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SUMMARY:Multi-Chapter Panel #1 – Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion
DESCRIPTION:Join the ACHE East Texas\, North Texas and Texas Midwest chapters for another in our special multi-chapter panels.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe communities for which healthcare organizations operate are rapidly diversifying. Not only do they provide care for a diverse community of patients and families\, but their workforce is also changing\, and at times does not reflect the patient community. This diversity is exhibited in a number of ways\, including ethnicity\, race\, religion\, socioeconomic status\, language\, age\, sexual orientation/gender identity\, and physical ability.\n\n\nThe business implications and imperatives healthcare organizations face concerning diversity\, equity\, and inclusion are immense. Diverse communities often require different care needs\, improved quality\, new or modified operational processes and services\, and strategic planning for a varied patient demographic. The continuum of care will need to be considered to best meet the needs of these communities. \nIt is incumbent on healthcare organizations and their leaders to both understand and embrace the needs of diverse populations. Leader’s abilities to respond to the needs and preferences of a broader customer base will be critical to their financial and operational success. \n  \nThis program has been approved for 1.5 ACHE Face-to-Face credits. \n  \nOur Presenters: \nCrissy Flake\nRegional Quality Improvement & Compliance Manager\nWelbeHealth\, LLC \nAimee Greeter\, MPH\, FACHE\nSenior Vice President\nCoker Group \nAlan K. Nevel\nSVP & Chief Diversity & Human Resources Officer\nThe MetroHealth System \nKenneth Rates\nPodcast Host\, So You Want To Be A Healthcare Executive?\nAmbulatory Care\nMichigan Medicine and the University of Detroit Mercy \nRegister Here\nSpeakers’ Bios: \nCrissy Flake is an accomplished healthcare administrator with over 25 years of experience. Crissy has sought to improve healthcare delivery systems by applying real-world experiences and a variety of professional lenses. Crissy has focused her passion and energy on quality and process improvement projects within several organizations and is the Regional Quality Improvement and Compliance Manager for WelbeHealth\, LLC. Crissy continues to champion healthcare systems adopting the National Association of Healthcare Quality knowledge domains\, developing a “just Culture” philosophy to error reporting\, and implanting the Agile methodology framework. \nCrissy is currently pursuing her Doctor of Health Administration at Northcentral University. Crissy co-authored the paper “impact of cost in delay/deferral of care: A systematic literature review\,” which was accepted for presentation at the 2020 Business and Health Administration Association annual conference and later accepted for publication in the journal of Applied Economics and Business. Crissy is also certified as Professional Project Manager\, an Agile Project Manager\, and a Professional in Healthcare Quality. \nCrissy lives on a ranch with her husband\, children\, and extended family. Crissy is an avid endurance walker\, needle arts enthusiast\, paper quiller\, and world traveler. Crissy volunteers with several organizations and is an active leader with her local 4-H program. When Crissy is not working\, volunteering\, or studying\, she can be found in the company of her basset hounds or her goats. \n  \n  \nAimee Greeter is a senior vice president at Coker Group with specialized expertise in business strategy\, mergers and acquisitions\, transaction advisory\, physician alignment\, accountable care responsiveness\, hospital service line development\, clinical integration initiatives\, strategic plan development\, executive compensation\, employee compensation\, crisis communications\, operational efficiency\, and financial management. Ms. Greeter works with non-profit and for-profit hospitals and health systems of all sizes and larger single and multi-specialty physician practices to achieve their strategic and tactical goals. \nAdditionally\, Ms. Greeter manages the firm’s delivery of alignment and transaction services. The team works with some of the largest and most prestigious health systems in the U.S.\, as well as independent community hospitals\, academic medical centers\, ambulatory surgery centers\, critical access hospitals\, outpatient facilities and medical practices in all 50 states on their business initiatives. Specifically\, Ms. Greeter and her colleagues spend time with healthcare organizations in the provider space on their buyside acquisitions\, divestiture of assets\, strategic partnerships and related transactions. \nMs. Greeter is a popular program speaker and is frequently engaged by highly respected organizations across the nation to speak to health systems\, medical groups\, legal associations and other healthcare constituents. She has also authored numerous articles and books on topics such as hospital-physician alignment\, clinician engagement\, practice mergers\, professional service agreements (PSAs)\, and executive leadership. \n  \nAlan K. Nevel was named Senior Vice President\, Chief Diversity and Human Resources