Thomas Allen Archer

System Manager for Capital Planning and Acquisition

Wellmont Health

Thomas “Allen” Archer has more than 15 years experience in Materials Management and Supply Chain Operations. Beginning his career in sterile processing and distribution, Archer excelled and is a true example of professional development in a health system that believes in growing its talent from within. Archer recently completed an MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Administration from King College and is a Certified Materials Resource Professional. He is a published author and speaker on various Supply Chain and Capital Management topics, including articles featured in Healthcare Purchasing News and Materials Management in HealthCare. Archer also serves as the committee chair for the Med Assets Capital Equipment Advisory Committee.  As System Manager for Capital Planning and Acquisition, Archer has transformed the Wellmont Health System capital management program into a national model of excellence.

Financial Operations Track: Best Practices in Annual Capital Budgeting

Hector Boirie

Principal

Boirie Consulting & Associates, LLC

Before opening his consulting agency, Hector served as Vice President for the Capital Management Division at Sisters of Mercy Health System.  The Capital Management Division included five service lines: Capital Planning & Asset Management Services; Clinical Engineering; Planning, Design & Construction; Facilities Operations & Maintenance; and Procurement, Analysis & Reporting. Hector also served as Chief Capital Management Officer for the CMD and Vice President of Capital Management for Resource Optimization & Innovation (ROI).  ROI is Mercy’s supply chain operating company

Previous to joining Mercy, Hector served as the Corporate Director for Group Contracting at Providence Health System located in Seattle, Washington.  Hector began his healthcare career in Perioperative Services in the US Army over 23 years ago.  Among the varied roles, Hector has served as administrator of Surgical Services for both in-patient and ambulatory arenas.

Financial Operations Track: Best Practices in Annual Capital Budgeting

Terry Cox

Director of Supply Chain Management

Texas Children's Hospital

Terry Cox is currently serving as the Director of Supply Chain Management at Texas Children's Hospital, the largest Pediatric institution in the United States.  Mr. Cox has held a variety of positions both in and out of the Healthcare Industry, including in the United States Army. He has received several awards of distinction including the bronze star for achievement and being the first American Hospital Association certified material and resource professional in the military.  Mr. Cox holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in history with teacher certification and a graduate degree in Logistics Management from the Florida Institute of Technology.  He and his spouse, Valen, have adopted 5 children.

Lou Diorio, RPh

Principal

LDT Health Solutions, Inc.

Lou Diorio, RPh, is a principal of LDT Health Solutions, Inc. a Wayne, New Jersey based, quality management consulting company with over 40 years of pharmacy expertise serving clients nationwide. Lou is a graduate of Long Island University’s Schwartz College of Pharmacy.  Lou is an adjunct Professor of Pharmacy Practice for the college and a preceptor of pharmacy students. Mr. Diorio is the 2008-2009 Chair of APhA’s Academy of Practice and Management, Section on Administrative Practice. Since 1985 Lou has practiced in many clinical settings fulfilling many roles, including Chief Operating Officer of Hebrew Hospital Corporate services, a multi-centered sub acute and LTC hospital system in NY. He has also managed & practiced in home-care, hospital, and retail settings.

Pharmacy Track: Implementing a Regional Compounding Program for Compounded Sterile Preparations: Practical strategies – a USP <797> approach

John Hillenmeyer

President and Chief Executive Officer

Orlando Health

Mr. Hillenmeyer was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Orlando Health, Inc. in May 1997.  He previously served as President for the Corporation from 1994 to 1997, Executive Vice President for Operations from 1993 to 1994, Senior Vice President from 1988-1993, Executive Director/Vice President of ORMC from 1987-1988, and as Executive Director/Vice President of Sand Lake Hospital  from 1982 to 1987.

Prior to his tenure at Orlando Health, Mr. Hillenmeyer worked in various administrative positions at the Greenville South Carolina Hospital System from 1974 to 1978.  From 1979-1982, Mr. Hillenmeyer served as the Administrator of Brookwood Community Hospital, Orlando, Florida, and as Associate Administrator of Brookwood Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama from 1978 to 1979.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in Health Care Administration from Duke University.  He is a diplomate of the American College of Health Care Executives, serves as Chairman of the Statutory Teaching Hospital Council, is Immediate Past Chairman of the Florida Hospital Association Board, and is a member of the Executive Committee and Board of VHA-Southeast.  He is active in many civic organizations and currently serves on the boards of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce, SunTrust Bank, Presbyterian Retirement Communities, the UCF Foundation and is the Chairman of the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission.

