InCharge HEALTHCARE Paul H. Keckley, PhD Executive Director Deloitte Center for Health Solutions 555 12th St. NW, Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20004 202.879.5600 deloitte.com/us/healthsciences Nashville-based Keckley oversees the national health research arm of Deloitte LLP. A prolific author, sought-after keynote speaker and regular contributor to national media outlets, Keckley has more than 30 years experience in health services research and academic medicine. Widely recognized as an expert on health reform, he previously held leadership roles at Vanderbilt and served as chairman of Interdent, CEO of EBM Solutions, CEO of Aveta and principal of The Keckley Group.
Renee Kessler COO Baptist Hospital 2000 Church St. Nashville 37236 615.284.5555 baptisthospital.com Kessler, who has more than 20 years of experience in hospital administration, joined Baptist in February 2007 to oversee hospital operations. She most recently served as COO and administrator of Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J. Prior to that, she held several executive positions, including COO and interim president during an eight-year tenure with St. Joseph Medical Center in Maryland. She has a master’s in healthcare administration.
Jim Kever Partner Voyent Partners LLC 5123 Virginia Way, Suite C22 Brentwood 37027 615.373.1727 Kever co-founded the venture capital firm Voyent Partners in 2001 with Fred Goad. Prior to launching the private investment company primarily involved in angel investing, Kever spent 18 years in the leadership of Envoy, a provider of electronic transaction processing services for the healthcare industry. He joined the company in 1981 as treasurer and general counsel and served as president and co-chief executive with Goad by the time Envoy sold to Quintiles in March 1999. He also served in the executive leadership of Quintiles and WebMD prior to launching Voyent.
Peter Kindrachuk President & COO Southwind, A Division of The Advisory Board Company 210 25th Ave. N., Suite 1200 Nashville 37203 615.385.2126 southwind.advisory.com Kindrachuk brings more than 25 years of experience with physician practice management and managed care risk contracting to his executive duties at Southwind, which is a division of The Advisory Board Company. In addition to overseeing daily operations and providing consultation for clients in his areas of expertise, Kindrachuk serves as interim CEO for select Southwind management engagements. Prior to joining Southwind, he was a senior VP and general manager for North American Medical Management, a division of Aveta Health (formerly PhyCor) and has years of practice administration experience.
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Executive VP HCP Inc. 3000 Meridian Blvd., Suite 200 Franklin 37067 615.324.6198 hpci.com Executive VP for Medical Office Properties at HCP since 2008, Klaritch joined the healthcare real estate firm in 2003 as senior VP. Prior to that, he was a founding member and CFO of MedCap Properties. Klaritch has more than 28 years of operational and financial management experience in the hospital and medical-office sectors. He is a CPA and Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Klaritch serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.
David Klements President & CEO Qualifacts Systems 200 Second Ave. S. Nashville 37201 866.386.6755 qualifacts.com Prior to his becoming president of Qualifacts, the largest provider of Software-as-a-Service and web-based electronic health records for the behavioral health and human services market, Klements held a number of leadership positions with various early-stage technology concerns and was vice president with SunGard Availability Services and general manager of Inflow. Klements is actively involved with the Nashville Technology Council, HIMSS and the Nashville Chamber of Commerce.
Philip Krebs Senior Managing Partner Avondale Partners LLC 3102 West End Ave., Suite 1100 Nashville 37203 615.467.3482 avondaleonline.com Krebs is a co-founder of Avondale and a member of the firm’s board. He was formerly managing director and head of investment banking at SunTrust Equitable Securities, which he joined in 1996. Prior to Equitable, he spent 10 years at Lehman Brothers in New York where he was a managing director and co-head of the company’s Merchandising Group. From 1989-1994, he was at the helm of Lehman’s Equity Capital Group. Other experience includes Blyth Eastman Paine Webber and Accenture.
Neil Krugman Member Dickinson Wright 424 Church St., Suite 1401 Nashville 37219 615.620.1701 dickinson-wright.com With a long history in healthcare law, Krugman provides counsel to companies in the hospital, managed care, practice management, pharmacy, retail medicine, diagnostic imaging and dental fields on a full range of regulatory and operational issues including adoption of compliance policies, anti-kickback and fraud issues, organizational structure and acquisitions. Previously, he was with the law firm Waller Lansden and has served as assistant general counsel of Equicor and was a vice president of Cigna Healthplan.
Jim Lackey Operating Executive FOCUS Search Partners 104 Woodmont Blvd., Suite 210 Nashville 37205 615.330.1829 focussearchpartners.com After leading Passport Health Communications from startup to established healthcare technology and information firm, Lackey has joined FOCUS Search Partners (previously Kraft Search Associates), a national healthcare executive recruitment firm for senior level positions. Prior to his more than decade of leadership as president, CEO and chairman of the board at Passport, Lackey served as president of FOCUS Healthcare Management, the nation’s largest workers’ compensation preferred provider organization. Before that, he was VP of administration and one of the founding officers of Coventry Corp. He serves on the board of the Nashville Health Care Council.
John Lam Co-founder & Chief Creative Strategist Lam-Andrews Advertising 1201 Eighth Ave. S. Nashville 37203 615.297.7717 lam-andrews.com Lam, who co-founded this healthcare communications firm in 1991, oversees creative operations and is a leader in client strategy and brand development providing strategic planning and creative concepts to develop effective communications tools. He has helped develop many of the leading healthcare brands in Nashville from their inception, working with clients such as AmSurg, BioMimetics, Diabetes Care Group, LifePoint Hospitals and Quorum Health Resources, among others.
Sara Lankford Partner Carter Lankford CPAs 1114 17th Ave. S., Suite 101 Nashville 37212 615.320.0225 clcpas.com Lankford co-founded her firm in 2005, four years after she and partner Lucy Carter had merged their previous firm into Horne’s local healthcare group. She is past president of the National CPA Healthcare Advisors Association and served as chair of the Management Consulting Services committee of the Tennessee Society of CPAs. Her articles have appeared in The Practicing CPA, Professional Practice Advisor, and Healthcare Financial Managers Journal, among other publications.
Garry Latimer Founder & CEO DiaTech Oncology 9208 Heritage Drive Brentwood 37027 615.377.9668 diatech-oncology.com Latimer is founder and CEO of DiaTech Oncology, a clinical pathology lab providing patient specific anticancer drug sensitivity testing and diagnostic hematopathology. Latimer has held senior VP positions in the clinical laboratory industry for over 30 years. He has led an international healthcare consulting group to formulate privatization projects in socialized healthcare systems, served in senior management with HCA’s Clinical Laboratory Division, helped found Laboratory Corporation of America, and was COO of Meridian Corporate Healthcare.
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