Officer for The MetroHealth System in June 2018. \nIn this integrated leadership role\, Nevel is responsible for driving the human resources strategy to attract\, retain and motivate a highly engaged workforce to implement MetroHealth’s mission while leading diversity\, inclusion\, cultural competency and work-life strategies to empower employees. \nNevel most recently served as Vice President\, Global Diversity and Inclusion for Thermo Fisher Scientific\, a Massachusetts-based global life sciences solutions\, specialty diagnostics and laboratory equipment company\, which he joined in 2012. Previous experience includes leading diversity and inclusion\, HR strategy delivery\, talent development and organizational change management during his eight years with fashion retailer L Brands. Additional experience includes working at Anderson Consulting/Accenture and the Sherwin Williams Company. \nNevel earned a Master’s in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from Cleveland State University. \n  \nKenneth Rates is the Host of the podcast So You Want To Be A Healthcare Executive? His mission is to share the stories of highly successful executives in the hopes of striving you to achieve more in your career. He works in Ambulatory Care\, currently holding positions at both Michigan Medicine and the University of Detroit Mercy. He is the current President-Elect for the Michigan Medical Group Management Association. Ken is a recipient of the American College of Healthcare Executives Early Careerist’s Regent Award in 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \nRegister Here
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SUMMARY:Multi-Chapter Panel #2 - Crisis Management: Strategies to Effectively Manage a Healthcare Org.
DESCRIPTION:Join the ACHE East Texas\, North Texas and Texas Midwest chapters for another in our special multi-chapter panels.\n\n\n\n\n\nPreparing for an unplanned or unexpected event\, such as a natural disaster\, pandemic\, civil disturbances\, medical error or labor disputes (e.g.\, union labor) causes physical\, psychological and emotional stresses that can overwhelm employees\, medical staff\, patients and communities. In the event of a crisis\, the quality and efficiency of care delivery may be challenged and typically takes a toll on every part of the organization. Lack of the unknown or uncertainty is also a challenge that healthcare leaders face in the time of crisis. Healthcare leaders need to understand ways to prepare their organization for unforeseen circumstances\, which includes developing a communication plan\, managing organizational resources\, such as medical supplies\, levels of patient care and leveraging local and state resources and funding.\n\n\nThis panel discussion will provide insight and perspectives on ways to manage an unforeseen crisis within the healthcare organization and its community. It will include how healthcare leaders can better prepare and respond to a community or healthcare crisis\, or health surge event or unanticipated response. \nThis program has been approved for 1.5 ACHE Face-to-Face credits. \n  \nOur Panelists: \nAngela Beaudry\nVice President\, Human Resources Operations\nArdent Health Services \nMary LaFrancois\, SPHR\, SHRM-CP\, ACC\nDivision VP Human Resources\nUT Health East Texas \nLisa Reynolds\, Ph D\, SPHR (Moderator)\nVice President\nChange Management\nCHRISTUS Health \nRoberta Solo Rio\, JD.\nVP\, Chief Human Resource Officer\nMidland Health \nDebbie Splinter\, FACHE\, MBA\, CHHR\, SHRM-SCP\, SPHR\nHuman Resources Director\nBaylor Scott and White \nRegister Here\nSpeakers’ Bios: \n  \nAngela Beaudry is an Experienced Human Capital Strategist with over 20 years of multi-industry experience. She has a proven track record in supporting culture realignment\, talent management\, total rewards strategies\, and operational excellence design and execution. \nAngela has also demonstrated leadership in cost containment and risk avoidance strategies resulting in substantial savings supporting overall financial health. She has a strong background in employment law and labor relations\, resulting in a high win rate for all EEOC charges\, lawsuits\, and arbitrations. \n  \n  \nAs an accomplished human resources executive\, Mary LaFrancois has dedicated her career to ensuring leading health care organizations achieve top performance. \nHer expertise in executing organizational policies\, driving change\, generating multimillion-dollar cost savings\, and attracting\, retaining\, and leveraging human capital is extensive. Mary has excelled in executing HR strategies that align with the organization’s business objectives and is recognized for her expertise in developing business and people strategies and driving critical initiatives aligned with the organization’s core values. \nMary has spent the past 20 years leading HR teams in academic healthcare\, faith-based healthcare and now is part of UT Health East Texas\, a for-profit family. \n  \n  \nLisa Reynolds has been with CHRISTUS Health for over 20 years and is the Vice President of Change Management. Lisa leads the people side of organizational change and transformation\, making sure there is a focus not only on the change process\, but also on how people can engage with the change. Through creating