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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 is 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 of 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.

Mary learned to scrub and circulate in the OR and was appointed the Director of Nursing role for a start up 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 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.

Brad is a former advisor to Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) and former Joint Commission LS surveyor. He guides clients through ?organizational assessment; management training; ongoing coaching of task groups; and extensive one-on-one coaching of facility leaders. His clients have included insurance underwriter groups, hospitals, ambulatory care centers, physician practice groups, and large integrated systems across the country. He analyzes and develops leadership effectiveness and efficiency in work processes, focusing on assessing an organization’s preparedness for survey, evaluating processes in achieving preparedness, and guiding organizations toward compliance.

Brad has also authored a variety of articles in numerous publications addressing features of life safety and fire protection, as well as white papers and articles on the Building Maintenance Program. Currently serving as the contributing editor of the monthly HCPro newsletter?Healthcare Life Safety Compliance? gives Brad further insight to the industry’s trends and best practices.

Jan Kleinhesselink, RN, BSHM, CPHQ is the Chief Quality Officer of Lincoln Surgical Hospital and associated entities. As CQO Ms. Kleinhesselink oversees the leadership of Health Information Technology, Laboratory services, Quality services and the Regulatory Compliance departments. She has assisted in the development and management of Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Specialty Hospitals.

Ms. Kleinhesselink has been is a surveyor for Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) since 2008 and is the immediate past president of the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement. A seasoned professional; she has several published articles and has spoken at multiple national conferences including AAAHC Achieving Accreditation. She has been named in the Becker’s publication “130 Women Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know” years 2015-2017.

David Shapiro, M.D. is an anesthesiologist from Florida who has had extensive experience serving as a department chair, medical director and board member of several ambulatory surgery centers. His areas of expertise encompass a wide range of disciplines primarily focused on all aspects of ASC development, administration and operations. These include clinical quality, risk management, regulatory compliance and medical liability in the ambulatory surgery arena. Dr. Shapiro serves on the Florida State Consumer Health Information and Policy Advisory Council, and was a member of the Governor’s Healthcare Transition Team in 2019.

Dr. Shapiro is a Past President of the American Association of Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCA) and currently serves on the Board of the Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (FSASC).

Additionally, he serves on the Board of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), and conducts healthcare facility surveys on behalf of AAAHC and Medicare.

Ms. Lorrie Cappellino, RN, CNOR, MS is currently a Surveyor for The Joint Commission. In this role, she surveys under the standards in the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Ambulatory Care and Office-Based Surgery practices.

Ms. Cappellino is also the Administrator at Paladin Anesthesia Services and a faculty member of the Perioperative Registered Nursing Course at the San Antonio Military Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. She is a past university-level and European Traumatic Brain Injury educator.

Previously, she held positions including Hospital CEO (Commander) and Level I Trauma Center COO (Deputy Commander) while on active duty with the United States Air Force.

Ms. Cappellino is a Certified Yellow Belt. With this designation, she supports The Joint Commission’s activities associated with establishing and sustaining a Robust Process Improvement® (RPI®) culture. As a Certified Yellow Belt, she is trained in the foundational concepts and tools of problem-solving, and makes improvements to better meet customer expectations and organization objectives.

Ms. Cappellino holds RN licenses in the states of Texas and California, and national certification from the Association of PeriOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) where she is a member and served as past local chapter president.

Ms. Cappellino received a Master of Science from the University of Laverne, CA, and a diploma in nursing from the Trumbull Memorial School of Nursing in Warren, OH.

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 30 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 serve on the BASC Board through 2019 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.

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.

Lisa has been an RN for over 38 years and in ambulatory care for the majority of those years. Lisa’s extensive operational development, management and consulting experience provides clients with expertise in facility administration, budget development, regulatory compliance, policy and procedure development and implementation, and organizational interfacing. Lisa’s national ASC and Hospital Department development and management expertise affords clients, who are opening new Facilities, unparalleled success.

Lisa has developed numerous surgery centers working in concert with investors, corporations, hospitals, architects, builders and equipment manufactures/distributors through all phases of surgery center development and management.

Lisa has achieved CASC, the credential that connotes expertise in ASC administration.

Lisa is currently a member of the ASCA Board.

Rebecca Craig serves as chief executive officer of Harmony Surgery Center and Peak Surgical Management, located in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado. She helped open Harmony Surgery Center in August of 2000 as well as multiple other surgery centers in Northern Colorado. Rebecca started her nursing career in the operating room and has held various management roles in perioperative services prior to opening Harmony Surgery Center. Rebecca is the immediate past President of the ASCA Board of Directors and also serves on the Colorado ASC Association Board of Directors. She strives to stay involved on a state and federal health care policy level to ensure the highest quality of care is maintained and patients continue to have a choice for a cost effective site of service. She enjoys paddle boarding and spending time with her wonderful family.

Nursing/history degree and MBA. Appointed director of her survey center in 2006 – my first experience with ambulatory care. Long history with neurosurgery at Dartmouth (scrubbed/circulated/part of the call team) for 23 years. Presently enrolled in masters program for military history.

Karen Reiter is currently the CEO of DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach, she has spent over fourteen years running multi specialty Ambulatory Surgery Centers each of which have been a driving force for cutting edge management of complex outpatient spine surgeries.

Karen has overseen the growth of her current facility from a concept to a company that now has annual revenue of over $50 million, almost exclusively in Spinal Surgery.

