Providing overall direction to our purpose, planning and activities, SI’s Executive Committee & Board of Directors have been indispensable from the beginning. The Board of Directors, tasked with providing more strategic direction, meets annually to ensure our guiding principles, mission, values and code of conduct are being met. Then, as a subset of the Board, our Executive Committee meets monthly to offer more tactical support, providing guidance on programming direction and faculty referrals alongside feedback on SI events to continue to shape and refine our offerings.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
John Glaser, PhD
Executive in Residence, Harvard Medical School
John Glaser, PhD is an Executive-in-Residence at the Harvard Medical School and is on faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics. He is a former senior vice president of population health, at Cerner...
David Classen, MD, MS
Associate Professor, University of Utah
Dr. Classen is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah and a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at The University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Classen serves as a consulting CMIO advisor to...
Janet Guptill, FACHE, CPHIMS
President and CEO, Scottsdale Institute
Janet Guptill is President and CEO of the Scottsdale Institute, a non-profit membership organization of leading health systems focused on transformational change leveraging information technology. In this role she brings a unique perspective of leveraging information technology to make better...
Patrick J. O’Hare
Former SVP Facilities and CIO, Spectrum Health
Healthcare Executive and Former Senior Vice President of Facilities and Chief Information Officer, Spectrum Health Patrick retired as the senior vice president of facilities and chief information officer at Spectrum Health, a $6 billion not-for-profit integrated health system based in...
Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH
Serial Health Care Company Entrepreneur, Board Member, Chief Executive Officer, and Physician Agoura Hills, California
Scott is Chief Value Officer and a Board member for Vytalize Health and President of FJM Health. Vytalize is a leading value-based care provider enablement company and FJM is a large oil and gas company that is diversifying into health...
Donald C. Wegmiller, FACHE
Chair, Scottsdale Institute
Don Wegmiller Inducted into 2013 Healthcare Hall of Fame Mr. Wegmiller is Chairman of the Scottsdale Institute, of which he was co-founder and Vice Chairman since its inception 20 years ago. He also serves as Chairman Emeritus of Integrated Healthcare...
Tom Sadvary, FACHE
Vice Chairman at Scottsdale Institute; former CEO at HonorHealth
Tom Sadvary retired as CEO of HonorHealth in April 2017. Tom was instrumental in leading the creation of the $3 billion not-for-profit health system through the merger of Scottsdale Healthcare and the John C. Lincoln Health Network in 2013. The...
M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM, FACMI
SI Executive in Residence; Board Member
Dr. Shabot is a Founding Partner of Relia Healthcare Advisors, which provides services in the areas of high reliability safety and quality, executive leadership development, organizational culture assessment, medical staff governance and implementation of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Framework. Dr....
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Glaser, PhD
Executive in Residence, Harvard Medical School
John Glaser, PhD is an Executive-in-Residence at the Harvard Medical School and is on faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics. He is a former senior vice president of population health, at Cerner...
Glaser
Wright L. Lassiter, III
CEO, CommonSpirit Health
July 20, 2020 | AHA board names Wright Lassiter, III, chair-elect designate Wright L. Lassiter, III is CEO of CommonSpirit Health. Wright leads one of the country’s largest and most diverse health care organizations, with a network of 140 hospitals...
Lassiter
Ferdinand Velasco, MD
SVP, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Texas Health Resources
As Texas Health’s chief health information officer, Dr. Ferdinand Velasco leads the system’s clinical decision support, medical and nursing informatics, business intelligence and data analytics functions across the continuum of care. Through his and his team's leadership of the implementation...
Velasco
Howard P. Kern, MHA, FACHE
CEO Emeritus, Sentara Health
Howard Kern is an accomplished and innovative healthcare executive. He is the retired President & CEO of Sentara Health, a 134-year-old, not-for-profit integrated health care delivery system headquartered in Virginia with revenues of $13 billion. The health system employs over...