awareness\, involving those affected and offering support\, change management can ensure CHRISTUS models its core values while implementing change. Prior to this role\, Lisa was the Vice President of Talent Management and held previous roles in organizational development\, patient experience and risk management. \nLisa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from Regis University\, an MBA with a healthcare emphasis from Louisiana State University\, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Leadership Studies from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Lisa is an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation\, Certified Change Practitioner through Prosci\, and holds several behavioral assessment certifications. \nLisa’s passion is being a development chemist who serves as a catalyst that assists others in discovering and unleashing their talents to discover their full potential. Lisa believes everyone has the power to manifest a positive emotional state and create his or her destiny. \nLisa also enjoys running\, dark chocolate\, volunteering for Back On My Feet\, and laughing with colleagues\, friends\, and loved ones. \n  \n  \nSince 2014\, Roberta Solo Rio has served as Vice President\, Chief Human Resource Officer for Midland Health. Midland Health is comprised of Midland Memorial Hospital\, several affiliated physician practices\, including practices in cardiology\, orthopedics\, family practice\, and a hospitalist group. In addition to the traditional human resource functions\, Roberta is focused on continuous improvement and enhanced efficiency and consistency across the health system. Most recently\, this includes a current project to implement a new human capital management/payroll/timekeeping and applicant tracking system intended to support the system for years to come. \nBefore coming to Midland Memorial\, Roberta held several human resource leadership positions in healthcare and manufacturing. Her human resource background includes benefits\, compensation\, employee relations\, HRIS\, performance management\, and talent acquisition. Roberta holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Northern Michigan University and a Juris Doctorate degree from South Texas College of Law Houston. \nIn her spare time\, Roberta enjoys her three Shetland sheepdogs and riding her bike. \n  \n  \nDebbie Splinter has served as the CHRO/Human Resource Director for Baylor Scott & White Texas Spine & Joint Hospital in Tyler\, Texas for the past 12 years. She has her Bachelor’s in Business Administration and her Master’s degree in Human Resources. Debbie has over 28 years of HR experience in Healthcare. She is responsible for the administration of recruitment/retention strategies\, benefits\, compensation\, payroll\, training\, legal and regulatory compliance. Her primary focus is to provide support and guidance to management in employee relations and leadership development. Debbie prides herself on the family culture\, low turnover\, and high employee engagement BSWTSJH has accomplished. \nIn addition to serving as the President for the Texas Society of Healthcare Human Resources and Education\, Debbie is the Treasurer and Chair for the Governance Committee with the East Texas American College of Healthcare Executives. She serves on the Membership Committee for ASHHRA. Debbie is a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives\, FACHE\, and has obtained the following certifications: Senior Certified Professional by SHRM (SHRM-SCP)\, Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)\, and the Certified in Healthcare Human Resources (CHHR) by the American Hospital Association. Debbie is a Fellow with the Texas Hospital Association and a graduate of Leadership Tyler. Locally she is a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)\, volunteers for the Smith County Animal Shelter\, and mentors’ young professionals in Human Resources. Debbie has been married for 34 years to Travis and they have 2 adult sons. \n  \n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://acheetx.org/event/multi-chapter-panel-2-crisis-management-strategies-to-effectively-manage-a-healthcare-org/
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SUMMARY:Multi-Chapter Panel #3 – Key State Health Legislative Issues Facing Leaders and Potential Responses
DESCRIPTION:Join the ACHE East Texas\, North Texas and Texas Midwest chapters for another in our special multi-chapter panels.\n\n\n\n\n\nNumerous public policy and legislative issues around healthcare delivery and public health affect healthcare organizations and demand involvement of their leaders to respond and adjust organizational policies and procedures. These issues often relate to improving population health\, access and coverage through Medicaid and other programs\, improving value\, addressing consumer issues and workforce shortages\, and more. Learning these issues and being involved in policy and organizational responses is important for healthcare leaders\, regardless of how directly they may be involved.