Karen is a member of AORN’s Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Assembly Coordinating Council.

She has authored for AORN on patient education for outpatient spinal surgery, and has written several articles for Outpatient Surgery magazine as well she has presented many times at Becker’s, AORN Congress, ASCA, CASA and OR Excellence Conferences.

Cynthia Armistead has served as the Administrator of Campbell Clinic Surgery Centers since October of 2006. The Campbell Clinic Surgery Centers are owned and operated by the orthopaedic surgeons and physicians of Campbell Clinic P.. , Established in 1909 by Dr. Willis C. Campbell as the first orthopaedic practice in the world, the physicians of Campbell Clinic perform over 10,000 orthopaedic procedures annually in the Ambulatory Surgery Center setting. Ms. Armistead was a member of the development and implementation team of surgeons, clinical , and business office staff developing policy, procedures ,and protocols for total joint arthroplasty procedures to be successfully completed in the ambulatory surgery center setting. Since June of 2013, approximately 2500 total hip, total knee, total shoulder and total ankle procedures have been successfully completed in the Campbell Clinic Surgery Centers.

Cristina Bentin, CMA, CCS-P, COC, CPPM 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 27+ 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 (ASCA).

Rena Courtay is 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.

For over 20 years, Janie Kinsey has been serving and delivering excellence to the healthcare industry. She is a seasoned veteran who genuinely loves what she does. Her passion dates back to 1998 when she began her career as a surgical nurse. Janie later grew into an administrative role where she managed staff members and directly focused on patient satisfaction. Today, Janie serves as the Administrator at Saint Luke’s Surgicenter in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. With CASC credentials, Janie strives to provide progressive care by developing and implementing programs that improve patient experience.

In addition to her daily duties, Janie stays active in the healthcare community by attending conferences, speaking at events, and serving as a board member. Janie is consistently asked to speak on various topics, educating her peers in the healthcare field. In the past, Janie furthered her engagement by serving as the Vice President, and later President, of the Kansas Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Today she serves the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association as the Secretary of the Board of Directors.

In her personal time, she loves vacationing and traveling with her family. Janie is, and will continue to be, an outstanding healthcare provider for the Kansas City Metro area.

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.

Jack’s entrepreneurial spirit has shaped StratX’s sales and account management teams to benefit our clients. His teams have the mindset to embrace critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement.

Before StratX, Jack served as founder and President of Professional Data Systems, Inc. with responsibilities including all sales, business development, client service management, and new technology acquisitions. Additionally, he oversaw all sales and marketing activities for Proven Backup, Inc., an online, healthcare specific, backup service (now owned by StratX). Prior to PDS, Jack held the position of Regional Sales Manager for G Barry & Associates where he was responsible for selling their PMS software and overall management of the Northeast territory.

Jack graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in Political Science.

Terry is Vice President of Ambulatory Surgery Centers for Community Health Systems in Franklin, Tennessee. The CHS portfolio includes over 100 hospitals and 25 ASCs throughout the United States. Terry served as President of the national ASC Association (ASCA) from 2014 to 2016 and as President of the California Surgery Center Association (CASA) from 2012 to 2014. Terry was Vice President of Operations for two national surgery center companies and has managed surgery centers and surgical hospitals in 15 different states.

Terry is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and a Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC). He holds a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration and an undergraduate degree in Accounting. He served as faculty for the University of Florida as adjunct assistant professor in their Masters in Healthcare Administration program. He retired as Commander in the United States Navy Reserve after 24 years of military service.

Kelly Bemis, RN, BSN, is the Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) for National Cardiovascular Partners, a subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care, North America. Kelly’s entire career has been spent in the healthcare arena, first providing patient care as an operating room circulator, and later in a succession of high level management roles. In her capacity as CCO, Kelly is responsible for the overall strategy, direction and oversight of all clinical and nursing aspects of the organization. She also sits on the Joint Commission Ambulatory Care Advisory Council and represents NCP’s interests with the Outpatient Endovascular and Interventional Society (OEIS).

Andrea Lessner is currently the Director of Orthopedic Services at Tenet Healthcare in Scottsdale, Arizona. Andrea has focused her perioperative career in Orthopedic and Neurosurgery service lines and the implementation and execution of robotic technology. In addition to her hands-on clinical experience, she acted as the perioperative clinical supply manager for an Arizona based hospital system where she led value analysis and new product and technology committees reviewing the most current surgical implants and capital technologies. Early recognition of industry site of care changes provided Andrea the opportunity to use her hospital robotics program expertise to design an implementation strategy specific to ambulatory surgery centers. Under her direction, robotics cases were performed in just 3 business days after the delivery of their robotic system. Andrea credits multidisciplinary clinical pathways focused on precision and reproducibility for service line success and supports robotics in our value-based care era.

