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 Cynthia A. Alcantara’s practice focuses on
corporate and health care law. She represents a variety of
health care clients in transactions including mergers and
acquisitions, corporate restructurings, joint ventures and
private offerings of securities. Alcantara also counsels
clients on corporate governance and federal and state
regulatory issues including: securities law compliance, fraud
and abuse, Stark anti-referral statutes, corporate practice of
medicine restrictions, certificates of need, licensing and
certification, and Medicare reimbursement. She received a J.D.
from the University of Florida College of Law, an LL.M. in
Health Law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and a
B.S. from Northwestern University. |
 Gordon
(Gordy) Bruinsma is president and owner of Physician
Planning & Consulting, a company that specializes in
consulting with health care professionals regarding medical
facilities including surgery centers, medical office
buildings, imaging centers, labs and wellness centers. With
his background of knowledge and more than 20 years of
experience in the areas of banking and financial real estate,
Bruinsma has successfully structured numerous real estate
transactions and investments, which have garnered him a superb
track record and reputation of credibility and integrity in
the financial community. He graduated from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a Bachelors Degree in Business
Administration, in 1975, and is a registered CPA and licensed
Realtor in the State of Michigan. |
 Ashby
Burks is a member of the firm's Health Law and Business
practice groups. Burks engages in a broad corporate practice,
emphasizing mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other
business transactions. He has served as counsel in the
purchase, sale or joint venture of more than 100 hospitals and
other investor-owned and not-for-profit health care
businesses. Burks recently served as lead counsel in the sale
of a not-for-profit hospital in which he managed the auction
process and negotiated the sale with the successful bidder.
Mr. Burks also represents lenders and borrowers in financing
transactions. He recently served as lead counsel to a large
financial institution making a secured loan in the
recapitalization of a behavioral health care system. |
 Robert
J. Carrera has over 20 years of healthcare experience, and
has spent the last 15 years developing and managing ASCs,
physical/occupational rehabilitation centers, diagnostic
imaging facilities, and occupational medicine clinics in a
multi-state region maintaining responsibility for over $150
million in annual revenue. Carrera provides PINNACLE III
clients expertise in operational and financial
controls/management as well as business development for both
the managed centers and physician partners. He has been
active legislatively at the State level regarding issues
affecting ASCs in Colorado, Minnesota, and Utah. He formerly
served as the Colorado Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s
vice president, and was one of its founding members. Carrera
received his BS in Physical Therapy from Wayne State
University in Detroit, Michigan. |
 Joseph
Clark was named president of the Surgery Centers Division
on March 1, 2005. Prior to coming to HealthSouth, Clark served
as president and chief executive officer of HealthMark
Partners, Inc, an owner, operator and developer of ASCs and
specialty hospitals. From March 1988 to August 1999, Clark
served in various senior management roles, including chief
executive officer of Response Oncology, a provider of cancer
services. Clark also has 10 years of experience with two
proprietary hospital chains, Humana and American Medical
International. |
 Joseph Delligatti is director of new business development for
Stryker Corporation, which develops, manufactures and markets
specialty surgical and medical products for the global market.
Delligatti’s career at Stryker has included roles as
director of healthcare services, national accounts manager,
and the U.S. director of sales for Stryker's Bertec
subsidiary. Prior to joining Stryker in 1997, Delligatti was
director of sales and marketing at Technibilt/Cari-All, Inc.
He has also served in the same role for Invacare Health Care
Furnishing's long-term care division, and as vice president
and sales manager for Mahan Associates. |
 Stephen
B. Dickerson, AIA, a registered architect and principal of
Eckert Wordell, has been with Eckert Wordell since 1993,
heading a gamut of projects ranging from healthcare and
municipal work to industrial and commercial jobs. Recently,
Dickerson has been focusing his 18 years of experience more
specifically in the field of healthcare facilities, including
ambulatory surgery, orthopedic, ophthalmic, and a full range
of inpatient specialty designs. Dickerson’s experience
provides him with unique insight into the distinct issues and
interrelationships of planning, designing, and implementing
drawings specific to healthcare projects. He is devoted to
maintaining personal involvement in all phases of the project.
In so doing, Dickerson builds meaningful relationships with
each client and develops the acumen and insight to tailor his
designs to meet and exceed the individual needs, goals, and
expectations of each project. |
 Jeffery
S. Eckert, AIA, senior principal and co-founder of Eckert
Wordell, has more than 25 years of architectural experience in
the healthcare industry. During the past several years, Eckert
has devoted a majority of his time and efforts to healthcare
clients in the planning, design, and development of ambulatory
surgery centers, medical office buildings, and other ancillary
facilities. Eckert’s presentations demonstrate the ways in
which efficient patient flow and staff utilization can cut
overhead costs and increase profits. He has been published in
several magazines, such as Administrative Eyecare, Ophthalmology
Management, Ophthalmology Times, Eye World, Place,
Architecture, and Modern Healthcare regarding
efficient office design and patient flow. |
 Jefferey
N. Fox is partner at Outpatient Finance Group. Fox has
more than 20 years of successful sales experience, with the
past 15 years being spent in the healthcare industry. From the
beginning of his career, he has consistently been a top
performer, earning a great number of sales awards and the
accolades of his colleagues. Fox holds a bachelor’s degree
in communications from the University of Miami, a master’s
degree in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in
Pasadena, Calif., and certification from the Stanford Business
School and the Wharton School of Business in the executive
education programs. Fox is a recognized expert within the
outpatient surgical and imaging marketplace.