\n\n\n  \nThis program has been approved for 1.5 ACHE Face-to-Face credits. \n  \nOur Presenters: \nSteve Love\nPresident and Chief Executive Officer\nDallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council \nMatt Richardson\, FACHE\, DrPH\, MPH (Moderator)\nDirector of Public Health\nDenton County \nTed Shaw\nTexas Hospital Association\nPresident & Chief Executive Officer \nRegister Here\nSpeakers’ Bios: \n  \nMr. Steve Love is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council which promotes collaboration\, cooperation and advocacy on behalf of its 90 member hospitals. The Hospital Council also has approximately 100 Associate Members (business and industry)\, including prominent accounting\, legal and consulting firms. The primary mission is to promote patient safety\, quality healthcare and coordination in the delivery of healthcare within the North Texas market. He served as 2015 Chair for the Conference of Metropolitan and Regional Hospitals Association in the United States. He also previously served on the Children at Risk Board for North Texas. He serves on the Southwest Region Board for the American Heart Association; Southwest Transplant Alliance; Cure Glaucoma Foundation Advisory Board; North Texas Eye Research Institute; the Metropolitan YMCA Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Prism Health North Texas and Mothers Against Drunk Driving Dallas. Mr. Love has worked in healthcare management for over 40 years. He has demonstrated leadership in tax exempt\, investor-owned\, specialty and private hospitals in operations\, finance and corporate governance. Prior to joining the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council\, Mr. Love was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a Fortune 500 healthcare company that owned over 50 hospitals and managed approximately 200 facilities in the United States. \n\n  \nDr. Matt Richardson was appointed as the Director of Public Health for Denton County in the summer of 2014. Dr. Richardson previously served as Director with the City of Amarillo and Potter/Randall Counties for 9 years. Dr. Richardson has authored peer-reviewed publications\, testified to the Texas Legislature regarding public health issues and continues to advocate for public health practice and resources for Denton County and the state of Texas. He has a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Abilene Christian University and both Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Public Health from the University of North Texas. He is currently board certified and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Dr. Richardson also serves as an accreditation site reviewer for public health programs in universities across the US. Matt lives in Argyle with his wife of 24 years and their two daughters. \n\n  \n  \nWalter “Ted” Shaw joined the Texas Hospital Association as the organization’s fourth president and chief executive officer in February 2014. Shaw brings expertise forged from a 40-year career in health care leadership to his role as key strategist and spokesperson on behalf of more than 450 THA member hospitals and health systems. As president and CEO of the largest state hospital association in Texas\, Shaw is responsible for leading the industry in its advocacy work and positioning Texas hospitals to achieve their missions of delivering the highest quality health care to all Texans. \nPrior to joining THA\, Shaw served as interim executive vice president and chief financial officer for Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas\, where he led the development of the Medicaid Transformation Waiver in North Texas and the construction of an 864-bed replacement hospital. From 2004-2011\, he was a partner with the Dallas-based Financial Resource Group LLC\, a health care consulting firm where he specialized in interim operational turnarounds with facilities across the U.S. Prior to joining FRG\, Shaw was president of the health care consulting firm W.T. Shaw Company from 1998-2003. \nHis legacy for leading impressive turnarounds includes assignments at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami\, the third largest public health system in the U.S.; East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie\, La.\, both before and after Hurricane Katrina; Fletcher Allen Health Care in Vermont; and Maricopa Integrated Healthcare System in Phoenix. In addition\, he has a strong background in health care technology and insurance\, having served as chief operating officer of Health2Health.com\, an Internet-based HIPAA solutions company; and with Dallas-based CareSystems Corporation\, a workers’ compensation technology support firm. \nHe began his career with Ernst & Young in San Antonio\, Cleveland and Dallas\, achieving the role of partner with responsibility for the Southwest Region Healthcare Practice from 1973-1992. Shaw holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin\, and is a certified public accountant and a fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management Association. \n\nRegister Here
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SUMMARY:Multi-Chapter Panel #4 – Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