Dr. Leopoldo “Leo” Rodriguez 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 Ambulatory Anesthesiology Quality Committee, which maintains 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, he is the President-Elect of SAMBA. Dr. Rodriguez is also the Vice-President of the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists, Delegate of the FSA to the ASA, Vice-Chair of the ASA Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and Member of the ASA and SAMBA committees on Performance and Outcome Measures. He is also active in the development of future physicians and Anesthesiologists, as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, FL; as well as the HCA Anesthesiology Residency Program in Aventura and Kendall Regional Hospitals in South Florida. Dr. Rodriguez earned his MD degree from the “Universidad Central de Venezuela” in 1993, and completed his Residency in Anesthesiology as Chief Resident at Vanderbilt University with a subspecialty track in Pediatric Anesthesiology. Dr. Rodriguez is presently in his last semester of the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Business’ MBA Program. He is Board Certified in Anesthesiology, Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and Pediatric Sub-Specialty Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Larry Taylor has over 30 years of experience in healthcare delivery, management, and physician relations. Prior to founding Practice Partners in HealthCare, Inc, in 2005 he served as President and COO of HealthSouth, one of the largest providers of Ambulatory Surgery Centers in the United States. Since founding Practice Partners, the team has developed and opened over 20 surgery centers and has a pipeline of centers under development and construction. Larry currently serves as a board member and President for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association and the Ambulatory Surgery Center Foundation.

Gina Throneberry is the Director of Education and Clinical Affairs for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA). In this role she educates members and non-members to the Medicare Quality Measure Reporting Program for ASCs. She also works with federal agencies (Medicare, CDC, FDA, OSHA) in regards to clinical, regulatory, and quality issues/concerns among the ambulatory surgery center industry. Ms. Throneberry is a board member of the Tennessee Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. She is also a surveyor with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC).

For over 20 years, Janie Kinsey has been serving and delivering excellence to the healthcare industry. She is a seasoned veteran who genuinely loves what she does. Her passion dates back to 1998 when she began her career as a surgical nurse. Janie later grew into an administrative role where she managed staff members and directly focused on patient satisfaction. Today, Janie serves as the Administrator at Saint Luke’s Surgicenter in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. With CASC credentials, Janie strives to provide progressive care by developing and implementing programs that improve patient experience.

In addition to her daily duties, Janie stays active in the healthcare community by attending conferences, speaking at events, and serving as a board member. Janie is consistently asked to speak on various topics, educating her peers in the healthcare field. In the past, Janie furthered her engagement by serving as the Vice President, and later President, of the Kansas Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Today she serves the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association as the Secretary of the Board of Directors. In her personal time, she loves vacationing and traveling with her family. Janie is, and will continue to be, an outstanding healthcare provider for the Kansas City Metro area.

Ms. Sariego, RN, BS, CASC, joined Physicians Endoscopy in 2011 and has over 30 years of healthcare industry experience focused in the hospital and outpatient surgery center setting. She has a strong background in business and clinical operations in ambulatory surgery center arena, including ASC/hospital joint ventures, with extensive knowledge of state, federal and accrediting agency regulatory and compliance standards. She oversees business and clinical operations for PE’s New York and New Jersey Centers, holds the CASC credential, and serves as a member of the board of directors for the ASCA PAC.

My architectural firm, Marasco & Associates, has helped design/develop almost 400 ASC’s across the country, making us unparalleled in the industry. I have lectured at AAASC, ASCA, Becker’s ASC, OOSS… & written for The Monitor, OR Today, SurgiStrategies, Outpatient Surgery… on ASC design/development. I was the first architect to be recognized by Today’s Surgicenter as a “How’s Who in the Ambulatory Surgery Industry.” And most importantly I am a long standing member of ASCA.

Stanford R. Plavin MD is a board certified practicing anesthesiologist who has over 20 years of clinical experience. In addition to co-authoring a number of publications, he continues to be active in clinical research as well as other academic and patient centered entrepreneurial activities. Over the last few years he has worked with two prominent corporate anesthesia groups providing not only clinical excellence and leadership but also engaging with key stakeholders to improve deliverables as well as implementing process improvement protocols.

Dr. Plavin has extensive ASC, hospital, and office based practice experience and most recently is a founding member of Ambulatory Anesthesia Partners LLC, an anesthesia practice based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has also devoted himself to a number of charitable endeavors including being one of the co-founders of Preventingcolorectalcancer.org. He continues to be actively involved in the ASC community and maintains a board seat with ASCA.

Ms. Semo is engaged in the private practice of law in Washington, D.C. As counsel to anesthesiology practices nationwide, Ms. Semo has had extensive experience in legal issues relating to physician practice, including negotiating contracts with hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, complying with Medicare and other billing requirements, and addressing other regulatory and practice management issues facing anesthesiology practices.

Ms. Semo has written multiple practice management articles and publications, including: "Obtaining ASC Contracts and Responding to RFPs," a chapter in A Manual of Practice Management for Ambulatory Surgery Centers (2019); "Consolidation in Health Care: Implications for Anesthesiologists" (2019); and a manual on ambulatory surgical center practice (2006).

Nader Samii, as chief executive officer of National Medical, has guided the company into its position as the largest and most reputable revenue cycle management company in the ASC market. Nader leads the company’s strategic direction with a strong emphasis on exceptional client services, lean and efficient processes, cutting edge technologies, and insightful analytics. Prior to National Medical Billing Services, Nader was the co-founder and President of Ajuba International, a leading healthcare revenue cycle outsourcing company that was created in 2001 and grew to approximately 2,000 employees by 2009. Prior to Ajuba, Nader was an investment banker at both Merrill Lynch and Dillon Read & Co. (now UBS Securities) and also served as a corporate finance attorney at the 400-member law firm of Dykema Gossett. His business experience and understanding of the ASC market has created deep consultative ties with our clients. Nader is currently a member of the Public Affairs Committee for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, as well as an active member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Nader has a BBA/BA in finance/economics from the University of Notre Dame, where he played on the Men’s Varsity Tennis team, and he has a JD/MBA from the University of Wisconsin.

