Faculty
The Service Lines Strategies Virtual Workshop will include speakers from some of the top orthopedics, cardiovascular, neurosciences, and oncology service lines in the United States, as well as experts from nationally-renowned consulting agencies.
Below is a list of invited speakers for the program. For additional information, see the agenda.
Opening Session
Bill Woodson
Senior Vice President, Sg2
Bill leads Sg2’s work on health care strategy. A noted speaker on the future of health care, Bill’s areas of expertise include market evolution, the health care consumer, care delivery innovation, physician-hospital integration and all aspects of service line planning and growth. Bill’s background includes more than 20 years of experience in health care strategic planning, strategic marketing, market forecasting, health system development and public policy.
Closing Session
Karen Corrigan
CEO of The Strategy Group
Karen is founder and president of The Strategy Group™, a Navvis & Company consultancy specializing in competitive strategy in the health industry. She counsels and supports healthcare leaders on the growth and evolution of health systems, development of differentiated, competitive brands and creation of marketing innovations to drive growth and transformation. She also leads the firm’s Innovator’s Studio, a living laboratory where chief marketing and strategy officers explore, create and adapt innovative practices to create future ready health systems.
Orthopedics
Steve Miff
Vice President, Sg2
Steve leads the Orthopedics Membership at Sg2, including the areas of rehabilitation and spine care. His diverse background includes academic and government-sponsored clinical research, experience in the administrative functions of a large hospital operating room and participation in an orthopedic private practice. Steve also teaches an undergraduate biomechanics course at Northwestern University, where he serves as an adjunct professor in the biomedical engineering department.
John Cherf, MD, MBA, MPH
Chicago Institute of Orthopedics
Dr. Cherf has over 15 years of clinical experience in sports medicine and knee surgery. He founded Midwest Orthopedic Institute, an orthopedic group with full integration of diagnostic imaging, rehabilitation, ambulatory surgery, and occupational medicine under one roof. He presently practices in Chicago and is one of the founding members of the Orthopedic Department at the Neurologic and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago.
Joe Tomaro, PhD
Senior Vice President, Accelero Health Partners
Joe works in close partnership with healthcare organizations and physicians to design and implement service line programs, including the Human Motion Institute program for musculoskeletal service lines. He has over 15 years of experience with musculoskeletal service line organization for a large academic tertiary care hospital system and has been involved in the analysis and implementation of service line strategies in over 150 hospitals across the United States, Europe, and Dubai.
Betty Casey, RN
Manager of Surgical Services, Yale New Haven Hospital
Betty is currently the Manager of Surgical Services for the Ambulatory Surgical Division at Yale New Haven Hospital. In addition to her management role she is the Service Line Leader for the Hand Program and has over 25 years of clinical and managerial experience in the perioperative and operating room setting. Betty has been involved with new surgical program development and surgical service lines during the past 10 years.
*Wade Johannessen, PhD
Senior Consultant, Sg2
Wade leads the research and development of many of Sg2’s orthopedic and spine resources and educational offerings, including publications, Web seminars and membership meetings. Wade brings to a research background in the mechanics of orthopedic soft tissues, including tendons, cartilage, and intervertebral discs. He leverages this background to research and review the clinical impacts of emerging orthopedic and spine technologies.
*Susan Torti
Director of Business Development, Grant Medical Center
Susan has been instrumental in developing and executing the spine care program for OhioHealth and Grant Medical Center, a Level I trauma center. She is actively involved in physician recruitment and new program development for OhioHealth, and she is currently focusing on growing and expanding the neurosciences program with a goal of becoming a distinguished local and national leader, particularly for spine care.
Cardiovascular
Edward Winslow, MD, MBA
Associate Vice President, Sg2
Dr. Winslow leads Sg2’s Cardiovascular Membership, working with his team to track the impact of emerging trends and technologies in cardiovascular care delivery. He comes to Sg2 with more than 20 years of experience in clinical cardiology on the faculties of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University. Before joining Sg2, he worked for more than 25 years in clinical and preventive cardiology, launching one of the first cardiac rehabilitation programs in an academic medical center.
Maureen Clancy, MBA, FACHE
VP, Heart and Vascular Services at Washington Hospital Center
Maureen is a senior healthcare executive with extensive experience in large academic medical centers including management roles in operations, strategic planning, revenue cycle, and financial analysis. In these roles she worked with large multi-specialty physician practices in collaboration with senior hospital executives to improve efficiencies in operations, develop new business lines, expand existing programs, and improve financial position through revenue cycle improvements and expense control.
Thomas G. Di Salvo, MD, MPH, MBA
Medical Director, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute
Dr. Di Salvo is currently the medical director of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt School of Medicine. Dr. Di Salvo completed undergraduate studies at Harvard, medical school at the University of Cincinnati, residency and chief residency at Johns Hopkins and fellowship in cardiology and heart failure/cardiac transplantation at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
John P. McHugh
Associate Director of Healthcare Strategy, Navigant Consulting, Inc.
John is an associate director with Navigant and has over nine years of business development and strategy experience, including pricing, market sizing, and market feasibility analysis. He started work with the Tiber Group prior to its acquisition by Navigant Consulting in 2005. His most recent work in cardiac planning was a system plan to develop an integrated and efficient cardiovascular delivery network which includes a significant physician integration component.
Beth Pittman
Regional Director, Accelero Health Partners
Beth is responsible for collaborating with Accelero Health Partners’ partner hospitals in the development and implementation of a cardiovascular service line of distinction. She accomplishes this by applying a patient-centered service line management model based on fundamental business principles. She is currently finalizing her Masters Degree in Business Administration for Healthcare Professionals from Chatham University in Pittsburgh.