DESCRIPTION:Join the ACHE East Texas\, North Texas and Texas Midwest chapters for another in our special multi-chapter panels.\n\n\n\n\n\nDisruptive innovation\, a term coined by Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen\, is a transformative business model that leverages technology to help focus on making products and services more accessible and affordable. In healthcare delivery\, disruptive innovations have the potential to decrease costs while improving both the quality and accessibility of care. Disruptive innovations enable new applications and changes in behaviors. The current thinking with many innovators is a belief that a host of disruptive innovations would have wide implications for payers by shifting payment models to reward precision diagnostic tests and abilities of providers. Several current disruptive innovations like retail clinics\, telemedicine\, medical tourism\, and point-of-care medical payments are making a major difference in how health care is delivered. This panel will focus on the role of innovation in the medical marketplace and examples of disruptive innovations that will change lives in health care.\n\n\nThis program has been approved for 1.5 ACHE Face-to-Face credits. \n  \nOur Presenters: \nTamara Perry\, BA-SLP\, MA-IOC\nSr. Director Operations\nVirtual Health and Innovation\nChildren’s Medical Center \nAndrew Thorby\nChief Executive Officer\nCare Continuity \nPaula Turicchi\, MHA\,FACHE (Moderator)\nChief Strategy Officer\nParkland Community Health Plan \nDr. Leslie Wainwright\nChief Funding and Innovation Officer\nParkland Center for Clinical Innovation \nDr. Hubert Zajicek\, MD\, MBA\nCo-Founder\, Partner and CEO\nHealth Wildcatters \nRegister Here\nSpeakers’ Bios: \n  \nTamara Perry is the Senior Director of Virtual Health and Innovation at Children’s Health System of Texas. Tamara has over 20 years’ experience in communication\, corporate training and organization strategy. Currently she serves as a national and international expert in the field of telemedicine; sharing her knowledge of telemedicine implementation\, expansion and sustainability as a speaker at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) international conferences\, Becker’s Hospital Review\, American Pediatric Association and other virtual health technology and innovation conferences yearly. She is currently the Chair of the American Telemedicine Association Pediatric Special Interest Group. Her work has been featured in the Hospitals & Health Networks’ Most Wired issues\, NRHA Rural Roads magazine\, D Magazine Excellence in Healthcare and other national publications. Her recent work includes leading the deployment of virtual health care solutions including countries largest school-based telehealth program\, the Children’s Health Virtual Visit direct to consumer app and virtual visit kiosks in locations across the DFW area. She has a bachelor’s degree in Speech Language Pathology and Master’s in Interpersonal and Organization Communication. \n  \nAndrew Thorby has over thirty years of experience in technology-driven business disruption. A native of Australia\, his early career was spent in the systems integration industry applying value chain re-engineering principles to Fortune 1000 firms in the telecommunications\, financial services\, and energy sectors. He first entered the healthcare industry in 2004 with the application of zero-defect manufacturing principles to the revenue cycle. It was here that he began to understand and address the “islands of information” dilemma that plagued healthcare and resulted in an overall lack of process integrity along the patient journey. \nAndrew founded Care Continuity with the goal of improving the disconnected and confusing care delivery experience that patients and their families too often encounter during a serious illness or injury. Andrew’s prior experience in technology driven business disruption helped him realize that the disconnect lay with an incentive model which only paid for services rendered at the point of care and the patient journey which often spanned multiple providers and multiple places of service. Too often it was left to the patients and to individual providers to try and connect the dots. In other words\, healthcare delivery networks were networks in name only. \nAs founder and CEO\, Andrew has led Care Continuity’s evolution through three software platforms (with over 200 releases on the current platform)\, from a focus on technology to a focus on results and the patient experience\, and from impacting the experience of a handful of patients each month to impacting thousands. During this time\, healthcare has gone through a sea change in the core incentive model with value-based care and population risk raising the stakes to the point that operational integrity within care delivery networks has gone from a nice to have to a must have. \nAs CEO\, Andrew is primarily responsible for setting the firms vision\, supporting the Care Continuity team\, and partnering with clients to ensure that the firm is accelerating its go-to-market strategies and providing its patients and clinicians with the proactive support they need. \n  \nPaula Turicchi is the Chief Strategy Officer at Parkland Community Health Plan in Dallas\, Texas. The health plan serves more than 185\,000 members in Medicaid’s STAR\, CHIP\, and CHIP Perinatal programs through a network of more than 3\,000 providers and 25 facilities located in 7 counties in the Dallas service delivery area. \nPreviously\, Paula served as the Vice President of Hospital Operations and Administrator