2014 ASC Symposium Speaker Biographies - McDermott Will & Emery

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2014 ASC Symposium Faculty Biographies

Akhil Agrawal PRESIDENT AMERICAN MEDICAL DEPOT

Mr. Agrawal has been the President of American Medical Depot (AMD) since 1993. AMD is a specialty healthcare distribution and manufacturing company focused in the areas of acute healthcare, primary care, and providing complex integrated delivery network supply chain solutions. Mr. Agrawal is also a principal of AMD Equities, an early stage venture capital and middle market healthcare investment fund. Mr. Agrawal is a recognized expert in the field of healthcare distribution and logistics and has been a frequent speaker at numerous industry events, government conferences, and educational programs over the last decade. Mr. Agrawal was honored with the Industry Award of Distinction by the Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) in 2010. He is an active member of and has served in leadership roles in numerous professional groups, corporate boards, and trade associations. In addition, he has been appointed to several government commissions over the last two decades. Some of his activities have included serving on the US Small Business Administration National Advisory Committee, the State of Florida Council for Efficient Government, the Governors Healthcare Policy Team, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Health Industry Distributors Association in 2003, as President of the National Minority Medical Suppliers Association (2001-2005), as President of the Board of Directors of the National Healthcare Alliance, as Founding Board member of the Healthcare Supplier Diversity Alliance (HSDA), and as Board Member for the American Heart Association of South Florida among others.

Mr. Agrawal received his degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida.

2014 ASC Symposium Speaker Biographies

Joel Allison CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE HEALTH Joel Allison is Chief Executive Officer of Baylor Scott & White Health, a fully integrated healthcare system headquartered in Dallas, Texas providing services to a network of acute care hospitals and related healthcare entities that provide patient care, medical education, research and community service. His primary responsibility is to help Baylor Scott & White attain its vision “to be the most trusted name in giving and receiving safe, quality, compassionate health care.” Mr. Allison’s career includes more than three decades in health care management. He joined Baylor Health Care System in 1993 and served as Baylor’s senior executive vice president and chief operating officer before being promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in 2000. On October 1, 2013, he was named Chief Executive Officer of Baylor Scott & White Health. Mr. Allison is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Nationally, he serves on the Healthcare Leadership Council and the United Surgical Partners, International board. In addition, he has been appointed by Governor Rick Perry to serve on the Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency Board and is involved in many other state and local organizations, including the Texas Association of Voluntary Hospitals, Texas Care Alliance, Baylor University Board of Regents, Dallas Citizens Council and the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture. He is also a past Chairman of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Board, the Dallas Regional Chamber Board and the Dallas Citizens Council Board.

Mr. Allison has received numerous recognitions during his career for his outstanding leadership and commitment to the healthcare field. Mr. Allison received a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and religion from Baylor University in 1970, a master’s degree in health care administration from Trinity University in 1973 and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. Today, through his leadership role with BSWH, Allison continues to fulfill his life-long mission to help lead an organization that combines ministry and health care in its mission statement and day-to-day operations.


Jennifer Baldock GENERAL COUNSEL & CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER SYMBION INC. Jennifer Boyd Baldock serves as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Symbion Inc. Ms. Baldock is responsible for all legal matters relating to Symbion and its operations, as well as its compliance program and human resources department.

Prior to joining Symbion, Ms. Baldock served as Assistant General Counsel for both Ambulatory Services of America and Renal Care Group. Prior to that, Ms. Baldock practiced law with Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis, concentrating in corporate law with an emphasis on healthcare mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Baldock received her B.A. in Accounting and Economics from David Lipscomb University in 1993 and her J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1996. Ms. Baldock is also a Certified Public Accountant.


Henry Bloom PRESIDENT & FOUNDER THE BLOOM ORGANIZATION LLC

Henry Bloom founded The Bloom Organization in 1990 to provide project-related services to healthcare providers. Today, The Bloom Organization is the preeminent surgery center advisory firm representing physicians and facilities in their efforts to maximize value and pursue growth opportunities. Mr. Bloom has over 20 years of experience in healthcare including both physician practices and healthcare facilities.

Mr. Bloom concentrates on advising Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), ASC companies and hospital systems along with physician groups looking to develop their own ASC. In the past several years, Mr. Bloom has garnered a national reputation and has guided numerous ASCs and physicians into partnerships with surgery center companies, hospital systems, ancillary providers and private equity funds. Mr. Bloom is currently involved with projects in: Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and including more than twenty ongoing surgery center projects. Mr. Bloom has also assisted private equity, venture capital and corporate partners providing his expertise on a myriad of ASC projects. The Bloom Organization is a Managing Partner in The Center for Ambulatory and Minimally Invasive Surgery, LLC in Eatontown, NJ, which opened in September 2011. The Bloom Organization is also developing a 4 operating room Orthopedic ASC in conjunction with Beth Israel Hospital which is scheduled to open during the 4th quarter of 2013.

Mr. Bloom speaks regularly at ASC and healthcare related conferences and is a national figure in the ASC industry.

To find out more information, please visit The Bloom Organization’s website at www.bloomllc.com or you can contact Mr. Bloom directly at [email protected].

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Brett Brodnax PRESIDENT & CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER UNITED SURGICAL PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL

Brett Brodnax serves as President and Chief Development Officer of United Surgical Partners International (USPI). Before joining USPI in 1999, he was an Executive with Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, where he gained extensive experience creating physician and hospital partnerships and developing surgical facilities. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Dallas.


Michael Burdine, M.D. DOUBLE-BOARD-CERTIFIED & FELLOWSHIP-TRAINED PAIN MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST NOVAMED SURGERY CENTER OF BATON ROUGE LLC

DOUBLE-BOARD-CERTIFIED: Anesthesiology & Pain Management, American Board of Anesthesiology ANESTHESIOLOGY/PAIN MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1991 ANESTHESIOLOGY RESIDENCY: University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, AR, 1990

FLEXIBLE MEDICINE INTERNSHIP: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1984

M.D.: Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 1983

B.S.: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1979

FORMER CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR: University of Oklahoma

MEMBER: Society of International Pain Management, International Association for the Study of Pain, American Pain Society, American Society of Regional Anesthesia, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Oklahoma Society of Anesthesiologists, Louisiana Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Louisiana Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, American Medical Association, Southern Medical Society, Oklahoma State Medical Society, Louisiana State Medical Society, East Baton Rouge Parish Medical Society

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: President of LSIPP; Former Board Director of Arthritis Alliance of Louisiana; Delegate to Louisiana State Medical Society, 2006; Consumer Research Council of America, American Top Physician of 2006

STATE & NATIONAL SPEAKERS BUREAU: Astra USA Pharmaceuticals; Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City; Carter Home Health Care; Corum Health Care; Glaxo Pharmaceuticals; Medtronics; Mercy Hospital, Oklahoma City; Options Care; Purdue Fredricks Pharmaceuticals; St. Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City; Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; Merck Pharmaceuticals; Pharmicia Pharmaceuticals

DEFENSE EXPERT WITNESS: Physicians Liability Insurance Company

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners, Past President, CAMS/LSIPP


John Ellis “Jeb” Bush FORMER GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA

