Faculty

Thomas A. Atchison, EdD

Author

<div id="pastingspan1"></div><div id="pastingspan1">Thomas A. Atchison, EdD, is president and founder of Atchison Consulting LLC. Since 1984, Dr. Atchison has consulted with healthcare organizations on managed change programs, team building and leadership development. His clients include senior executives, managers, trustees and physician leaders. He has also consulted the military, healthcare vendors and government agencies on the intangible aspects of healthcare.</div><div> </div><div id="pastingspan1">Dr. Atchison has taught several courses on leadership and change management for ACHE. He has also written numerous articles about motivation, managed change, teambuilding and leadership. His book, <em>Turning Healthcare Leadership Around</em>, was published in October 1990. His newest book, <em>Engagemen</em>t, will be available in the fall 2021.</div><div> </div><div id="pastingspan1">He earned his doctorate degree in organizational behavior at Loyola University of Chicago and is a member of ACHE.</div><div></div><div>Dr. Atchison serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div> <ul> <li> Leading and Managing in Changing Times</li> <li>Achieving Superior Outcomes Through Executive-Physician Partnerships</li> </ul> <p>Dr. Atchison also authored the following Health Administration Press publications:</p><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2447I" title="Reigniting Employee Engagement: A Guide to Rediscovering Purpose and Meaning in Healthcare"><em>Reigniting Employee Engagement: A Guide to Rediscovering Purpose and Meaning in Healthcare</em></a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2004I"><em>Followership: A Practical Guide to Aligning Leaders and Followers</em></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2056I"><em>Leadership's Deeper Dimensions: Building Blocks to Superior Performance</em></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2118I"><em>Leading Healthcare Cultures: How Human Capital Drives Financial Performance</em></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/1131I"><em>Leading Transformational Change: The Physician-Executive Partnership</em></a></li> </ul> </div> <quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE

Author

<p>Jon Burroughs 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 and the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL), where he has been consistently rated as a top speaker, author, educator and facilitator for the past 25 years.</p>

About Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE
President & CEO
Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network

Carson F. Dye, FACHE

Author

<p>Carson F. Dye, FACHE, President & CEO of Exceptional Leadership, LLC, is an executive recruiter and leadership consultant with over 40 years of leadership and management experience. He has taught many individuals over the past 30-plus years with ACHE, UAB, and Ohio State University. For the past 24 years, Carson has conducted over 700 leadership searches for health systems, academic medical centers, and universities. For 20 years he worked in healthcare administration at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Clermont Mercy Hospital, Cincinnati. He teaches in the ACHE Board of Governors course and serves as lead faculty in several courses including leadership, physician engagement and clinical integration. He has authored 15 books including three ACHE Book of the Year winners. He has served on the boards of Lourdes University, The Sight Center / Toledo Society for the Blind where he served as board chair, and the Visiting Nurses Association. Carson earned his M.B.A. at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH and his B.A. at Marietta College, Marietta, OH.</p>

Kathleen L. Forbes, MD

Speaker

<p><strong>Kathleen Forbes, MD, CPE, FAAFP</strong>, is executive vice president and COO of academic facilities and services for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare System and vice chancellor of health affairs for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Forbes provides strategic and operational leadership for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Methodist University Hospital, the Physician Enterprise, service lines, clinical institutes, the Integrated Operations Center, telehealth and affiliated services. She also oversees the academic relationships, graduate medical education and research. Prior to her appointment at Methodist, Forbes served as the system chief integration officer for Premier Health System in Dayton, Ohio. </p> <p>She began her career by starting her own practice in Brook Park, Ohio, and growing it for more than 10 years, including spearheading the development of a physician hospital organization and facilitating alignment with Cleveland Clinic. Forbes then transitioned to administration, serving in leadership roles of increasing responsibility and scope since 2001 at healthcare organizations including OSF Healthcare in Peoria, Ill.; University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth; TriHealth in Cincinnati; and Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She has held numerous academic appointments at the University of Tennessee, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Bethesda North Hospital and Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, and Case Western Reserve University Medical School in Cleveland.</p> <p>Forbes is a board-certified physician executive and a board-certified family physician with a medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a Master of Science in Healthcare Management from the University of Texas at Dallas/Southwestern University Alliance for Medical Management Education. </p> <p>Forbes has served as a member of The National Leadership Institute—where she was part of the Millennium Group and Chair of the Clinical Bullpen—and is a member of the National Healthcare Physician CEO Roundtable. She is also a member and faculty for the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American Association of Physician Leaders. Forbes is a member of the American Academy of Family Practice, the American Medical Association, the Business and Professional Women’s Association and the American Medical Group Association. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:kathleen.forbes@mlh.org">kathleen.forbes@mlh.org</a>. </p>