Daren Smith is Director of ASC Solutions for Surgical Information Systems. In this role, Daren serves as a product and industry subject matter expert, frequently speaking at industry events and contributing to industry publications. Previously, Daren worked as the director of clinical services for Surgical Management Professionals (SMP), an ASC and surgical hospital management and development company. Daren has also held the position of director of outpatient services for Avera McKennan Hospital, administrator and CEO of Fremont Surgical Center, and nurse manager at Grand Island Surgery Center. He is a graduate of Clarkson College and the University of South Dakota.

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 Med trainer.

Mary learned to scrub and circulate in the OR and was appointed the Director of Nursing role for a start up 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 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.

Cynthia Armistead has served as the Administrator of Campbell Clinic Surgery Centers since October of 2006. The Campbell Clinic Surgery Centers are owned and operated by the orthopaedic surgeons and physicians of Campbell Clinic P.. , Established in 1909 by Dr. Willis C. Campbell as the first orthopaedic practice in the world, the physicians of Campbell Clinic perform over 10,000 orthopaedic procedures annually in the Ambulatory Surgery Center setting. Ms. Armistead was a member of the development and implementation team of surgeons, clinical , and business office staff developing policy, procedures ,and protocols for total joint arthroplasty procedures to be successfully completed in the ambulatory surgery center setting. Since June of 2013, approximately 2500 total hip, total knee, total shoulder and total ankle procedures have been successfully completed in the Campbell Clinic Surgery Centers.

I have 32 years of experience as a operating room nurse. The last 18 years I have worked as the O.R. coordinator and then the clinical manager for Campbell Clinic Surgery Center in Germantown, Tennessee. In this role, I helped establish a very successful outpatient total joint program in our ASC. I have worked closely with this program from the beginning and have worked closely with the individual surgeons to help develop their pre-op, intra-op, and post -op protocols.

Mark Stadler is President & CEO of BridgeHealth. BridgeHealth provides a surgery advocacy and centers of excellence program to large, self-insured group health plans to improve the member experience and quality surgical outcomes at reduced bundled rates. In 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, BridgeHealth was named an Inc. 5000 fastest growing private company.

Prior to joining BridgeHealth, Mark spent five years as Chief Marketing Officer at HealthSmart, the largest independent third-party administrator in America. Mr. Stadler has served in multiple executive sales positions, including Senior Vice President for the U.S. Markets for Great-West Healthcare and Chief Growth Officer for Specialized Care Services (now Optum Health), a United Healthcare Company. Mr. Stadler also brings an extensive background in healthcare consulting, leading Mercer Human Resource Consulting in Chicago and the Midwest for almost 18 years. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from Loyola University of Los Angeles.

Sarah Smithey has served as corporate counsel at BridgeHealth since 2018. She is an expert in market access, reimbursement, price negotiations and contracting with provider facilities. Since 2013, she has developed and implemented pricing strategies in the healthcare space, including creating mutually beneficial risk-based agreements with c-suite leadership at national providers. Prior to that, Sarah served as a business attorney, partner and founder at The Potter Law Firm from 2002 until 2013, where she represented a number of surgeons and physicians in contracting and hospital access issues. Sarah received her Doctor of Juris Prudence in 2002 at the University of Colorado at Boulder and her Bachelor of Arts in History in 1999 at the University of Oregon.

Kim has more than 30 years of healthcare experience leading operations and sales management teams. She has held leadership roles on the provider side of the industry at the Iowa Health System and on the benefits side with American Republic Insurance Company and Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. At BridgeHealth, Kim is responsible for all aspects of the Provider Strategy, including building the panel of providers, negotiating the bundled case rates and managing the relationships. Kim holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a MBA from Drake University.

Jay Mesrobian, MD Chief Clinical Officer, Anesthesiology Dr. Jay Mesrobian currently works as the Chief Clinical Officer of TeamHealth Anesthesia. In this role, he is responsible for advancing the prime tenets of the service line, including quality and safety, clinical guidelines, policies and procedures, and performance improvement.

With more than 25 years of experience, Dr. Mesrobian has a unique mix of clinical, leadership and business experience. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Mesrobian served as the Vice-Chair for affiliated practices in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr. Mesrobian also served as Regional Medical Director for TeamHealth Anesthesiology from 2015-2017 providing leadership and strategic planning expertise to practices and client hospitals in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.

Dr. Mesrobian received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Princeton University and his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at the Childrens’ Hospital of Philadelphia, and is a board-certified physician anesthesiologist. He has worked in both academic and private practices for over twenty-five years in Columbia, SC and Milwaukee, WI.

Dr. Mesrobian has served as the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) District Director from Wisconsin since 2013 and as a member of the Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists board since 2005. He currently is Chair of the ASA Board Committee on Finance and serves on the Budget, Performance and Outcomes Measurement, and Ad Hoc Committee on Women in Anesthesia committees. He also served as Chair of the ASA Committee on Practice Management from 2012-2016 and as the Medicare Contractor Advisory Committee representative from 2014-2019.

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Jan currently serves as the Sr. Director of Regulatory for AMSURG, providing regulatory support for more than 250 ASCs. Jan has served on ambulatory advisory panels for AORN, Joint Commission and the ASC Quality Collaboration. Jan has authored a book over compliance with Joint Commission standards and has had several publications in the AORN Journal. Jan is a certified healthcare professional and has been in the Ambulatory Surgery Industry since 1985, serving as an expert speaker on numerous nationwide audio and live conferences over quality, regulatory and accreditation issues.