Jeb Bush is the 43rd governor of the state of Florida, serving from 1999 through 2007. During his two terms, Bush remained true to his conservative principles, cutting taxes, vetoing earmarks and championing major reform of government programs. Under his leadership, Florida was on the forefront of consumer healthcare advances, led the nation in job growth, and launched and accelerated restoration of America’s Everglades. In education, Florida raised academic standards, required accountability in public schools and created the most ambitious school choice program in the nation. As a result, Florida students have made the greatest gains in academic achievement and Florida is one of a handful of states to significantly narrow the achievement gap. Bush maintains his passion for improving the quality of education for students by serving as the chairman of two leading K-12 education reform organizations: the Foundation for Excellence in Education and Foundation for Florida’s Future which work with state and education leaders, teachers, parents and advocates to develop and implement reforms that lead to rising student achievement. On March 5, 2013, his book Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, written with leading constitutional litigator Clint Bolick was published by Simon & Schuster: Threshold Editions. Rooted in the fundamental thought that immigration is vital to America’s future – fueling its growth, vibrancy, and creativity – Bush and Bolick have constructed an enduring solution that remains true the rule of law and our immigrant heritage. Currently, Bush is the President of the consulting firm Jeb Bush and Associates. He is on the boards of Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Rayonier, Inc.


Jason Caron PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Jason B. Caron is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office. He represents a variety of health care and life sciences organizations in legal, regulatory, reimbursement and policy matters -- regularly providing strategic advice to clients. Jason has extensive experience with navigating coding, coverage, payment, medical necessity, documentation policy, comparative research, certification, enrollment and payer participation issues, particularly in light of health reform. Jason spends significant time planning, structuring and executing health care transactions and business arrangements. Additionally, he counsels clients in the areas of federal and state fraud issues, including anti-kickback, sunshine law, self-referral, false claims and false billings, and has experience guiding organizations through self-disclosures as well as government inquiries, audits and investigations. Jason also assists clients in evaluating, developing and implementing corporate compliance programs. He represents hospitals and health systems, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, home care providers, hospices, dialysis providers, clinical laboratories, medical transportation providers, ambulatory surgery centers, free standing treatment centers, professional services organizations, physician practice management companies, managed care organizations, benefit managers, trade associations, coalitions, and investors and other financial institutions that invest in or support the health care industry. Jason previously worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of General Counsel, Public Health Division on an array of issues, including fraud and abuse, vaccine policy and homeland security. He also worked for the government relations department at the International Association of Fire Chiefs on issues facing the out-of-hospital emergency medical community, including Medicare reimbursement. Jason also worked as a critical care paramedic in Northern Virginia and volunteered as an emergency medical technician in Washington, D.C. During law school, Jason was a research assistant for the University's Center for Health and Homeland Security and an articles editor for the Journal of Health Care Law and Policy. Jason is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.


Ira Coleman PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Ira J. Coleman is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Miami office. He is the partner-in-charge of the office and head of the Miami Health Industry Advisory practice. He is board-certified in health law by the Florida Bar. Ira focuses his practice on health care mergers and acquisitions, health care private equity and the formation and implementation of cutting-edge delivery systems. In addition, he has served as counsel in connection with the development and operation of numerous corporate compliance programs for health care clients. Ira has been named as one of the best health lawyers in the United States and has been included in numerous editions of The Best Lawyers in America.

Ira co-authored Navigating Your Way Through the Federal Physician Self-Referral Law: A Guidebook to Stark II (Atlantic Information Services, Inc., 1995; revised 1996; second edition 1998): A Guide to Complying with Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules (Atlantic Information Services, Inc., 2004) and has authored and has been quoted in numerous articles on health law topics.

Ira served as chairman for the Florida Bar Health Law Section Educational Division, the Florida Hospital Association’s program on Physician Integration, and served as vice chairman of the American Health Lawyers Association Merger and Acquisition Institute.

Ira has obtained the highest ranking in health care in Florida in Chambers USA 2007-2013: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and is categorized as “very talented, client service-oriented and confident”. He is further described as "understands the key issues and solves problems rather than just identifying them”. Ira is also ranked in The Best Lawyers in America.

Ira was elected to the Florida Bar Health Law Section Executive Council. He serves on the Board of the South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association. He is a member of the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Florida Academy of Healthcare Attorneys and the American College of Healthcare Executives.


David Cordova DIRECTOR, MANAGED CARE FINANCE OUTPATIENT/PHYSICIAN SERVICES TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

David Cordova serves as Director, Managed Care Finance Outpatient/Physician Services for the Tenet Healthcare Corporation. David, 41, oversees the managed care’s freestanding outpatient and employed physician relationships and portfolio performance. He works closely with Kyle Burtnett, SVP Outpatient Services, and his department in various capacities with primary focus on managed care. He reports to Clint Hailey, Tenet’s SVP, Chief Managed Care Officer.

David joined Tenet in June 1993. His entire career has been with Tenet working in various positions throughout the organization which has provided him the ability to have a strong understanding of the company’s revenue cycle and managed care operations.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in business finance from University of Phoenix.


Gary Scott Davis PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Gary Scott Davis, P.A. is a partner in the Health Industry Advisory Group of McDermott Will & Emery LLP’s Miami office. A “Board Certified Health Law Attorney” as recognized by The Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education, he concentrates his practice on managed care including emerging health benefit plans, strategic restructurings and reorganizations, dispositions, mergers, joint ventures and contractual matters.

His many writings in the area of managed care include: The Insider’s Guide to Managed Care: A Legal and Operational Roadmap (Contributing author, AHLA Education in Print Series), the BNA Health Law and Business Series Portfolio titled Managed Care Contracting: Advising the Provider, International Managed Care Opportunities in Emerging Latin American Health Care Markets (Co-Author, The Health Law Handbook, West, A Thomson Business, 1997) and What Is This Thing Called “Consumer Directed Health Care (Co-Author, The Health Law Handbook, West, A Thomson Business, 2005). He also is a frequent contributor to articles appearing in the local, state and national news and trade publications.

Mr. Davis is a nationally recognized speaker on organizational and reimbursement issues relating to managed health care, health care contracting and joint ventures. He has lectured at approximately 160 seminars sponsored by numerous trade, educational and professional organizations.

Mr. Davis presently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of “Managed Care Magazine” and the Board of Advisors of “Managed Care Contracting and Reimbursement Advisor” (HCPro, Inc.). Previously, he served on the editorial board of the “Managed Care Law Manual” (Aspen Publishers).

Mr. Davis has served as an adjunct lecturer of health care law for the Graduate School of Business Administration (MBA Programs for Executives), University of Miami and on the Advisory Board and faculty of the Nova Southeastern University Institute of Continuing Education for Health Care Professionals.

Mr. Davis is a Fellow (Inaugural Class) and a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association (“AHLA”). While a member of the board, he served on the AHLA Executive Committee as the Chairman of the Membership Committee. He is the recipient of the AHLA’s prestigious David J. Greenburg Service Award. Mr. Davis presently serves on the Board of Directors, and as an officer, of the Florida Academy of Health Care Attorneys.

