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    Jim Austin

    Author

    <p>Jim Austin combines business strategy and organizational development theory with extensive industry experience. Jim is a faculty consultant at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Wharton Business School, where he tailors senior-level seminars. Specifically, he leads seminars at Wharton on finding new growth opportunities, building a vision, execution and leading strategic change and more.</p><p>In 2013, Brown University appointed Austin as a senior lecturer of Healthcare Leadership. He is currently an adjunct assistant professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice. From 1996 through 2016, Austin was a business management professor at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management where he received the “Most Distinguished Corporate Education Faculty Member” (2009-10) and the “Learning Excellence” (2015) awards. From 2013-2016, he was an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Health Systems Management, College of Health Sciences, Rush University. Austin’s book, <i>Transformative Planning: How Your Healthcare Organization Can Strategize</i> for an Uncertain Future (Health Administration Press, 2018), helps healthcare leaders drive transformational change.</p><p>From 2005–2016, Austin worked at Decision Strategies International where he directed numerous projects including a strategic plan for the American College of Radiology, scenarios of the future for the League of Southeastern Credit Unions and a new vision and strategic priorities for the national and IL Boards of Volunteers of America (VOA) to name a few.</p><p>Prior to joining Decision Strategies, Jim spent 12 years at Baxter Healthcare, the last four as vice president of strategy development for the renal division where he identified new business opportunities, facilitated annual strategy planning processes and worked with senior management on organizational development.</p><p>Austin holds a BA in economics and politics from Yale University. He was a special student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Urban Studies Department where he received a joint Master of Public Affairs (MPA) and Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Previously, Austin was chairman of the Strategic Leadership Forum, a board member of the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois, member of the Board of Directors for the University Club of Chicago among several other organizations.</p>
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    Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Brown University, MHL
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    Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE

    Author

    <p>Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE is president/CEO of The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc., Glen, New Hampshire, which provides best-practice training and solutions to healthcare systems throughout the United States and beyond. His work focuses on how healthcare systems can adopt best practices and avoid systems failures which can result in loss of public confidence and market share. He works with executive teams, governing boards, medical staff and clinical leadership. He also works with legal counsel to ensure compliance and avoidance of unnecessary risk by demonstrating how leadership can be aligned to achieve exceptional results. Dr. Burroughs serves on the national faculties of both ACHE, where he has been consistently rated as a top speaker, author, educator and facilitator for the past twenty-five years. </p> <!-- <p>Dr. Burroughs serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars: </p> <ul> <li>Leading in a Changing Environment: Focus on Population Health</li> <li>Integrating Quality and Cost in a Pay-for-Value World</li> <li>Optimizing Ambulatory Management for the 21st Century</li> </ul> <p>Dr. Burroughs has also authored the following Health Administration Press publications: </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2271I" target="_blank" class="tracking-internal">Redesign the Medical Staff Model: A Guide To A Collaborative Change </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2362I" target="_blank" class="tracking-internal">Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises</a></li> </ul> -->
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    President & CEO
    The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc
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    Drew Harris, DPM

    Speaker

    <div>Drew Harris is an assistant professor and director of the Health Policy and Population Health programs at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health in Philadelphia. His academic interest is in the complex interplay between public health, medical care and public policy. Dr. Harris is a health policy researcher, exploring the impact of vaccine mandate policy on New Jersey vaccination rates. He founded the New Jersey Public Health Institute and served on the executive board of the American Public Health Association.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Dr. Harris serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>Leading in a Changing Environment: Focus on Population Health&nbsp;</li></ul></div>
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    Jefferson University