Kathy has been a perioperative nurse/manager/director for more than 30 years. The biggest change to her career was when she became a patient after an elective surgery went wrong. After 6 months of recuperation during which she experienced sepsis, a wound vac, physical therapy, home health, 4 surgeries (2 of them emergent) and 2 non-emergent surgeries, she has come out on the other side with a renewed passion for patient care and the care of their families. Come hear how her experiences have impacted patient care and how you can deliver excellent patient care through the eyes of your patients and their families.

Todd Eich is the Director of Training and Implementation in supply chain for United Surgical Partners International in Addison, TX. He has over 25 years of experience in Healthcare and 20 years of experience in supply chain management. He has been a Certified Surgical Technologist for 25 years and is a Certified Materials & Resource Professional and a member of the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM). He is also a Registered Yoga and Certified Meditation Teacher. Todd earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from South Dakota State University.

Karen Reiter is currently the CEO of DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach, she has spent over fourteen years running multi specialty Ambulatory Surgery Centers each of which have been a driving force for cutting edge management of complex outpatient spine surgeries.

Karen has overseen the growth of her current facility from a concept to a company that now has annual revenue of over $50 million, almost exclusively in Spinal Surgery.

Karen is a member of AORN’s Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Assembly Coordinating Council.

She has authored for AORN on patient education for outpatient spinal surgery, and has written several articles for Outpatient Surgery magazine as well she has presented many times at Becker’s, AORN Congress, ASCA, CASA and OR Excellence Conferences.

Lisa guides hospital and health system executive leadership and planning teams in developing clinical/business models to prepare for the high-value health care era. She also leads strategic planning projects to help organizations increase market share, foster alignment with providers, improve profitability and optimize care delivery. As an enterprise strategy thought leader, Lisa directs the development of various Sg2 Intelligence offerings, including publications, educational events and analytical tools. Her areas of expertise include the hospital campus of the future, site of care shifts, payer strategy and service distribution. She is a frequent speaker at Sg2 events, client education sessions and national conferences.

Before joining Sg2, Lisa was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern University. She earned her PhD at Binghamton University, where she received the 2003 Distinguished Dissertation Award. She holds a BS with a double major in biology and psychology from Boston College.

Catherine works at Sg2, where she helps health system and service line leaders stay ahead of important industry and market trends as they make long-term strategic and investment decisions. She specializes in medicine and surgery service lines in addition to ASC strategy.

Prior to joining Sg2, Catherine held multiple roles at Stryker, most recently as a consultant for Stryker's orthopedic bundled payment convener practice. She also consulted with hospitals on orthopedic service line development, shifting joint replacement surgery to the outpatient setting, implementing robotics, and various performance improvement initiatives.

Catherine is completing her MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where she serves as board president of the Healthcare Club. She earned an MS in health sciences from The George Washington University, and she holds a BS in biology and a BA in history from Boston College.

Michael J. Patterson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mississippi Valley Health.

For the past 20 years, his professional career has encompassed a variety of positions in healthcare ranging from a Registered Nurse in a Level I Trauma Center to the Chief Administrative Officer of a 350 bed community hospital and Chief Nurse Executive of a 3 hospital health system.

Michael has served over 23 years in both the Active and Reserve components of the US Navy and was deployed multiple times to provide Trauma care around the world. He retired with full honors in 2012.

Michael is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Master of Science in Nursing where he was awarded the Distinguished Nurse Alumnus in 2010. He is also a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Arnaldo Valedon, MD is an anesthesiologist practicing day surgery and perioperative management for twenty years. He received his bachelors degree in science at Cornell University in 1987 and his doctorate degree in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. 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. After finishing his training, Dr. Valedon has provided outpatient anesthesia services almost exclusively. He has served as medical director of two outpatient surgery centers.

He is the Board 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 Immediate-Past President of SAMBA and is the board advisor to Committee of International Relations and the membership committee. 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.

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.

Kara Marshall Newbury serves as director, government affairs and regulatory counsel for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA), and through these roles spearheads ASCA’s federal advocacy efforts. Kara previously coordinated state legislative, regulatory and public affairs for the association. Before joining ASCA, Kara served as the assistant director, state government affairs at the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations and staff attorney and director of government relations for the Community Financial Services Association. Kara received her undergraduate and law degree from The Ohio State 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 is 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 of 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.

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 11 years.

Crissy has worked for the last 14 years in a variety of inpatient and outpatient clinical settings, including critical care, trauma and ambulatory surgery. Her clinical experience gives her an acute appreciation for the challenges involved in interpreting and applying regulations and standards in the clinical setting. Her consulting responsibilities include development of facility documentation to meet regulatory and accreditation standards, licensing/certification/accreditation compliance, infection control and quality management. Crissy is a Registered Nurse. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from California State University, Long Beach and her Master of Science in Nursing, with a Leadership concentration, from California State University, Fullerton. Her practicum hours, for her Master’s degree, were working with the Director of Evidence-Based Perioperative Practice at AORN. She is a frequent presenter on ambulatory surgery topics at national meetings.