Since its inaugural listing in 2005, Mr. Davis has given the highest ranking as one of the leading health care attorneys in Florida by Chambers & Partners. Since 2010, Gary has been one of eight attorneys given Chambers & Partners highest national ranking among all health care transactional attorneys. In 2012 Legal 500 included Mr. Davis in its inaugural group of national Leading Lawyers in the Healthcare: Service Providers category. In 2007, he was selected as one of Nightingale’s Healthcare News’ “Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers.”


Gary Scott Davis PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

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For more than 20 years, Mr. Davis has been recognized by his peers for his expertise in health law in The Best Lawyers In America, which in 2011 named him as one of its Lawyers of the Year in Health Care. Among his other recognitions for his expertise in health law are Euromoney’s Expert Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers, Euromoney’s Best of the Best 2009 USA, Florida Trend Florida Trend, South Florida Legal Guide, Super Lawyers, Leading American Attorneys and The Best Attorneys Network. The South Florida Business Journal identified him as a “Heavy Hitter in Health Care” and The National Law Journal has recognized him as one of the “National Leading Lawyers of Managed Care.” Florida Medical Business twice voted Mr. Davis “Best Healthcare Attorney.” Among his other recognitions, he has been listed by Who’s Who in American Law and given the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Follmer Bronze Merit Award for Outstanding Service.

Mr. Davis holds a B.A. (1979), with honors, from Binghamton University, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha. He earned his J.D. (1982) with honors from the George Washington University.

For nine years Mr. Davis served on the Board of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida, Inc. including terms on the Foundation’s Executive Committee and being elected Chairman of the Board. He also served as the Chairman of the Board of Wish Friends of Southern Florida, an endowment that supports the Make A Wish Foundation. Presently, Mr. Davis serves as the Foundation’s pro bono General Counsel.

From 2007 through 2010, Mr. Davis served on the Muhlenberg College Parents Council.

Mr. Davis is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, Health Law Section; The Florida Bar, Health Law Section; the Florida Academy of Healthcare Attorneys; and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.


Ralph de la Torre, M.D. CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER STEWARD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM LLC

Dr. Ralph de la Torre is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Steward Health Care Systems LLC. Steward is an innovative health care provider which combines over 3,000 physicians, 11 acute care hospitals, managed care, insurance programs, home care, an imaging operation, and a number of other post-acute services, to provide the most cost effective and highest quality of integrated patient care. Founded in 2009, Steward has grown to nearly $3 billion in net patient service revenues, is the third largest employer in Massachusetts, and is New England’s largest community care company. Today, Steward is widely recognized as a national leader in implementing a new model of health care delivery.

Prior to Steward, Dr. de la Torre was the CEO of Caritas Christi Health Care, where he led the transformation of a six hospital system, restoring it to profitability while simultaneously improving the quality of patient care.

Before joining Caritas Christi, Dr. de la Torre was the founder and CEO of the Cardiovascular Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), one of the nation’s first totally integrated systems for treating cardiac patients. At the same time, Dr. de la Torre was the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at BIDMC, as well as for the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC, where he was widely recognized as one of the top cardiac surgeons in his field.

He has founded several health care related businesses and has numerous patents that have been issued or are pending. A frequent commentator on national health care policy issues, Dr. de la Torre has bylined and been featured in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes and CNBC.

An active and outspoken advocate for immigrants and health care access, Dr. de la Torre received the Irish International Immigrant Center Solas award, the “Make A Difference” award from Boston Latino Access, the Manet Medallion for Community Health Care, the Cross Pro Merito Melitensi from the Knights of Malta for his leadership in providing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti and was named one of the top 25 minority executives in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare. Dr. de la Torre also has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in health care and one of the top 50 physician leaders by Modern Healthcare, one of the 50 most powerful people in Boston by Boston Magazine and a member of the Power 50 by the Boston Business Journal. Notable Board assignments for Dr. de la Torre include Member, Board of Trustees of Boston College and Member, Board of Directors of the Federation of American Hospitals. Dr. de la Torre graduated from Duke University in 1988 (B.S.E) where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi, and from a joint program between Harvard Medical School (M.D.) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S.) in 1992.


Mark Dissette SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC.

Mr. Dissette currently serves as Senior Vice President for 571-bed Holy Cross Hospital (HCH) and Administrator for Holy Cross HealthPlex, a 202,000 sf / 19 acre ambulatory care campus. With 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, he has extensive expertise in strategic planning; marketing; business development; acute and ambulatory care operations; medical staff development and customer relations management. Reporting to HCH’s President & CEO, Mr. Dissette's responsibilities include: strategic planning, business development, medical staff affairs, physician contracting, public relations / community affairs, master facilities planning and management, ambulatory care development and acute care operations management. Prior to joining HCH, Mr. Dissette worked in life care and hospitality management. During his 28 years of service at HCH, Mr. Dissette has successfully attained increasing levels of management responsibility in corporate / business development and provided administrative oversight to most clinical, financial and operational support areas. Mr. Dissette has effectively directed various functions including: ambulatory care and medical group practice operations, managed care contracting, patient financial services, patient access, guest relations, fund development, facilities planning, construction management, property management, supply chain management, bariatrics, neurosciences, sleep medicine, laboratory, pharmacy, physical medicine & rehabilitation, home health, engineering, safety & security, nutrition and environmental services. Additionally, Mr. Dissette developed and implemented the organizations' strategic, facilities and marketing plans including Certificate of Need applications which, over the past 28 years, have resulted in capital expansions of over $435M. He formulated and implemented numerous growth strategies including: acquisition of 332-bed North Ridge Medical Center; acquisition of the Oakridge Outpatient Center & Oakridge Medical Plaza; development of Physicians Outpatient Surgery Center, LLC, the area’s first physician-hospital joint venture ambulatory surgery center; start-up of the Holy Cross Medical Group, a 160-member multi-specialty physician group practice; introduction of Holy Cross Health Partners, a 212-physician managed care organization; and development of the Mercy Family Life Center. Education / Certifications

• Master of Business Administration (MBA)-Health Policy & Administration, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

• Bachelor of Health Services (BHS), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

• Six Sigma Green Belt – Healthcare (Certification), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

• Leadership Development Institute (Certification), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL


Michael Doyle CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER SURGERY PARTNERS LLC

Michael Doyle is Surgery Partners' Chief Executive Officer and is a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. He is a healthcare industry veteran with both clinical experience and an extensive healthcare management background. Prior to joining Surgery Partners, Michael spent more than a decade in various leadership positions at a large, publicly-traded healthcare organization; at the time of joining Surgery Partners, he held a national position as Senior Vice President of Operations with that company. He has been with Surgery Partners since the Company’s outset, systematically growing the Company both organically and through acquisitions, as well as horizontally integrating the business within the healthcare delivery system. Michael leads the Company by combining a hands-on management style with his wealth of practical experience in corporate development, oversight of multi-site operations, and healthcare services familiarity across national, state and local levels.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a Master of Business Administration from Troy State University in Alabama.


Jordan Fowler FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER FRONTIER HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS

Jordan Fowler, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, has overseen the development and successful opening of eight Article 28-licensed ambulatory surgery centers in the New York metropolitan area. As CEO, Mr. Fowler advocates for Frontier Healthcare’s network of approximately 100 physicians and maintains relationships with leading hospital systems and managed care executives who recognize the value of Frontier Healthcare’s physicians as high-quality, low-cost providers.