Michael E. Frisina, PhD

Author

<p>Michael E. Frisina, PhD, is founder/CEO of The Frisina Group LLC, Elgin, S.C., and The Center for Influential Leadership. He is an author, educator and consultant specializing in healthcare leadership and performance improvement. He is also an internationally known speaker and the author of <em>Influential Leadership: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Organization, Change Health Care. </em>Dr. Frisina was previously assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and assistant professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He has held administration positions in both military and civilian healthcare systems at various levels of increasing responsibility.</p> <p>Dr. Frisina serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</p> <ul> <li>Behavior Smarts: Increasing Healthcare Leadership Performance</li> <li>Leading for Success: Creating a Committed Workforce</li> <li>Professional Burnout in Healthcare: Lead Your Organization to Wellness</li> <li>Leading from Your Upper Brain - A Neuroscience Approach to Driving Performance<br /> </li> </ul> <p> Dr. Frisina has also authored the following Health Administration Press publications:</p> <p><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2451I"> <em>Leading With Your Upper Brain: How to Create the Behaviors That Unlock Performance Excellence</em> </a></p> <p><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2275I"><em>Influential Leadership: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Organization, Change Health Care</em></a></p>

William Garrison

Speaker

William Garrison is a Chicago-based independent health care consultant. He previously led The RTI Center for Health Care Advancement, headquartered in North Carolina, where he leveraged RTI's payment/policy, care delivery and HIT/clinical informatics strengths, enabling transformation. Prior to RTI, he held executive roles with two regional health care systems and a private equity backed provider. With expertise in strategy and operations, he currently helps organizations identify and execute growth strategies. Mr. Garrison's skills in marketing, sales management, enterprise and business-unit strategic planning, and joint venture evaluation and execution puts him at the forefront of change management and business model redesign. He earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his BA from Northwestern University. <br /><br />Mr. Garrison serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar: <ul> <li>Applying Design Thinking to Healthcare's Most Pressing Challenges</li> </ul>

James E. Gaston

Speaker

<div>James Gaston is the senior director, maturity models,at HIMSS Analytics in Chicago, with more than 24 years of healthcare information technology experience. In his current role, Mr. Gaston facilitates maturity model development and awareness, and serves as an expert resource with regard to clinical and business intelligence, as well as analytics in healthcare. He is responsible for the DELTA Powered Analytics Assessment and the Continuity of Care maturity models, among other duties at HIMSS Analytics.</div><div> </div><div>Mr. Gaston serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>The Strategic Use of Healthcare Analytics </li></ul></div>

Arthur "David" Brodie James, MD, JD

Speaker

<div>David James is president, Sentara Medical Groups and Ambulatory Services, Norfolk, Va. He oversees and leads all Sentara medical groups and the ambulatory services division. This includes redesigning existing ambulatory services into retail destinations, leveraging opportunities for innovation around the consumer experience and strengthening the brand services continuum for each product line. Prior to this role, he was CEO, Memorial Hermann Medical Group & Post-Acute Services, Houston. Previously, Dr. James was senior vice president, Medical Operations, ProMedica Physician Group, Toledo, Ohio. He also served as the system chief quality and integration officer at ProMedica. He earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, and his law degree from the University of Toledo (Ohio) College of Law.</div><div> </div><div>Dr. James serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar:</div><div><ul><li>Retooling for the Future in Healthcare Operations: The Changing Role of Leaders</li></ul></div>

About Arthur "David" Brodie James, MD, JD
President/Sentara Med Groups & Ambulatory Services
Sentara Healthcare

Amer Kaissi, PhD

Author

<p>Amer Kaissi is an-award winning Professor of Leadership. He is an executive coach that has worked with hundreds of leaders and teams all over the world. Amer is the author of three books. His most recent book is “Humbitious: the power of low-ego, high-drive leadership.” He has been featured on the Harvard Business Review podcast and numerous other media outlets. He has spoken on leadership topics at more than 250 organizations and professional conferences. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two teenagers.</p>