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Michael D. Israel

President and CEO 

Westchester Medical Center

Michael D. Israel is President and CEO of Westchester Medical Center, the 643-bed advanced care regional medical organization serving the greater Hudson Valley region and beyond.  Mr. Israel has served as President and CEO of WMC since August 2005 and brings more than 30 years of healthcare experience to Westchester Medical Center.  Mr. Israel and his team have been credited with a significant financial turnaround of the region's lifeline to advanced medical care, providing high-quality specialty care to more than 120,000 children and adults each year.  Along with the Board of Directors and under Mr. Israel's guidance, significant investments have been made to Westchester Medical Center facilities, technology and professional, clinical and nursing staff and Westchester Medical Center continues to enjoy a strong market share and a positive regional image.  2009 brings the fourth year of positive budgets for the Medical Center, with a great reduction in external support, and today Westchester Medical Center and its Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital are at capacity.

Mr. Israel previously served as the COO of the North Shore Long Island Jewish system based in Great Neck, NY, where he was responsible for the operational performance of the 18 system hospitals. From 1993 – 2002, he was with Duke University, where he served as the CEO of Duke University Hospital, the University’s Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, and as Vice President of the Duke University Health System. Prior to Duke, he served as Executive Vice President at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital / Texas Heart Institute in Houston, TX, and in operational and financial leadership positions at hospitals and healthcare organizations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Mr. Israel holds a Master of Public Health, Hospital Administration, from Yale University where he received a United States Public Health Services Fellowship, and a Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, from Rutgers College.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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Desi Kotis, PharmD

Pharmacy Director

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Desi has been with Northwestern Memorial Hospital since 1984 and currently serves as Director of Pharmacy. Previous to that she was Pharmacy Manager for twelve years. She has led many initiatives in her tenure at Northwestern and serves on the P&T subcommittee, MAR/PMP committee (focus on medication administration), cardiac arrest quality committee, oncology executive leadership committee, departmental quality management committee, cancer center safety committee, cancer committee, department informatics committee, and obstetrics safety committee. Desi has spoken

Desi attended University of Illinois where she graduated with a BS in Pharmacy in 1983 and went on to obtain her PharmD in 1994. She has also been appointed an Associate Professor to the College of Pharmacy at Drake University, Midwestern University, Purdue University, and University of Illinois.

Pharmacy Track: Medication Reconciliation—Designing an Approach to Focus on What’s Important

David Klumpe

Executive Vice President, Enterprise Accounts

Broadlane

David Klumpe serves as executive vice president, enterprise accounts. In this role, Klumpe leads Broadlanes comprehensive supply chain outsourcing services for a number of the nation’s largest hospital providers, including Continuum Health Partners, the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, St. Lukes Episcopal Health System, Beaumont Hospitals, CHRISTUS Health and Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System. 

Klumpe received his B.S. in pharmacy from West Virginia University and his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Utah. He speaks frequently about strategies that hospitals and integrated delivery networks must employ to succeed in reducing supply chain costs and improving operational performance.

Strategic Management Track: Analyzing Key Supply Chain Performance Indicators to Deliver Improvements and Cost Savings

Michael Langlois

Former Chief of Supply Chain for Ascension Health

Michael T. Langlois currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Daudlin, DeBeaupre and Company, a retained executive search firm serving the health care industry throughout the United States since 1991.

Immediately before assuming this key role with Daudlin, DeBeaupre and Company, Mike was the Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer with Ascension Health; the largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health system in the United States and was responsible for directing the National Supply Chain Initiative for that organization for seven years. 

Prior to joining Ascension Health in 2001, Mike was employed, for almost 25 years, by St. John Health; an eight hospital system within the Ascension Health organization.  At the time of his promotion, he was serving St. John as its Vice President of Materials Management.