Prior to Frontier, Mr. Fowler spent over a decade in the healthcare space, primarily in physician practice management and ambulatory surgery center development, during which time he opened multiple centers, including Gramercy Park Digestive Disease Center, which was one of the first Article 28 freestanding ambulatory endoscopy centers in New York City. Mr. Fowler began his career as an associate for iLiant Management Solutions, a healthcare development and management company located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Ann Geier VICE PRESIDENT OF CLINICAL INFORMATICS SOURCE MEDICAL SOLUTIONS Ann has worked in the ASC industry for almost 30 years. She has been responsible for total financial & clinical operations in numerous freestanding surgery centers and has been a surveyor for AAAHC since 2006. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President of Operations with ASCOA, where she annually reviewed and revised the policies and procedures for all ASCOA centers and served on the MedAssets Ambulatory Advisory Committee in addition to oversight of numerous centers. She has served on the ASC Quality Collaborations Expert Group since its inception in 2006.

Ann’s clinical background is the operating room, where she served as a scrub nurse, circulator, educator, and director. She is an active member of AORN and ASCA.

Ann currently serves as Vice President of Clinical Informatics for Source Medical, a leading provider of software and EHRs for ASCs, HOPDs, hospitals and therapy clinics.

Ann has an ADN from Palm Beach State College, a BS in Health Arts and a M.S. in Health Services Administration from the University of St. Francis. She has her CASC & CNOR certification. She teaches in the AORN Ambulatory Boot Camp and speaks at national meetings on topics such as Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, Case Costing, QAPI, Credentialing and Peer Review, and Staffing.

She and her husband Carl travel all over the world, especially enjoying travel to third world countries like Nepal, India, and Uganda. She enjoys exercise, power walking/running every day, playing games on her iPad, reading, and doing crosswords. When she’s home, she enjoys spending time with her 5 grandchildren, who all live in Charleston.


Robert Goettling, Esq. PRINCIPAL THE BLOOM ORGANIZATION LLC

Robert Goettling has over 20 years of healthcare experience, most of which has focused on Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs). Mr. Goettling joined The Bloom Organization in early 2007 bringing his vast expertise in surgery centers to help widen the scope of services offered by the firm. Prior to joining Bloom, Mr. Goettling co-founded NovaMed Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVA), one of two publicly traded ASC companies, where he held a variety of senior level executive positions during his 12 years with the company including Senior Vice President Corporate Development. Mr. Goettling had both operational and development responsibility and conducted numerous acquisitions, divestitures and mergers while heading NovaMed’s development team for over 10 years. Mr. Goettling also had operational responsibility for both ASCs and physician practices during his years with NovaMed. Before NovaMed, Mr. Goettling founded (and eventually sold) an optical consulting company, an optical laboratory and practiced law with Katten Muchin & Zavis in Chicago where he specialized in general and business litigation. Mr. Goettling received his B.S.B.A. with honors in Economics from Creighton University in 1985, and his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1988. He speaks regularly at many ASC and healthcare related conferences and splits his time between the firm’s Chicago and Miami offices. Mr. Robert Goettling is Registered Representative of and Securities Products are offered through: BA Securities, LLC 222 East Montgomery Ave, Suite 305 Ardmore, PA 19003 Member FINRA SIPC The Bloom Organization, LLC is a separate entity from BA Securities, LLC The Bloom Organization, LLC and BA Securities, LLC are not affiliated entities To find out more information, please visit The Bloom Organization’s website at www.bloomllc.com or you can contact Mr. Goettling directly at [email protected].


Danielle Golino ASSOCIATE MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP Danielle Golino is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Miami office. Danielle focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions in the health care sector and health care private equity. Her transactional health care experience includes the acquisition and sale of physician group practices, ambulatory surgery centers, immediate care centers, pharmacies, emergency department staffing companies, imaging centers, home health agencies, hospital and medical schools. Danielle also has experience structuring transactions to comply with state and federal health care fraud and abuse laws, state licensure issues, corporate practice of medicine prohibitions and other health care regulatory compliance matters. Danielle graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law and earned a B.S. from Cornell University. While in law school, she was a member of both the University of Miami Law Review and the Moot Court Board. Danielle also served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Shelby Highsmith of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Prior to entering law school, Danielle served as an executive in the fashion industry. Danielle is currently a member of the Florida Bar.


Eric Gordon PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP Eric Gordon is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. He is the partner-in-charge of the Los Angeles office and head of the California Health Industry practice. Eric focuses his practice on fraud and abuse and compliance issues and health care transactions. Eric represents a wide range of clients, including proprietary and tax exempt hospital systems, medical groups, academic medical centers and faculty practice groups, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers, and group purchasing organizations. Eric has assisted clients in the development of corporate compliance programs, OIG audits and investigations, and defense of Stark and kickback-based qui tam actions. He has organized and represents medical schools, teaching hospitals and faculty practice groups nationally with respect to fraud and abuse, self-referral, recruitment, tax exemption and other transactional, regulatory and organizational issues and serves as outside HIPAA counsel to medical schools and academic medical centers. Eric is the author of the book, Faculty Practice Plans, published as part of the BNA Health Law & Business Series, co-author of A Guide to Complying with Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules (AIS, 2007) and AHLA’s Annotated Redlined Stark Regulations (2008), and author of “Teaching and Research Hospitals” in Health Care Corporate Law: Facilities and Transactions. He is a frequent speaker on a wide range of health law topics, and has spoken before the America Health Lawyers Association, AdvaMed, Health Care Compliance Association, Healthcare Financial Management Association and Medical Group Management Association. Eric is ranked in Tier 1 in California – Healthcare in Chambers USA 2013 (one of 12 statewide) as well as ranked in Tier 2 in the Chambers national rankings for Healthcare: Regulatory (one of 9 nationally). Eric was recognized in 2005 as a Nightingale’s Healthcare News’ Outstanding Fraud & Compliance Lawyer. He was named to the Legal Media Group Guide to Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers. Eric is listed in the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 editions of Best Lawyers in America and Southern California Super Lawyers. He is also listed in the Euromoney Institutional Investor Expert Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers. Eric was the former Vice Chair of the Teaching Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association.


Bernard Grondin PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP Bernard Grondin is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Miami office. He focuses his practice on representing private equity funds and strategic investors in complex corporate transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity investments, and joint ventures. He also has a unique skill set critical to representing buyers, sellers or joint venture partners in negotiating, documenting, facilitating and closing transactions involving health care companies. Bernie previously worked at an another large international law firm, where he advised private equity funds as well as public and private companies with respect to their domestic and international acquisitions, divestitures, investments, and corporate governance. He also represented issuers in initial public offerings, including blank check companies, and acted as corporate counsel to publicly traded companies. Bernie is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and admitted to practice in Florida and the District of Columbia. Bernie is listed as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, 2009-present.