Rebecca S. Twersky, MD, MPH is the Chief of Anesthesia for Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Josie Robertson Surgery Center (JRSC) in NY. Dr.Twersky is an internationally recognized expert in ambulatory anesthesiology and prior to her coming to MSK in 2015, was at SUNY Downstate, where she was a Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Director of the Ambulatory Surgery Unit, and Chair of IRB. She received her MD in 1983 and her MPH in 2005 from Downstate, and has established a solid national and international reputation as an expert clinician, researcher, leader, and educator in ambulatory anesthesia.

Dr. Twersky’s extensive professional activities have included serving as Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Section on Professional Standards, ASA Annual Meeting Chair, NYSSA PGA General and Scientific Program Chair, past President of the Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA), liaison to the FDA, Joint Commission and continues to serve on advisory committees to New York State Department of Health. She has presented extensively on preop evaluation and patient selection for ambulatory surgery, ERAS, outpatient anesthetic techniques, quality assurance, sedation safety and office based anesthesia. She has authored over 80 publications, including The Ambulatory Anesthesia Handbook, the only handbook devoted solely to outpatient anesthesia. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her contributions including the 2005 Distinguished Service Award of the Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia and the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA).

Kecia Norling, MBA, RN, CNOR, CASC has been an RN for 33 years with 20 of those in ASCs. She has led two de novo surgery center projects and functioned as both a clinical director and administrator. Kecia has experience in independent, surgeon owned centers; and joint venture centers between surgeons, corporate owners and hospital systems. In May 2019, she became the Director of Operations for Surgical Care Affiliates in the Portland, Oregon market, where she oversees five Providence/SCA surgery centers. Kecia is a past president of OASCA, current vice president of ASCA and current board member of the Oregon Patient Safety Commission – representing ASCs. Kecia is married with 7 children and 7 grandchildren. Her hobbies include golf and Oregon Ducks football.

Speaker Bio – Dawn Q. Onofrio RN, MSA, CASC, CAIP, CNOR Dawn Onofrio is retired from full time employment, continues to perform surveys for AAAHC and engages in ASC consulting on a part-time basis.

Dawn has developed and managed more than 40 surgery centers and HOPDs in 30 states during her career. She has worked as management and staff in both hospital and ASC settings.

Ms. Onofrio earned her diploma in nursing from Memorial Hospital of South Bend, Indiana, and her Master of Science in Administration from Notre Dame.

She has been a speaker on many topics including, HIPAA, Clinical Competency, Surgical Scheduling, Quality Improvement topics, Infection Control, Credentialing and Privileging, and Risk Management for the ASC environment.

Dawn served on national committees for ASCA including the HIPPA Task Force and the CASC and the CAIP Committees and served as a AAAHC Surveyor since 2001.

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 advises and counseling health care 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.

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 is 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 of 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.

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 30 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 serve on the BASC Board through 2019 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.

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 subject of risk management, regulatory compliance and operational issues for several professional publications. Sandra is an 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 the ASC Association where she served on 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 serves on the Advocacy Committee.

Dr. Steven Butz is professor of anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Associate Chief Medical Officer in charge of the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Surgicenter in Milwaukee, WI. He is boarded in anesthesiology and the pediatric subspecialty.

Dr. Butz has been chair of the SAMBA Education Committee and published a scenario-based drill manual for emergency preparedness with the committee. He has now co-chair of the Meetings Committee and assistant treasurer with a seat on the Board of Directors.

Professionally, Dr. Butz has lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of interests including pediatric anesthesia, diabetes management, accreditation, quality and patient selection. He is published in chapters and clinics on pediatric anesthesia topics. He also serves on the Accreditation Committee for Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care for which he is a surveyor.

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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.

Clinton Flume is a Managing Director at VMG Health in the Dallas office. Over his 12 year tenure, his focus has been on developing client relationships and providing valuation, transaction advisory, and operational consulting services in the healthcare services industry. He has significant experience with the ambulatory surgery centers. Having conducted over 350 ASC valuations, Mr. Flume has provided FMV opinions and ASC development consulting services to for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, ASC management companies and private equity.

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.

I have worked as a teacher, supervisor, professor, instructional designer, change leader, mentor, and facilitator. I have a bachelor's in Sociology and a Master's in Anthropology and in Information Science. For over 20 years I have helped teams develop and grow. I have certifications in DiSC, Change Style, Teamwork, and Facilitation. I have worked with non-profits, NGO's, government, higher education, and corporate groups to grow individuals, create team, and impact customer experience.

Providing OSHA training, facility inspections and compliance manuals to the healthcare industry since 1996. Total Healthcare Compliance provides approximately 600 OSHA trainings annually to the healthcare industry in addition to speaking at national, regional, state and local conventions.

Archie Jennings is a Certified Medical Compliance Officer (CMCO) and is a United States Department of Labor, OSHA Authorized Trainer.

Terry is Vice President of Ambulatory Surgery Centers for Community Health Systems in Franklin, Tennessee. The CHS portfolio includes over 100 hospitals and 25 ASCs throughout the United States. Terry served as President of the national ASC Association (ASCA) from 2014 to 2016 and as President of the California Surgery Center Association (CASA) from 2012 to 2014. Terry was Vice President of Operations for two national surgery center companies and has managed surgery centers and surgical hospitals in 15 different states.

Terry is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and a Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC). He holds a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration and an undergraduate degree in Accounting. He served as faculty for the University of Florida as adjunct assistant professor in their Masters in Healthcare Administration program. He retired as Commander in the United States Navy Reserve after 24 years of military service.