Kern
Thomas M. Priselac
President and CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System
Thomas M. Priselac has served as President and CEO of Cedars-Sinai since 1994 and was also named President and CEO of the Cedars-Sinai Health System when it was formed in 2017. The Cedars-Sinai Heath System includes the nationally recognized Cedars-Sinai...
Priselac
Tina Freese Decker, MHA, MSIE, FACHE
President & CEO, Corewell Health
Tina Freese Decker is President & CEO of Corewell Health™, a leading integrated health system that strives to provide simple, affordable, equitable and exceptional care and coverage to millions of Michigan residents. She leads more than 60,000 colleagues who are...
Gerald “J.P.” Gallagher, MBA
President and CEO, Endeavor Health
Gerald “J.P.” Gallagher is President and Chief Executive Officer of Endeavor Health, Illinois’ third-largest health system and third-largest medical group serving 1.4 million patients across greater Chicagoland. As a health system deeply connected to its communities, Endeavor Health and its...
Gallagher
John Halamka, MD, MS
President, Mayo Clinic Platform
John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, leads a portfolio of platform businesses focused on transforming health care by leveraging artificial intelligence, connected health care devices and a network of trusted partners. Trained in emergency medicine...
Halamka
Nancy Howell Agee
President and CEO, Carilion Clinic
Nancy Howell Agee is President and CEO of Carilion Clinic, a $2.4 billion not-for-profit health care system headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia; serving over 1 million people in Virginia and West Virginia. Carilion Clinic includes seven hospitals ranging from a large,...
Agee
Roy Hawkins, Jr., FACHE
SVP, and North Area President, Atrium Health
Roy Hawkins, Jr., FACHE, is Senior Vice President, Market President North Area, for Atrium Health. As North Area Senior Vice President, Roy’s responsibility encompasses Atrium Health Cabarrus, Atrium Health Stanly, Atrium Health University City and the free-standing emergency departments in...
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SI EMERITI
Joseph R. Swedish, FACHE
Former Chairman, President and CEO, Anthem, Inc. ; Co-Founder and Partner, Concord Health Partners, and SI Board Member Emeritus
Joseph R. Swedish is the former Chairman, President and CEO of Anthem, Inc, a Fortune 29 company and the nation’s leading health benefits provider. Anthem serves nearly 42 million members – or one in eight Americans – through its affiliated...
Anthony Tersigni, EdD, FACHE
Executive Chair, Ascension Capital, LLC and SI Board Emeritus
Anthony R. Tersigni, EdD, FACHE, is Executive Chairman of the Board of Ascension Capital, LLC, Ascension’s healthcare investment fund. Ascension Capital formalizes and expands Ascension’s direct strategic investment initiative, generating capital gains that can be re-invested to support Ascension’s Mission...
SI HONORARY EMERITI
David J. Campbell, MHA, FACHE
Former Senior Advisor, Oakwood Healthcare, Scottsdale Institute Emeritus*, 1946-2022
David Campbell has more than 35 years in the leadership and management of hospitals and health systems. He has extensive consulting operational experience and expertise in multiple health care settings that includes an established record of leading teaching institutions experiencing...
Stan Nelson
Founder and Chairman Scottsdale Institute Emeritus*, 1926-2012
Founder and Chairman Emeritus* of the Scottsdale Institute, 1926-2012 When Stan Nelson passed away, Scottsdale Institute lost its founder, but the healthcare industry lost a visionary thinker, innovative systems architect and good friend. Stanley Roe Nelson, a hospital executive who...
Nicholas Wolter, MD
Former CEO, Billings Clinic and SI Board Emeritus*, 1947-2018
Dr. Wolter was the CEO of a fully integrated health system in south central Montana. Billings Clinic includes a 240 physician multi-specialty group practice, a 285 bed acute care hospital, multiple regional clinics, and a long-term care facility. Billings Clinic...