Andrew Hayek PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER SURGICAL CARE AFFILIATES

Andrew serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA); and, he is a member of SCA’s board of directors. Prior to SCA, Andrew served as the President of a division of DaVita Inc. (a renal dialysis provider) and as President and Chief Operating Officer of Alliance Healthcare Services Inc. (a diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy provider). Andrew worked previously at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (a private equity firm), and the Boston Consulting Group (a strategy consulting firm), and he currently serves on the board of advisors of Sg2 (a healthcare consulting company). Andrew earned a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Yale University.


Christy Heald SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SURGERY PARTNERS LLC

Christy (Mistler) Heald is Surgery Partners’ Senior Vice President of Business Development. Christy successfully led the formalization of the Company's Business Development department in 2007, and following the merger with NovaMed in 2011, integrated the departments and built an infrastructure designed to support the future growth of the business. Today, she is responsible for all corporate development activities for the combined Company, including physician recruitment and syndication, de novo development, acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as oversight of ancillary service growth opportunities. Most recently, she was responsible for adding Surgery Partners' 47th facility, historically the Company's best acquisition return. Christy currently oversees a team of eight, focused on acquiring new facilities and organically growing existing operations. Christy has spent 11 years in the healthcare industry and has degrees in both finance and marketing from Stetson University and econometrics from Oxford University.


Adam Henick SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT CONTINUUM HEALTH PARTNERS

Adam Henick serves as Senior Vice President-Medical Enterprise and Ambulatory Care at Continuum Health Partners since 2005. He is also the former Vice President of Ambulatory Care at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Adam also served as the Executive Director of the Montefiore Medical Group at the Montefiore Medical Center. He is a graduate of Columbia University Business School.


Darin Jay “DJ” Hill FOUNDING PARTNER COMPASS SURGICAL PARTNERS

DJ Hill is a Founding Member and Partner of Compass Surgical Partners, LLC, an ASC management, acquisition and development firm. DJ is a nationally recognized and accomplished executive with extensive experience in the ASC arena. He is known for his strategic competency and his successes in creating high-value partnerships.

Previously, as Chief Development Officer of Titan Health Corporation, DJ led the national strategic growth initiatives of the firm until its sale to United Surgical Partners, International. DJ also served as Worldwide Sales Director for an international capital medical equipment firm, and he served as a Board Member and Senior Vice President of a regional chain of occupational health clinics and a national workers’ compensation case management firm. Given his prior work with large specialty practices, DJ provides knowledgeable insight to physician practice operations and gives Compass Surgical Partners an edge in physician partner competency.

DJ Hill and his Compass Surgical Partners team offer a combined 85 years of experience in Healthcare Service Management, Joint Venture Management and ASC Management. This expert team approach to management has been the key to Compass’ achievements and ability to optimize ASC performance in the various partnership scenarios, whether Hospital Joint Ventures, Turnarounds, or DeNovo ASCs.

DJ resides in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is an avid runner, and he enjoys adventure races, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding and soccer.


Julie Jackson ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL SURGICAL CARE AFFILIATES LLC

Julie Jackson has been Assistant General Counsel for Surgical Care Affiliates since the company was formed in 2007. Prior to Joining SCA, she was an associate at Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel in their business and healthcare groups. Julie earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia.


Christopher Jedrey PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Christopher Jedrey is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in the Firm’s Boston office. He is partner-in-charge of its Boston Health Industry Advisory Practice Group, and national co-chairman of its Academic Medical Centers practice. Chris represents provider and insurer clients in mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, sales of non-profit assets and operations to for-profit companies, and conversions from taxable to tax-exempt status. He represents academic medical centers for a variety of matters, including strategic affiliation, clinical research and faculty practice plan matters.

Chris’ notable projects include: advising Caritas Christi, a six-hospital non-profit Catholic system, on the sale of its assets to private-equity funded Steward Health Care System, and advising the buyer on several subsequent hospital and large group practice acquisitions; advising on the establishment and ongoing operations of Atrius Health, including its affiliation with Reliant Medical Group to create a 1,000 physician/one million patient non-profit, physician-controlled system; advising Lenox Hill Hospital on its affiliation with North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System; advising Northwestern Memorial Health Care and Northwestern Medical faculty Foundation on a corporate affiliation transaction and on an enhanced academic affiliation with the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University; advising Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary on its merger with Schepens Eye Research Institute and affiliation with the Beetham Eye Institute of the Joslin Diabetes Center; acting as special counsel to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts on its division into an insurance company and an HMO; advising the University of Chicago on its affiliation with Marine Biological Laboratory; and providing corporate, regulatory and tax advice on the formation and ongoing operations of Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, most recently with respect to its development of a network of community-based satellite clinics and other clinical partnerships.

Chris is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Public Charities Division, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the editorial boards of BNA Medical Research Law & Policy and Taxation of Exempts. He is recognized by The Legal 500 United States (2012) as one of the leading lawyers in his field and ranked nationally and in Massachusetts as a transactional health care lawyer in the Chambers USA Guide (2013.) He is also ranked as one of The Best Lawyers in America (2013) in Non-Profit/Charities Law and Health and in Boston’s Best Lawyers (2013). Chris is a frequent lecturer and author on regulatory, tax and governance matters. He is also a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

While at the University of Massachusetts, Chris was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1980-1981.


Daryl Johnson MANAGING PARTNER HEALTHCARE APPRAISERS INC.

Mr. Johnson is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of HealthCare Appraisers. He has more than 25 years of valuation, financial and operational experience, with more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector, focusing primarily on any type of agreement or compensation arrangement which may have Stark and/or Anti-Kickback implications. Prior to founding HealthCare Appraisers, Mr. Johnson served as the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of a national, publicly traded, cancer management company and the chief operating officer of a national, neuro-musculoskeletal physician management company. During this time, Mr. Johnson structured, negotiated and managed hundreds of healthcare transactions including physician practice acquisitions and divestitures; medical director arrangements; hospital joint ventures; physician employment arrangements; clinical trial principal investigator agreements; medical leases; and billing and other service arrangements. Mr. Johnson has also been responsible for the development and operation of a national network of outpatient bone marrow transplant centers; clinical trials programs; clinical laboratories; ambulatory surgery centers; imaging centers; and physical therapy programs.

Mr. Johnson is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and holds a Master of Accountancy degree. He is a member of the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA) and the Medical Group Management Association. He is a frequent speaker and author on healthcare valuation topics.


John Lawrence, Jr. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL COUNSEL SURGERY PARTNERS LLC

John W. Lawrence, Jr. joined Surgery Partners as Senior Vice President and General Counsel in May 2011 when Surgery Partners acquired NovaMed, Inc. Mr. Lawrence is responsible for all legal matters relating to Surgery Partners and its operations, including structuring and negotiating all acquisitions and other transactions. He held the same position with NovaMed, Inc. and had been involved with NovaMed since its founding, joining the company in February 1996.

Prior to joining NovaMed, Mr. Lawrence practiced law with Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and Seyfarth Shaw LLP, concentrating in corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Lawrence received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1988 and his J.D. with honors from Washington University School of Law in 1992.