Dr. Dawn Schell is an anesthesiologist in Cleveland, Ohio and is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic. She received her medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Karen Reiter is currently the CEO of DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach, she has spent over fourteen years running multi specialty Ambulatory Surgery Centers each of which have been a driving force for cutting edge management of complex outpatient spine surgeries.

Karen has overseen the growth of her current facility from a concept to a company that now has annual revenue of over $50 million, almost exclusively in Spinal Surgery.

Karen is a member of AORN’s Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Assembly Coordinating Council.

She has authored for AORN on patient education for outpatient spinal surgery, and has written several articles for Outpatient Surgery magazine as well she has presented many times at Becker’s, AORN Congress, ASCA, CASA and OR Excellence Conferences.

Jalon has been an RN for over 25 years, specializing and serving in various roles in Surgical Services for the past 22 years. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Purdue University and her Master's in Nursing Administration from Indiana University. Jalon worked as Director of Perioperative Services in a hospital setting until moving into the ASC area 2 years ago. She is currently the Clinical Director for Foothills Surgery Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Joan Dentler is president and chief executive officer of Avanza Healthcare Strategies, which provides healthcare organizations with strategic guidance, with a focus on outpatient services and community collaborations. For more than 25 years, Joan has been consulting on, developing or operating ambulatory surgery centers, hospital outpatient services and community health initiatives. She founded ASC Strategies in 2007 and Outpatient Strategies in 2011, unifying the two companies under a single brand, Avanza Healthcare Strategies, in 2013.

Joan's breadth of experience and disarming nature help her quickly build trust and establish credibility with clients and other stakeholders. She is known for her incisive business acumen and elegant solutions to complex problems. Before founding Avanza, Joan worked in healthcare administration, serving as a hospital liaison for physician-hospital joint ventures and as an administrator of community-based women's health and pediatric primary care facilities.

Carole S. Guinane, MBA, RN, CPHQ, is the executive director for ASC operations at Cedars Sinai. Guinane has extensive experience as the chief clinical officer, corporate vice president interim president and vice president levels at health care systems in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Colorado. From steering system-wide initiatives and introducing/expanding orthopedic service lines, to leading the charge on opening multi-million dollar ambulatory surgery centers, Guinane has delivered demonstrated successes. She served as vice president at one of six hospitals in the country to adopt quality improvement strategies as implemented in manufacturing and industry, and the hospital was featured in the book Striving Toward Improvement: Six Hospitals in Search of Quality published by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

Guinane has authored and co-authored numerous books on various health care topics, including outpatient policies, improving quality in the outpatient setting and analyzing clinical care pathways. She also has published several articles in the Journal for Healthcare Quality and the American Heart Hospital Journal, and presented at national and regional conferences for organizations such as the National Association for Healthcare Quality, Becker ASC Conference, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on topics such as health care quality, leadership, data analysis, service line strategy, and process improvement. Guinane is the National Chairperson for The Competency Commission for Healthcare Quality and serves as the 2020 president for the National Association for Healthcare Quality.

Carrie Kotecki is a retired Director of Emergency Services at Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo Michigan after 38 years. Carrie trains nationwide on the topics of workplace violence, healthcare leadership & front line staff training, as well as performs on-site mock surveys as it relates to Emergency Preparedness. In Carrie’s previous position, her responsibilities included 24- hour oversight of a Level One Trauma center with an annual census of 98,000 visits, a 20- bed admission unit, 24/7 Admission Transfer Center, and overall responsibility for the Emergency Preparedness programs for the hospital system. Further responsibilities included: development of disaster manuals, development of an incident command training program, and development of department specific emergency plans for all units within the hospital.

As a subject matter expert/contracted instructor for the Center of Domestic Preparedness for the past 14 years, Carrie enjoys teaching health care leadership disaster tactics to leaders across the United States.

Scott Grubman is an attorney who represents healthcare providers of all types and sizes in connection with government investigations, both criminal and civil, False Claims Act litigation, and regulatory compliance. Scott has successfully represented ASCs in connection with these matters. Prior to joining private practice, Scott worked for the United States Department of Justice, where he investigated and prosecuted healthcare fraud matters and was a member of his district's healthcare fraud task force. In addition to his law practice, Scott speaks at conferences nationwide on topics of government enforcement and healthcare compliance, and also serves as an adjunct professor of law at both Emory University Law School and Georgia State University School of Law, where he teaches courses related to healthcare fraud and abuse and white collar crime.

Lisa Berus is Director of Integration Management for Surgical Care Affiliates. In this role, she serves as the project manager for multiple de novo surgery centers. Lisa has over 28 years of experience in the ASC industry and has been doing infection prevention for 25 years. She has developed programs to train new infection preventionists and is certified in sterile processing.

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. Lisa is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. She has previously worked for her County Health Department as the epidemiologist and bioterrorism nurse. Lisa has a BSN from the University of Cincinnati and a MSN and MEd from Xavier University.

Terry is Vice President of Ambulatory Surgery Centers for Community Health Systems in Franklin, Tennessee. The CHS portfolio includes over 100 hospitals and 25 ASCs throughout the United States. Terry served as President of the national ASC Association (ASCA) from 2014 to 2016 and as President of the California Surgery Center Association (CASA) from 2012 to 2014. Terry was Vice President of Operations for two national surgery center companies and has managed surgery centers and surgical hospitals in 15 different states.

