Sponsorship
The Health Care Leadership Blog is a non-commercial, professional environment sponsored and moderated by exăgoMD, LLC in order to promote the flow of knowledge and experience from the business and management press to health care leaders and to support dialogue among physician and executive health care leaders.Core Contributors to the Health Care Leadership Blog
Contributors to the blog will "connect the dots" between the general business literature and the challenges faced by health care leaders. The blog will include regular contributions from:
Rodney Armstead, M.D., Senior Vice President, Western Region Plan Operations, for AmeriChoice, a business unit of UnitedHealth Group. As a health care executive he is passionately committed to coordinating services and improving health care outcomes for low income and disenfranchised Americans. Dr. Armstead has enjoyed a long and distinguished heath care leadership career including prior positions as CEO of Arizona Physicians IPA, CEO of Care1st Health Plan Arizona, Executive Vice-President and Chief Health Officer of Watts Health Foundation. He served as the first Director of the HCFA (now CMS) Office of Managed Care, under the Clinton Administration.
Judith Bachman, R.N., M.B.A., Senior Strategy Officer for the Campus Clinical Enterprise and Health System at Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She previously spent 13 years as a health care consultant most recently as Vice President and Partner for the CSC Health Services Division, and formerly as a partner and Director at APM Consulting. Ms. Bachman has 20 years of direct executive health care management experience.
Stephen Blattner, M.D., M.B.A. is Founding Principal of exăgoMD, LLC, a health care consulting practice that assists academic medical centers, community hospitals, medical groups, and health care related businesses to elevate the performance of their physician leaders. Dr. Blattner has over 25 years of health care experience as a clinician, organizational leader, clinical investigator, and health care management consultant.
James Conway, M.S., Senior Vice President of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston, MA. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute prior to which he had a 27-year administrative career at Children's Hospital, Boston. He is a member of the IOM Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors and a Distinguished Advisor to the National Patient Safety Foundation.
Steven Davidson, M.D., M.B.A., Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the State University of New York, Health Sciences Center-Brooklyn, leads the clinical service-line of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Davidson has helped implement interdisciplinary teams and taught systems thinking and system design for the delivery of EMS and hospital emergency services. A quintessential generalist with unquenchable curiosity and a penchant for outspoken opinion, Dr. Davidson's often-provocative commentaries on general emergency medicine and EMS topics appeared in his own leadership blog and contributed to the success of the Yearbook of Emergency Medicine for over two decades. More recently, he has engaged with those in the Health 2.0 community and is a participant in the upcoming Health 2.0 conference.
Judy F. Rich, R.N., Executive Vice President of Tucson Medical Center, the largest hospital in southern Arizona. She is an innovator in physician-hospital collaboration, recently led a major financial turnaround at TMC, and was named one of the "top 5" female executives in Arizona for 2008.
Joseph V. Simone, M.D., an internationally recognized leader in cancer care, research, and education. Currently Director of the University of Florida Shands Cancer Center and Physician-in-Chief of Cancer Services, Dr. Simone previously served as Physician-in-Chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. He authors the popular Simone's OncOpinion column in Oncology Times.