James Leavitt, M.D. PRESIDENT, GASTRO HEALTH, P.L. CO-FOUNDER, US GASTRO LLC

James Leavitt, M.D. is a gastroenterologist in practice since 1980 in Miami. He is the President of Gastro Health, a 50 provider GI practice with multiple offices and surgical centers throughout Miami-Dade County. Gastro Health also has an associated imaging center and provides pathology, infusion, medication dispensing, and anesthesia services. Dr. Leavitt is current president of the Florida Gastroenterology Society and was most recently the American College of Gastroenterology Senior Governor of the year for 2012. He is also one of the founding members of US Gastro. He was named one of the leading gastroenterologists in the United States by Becker’s ASC Review in 2010 and 2011.


Sean Michael Lynch CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ANESTHESIA HEALTHCARE PARTNERS

As Chief Executive Officer of Anesthesia Healthcare Partners Inc. (AHP), Sean ensures that operations are conducted in accordance with the company’s established mission, goals and policies whilst driving the short- and long-term profitability and growth of the company. Mr. Lynch’s career in anesthesia began at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he worked for 20 years, culminating in his position as the only non-physician vice chair of anesthesia. Prior to co-founding AHP, Sean served as CEO for Anesthesia Solutions Inc. (ASI) and Global Staffing Inc. (GSI), both institutions dedicated to the anesthesia specialty.

My Lynch has also previously provided consulting services for anesthesia departments around the country for hospitals of every size; including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cornell, Temple, Duke, Kishwaukee Community Hospital and many other leading healthcare organizations.

Sean utilizes his 38 plus years of health care experience to guide AHP’s management ensuring our corporate compliance, efficient operations, focus on exceptional service quality and cost-efficient management of company resources.


Daniel Melvin PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Daniel Melvin is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Chicago office. Daniel focuses his practice on counseling clients on Federal health care program fraud and abuse, Stark law, and Medicare reimbursement issues.

He has substantial experience auditing hospitals and other health care organizations for Medicare and other regulatory compliance, and structuring ambulatory clinical joint ventures, including ambulatory surgery centers, cardiac and vascular labs, imaging centers, radiation therapy centers, sleep labs and in-office physician diagnostic facilities.

Co-chair of the firm’s Reimbursement / Fraud & Abuse Affinity Group and co-author of the book, A Guide to Complying with Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules, Daniel speaks and writes frequently on health care regulatory and payment issues, and clinical joint ventures. In 2009, he was named to Nightingale's Healthcare News' list of Outstanding Healthcare Fraud & Compliance Lawyers. Daniel's latest practice focus is on legal strategies for hospital-physician alignment on efficiency and quality.


Richard Miller PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER VIRTUA HEALTH SYSTEM

Since 1998, Richard P. Miller has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Virtua, a non-profit healthcare system offering a full continuum of primary, preventative, wellness, acute and long-term care. Miller has led Virtua in innovative directions by creating a values-based culture defined by the "Star Initiative," adopting Six Sigma, and transforming a group of community-based hospitals into technologically advanced regional medical centers. In addition to an enterprise alliance with GE Healthcare, Virtua has formed clinical alliances with nationally renowned organizations such as the Fox Chase Cancer Center and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Miller has been recognized nationally with appointments to the Leadership Advisory Council of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare (CTH) and to the Governing Council of Healthcare Executives for the American Hospital Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves as a trustee of the National Quality Forum. Miller served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Hospital Association and on the Governor's Committee on Benchmarking for Quality and Efficiency, and on the NJ Healthcare Access Study Commission. He served on the American Heart Association board, is a past chairman of the Southern New Jersey Chamber of Commerce board, serves on the Operating Committee of the Board of Select Greater Philadelphia as well as the Board of the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia, and the March of Dimes of Southern New Jersey. Miller received the 2012 CEO IT Achievement Award from Modern Healthcare magazine, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He was named Healthcare CEO of the Year by the Philadelphia Business Journal, Lean Six Sigma National CEO of the Year, Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Boy Scouts of America, and received the New Jersey Business Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award from New Jersey Junior Achievement. Goodwill honored him with the 2013 Helms Award for spreading goodwill through leadership and philanthropic involvement. He has been named among The 100 Most Powerful People in New Jersey Business by NJBIZ magazine, one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Health Care by NJBIZ, a "Person to Watch" by Philadelphia Magazine, and recognized nationally on the list of “291 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review. A graduate of Mount St. Mary's College, Miller earned his MBA from Southern Illinois University.


Scott Nordlund EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GROWTH STRATEGY & INNOVATION CHE TRINITY HEALTH

Scott Nordlund is CHE Trinity Health’s Executive Vice President Growth, Strategy and Innovation. In this role, Scott is responsible for setting strategic direction for the system, creating new partnerships in the acute and non-acute spaces, building a pipeline of innovation projects that promote new business models and all merger, joint venture and acquisition work. He is also responsible for system marketing and communications. Prior to joining Trinity Health, Scott served in several executive leadership positions at Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West), where he was the Senior Vice President for Strategic Growth, Network and New Venture Development. He had several executive roles in strategic planning, physician strategy and integration, marketing and business development during his 11 years at Dignity Health, and, previously, held executive positions with Navvis Consulting Group, BJC Health System in St. Louis and Baxter Healthcare in Chicago. Active in health care venture leadership, Scott served as Chairman of the United Surgical Partners/DH Surgical LLC Board in Arizona and was a Board Member of the Nevada USPI/DH JV. He was on the Board of Directors and served as the Chair of the Strategy Committee for Mercy Care Plan, a 360,000-member, $2 billion Medicaid plan that is co-owned by Dignity Health and Ascension Health System. He also was a board member of both the DH/SimonMed Imaging JV (one of the largest ambulatory imaging networks in the country), and the Dignity Health Purchasing Network. Mr. Nordlund received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign, and two Master degrees (Master of Business Administration, and Master of Health Services Administration) from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.


Michael Peregrine PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Michael W. Peregrine is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office. He represents corporations (and their officers and directors) in connection with governance, corporate structure, fiduciary duties, officer-director liability issues and charitable trust law. Michael is recognized as one of the leading national practitioners in corporate governance law. Michael is outside governance counsel to many prominent corporations, including hospitals and health systems, voluntary health organizations, social service agencies, colleges and universities and health insurance companies. Clients seek Michael’s counsel on matters relating to board structure, effectiveness, composition and controversy – as well as on internal and external/regulatory challenges to board conduct. He frequently serves as special counsel in connection with confidential internal board reviews and investigations. He regularly advises boards on fiduciary duty issues associated with complex business transactions. In that regard, he has advised clients in over 100 change of control transactions in his 33 year career. In the 2013 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Michael is characterized as being “known nationwide for his representations of nonprofit organizations in corporate governance matters. He is a prolific writer with a ‘very broad range of experience, which informs his understanding of the healthcare sector and what the industry needs’.” He was appointed by the American Health Lawyers Association as a Fellow in 2006. Michael has been recognized twice in recent years as a “Client Service All-Star” in BTI Consulting Group’s annual publication, The BTI Client Service All Star Team for Law Firms. He was cited by The National Law Journal as one of the “40 Health Care Lawyers Who Have Made Their Mark.” Since 1993, Michael has been selected by his peers to be included in the annual edition of The Best Lawyers in America for his expertise in health. Michael is also well known as a thought leader in corporate governance. He authors monthly columns on corporate governance for Corporate Counsel magazine and for publications of The Governance Institute. He is a periodic contributor on corporate governance topics to The New York Times “Deal Book” feature; Corporate Board Member; The Chronicle of Philanthropy and The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. Michael is noted for his special expertise advising nonprofit corporations on matters of corporate law and governance. He participates as an advisor to the American Law Institute in the preparation of the treatise, Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations and has served as a member of the Legal Framework Group of the Panel of the Nonprofit Sector.