Mike has earned a Master of Science Degree in Health Services Administration from Central Michigan University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Market Intelligence Track: A Snapshot of the Healthcare Supply Chain

Chuck Lauer

Noted Healthcare Leader

Former Publisher, Modern Healthcare 

Charles S. Lauer was the publisher of Modern Healthcare for more than 25 years, taking it from a monthly money-losing proposition when Crain Communications purchased the magazine in 1976 to the nation’s leading healthcare news weekly.  Most recently, he was corporate vice president of Crain Communications, Editorial and Publishing Director of Modern Healthcare.  Known throughout the healthcare industry and beyond as a leader, Chuck Lauer is now an author, public speaker, career coach and award-winning businessman who is in demand for his motivational messages to top companies nationwide. A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, Mr. Lauer served in the United States Army as a corporal during the Korean War and continued his postgraduate education at the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois.

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Jon C. Lloyd, MD, FACS

Senior Clinical Advisor

Plexus Institute, Advisory Board, Positive Deviance Initiative

Dr Lloyd received his Medical Degree from the University Of Utah School Of Medicine in 1968.  He served a tour of duty as surgeon and Major, U.S. Army at the Third Field Army Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam.  He served as Chairman, Department of Surgery, UPMC-Shadyside Hospital from 1978-1988. 

Dr Lloyd helped introduce and implement an innovative approach to cultural transformation from within organizations (Positive Deviance) focused on MRSA prevention in the acute and long term care facilities of the VAPHS. Using this approach, the front line staff reduced MRSA infection rates by 50% from July 2005 to December 2006. Yearly MRSA infection rate reductions have continued through 2009. The VAPHS approach to MRSA prevention has been adopted by 150 VA acute care hospitals.

Dr. Lloyd is Senior Clinical Advisor to the Plexus Institute (www.plexusinstitute.org) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Positive Deviance Initiative (www.positivedeviance.org). In addition to his international PD/MRSA prevention work, he is currently applying PD in Pittsburgh, PA to the issue of teen violence and to the disparity in longevity that affects people with serious mental illness.

Ed Lovern

Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer 

Piedmont Healthcare

Ed Lovern returned to the Piedmont Healthcare corporate leadership team as executive vice president and chief administrative officer (CAO) in the summer of 2008. Previously, he served four years as president and CEO of Piedmont Mountainside Hospital (PMH) in Pickens County. Under his leadership, PMH doubled patient volumes, completed a major expansion and won prestigious awards, such as the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals’ Small Hospital of the Year designation in 2006. Subsequently, Lovern was named CEO of the Year. Piedmont Mountainside Hospital also received national recognition for improvements in patient satisfaction and technological advancements during Lovern’s tenure.

When he joined Piedmont in 2002, Lovern began working on a variety of key growth initiatives as executive vice president of corporate services for Piedmont Healthcare. A native of Lynchburg, Va., Lovern holds a bachelor of arts degree from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., and a master’s in health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. He and his wife, Ginny, have two children. They reside in Atlanta.

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Dan Maloy

Founder

The Maloy Group

Dan Maloy founded The Maloy Group to provide marketing and strategy services to emerging and established healthcare companies. Dan's experience covers the supplier and distributor sides of healthcare with organizations ranging from Fortune 20 companies to development stage enterprises, both public and private.  He has held numerous leadership positions in marketing, sales and business development. Dan has served in leadership roles on several industry boards.  Dan also serves in various leadership capacities with non-profit organizations. A seasoned educator, Dan has presented training programs on behalf of companies and industry groups to a range of companies and individuals. Dan received his MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, and his BA from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.  He has also completed studies in Project Management with Villanova University. 

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Brent Petty

Corporate Director, Supply Chain

Wellmont Health System

Brent Petty is the Corporate Director, Supply Chain for Wellmont Health System.  In this position, Brent has responsibility for Contracting, Purchasing, Operations, Logistics, Value Analysis and Information Technology.

 At Wellmont Brent oversees the supply cost as well as leading a team in “margin management” with a supply budget of over $140,000,000.00.

Brent has been with Wellmont for eight years and brings over 15 years of experience in Supply Chain Leadership.

Brent is a past president of the Tennessee Society of Healthcare Materials Management (TSHMM) as well as past chairman of National GPO Materials Management Advisory Committee. 

Brent is accredited by Association for Healthcare Rescores & Materials Management (AHRMM) as Certified Materials Resource Professional. (CMRP)

Brent has been honored by The Journal of Healthcare Contracting as the Contracting Professional of the year for 2010.