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 Larry
Hampton is one of the most senior and respected leaders in
the medical equipment planning industry worldwide. With over
thirty-eight years of experience in every aspect of equipment
project management and being both founder and chief executive
officer of one of the largest equipment planning firms in the
world, Hampton has had the opportunity to recruit, train,
manage and mentor a superior staff of specialists in this
niche market. Since graduating from the University of
Texas with a B.B.A. (management and economics), Hampton has
been a manufacturing supervisor with Johnson & Johnson and
a project manager for American Hospital Supply, American
Health Facilities Division. After a short time as vice
president of an international equipment planning and brokerage
firm, Hampton left to form HELP International in 1983. |
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 Joshua M.
Kaye, Esq. is a partner with McDermott Will & Emery
LLP based in the firm's Miami office. Kaye's practice focuses
on representing national and regional ASC management
companies, independent ASCs and individual physician investors
with all of their transactional, regulatory and litigation
needs, including fraud and abuse (anti-kickback) laws, self
referral laws, state licensure, Certificate of Need, Medicare
enrollment and change of ownership, managed care contracting,
HIPAA, tax, and real estate issues. Kaye’s experience
includes syndicating "start-up" ASCs, selling and
redeeming physician equity interests, buying and selling
equity stakes in ASCs on behalf of, or to, large
private-equity funded and publicly traded corporate buyers and
developing business models to facilitate an ASC's capture of
ancillary revenue streams, such as from diagnostic imaging,
anesthesia and pathology services.
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 Thomas
Mallon, president and chief executive officer, founded
Regent Surgical Health in 2001. As buyers, developers and
managers of surgery centers and surgical hospitals nationwide,
Regent Surgical Health is an experienced de novo developer and
a specialist in turnaround situations. Prior to starting
Regent, Mallon served as a founding member and remains a
general partner with Gryffindor Capital Partners, a
Chicago-based venture-capital fund. In 1994, Mallon co-founded
a Chicago-based firm, Same Day Surgery, which acquired five
distressed and underutilized ASCs and a physician management
company. He helped recruit over 70 physician partners for
these entities. After growing the business from $2 million in
annual revenues to over $20 million, Mallon successfully sold
his interest in late 1998. Before his health care ventures,
Mallon spent twelve years in commercial office leasing,
supervising the leasing and marketing for both national and
local firms based in Chicago. Mallon holds a BA from Denison
University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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 Rob
McCarville, MPA has an extensive portfolio in the field of
healthcare facility management, administration, and strategy.
McCarville received his masters of public administration with
specialization in healthcare administration from Drake
University in Des Moines, IA. Before joining the MCG
consulting team, McCarville was responsible for overseeing 16
separate physician practices, building a strong reputation by
developing innovative strategies to reduce costs and increase
profitability. At MCG, McCarville is a pivotal figure in the
planning, development, and management of ambulatory surgical
centers, as well as in establishing strategic business
initiatives and operational improvement plans. McCarville was
recently recognized in today’s surgicenter magazine’s
2005 “Who’s Who” in the ambulatory surgery industry. |
 Thomas A.
Michaud, board chairman and chief executive officer, graduated from Boston College with a bachelor of science degree in accounting before earning his CPA certificate while serving as a staff accountant with the international accounting firm, Ernst & Young. Other experience included that of partner in a local CPA firm, chief operating officer of a regional wholesale company, along with holding the upper management positions of manager of management information systems and manager of materials at an aerospace company. Prior to founding Foundation Surgery Affiliates in January of 1996, Michaud held the positions of chief operating officer and chief financial officer of a regional surgery center management company. His responsibilities include marketing the foundation program to potential surgeon/owner groups, developing new geographic and product markets for the company, along with medium and long term corporate planning and strategy. |
 Peter
Myhre joined MarCap in 2003 as president. A Chicago-based
healthcare financing company, MarCap has provided creative,
flexible financing solutions for more than 30 years. MarCap
works directly with ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic
imaging centers, specialty care centers and hospitals, and
provides funding for other finance companies. Before joining
MarCap, Myhre served as senior vice president of DVI Financial
Services, Inc., a healthcare financing company. During his
eight years at the company, Myhre was also chief operating
officer for the Strategic Partner Group, the small- to
middle-ticket equipment finance arm of DVI, and vice president
of the group that managed vendor relationships. Myhre has also
worked for Summit Credit Corporation, Prime Capital
Corporation and as a CPA for Peat Marwick, Mitchell &
Co. Myhre has a master’s degree in management from J.L.