William Main Prentice CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER ASSOCIATION Bill Prentice is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) and Ambulatory Surgery Foundation (ASF). ASCA is the national organization representing the approximately 5,400 ambulatory surgery centers in the US, and provides advocacy, education, benchmarking and staff training for its many members.

Under his tenure, ASCA has achieved record membership numbers, significantly increased revenue while reducing expenses, developed a number of new membership programs and services and dramatically strengthened its advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill and with relevant federal agencies.

Before joining ASCA, Mr. Prentice was a senior executive at other national and state associations, a lobbyist at both the federal and state levels and vice president of a contract lobbying and public affairs firm in New Jersey. He started his career on Capitol Hill, where he worked for both a member of congress and on the staff of a House Committee.

Bill holds an Undergraduate degree in political science from The George Washington University, a Master’s degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Rutgers School of Law-Newark.


David Shapiro, M.D., CASC IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER ASSOCIATION

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. In addition, Dr. Shapiro has served as the national medical director on behalf of ASC management corporations, prior to establishing his consulting practice. His areas of expertise encompass a wide range of disciplines including clinical quality, regulatory compliance and medical liability in the ambulatory surgery arena. He is an active participant in numerous surgery center industry activities, and is a frequent speaker at both state and national ambulatory surgery industry functions.

Dr. Shapiro serves as a Board member of both the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) and the Foundation (ASCAF), as well as on the Board of the Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (FSASC). Currently, he is also a Board member of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Collaboration, which develops, measures and publically reports national ASC quality data. In that capacity he has worked closely with organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Quality Forum (NQF) to promote ASC quality measure reporting. Dr. Shapiro has recently been appointed to serve on the Board of Nova Medical Centers, a healthcare corporation based in India. He also served on the Board of a publicly traded medical liability corporation (First Professionals Insurance Company) and chaired their claims and underwriting committee for several years, until the sale of the Company in 2011.

Additionally, Dr. Shapiro conducts healthcare facility surveys on behalf of AAAHC (Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care) and Medicare. He is credentialed as Certified Administer Surgery Center (CASC), a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM), licensed in Healthcare Risk Management (LHRM) by the State of Florida, and is certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) as well as certified in Healthcare Quality Management (CHCQM). He holds the designation of Fellow of both the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (FABQAURP) and the American Institute for Healthcare Quality (FAIHQ).


Effie Silva PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP Effie Silva is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Miami office. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, healthcare litigation and international arbitration matters. Effie represents foreign and domestic clients in various industries throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia in a wide range of federal, state and international arbitration matters involving contractual disputes, business torts, partnership dissolutions, FCPA and data privacy matters. She has a strong Latin American focus, and has extensive experience in representing major health care providers, hospitals and health care systems, physician groups in litigation, including non-compete, contractual and shareholder disputes.

Super Lawyers has consistently recognized Effie as a Top Lawyer in business litigation and Florida Trend has ranked her among Florida’s Legal Elite, as well as South Florida Legal Guide and Legal Leaders. Effie holds the highest rating of “AV Preeminent” from Martindale-Hubbell for her legal ability in litigation, alternative dispute resolution and products liability, as well as her high ethical standards and the Daily Business Review recognized her as the “Most Effective Lawyer 2012” as the lead attorney in the G.G. v. FDLE matter, a pro bono case establishing the confidentiality of Florida juvenile criminal history records. Effie writes and speaks nationally on international commercial litigation and arbitration matters and is co-editing a handbook on commercial arbitration for the American Bar Association scheduled for publication in 2014. She was recently appointed by the Florida Bar International Law Section as the Vice Chair of Programming or the 2014 International Litigation and Arbitration Conference (ILAC) and serves as the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Latin America and Caribbean Committee, as well as the Steering Group for the International Litigation and Arbitration Committees of the American Bar Association.

Effie is also active in the South Florida legal community. Effie serves on the Board of Directors of several of the leading and most important non-for-profit organizations dedicated to serving the citizens of our South Florida community, such as the American Inns of Court, Spellman-Hoeveler Chapter, the Dade County Bar Association, and Legal Services of Greater Miami. She is also on the Board of Directors for the University of Florida Association of Hispanic Alumni.

Effie is dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion within the legal profession and she does so through her leadership positions with the American Bar Association’s Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline and International Law Section’s Diversity Committee. Effie was recently selected from 100 attorneys nationwide to attend the Inaugural Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy (CBLA), a joint initiative of the American Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, National Bar Association and the National Native American Bar Association, to strengthen the pipeline of diverse bar association leaders. She serves as a committee member for Legal Services of Greater Miami’s “Together, We Must” Campaign for Justice and as an international advisory committee member for the Beacon Council. Effie is admitted to practice in Florida and the District of Columbia.


Jerry J. Sokol PARTNER & PROGRAM CHAIRMAN MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Jerry J. Sokol is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Miami office. He has a national practice concentrated on the business aspect of health care law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and various contractual arrangements in the health care industry. Jerry Co-Chair's the Firm's national Health Transactions group.

Jerry has an active health care private equity practice with a focus on leveraged buyout transactions. Jerry and his team are uniquely qualified to perform both the acquisition and finance components of these transactions, as well as the required health care specific due diligence.

Jerry’s health care experience also includes numerous sales, acquisitions and mergers of a variety of health care entities; formation of health care provider networks and; formation of various management service organizations arrangements. He represents outpatient service facilities (e.g., MRI and multi-modality diagnostic facilities, including PET and CT; radiation therapy centers; dialysis centers; cardiac cath labs; clinical laboratories; etc.) with their transactional and regulatory legal needs. Jerry has developed creative models for physician collaboration with these ancillary service provider entities taking into consideration applicable federal and state health care laws.

Jerry has also developed a particular niche in representing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and ASC management companies with all of their transactional and regulatory needs. His ASC transactional practice ranges from syndicating "startup" ASCs, effectuating the sales of equity interests in existing ASCs to physicians, and buying and selling significant equity positions in ASCs on behalf of or to large corporate buyers.

Jerry is a Board Certified Health Care Attorney. He is ranked in Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America. Jerry is also listed in the Nightingale’s Healthcare News’ Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers list. He has authored numerous articles on a variety of health care topics and lectures extensively around the country on health care transactional and regulatory topics.


Joshua (Jed) Spielman PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP Jed Spielman is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the firm’s Miami office. He has a national practice focused on the business aspects of health care law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and contractual arrangements. Jed serves principally as counsel to private equity funds, public and private corporations, hospitals, physician practices and strategic investors in connection with a wide range of transactional, corporate, regulatory and governance matters.

Jed has devoted much of his practice to private equity transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, growth capital investments, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, corporate restructurings and similar commercial transactions.

