouanes's academic record includes peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters including two key publications in Acute Pain management (Bonica’s Management of Pain, Raj’s Practical Management of Pain). His career focus has been on multimodal, opioid-sparing perioperative pain management strategies.

Will graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 1986, and graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1989. Will is an Equity Partner with the San Diego, California, law firm of Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, LLP, and is Chairperson of the Firm’s Health Care Group. For the past 31 years, Will’s practice has included civil trial litigation, with an emphasis in the representation of healthcare clientele in both State and Federal courts.

Will represents healthcare clientele in their business litigation, administrative law, and medical malpractice matters; to date, he has represented both national, and state-wide, healthcare clientele in over 500 matters. His clients include Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Hospitals, Physicians, and other Allied Health Professionals.

Will has received the highest rating (A-V) available from Martindale-Hubbell for legal ability and ethics, has been distinguished as a designated “Super Lawyer for Southern California” by Thomson Reuters, the “Best of the Bar” by the San Diego Business Journal, and a “Top Lawyer” by San Diego Magazine.

Debra Stinchcomb has 30 years of health care experience including development, clinical, administrative, operations and sales. The last 20 years have been focused exclusively in the ASC industry.

Her responsibilities have included budget development/management, revenue/expense management, contract negotiation, licensing/certification/accreditation compliance, marketing, risk management, quality improvement and benchmarking.

Debra is a Registered Nurse having received her BSN and MBA. She is the founder/past President of Arkansas Ambulatory Surgery Association and has served nationally as a past board member of FASA and the ASC Association. She is currently the past President of the Arkansas Ambulatory Surgery Association. She received her CASC credential in 2002.

Debra was an AAAHC surveyor 2001 - 2007 and is Past Chair of the Ambulatory Joint Commission Professional and Technical Advisory Committee.

Debra is Chair of the Quality Committee of ASCA.

Colin Park is a Director at VMG Health and is based in the Dallas office. His focus has been on developing client relationships and providing valuation, transaction advisory, and operational consulting services in the healthcare services industry. Specifically, he has significant experience with ambulatory surgery centers, acute care and specialty hospitals, oncology centers, diagnostic imaging centers, dialysis centers, physicians groups, and numerous other ancillary healthcare service business segments. In addition to the extensive valuation experience for transaction planning and financial reporting purposes, he has consulted on numerous development, feasibility, and denovo business development engagements. Clients include for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, ancillary services providers, development companies across several healthcare industry sub-specialties, and other publicly owned and privately held healthcare entities.

Jan is currently the Director of Clinical Research for Azura and NCP, a provider of outpatient cardiovascular services. Jan is a certified healthcare safety professional and has been in the Ambulatory Surgery Center industry since 1985, spending the past 12 years assisting hundreds of ASCs with accreditation and regulatory support. Jan has served on ambulatory advisory panels for AORN, Joint Commission and the ASC Quality Collaboration, has authored a book over compliance with Joint Commission standards and has had several publications in the AORN Journal. Jan has served as an expert speaker on numerous nationwide audio and live conferences over quality, regulatory and accreditation issues.

Robert Marinich, Senior Vice President of Sales at HST, leads a national sales team working with Ambulatory Surgery Centers to identify operational and clinical efficiencies utilizing HST's integrated ASC software platform. As a leader within HST, Robert acts as an agent of change and liaison between the centers and the HST organization. He is continuously working with clients to facilitate an increase in the quality of healthcare by delivering meaningful solutions to the market.

Donna St. Louis has been a pioneer in the ASC industry. Donna began her career as an OR Nurse Manager in 1987 at one of the first ASC’s in Tampa Bay; St. Petersburg Surgery Center. She was promoted to Administrator shortly after and was instrumental in the growth of the facility from fifty cases to 650 cases a month.

Donna’s career took off once the ASC was acquired by Surgical Care Affiliates. SCA was then acquired by HealthSouth where Donna became a Group Vice president with responsibility for over 100 ASC’s east of the Mississippi River. Donna excelled in operations and business development.

Donna then moved on to work with startup company Symbion Health Care out of Nashville, TN assisting with their IPO. Deciding to take a break from road travel, Donna accepted an opportunity with BayCare Health System, the largest health system on the west coast of Florida, managing their Ambulatory Division. As VP of Business Development, Donna now oversees all of the business development teams for all BayCare service lines including their Employer Services department. Donna recently set up the COVID testing site at Tampa International Airport, the first testing site at any airport in the USA. The screening site is currently testing over 200 travelers per day.

Donna has served as president of the Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgery Centers, and is a past board member of ASCA.

I have worked in the ASC space for 15 years. Previously working in HOPD and hospital setting. Presently I am in the Administrator role for a Medicare licensed and Joint Commission accredited Ambulatory Surgery Center. I am also a Clinical Liaison for facilities within our parent company. I have previously held the roles of Infection Preventionist and Clinical Director.

I completed my nursing education in New Zealand, working in the operating room upon graduation. I worked in England for several years before moving to the United States. I feel having worked in different areas of the world, this has given me a interesting perspective on healthcare.