Chad W. Konchak

Speaker

<div>Chad Konchak is the director of clinical analytics at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Ill. He oversees the team responsible for NorthShore’s clinical reporting, analysis and predictive modeling efforts, which focus on leveraging and delivering data and actionable insights that improve the quality of care and identify variations in clinical practice.  Mr. Konchak and his team developed an analytical system that identifies patients with undiagnosed hypertension using algorithms developed from clinical data that are delivered via real-time clinical decision support.</div><div> </div><div>Mr. Konchak serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:</div><div><ul><li>The Strategic Use of Healthcare Analytics </li></ul></div>

Michael Nowicki, EdD, LFACHE

Author

Michael Nowicki, EdD, FACHE, is a professor of health administration at Texas State University, where his teaching, research and service have been recognized with several university awards. <div> </div> <div id="pastingspan1"></div> <div id="pastingspan1">Prior to joining academe, Dr. Nowicki was director of process management in the Hospital Division of Humana for six years. Dr. Nowicki has also held a variety of administrative positions at Valley Medical Center, Fresno, Calif.; Hutzel Hospital, Detroit; Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; and Lubbock (Texas) Medical Center. Dr. Nowicki has provided training support to healthcare organizations such as University of California—San Diego, Defense Health Agency, Spectrum Health, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Cardinal Health, Kaiser Permanente, HCA, Baylor Healthcare System and Howard University Hospital.</div> <div> </div> <div id="pastingspan1"></div> <div id="pastingspan1">Dr. Nowicki is board certified in healthcare management as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He served ACHE as Regent for Texas—Central & South, chair of the Book of the Year Committee and as a member of the Finance Committee. He is also a co-founder and past president of the Central Texas Chapter—ACHE.</div> <div> </div> <div id="pastingspan1"></div> <div id="pastingspan1">He received his doctor of educational policy studies and evaluation from the University of Kentucky, his master of healthcare administration from The George Washington University and his bachelor of political science from Texas Tech University.</div> <div> </div> <div id="pastingspan1"></div> <div id="pastingspan1">Dr. Nowicki has written numerous articles on leadership in financial management and has presented financial management seminars to audiences worldwide and in the U.S.</div> <div></div> <p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#231F20"></span></p> Dr. Nowicki serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars: <ul> <li>Fundamental Financial Skills for Healthcare Organization Success</li> <li>Healthcare Finance, Board of Governors Exam Review Course</li> </ul> <div> Dr. Nowicki also authored the following Health Administration Press publication:</div> <div> <ul> <li><em><a href="https://www.ache.org/learning-center/publications/books/2443I">Introduction to the Financial Management of Healthcare Organizations, Eighth Edition</a></em></li> </ul> </div>

About Michael Nowicki, EdD, LFACHE

Leslie Wainwright, PhD

Speaker

<p>Dr. Leslie Wainwright is a nationally recognized strategist, educator and innovation leader who brings over two decades of experience applying design thinking to complex challenges in healthcare and beyond. As a frequent speaker and faculty member with the American College of Healthcare Executives, she has educated thousands of executives on how human-centered innovation tools can drive meaningful, measurable change; her work has guided leadership teams spanning from major health systems to local start-ups. Dr. Wainwright currently serves as faculty for the ACHE seminar “Applying Thinking to Healthcare’s Most Pressing Challenges.” Her expertise includes healthcare delivery, biotechnology, advanced analytics and entrepreneurship.</p><p>Dr. Wainwright was a founding executive of several pioneering organizations, including Sg2 and AVIA and Do Tank, where she currently serves as partner and senior strategist. Her approach blends deep scientific training with practical strategy expertise.</p><p>As an accomplished educator, Dr. Wainwright has designed award-winning executive education programs, including the Rush University Leadership Academy in collaboration with the Illinois Hospital Association. She has shared her expertise through keynote roles at the Hospital Association of Southern California, the ACHE Chapter Leaders Conference and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Healthcare Transformation Delegation. Internationally, she led design thinking-based innovation training through the U.S.-Pakistan Science & Technology Startup and Ideation Program as part of the GIST initiative. Dr. Wainwright holds a PhD from Northwestern University and completed a fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical School.</p>

Scottsdale Cluster 2020

Cluster Faculty

Thomas A. Atchison, EdD

Author

Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE

Author

Carson F. Dye, FACHE

Author

Kathleen L. Forbes, MD

Speaker

Michael E. Frisina, PhD

Author

William Garrison

Speaker

James E. Gaston

Speaker

Arthur "David" Brodie James, MD, JD

Speaker

Amer Kaissi, PhD

Author

Chad W. Konchak

Speaker

Michael Nowicki, EdD, LFACHE

Author

Leslie Wainwright, PhD

Speaker