Financial Operations Track: The Missing Link: A Guide on How to Maximize Revenue Cycle

John Sdanowich

Capital Administrator

Johns Hopkins Health System

John Sdanowich has been with the Johns Hopkins Health System for the past 17-years, ten of those years as the Capital Administrator, responsible for the financing and negotiations of all health system medical equipment.  His focus is the Technology, life-cycle-management and obsolescence risk of the medical equipment.  John’s approach includes reviewing the changes in vendor’s medical equipment, evaluating products at the factory and with senior management in research and development. 

John is also, the Co-Chairman of the RFID committee, tasked with finding a real time location solution for tracking equipment, patients and employees, which will be installed in two new clinical towers currently under construction.  

John has also worked in the Department of Emergency Medicine as the Assistant Administrator and as a Management Engineer, working on the re-engineering of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  The main focus of the restructuring was in the departments of Surgery and Medicine.

John has published:  a White Paper, “Life-Cycle Financing For Capital Investments”, “Strategies to Maximize your Capital Dollars”, in Medical Imaging/MedAssets.Com Forum, and “How to Create a Capital Process to Maximize Investments”, in  Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology.

Financial Operations Track: Best Practices in Annual Capital Budgeting

Joseph R. Swedish

President and Chief Executive Officer

Trinity Health

Over a career spanning 36 years, Joseph R. Swedish has built a legacy of dynamic leadership and service excellence.  Since becoming President and CEO of Trinity Health in December 2004, Mr. Swedish has focused his leadership on the transformation of health care delivery through improved clinical and business processes and expanding access to the growing population of underinsured patients. 

As a Unified Enterprise Ministry^® Mr. Swedish leads Trinity Health, the nation’s eleventh largest health system and fourth-largest Catholic health system, by leveraging scale and skill to create efficient and effective care delivery.  Under his leadership Trinity Health has accelerated its performance financially and operationally as the result of strategic and tactical initiatives focused on eight imperatives: community benefit ministry, patient care excellence, financial stewardship, best people, physician alignment, growth, ambulatory health networks, and innovation. Trinity Health is a recognized leader in quality improvement and innovation having received the National Committee for Quality Health Care 2004 Award and recognized by Thompson Reuter in 2009 as the nation’s Top 10 Health System performer for quality care.

He currently serves the American Hospital Association’s as Chairman for the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, as a member of the Special Advisory Group on Improving Hospital Care for Minorities; and the Non-profit System CEO group examining health care tax exempt status. He has served as a member of its Long Range Policy Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Payment for Health Services, and as a member of the AHA Regional Policy Board – Region 8. In 1999, he was elected Chairman of the Colorado Hospital Association Board of Directors.

Mr. Swedish’s awards and recognitions include: the 2009 Diversity Best Practices Leadership Award, the University Medal by the Board of Regents for the University of Colorado; the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Rocky Mountain Region; and, Modern Healthcare “Top 100 Most Powerful Leaders in Health Care” - 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.

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Darren Vianueva

President & COO

CRG Solutions, Inc.

Darren Vianueva, is President and Chief Operating Officer of CRG Solutions Inc., a healthcare consulting firm which specializes in the planning, acquisition and management of technology for healthcare institutions of all sizes. His experience in capital asset management, supply chain management practices, medical equipment maintenance, and service line excellence and operations improvement has given him a unique blend of disciplines and experience to assist his firm’s customers in achieving their goals. Prior to joining CRG Solutions in 2004, Mr. Vianueva was Vice President of capital and asset management for a national healthcare system where he led the development and system-wide implementation of a medical equipment supply chain improvement initiative Darren holds a Bachelor’s degree in Leadership and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

Financial Operations Track: Best Practices in Annual Capital Budgeting

Tina Wenstrom

Account Executive

IDN Summit & Expo

Tina Wenstrom has over 15 years experience in operations management, more than half of which has been in healthcare. As Director of Operations for Clarian Health, an Integrated Delivery Network in Indiana, she was responsible for overall supply chain management and process improvements relative to distribution, contracted and support services. Her areas of focus include leadership development, strategic planning, and logistics. Tina joined Clarian in 1997 as Unit Director for linen services and surgical pack processing with Marriott Management Services. She holds a Masters degree in management from Indiana Wesleyan University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Health Administration and Policy. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the MedAssets Material Services Advisory Committee.

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