Cheri Basso, BSN, RN-BC
Heart Failure Program Coordinator, Mary Washington Hospital
Cheri is the Heart Failure Program Coordinator and also the Operations Lead for the Heart Failure Disease Management Product Line of the Virginia Heart and Vascular Institute. She is responsible for providing vision, leadership, coordination and oversight for the activities of the HF Program, including program development, implementation, facilitation, evaluation, monitoring and consultation.
Oncology
Kathleen H. McCarthy
Principal, Health Strategies & Solutions
Kathleen has more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She serves as the firm’s practice leader for the New York/New England region, bringing a broad range of experience as both a hospital executive and management consultant to HS&S clients. Kathleen’s planning expertise includes strategic plan development and execution, master facility planning, and development of freestanding ambulatory care facilities.
Tracy Johnson
Vice President, Health Strategies and Solutions
Tracy has over 20 years of healthcare consulting experience and leads the HS&S ambulatory care practice. She has extensive experience in service line and ambulatory care strategy development, facility planning, operations improvement, demand and capacity analyses, and capital prioritization. She has a particular appreciation for how service delivery models, functional relationships, and operational efficiencies impact space and facility requirements.
James Lynch
President, Cancer Center Consulting
James has over 30 years of managerial experience at both free-standing and university-based matrix cancer centers. He offers in-depth insight into cancer hospital operations, cancer center organization, cancer center facilities, clinical research administration as well as extramurally-supported research grants and contracts management. Prior to devoting full time to consulting, he was the Vice President for Hospital & Medical Science Administration at Fox Chase Cancer Center for 21 years.
Suzanne Borgos
Senior Consultant, Health Strategies & Solutions, Inc.
Suzanne brings both clinical and strategic planning expertise to HS&S engagements. For the last five years, she has held several administrative positions at North Shore-LIJ Health System, the nation’s third largest, non-profit, secular health care system. Most recently, she was senior administrative director for neurosurgery, with responsibility for day-to-day operations, marketing, strategic planning, and programmatic growth. She managed 20 physicians and $26 million in practice revenue.
Laurie S. Pascal
Senior Director of Business Planning and Acting VP of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Laurie develops business strategy, organizational structure and implementation plans for new clinical programs and comprehensive multidisciplinary clinical centers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a $1.2 billion, 600+ bed Harvard Medical School affiliated hospital, including BIDMC’s Chest Disease Center, Spine Center, and Cancer Center. She is responsible for joint business planning with BIDMC’s 750 physician faculty practice.
Leanne Larson, MHA
Vice President, Sg2
Leanne leads Sg2’s Cancer Program, helping to track emerging trends and technologies impacting cancer care. She brings to Sg2 more than 20 years of experience in healthcare, including extensive work in pharmaceutical research, public health, and strategic planning. Before joining Sg2, Leanne led ICON Clinical Research’s global patient registry and observational research services. She oversees the development and delivery of cancer-related programming and publications.
Craig Comish, MHA, MBA
Vice President of Oncology, Baptist Health
Craig has 25 years of overall experience in the healthcare industry. He has 12 years of general hospital administrative experience, including six years as the vice president of operations of a 450-bed facility. In addition to his work as vice president of oncology for Baptist Health, he has 13 years of oncology-specific administrative experience including consulting, physician practice management, and multi-hospital product line management.
Neurosciences
Jayme Zage, PhD
Vice President, Sg2
Jayme leads Sg2’s Neurosciences Membership. She has expanded Sg2’s offerings into the areas of neurorehabilitation and mental and behavioral health services. Jayme works with Sg2 clients on initiatives focusing on neurosciences strategic planning and operational and clinical quality. She also has supported technology committees to understand the clinical, operational and financial impacts of technology adoption.
Brian McCartie
Vice President of Business Development, Cejka Search
As an expert in physician alignment and organizational process management, Brian’s expertise covers the entire continuum of physician recruitment best practice, including medical staff development planning, physician compensation plans, governance, strategic assessment of search and right-sizing recruitment efforts, as well as the identification of key skill sets and attributes required to ensure cultural fit with the client organization and ultimately physician retention.
Paula Jones
Physician Liaison, Temple University Health System
Paula played a central role in the design and implementation of Temple Spine Center and is directly responsible for promoting neurosciences services at Temple University Hospital to referring physicians in Philadelphia and surrounding areas—direct referrals to neurosurgery and neurology programs have increased by 80% under her guidance. She has successfully recruited several neurosurgeons to the program, and has an ongoing responsibility for the physician recruitment process.
Christopher Loftus, MD
Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Temple University School of Medicine
Dr. Loftus is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and the founding director of the Neuroscience Service Line at Temple University Health System. He is the Vice President for 2009-2010 of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Assistant Treasurer 2009-2013 of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
Phil Pomeroy
Vice President of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute of St. John’s Hospital and Medical Center
Phil is the administrator for the Barrow Neurological Institute, one of the leading neuroscience institutes in the world. His responsibilities include business development, strategic planning, marketing, physician recruitment, and major capital equipment acquisition. His career includes heading a specialty consulting firm that provided sales and marketing management consulting to hospitals across the country.
Lauren Brandt
Clinical Program Director for Neurosciences, Seton Family of Hospitals
Lauren is responsible for program development of neurosciences for the Seton Brain & Spine Institute in Austin, TX. In addition, she is an advanced practice nurse and works collaboratively with a local neurosurgeon. She graduated from University of Illinois with a Bachelor’s in Nursing, and received her Masters degree in Nursing from the University of Texas at the Health Science Center in San Antonio. One of the most successful programs is the Seton Family of Hospitals stroke program.
*Wade Johannessen, PhD
Senior Consultant, Sg2
*Susan Torti
Director of Business Development, Grant Medical Center
*The neurosciences and orthopedics track will be combined for the spine care session.