Jed has also assisted clients in the development of financial arrangements and transaction structures designed to comply with federal and state health care laws; joint ventures and affiliations between health care providers; state licensure; and issues related to Medicare and commercial reimbursement.

Jed is admitted to practice in Florida and New York.


Michael Stroup SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF ACQUISITIONS UNITED SURGICAL PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL

Mr. Stroup serves as USPI’s Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and has over eighteen years of health care experience in surgical center development, health care investment banking and management consulting. Before USPI, Mr. Stroup was an investment banker with RBC Capital Markets and JPMorgan in San Francisco and a management consultant with William M. Mercer's Healthcare Practice in Atlanta. Mr. Stroup’s health care experience includes acquiring and funding companies, establishing joint ventures with leading health systems, and implementing managed care strategies for employers and providers. Mr. Stroup has an MBA from Wharton and an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan.


Lambert van der Walde PRESIDENT, VAN DER WALDE & CO. FORMER CAPITAL MARKETS ADVISORS TO THE CMS ADMINISTRATOR

Lambert van der Walde is the President of VAN DER WALDE & CO., a health care finance and policy advisory firm positioned at the intersection of the health care industry, the health care investment community, and health care regulation and policy. Lambert advises health care industry leaders and entrepreneurs, as well as public and private investors and lenders as they design strategies to deploy capital and other resources across all sectors of health care.

Until mid-2010, Lambert served as the Capital Markets Advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for both the Bush & Obama Administrations. CMS plays a key role in the overall direction of the U.S. health care system. With a budget of over $800 billion and serving over 100 million beneficiaries in the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs, CMS is the largest purchaser of health care in the world.

At CMS, Lambert directed the Agency’s capital markets efforts. He advised the CMS Administrator as well as HHS, White House, and Congressional officials of expected and actual market consequences of new and proposed regulatory and legislative actions. He also briefed these colleagues on health care industry market performance, access to capital, and financial outlook. In this capacity, Lambert served as the CMS point-of-contact for the investor community as the Agency’s liaison between policy makers, the investor community, and the health care industry.

Prior to serving the Bush & Obama Administrations, Lambert was an investment banker with Salomon Smith Barney where he focused on equity and debt underwriting as well as merger and acquisition advisory services. Lambert has also worked in venture capital financing and as a fixed income portfolio analyst.

Lambert holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Washington and a Master’s of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


Jennifer A. Vecchio COUNSEL MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Jennifer A. Vecchio is counsel in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Miami office. Jennifer focuses her national practice on the representation of ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals, health systems, health care joint ventures and ancillary service providers. She has significant experience in all aspects of transactional health law, including the acquisition and disposition of health care companies, as well as the formation and establishment of ambulatory surgical center joint ventures and provider joint ventures. Jennifer has served as lead counsel in connection with major health care merger and acquisition transactions and the myriad of health care regulatory issues that arise from such transactions.

Jennifer has represented numerous ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals and physician organizations for purposes of determining compliance with state and federal anti-kickback and anti-referral laws, including the federal “Stark” laws. Working under the regulatory framework of federal and state health care laws, she has been significantly involved with the development and implementation of creative business models for health care clients.

Jennifer has extensive experience in drafting agreements to effectuate a multitude of relationships between health systems, health care providers, suppliers and other corporations and organizations.

Jennifer has been ranked as one of the leading health care attorneys in Florida by Chambers & Partners. For multiple years, Jennifer has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. She has also been recognized by her peers for her health law expertise in publications such as Florida Super Lawyers.

Jennifer received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago.

Jennifer is a member of the Florida, Iowa and Illinois bars.


James Weber, M.D. PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER TEXAS DIGESTIVE DISEASE CONSULTANTS

Dr. James J. Weber is the President and Managing Partner of Texas Digestive Disease Consultants; a professional association of currently 55 gastroenterologists, and growing. He is also the Medical Director of Lone Star Endoscopy, an exceptional five room endocenter in the Keller, Texas area. Dr. Weber was initially Board Certified in gastroenterology in 1993. He was certified again in 2003, and most recently in this passing year of 2013. Academic achievements include:

• Fulfilling his GI Fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas • Completing his Internal Medicine Residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas • Earning his Medical Degree from UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas • Obtaining his Undergraduate degree in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University

He is currently associated with the following:

• American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) • American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) • American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)


Jessica Zigmond WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF MODERN HEALTHCARE

Jessica Zigmond serves as the Washington bureau chief for Modern Healthcare, a weekly business magazine that also publishes four daily electronic newsletters about the U.S. healthcare industry. For the past eight years, she has written about a wide range of healthcare issues, including the global flu pandemic, healthcare for the uninsured and imprisoned, and access problems for the nation's rural veterans. At Modern Healthcare, Zigmond worked as a public health reporter and first-string substitute news editor in Chicago for nearly five years before she moved to work in the Washington bureau in 2010. Currently she manages an office responsible for reporting on federal health policy, especially news related to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy legislation. Zigmond has covered both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, and she has won editorial awards for her stories on the healthcare system in New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina, a spate of air ambulance crashes in 2008, and the high rate of suicide in rural America.

Her earlier experience includes working as an equities reporter for Reuters news service and as the marketing and communications manager at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. From 2002 to 2003, Zigmond was a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and served in the job development program at Covenant House Alaska, a homeless shelter for at-risk adolescents. Prior to her career in journalism, she worked at the Washington-based think tank The Heritage Foundation, where she coordinated the organization's internship program before she became research assistant to the foundation's president. Zigmond earned a Bachelor's degree in political science from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind., in 1997 and a Master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1999.


Eric Zimmerman PARTNER MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

Eric Zimmerman is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Eric is a recognized Medicare law and policy authority and registered lobbyist who represents clients before Congress and administrative agencies, and helps clients navigate federal legislative and regulatory processes related to Medicare coverage, coding, reimbursement and compliance. Eric primarily counsels and represents hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device manufacturers and suppliers, medical trade associations and professional societies.

Representative Experience

• Representing some of the country’s largest health systems and service providers, diagnostics companies, and pharmaceutical and device manufacturers before Congress, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other federal agencies

• Advancing legislative and regulatory changes achieving Medicare coverage, improving reimbursement, and revising regulatory obligations

• Developing and implementing lobbying strategies • Forming and managing advocacy coalitions • Providing financial analysts and investors with specialized due diligence to understand the implications

of federal legislative and regulatory developments, and evaluate investments in healthcare companies • Representing providers before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board, Medicare Geographic

Classification Review Board, Administrative Law Judges and federal courts • Counseling clients on Medicare reimbursement strategies and transaction implications • Advising clients on specific compliance questions and working with providers to establish compliance

programs Recognitions • Recommended by The Legal 500 for government regulations and representation before agencies (2011) • "Most Influential Lawyers,” The National Law Journal (2011) • Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2006 - 2012) • Washingtonian Magazine Top Lawyer (2013)

Affiliations

• American Health Lawyers Association, Board of Directors (2008-2013) • Advisory board member – Bureau of National Affairs’ Medicare Report • Admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia

Documents

2014 ASC Symposium Speaker Biographies - McDermott Will & Emery