Terry is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and a Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC). He holds a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration and an undergraduate degree in Accounting. He served as faculty for the University of Florida as adjunct assistant professor in their Masters in Healthcare Administration program. He retired as Commander in the United States Navy Reserve after 24 years of military service.

Ms. Semo is engaged in the private practice of law in Washington, D.C. As counsel to anesthesiology practices nationwide, Ms. Semo has had extensive experience in legal issues relating to physician practice, including negotiating contracts with hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, complying with Medicare and other billing requirements, and addressing other regulatory and practice management issues facing anesthesiology practices.

Ms. Semo has written multiple practice management articles and publications, including: "Obtaining ASC Contracts and Responding to RFPs," a chapter in A Manual of Practice Management for Ambulatory Surgery Centers (2019); "Consolidation in Health Care: Implications for Anesthesiologists" (2019); and a manual on ambulatory surgical center practice (2006).

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Bill has been with Kimberly-Clark Health Care, now Halyard Health for 30 years. He has held positions in sales, sales training, sales management and key account management. Prior to joining Kimberly-Clark HC he spent 10 years with CD Medical marketing dialysis equipment and supplies. He holds a Master Degree in Public Policy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an undergraduate degree from St. Norbert College, DePere, Wi. In 2016 he had a left hip Arthroplasty followed by a life threatening MRSA infection. He has presented this program at AORN EXPO 2018, Central Ohio APIC, Dakotah Plains APIC, Northwest Ohio APIC, Nursing Grand Rounds at The Ohio State University, Ohio Statewide IAHCSMM, The Ohio State University main OR, Franciscan Health System, Indianapolis, Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Toledo Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, Mid Michigan IAHCSMM, Sanford Health System, Bismarck, North Dakota and many other Hospitals.

Michael O'Neal has been consulting for Ambulatory Surgery Centers within the Nashville area for over 25 years. He has a vast knowledge of Medication Management and experience with surgical practice as well as regulatory affairs and provides a practical approach to this complex topic. He finds consulting to be a an important bridge between the Best Practices of Pharmacy and the the ASC space.

He enjoys life in Nashville with his wife and 4 children and an array of outdoor activities.

Jay B. Umansky is an attorney, and principal of THE LAW OFFICES OF JAY B. UMANSKY, P.C., a St. Louis based law firm. A 1979 graduate of St. Louis University School of Law, Mr. Umansky has devoted his forty years in the practice exclusively to the representation of creditors, and has become a specialist in the collection needs of health care providers. For fifteen years, Mr. Umansky was the partner supervising the health care unit of the Midwest’s largest creditor’s rights law firm. He decided to form his own firm in order to better meet the needs of his health care clients, and opened his own office in February of 2002. Mr. Umansky has been a frequent lecturer on the subject of creditor’s rights, speaking before the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American Guild of Patient Accounts Managers, the Clinic Managers Association of Greater St. Louis, the Midwest Healthcare Management Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and has been a faculty member speaking before attorneys at seminars sponsored by the Missouri Bar, the Commercial Law League of America, the National Business Institute, Lorman Business Institute, and the University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School.

Susan Flynn is a Technical Service Specialist with 3M’s Medical Solutions Division in St. Paul, MN. Her role at 3M includes providing education for customers and sales personnel on improving the performance of the sterilization process and implementing best practices. Susan is a Certified Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician (CSPDT) and is a member of several AAMI Sterilization Committee working groups. Susan regularly speaks and writes self-study articles on topics related to device reprocessing.

Monica Livingston has been involved in the healthcare industry for more than 25 years. Monica has performed numerous roles ranging from new business systems development to customized on-site consulting and training. Monica co-founded Capital Returns, Inc., a pharmaceutical reverse distributor, in 1991.

Monica has applied her regulatory knowledge and pharmaceutical waste experience in the healthcare industry designing and implementing services to properly segregate and manage pharmaceutical waste generated primarily by acute care hospitals and retail pharmacies. Monica is currently responsible for managing and delivering all services provided by WMSS PharmEcology Services including on-site consulting, training and auditing for hundreds of healthcare clients. Monica works closely with WM Sustainability Services Integrated Customer Solutions to provide expertise in the area of pharmaceutical waste management. Most recently, she has been involved with the creation and implementation of PharmEcology's USP <800> Assessment of Risk and Consultation Program.

Greg Zoch has been involved with the marketing of health care organizations and services and with the recruitment of health care professionals since 1990. Greg's deep knowledge and healthcare industry experience has given him keen insight into the issues, trends and motivating factors that are fundamental to business development, career growth, satisfaction and retention.

His singular focus is on the strategic growth and staffing initiatives of client companies, who develop, manage, consult with, and/or own and operate ambulatory surgery centers, and surgical hospitals throughout America.

Greg's assignments are primarily for clinical and operational leadership positions. These are typically corporate and facility level CEOs, COOs, CNOs, ASC Administrators and Directors of Nursing, and Regional to National Directors, VPs & C-level individuals in Facilities Development and Operations.

A partner, managing director, and shareholder in Kaye/Bassman International, Greg is a perennial top producer who has demonstrated both technical competency and a distinguished track record of success.

Greg has been an active member of the ASC Association since 2002 and is a frequent contributor of articles to trade publications, sought out as a subject matter expert, and presenter at numerous industry conferences.