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a
bachelor of arts from University of St. Thomas in
St. Paul, Minnesota. |
 Michael
Pankey, RN, MBA, is currently administrator of the
Ambulatory Surgery Center of Spartanburg, LLC. Since May 2000,
Pankey was the administrator/clinical director of Lee Island
Coast Surgery Center in Ft. Myers Fla. Prior to May 2002,
Pankey was a clinical resource manager for Southwest Florida
Regional Medical Center, which is owned by HCA. He also has
acted as orthopedic coordinator for a 20-room surgical suite
while at Southwest Florida. During this time Pankey also acted
as the clinical liaison to information services during the
computerization of the operating room. Pankey has five-plus
years of experience as a surgical trauma nurse in a level-one
trauma center for Lee Memorial Health System in Ft. Myers. |
 Lorin
E. Patterson practices business, corporate, commercial and
securities law, with an emphasis on healthcare joint venture
formation, planning and development. Patterson regularly
assists healthcare clients in the formation and capitalization
of physician-owned entities such as ambulatory surgical
facilities, specialty hospitals, and related joint ventures
throughout the country, and has represented many physicians on
a wide variety of matters, including Stark, fraud and abuse
compliance, and group-practice formation and operations.
Patterson frequently speaks at national conferences, focusing
on physician-owned ancillary services, and is also the author
of numerous articles and publications. In 1987, Patterson
earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law,
and in 1983, his BA, cum laude, from Brigham Young University. |
 Jerry J. Sokol is a partner in the law firm of
McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Miami office. As a
member of the firm's Health Department, Sokol 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. Sokol co-chairs the firm's Health Ventures
Group and Health Care Transactions Group. His health care
experience also includes numerous sales, acquisitions and
mergers of a variety of health care entities: formation of
health care provider networks; formation of various management
service organizations arrangements; and all facets of managed
care contracting. Jerry has developed a particular niche in
representing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and ASC
companies with all of their transactional and regulatory
needs. |
 William
G. Southwick serves as president and chief executive
officer of HealthMark Partners, Inc. (HMP) based in Nashville,
Tennessee. Southwick is chiefly responsible for the ASC
turnaround strategies deployed by HMP and creative joint
venture structures that have enabled HMP to partner with both
physicians and hospitals in developing new or taking over
underperforming facilities. With a background that includes
both physician practice management and financial planning,
Southwick understands the dynamics of physician partnership
and helps guide business structuring decisions that effect
physician practice interests, and hospital mission, while
generating ample return on investment for joint venture
parties. It is this experience that has helped HMP gain a
reputation for getting things done on physician/hospital joint
ventures. Southwick earned a bachelor’s degree in economics
from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, as well as
certification from the American College as a certified life
underwriter and chartered financial consultant. |
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Todd Tidmore is the founder and managing director of
MedCapital Group, based in Dallas, Texas. The focus of
MedCapital Group is to provide real estate and equipment
financing alternatives for healthcare projects. Prior to
MedCapital Group, Tidmore was the chief financial officer of a
medical real estate developer and previously he had a CPA
practice in San Antonio for more than 17 years. Tidmore holds a
bachelor’s degree in accounting from Baylor University and a
MBA from University of Texas at San Antonio.
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 Robert
J. Zasa, MSHHA, FACMPE, is a founder and partner of
Woodrum/Ambulatory Systems Development, a national healthcare
services firm which consults with physicians, physician
groups, and hospitals to develop ambulatory care business.
W/ASD owns, operates, and consults on surgery centers,
occupational medicine and executive exam, diagnostic centers,
and ambulatory care facilities. Zasa is experienced in all
phases of business development, marketing, expansion,
structuring, and management of multi-service ambulatory care
facilities, group practices, ambulatory surgery centers, and
hospitals. Zasa earned a master’s of science degree in
hospital and health administration from the University of
Alabama Birmingham, and attended MBA graduate program at
Loyola University in New Orleans. Zasa is a graduate of the
certificate program in medical marketing at the UCLA School of
Business. |
 Eric Zimmerman is a partner in the law firm of
McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in its Washington, D.C.
office. A member of the Firm’s Health Department, Zimmerman
is a recognized Medicare law and policy authority who helps
clients navigate federal legislative and regulatory processes,
improve reimbursement and maintain compliance. Zimmerman
counsels and represents hospitals and health systems,
physician organizations, ambulatory surgery centers, device
and equipment manufacturers and suppliers and medical trade
associations and professional societies. |
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