John Barden, MBA, CPA, CFE
John Barden is Senior Professional Lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching graduate level courses in forensic accounting, principles of accounting and managerial accounting. He has over 15 years of senior corporate accounting experience and has extensive experience teaching accounting and financial statement analysis to physician executives and senior healthcare managers.
William Behrendt, PhD
Bill Behrendt serves as Vice President of Human Resources at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He formerly served as Vice President for Human Resources for CareGroup Health System and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and as President of Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in St. Louis. In these positions, Dr. Behrendt gained extensive knowledge and experience in organization development, mergers and acquisitions, change management, strategic planning and executive coaching.
Britt Berrett, MHA
Britt Berrett is President and Chief Executive Officer of Dallas based Medical City Hospital, where he oversees strategic planning and operations for both Medical City and Medical City Children’s Hospitals. Medical City is a 677-bed tertiary center with a medical staff of 1,370 physicians and 2,600 employees that handle 22,000 total admissions and over 50,000 emergency room visits each year. Medical City was voted “The Best Place to Work” and “The Most Family Friendly Place to Work” in the Metroplex, and in 2006 was recognized to be one of the “Top 50 Best Places to Work in the State of Texas”.
Marie Chevrier, PhD
Marie Chevrier is associate professor of political economy at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a nationally recognized expert on negotiating strategy, particularly in the areas of arms control and the control of chemical and biological weapons. She has over ten years experience teaching negotiations and conflict resolution to physicians and health system administrators.
David Deeds, PhD
David Deeds is the Sandra Schulze professor of entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business in St. Paul, MN. He was formerly associate professor of strategy and organizational development at the University of Texas at Dallas and was the founder and director of the BioScience Management program at Case Western Reserve University. During his career Dr. Deeds has led executive education programs in strategy and provided strategic consulting for several Fortune 1000 companies and some of the nation’s largest health systems.
Robert Hicks, PhD
Robert (Rob) Hicks is Clinical Professor and Director of the Executive and Professional Coaching program at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. The program provides training and certification for individuals who wish to coach executives and senior level professionals. He is a licensed psychologist with extensive experience coaching physician leaders at some of the nation’s top academic medical centers.
Doug Kiel, PhD
L. Douglas (Doug) Kiel is Professor of Public Administration and Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Medicine at the UT Southwestern Medical School. Professor Kiel is a leading authority in the application of the theories of complexity and chaos to management and organizations. He is actively engaged in several healthcare executive education programs, specializing in change management and improving operational effectiveness.
Kirk Kirksey, MA
Kirk Kirksey is Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Mr. Kirksey oversees technical departments which are responsible for university computing, networking, customer support and campus-wide telecommunications. Mr. Kirksey has been instrumental in the design and implementation of Southwestern’s clinical and financial information systems, design of its data communications infrastructure, and the design and consolidation of the university’s Internet functions.
James Langley, MD, MS
James Langley is a board certified pathologist and Chief Medical Infomatics Officer for the Methodist Health System in Dallas. He was formerly the Executive Director of the transplant immunology laboratory and Medical Director for transfusion services within the Methodist Health System. He has served in numerous leadership positions in professional medial organizations at the county, state and national levels.
John McCracken, PhD
John McCracken is Clinical Professor of Healthcare Management and founding director of the Alliance for Medical Management Education, an educational partnership between the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center. A recipient of the School of Management’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Professor McCracken has over fifteen years experience teaching and working with physician executives and in the turnaround management of distressed healthcare organizations and physician group practices.
Bruce Meyer, MD, MBA
Bruce Meyer, MD, MBA, currently serves as Vice-President for Medical Affairs; Associate Dean for Health System Affairs; and Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UT-Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Meyer was formerly the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and President of the UMass Memorial Medical Group. He is the author of over 60 peer reviewed publications and has won multiple classroom teaching awards.
Ronald Peshock, MD
Ron Peshock holds several senior appointments at UT Southwestern Medical Center, including Director of the Mary Nell and Ralph B. Rogers Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Director of the Division of MRI Research, Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Internal Medicine, Assistant Dean for Informatics, and physician liaison for information systems to the Parkland Health and Hospital System. Dr. Peshock is a Diplomat to the American Board of Internal Medicine and has received numerous honors and awards, including being twice named as one of the Best Doctors in America.
Suresh Radhakrishnan, PhD
Suresh Radhakrishnan is Professor of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. He is currently the Research Director of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance and a Director of UTD’s Accounting Center for Excellence. He has extensive experience teaching medical cost and performance management to physician executives and senior health system administrators.
William Rayburn, MD, MS
William Rayburn, MD, MS, is the Randolph V. Seligman Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief-of-Staff at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Dr. Rayburn has written over 400 peer-review journal articles and abstracts and authored and edited several textbooks and book chapters. He is the recipient of several awards for his teaching and scientific work and has been named among the Best Doctors in America and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.
David Springate, PhD
David Springate is Associate Dean for Executive Education and Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he oversees all of the School of Management’s executive degree and continuing education programs. A recipient of the school’s Outstanding Professor Award, he is one of the leading professors in the graduate business program for physicians.
David Teegarden, MD, MS
David Teegarden is President and Chief Medical Officer for Trinity Mother Frances Health System. He is Board Certified in both internal medicine and gastroenterology, and received the Army Commendation Medal for his service as Chief of Gastroenterology for the U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research. He currently serves as President of the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association and serves on the Alumni Board of The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
Blake Waterhouse, MD, MBA
Board certified in internal medicine, Blake Waterhouse is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Straub Clinic & Hospital, the largest integrated health system in Hawaii, with a 300 physician multi-specialty group practice, 1800 employees, a 159 bed acute care hospital, 20 satellite clinics and a health plan. At Staub he was responsible for devising a new managed care strategy, revising existing referral patterns, instituting product line management, implementing an organization wide CQI program, and improving the use of information technologies.
DuWayne Willett, MD, MS
DuWayne Willett is Associate Professor of Cardiology and Assistant Dean for Clinical Service Metrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Willett is a recognized authority on clinical service process improvement, and helps guide development of UT Southwestern’s data warehouse and web-based Scorecard system to provide interactive feedback on process performance metrics to various levels of management.
David Winter, MD, MS
David Winter is founder and President of MedProvider, a large internal medicine group practice that works within the framework of Baylor Health Care System. He also serves as Chairman of HealthTexas, a 475 member physician organization and chairs the Quality Committee which sets guidelines for preventive health, patient satisfaction, and clinical standards. Dr. Winter has also served as Governor of the North Texas Chapter of the American College of Physicians, where he is known for patient advocacy and improving systems of care. As a consultant in Texas, Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala, he has championed the re-design of health care systems to better serve patients
Garry Young, PhD
Garry Young is is Associate Director of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy and Associate Research Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. A nationally recognized expert on Congress and the congressional decision making process, Professor Young leads the Washington seminar on health policy and regulation.