of Women and Infant’s Specialty Health (WISH) at Parkland Health & Hospital System. She was instrumental in the design and construction of the New Parkland Hospital facility and the Moody Center for Breast Health. Paula played a key role in completing the System Improvement Agreement (SIA) and Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) from 2013 to 2018. In addition\, she chaired the Women’s Health Advisory Committee of Texas which was created by Texas’ 84th Legislature to advise the Health & Human Services Commission on consolidation of women’s health programs. \nPaula was a 2018 Texas Hospital Association Leadership Fellow. She is board certified in Healthcare Administration and holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from Trinity University and Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. \n  \nDr. Leslie Wainwright joined the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation [PCCI]\, as their Chief Funding and Innovation Officer in March 2019. Prior to this role\, she oversaw RTI International’s Innovation Advisors health practice where she worked with health systems and technology developers to guide the development and adoption of impactful healthcare innovations. She has also served in executive roles at Sg2\, AVIA and Business Models Inc.\, a Dutch-based innovation consultancy. \nShe is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation\, and has experience that spans academic research\, pharma/biotechnology and healthcare delivery. Leslie has worked with executive teams from multi-national organizations and startups alike to design growth strategies\, create alternative business models and evaluate emerging clinical and care delivery technologies. Additionally\, she has spent several years addressing innovation and how healthcare organizations build their own sustainable innovation competencies. Leslie is a frequent speaker and facilitator on the future of healthcare\, enabling technologies\, disruptive innovation and emerging business models\, both domestically and abroad. \nLeslie received her PhD in microbiology at Northwestern University\, completed postdoctoral research training at the University of Maryland’s Center for Vaccine Development and received a B.A. in Biology from DePauw University. She serves as a clinical advisor on the Board of Start-up tech companies and has served as faculty teaching strategy and innovation at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Additionally\, Leslie is passionate about STEM education and is in the Women’s Board of the Field Museum in Chicago\, working with the museum to expand opportunities for girls in science. \n  \nHubert Zajicek is co-founder\, partner and CEO of Health Wildcatters\, a top-ranked seed stage healthcare fund and accelerator in Dallas\, TX. Health Wildcatters provides mentorship\, capital and guidance to up to 12 healthcare related startups during an intensive 3 month program\, annually. The fund has invested in 77 healthcare startups\, which have attracted over $200M in capital in about 7 years. Over the past 10 years he has reviewed\, evaluated\, mentored and advised thousands of startup companies. \nIn March of 2020\, Dr. Zajicek started the Health Hacking Crisis Network (HHCN)\, a non-profit organization that engages in bringing together a rapid reaction force to deal with acute problems arising in healthcare due to COVID-19. The organization has over 500 volunteer members and has supported the creation of a variety of initiatives that had a big impact on the North Texas region and beyond. \nPrior to forming Health Wildcatters and HHCN he was managing director of medical technology at NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center for Medical Technology – www.ntec-inc.org). He oversaw the construction of NTEC’s state-of-the-art 50\,000 SF building and managed the facility including its roughly 10\,000 SF lab space. During his tenure he created MedVentures\, the Southwest’s largest medical technology investment conference\, whose presenting companies raised a combined $274M in funding. \nHubert has over ten years of experience in the life sciences. Before joining NTEC\, Hubert was on faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center where he was an NIH-funded Principal Investigator and co-investigator of research grants totaling more than $1M from various grant agencies. His areas of research included Nephrology and Cell Biology with a focus on membrane transport and membrane composition. His interests extend into biophysics\, fluorescence and imaging techniques. He authored and co-authored over 15 scientific articles\, more than 30 presentations at national and international meetings and 2 book-chapters. \nHubert received his Doctorate in Medicine (M.D.) from the University of Vienna\, School of Medicine (1996)\, and his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in 2006 (Beta-Gamma-Sigma). He is a fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (F.A.S.N.) \n  \nHe is an active speaker\, panelist and thought leader on healthcare startups\, digital health\, entrepreneurship and funding topics. . He lives in Dallas\, with his wife\, Beth McNally Zajicek\, MD and two daughters. \n  \n\nRegister Here
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