Kansas Medical Center competitors

Dr. Ellner is the President and CEO of Centura Health Physician Group, a 600 provider, employed multi-specialty group headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. Centura Health is a 17 hospital health system focused on connecting Colorado and western Kansas to affordable, world-class care with $1.3 billion in annual revenues. Dr. Ellner has completed a Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and National Patient Safety Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow with the Health Research Educational Trust and a member of the AHA Committee on Clinical Leadership. His work focuses on communication and culture change in the healthcare workplace to improve patient outcomes. He was Chairman and founding member of the Connecticut Surgical Quality Collaborative, a statewide, data sharing framework for all Connecticut hospitals to learn from one another using best practices. As an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dr. Ellner created a four-year patient safety curriculum for medical students and a yearlong "Leading Surgical Quality" curriculum for the surgical residents. He has written numerous peer-review articles on the subject of patient safety and is considered to be one of the "50 Leading Experts" on the subject by Becker’s Hospital Review. Dr. Ellner holds a Master’s Degree in Health Care Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has written case studies on surgical quality for the school to use as part of their curriculum. Dr. Ellner has appeared live on the Today Show, Larry King Live, NBC CT 30, NPR and has had articles in the CT Mirror, the Hartford Courant, the Wall Street Journal, Hartford Magazine, Hartford Business Journal, the HFMA e-Bulletin, Outpatient Surgery Magazine, Becker's Clinical Review, the American College of Surgeons Bulletin and the AHA Hospital and Health Networks Online Magazine for patient safety and health care quality improvement.

Donovan Blackburn is a City Manager at City Of Pikeville and Chief Executive Officer at PIKEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER and is based in 911 Bypass Road, Pikeville, Kentucky. He has worked as Sales, Store Manager & District Manager at Lowes Homecenter and Regional Operations Manager at FERRELLGAS PARTNERS L P.

Stuart Clark works at MERIDIAN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH and a CEO Council Member and Limited Partner at Council Capital, Chief Executive Officer at Premise Health, and Council Board Member at Nashville Health Care Council and is based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has worked as Exec Vice President at CHD Meridian Healthcare and Senior Vice President at American Occupational Health Management, Inc.. Stuart studied at University of Michigan between 1987 and 1991.

Kenna Stock is a Chief Executive Officer at Harbin Clinic and Board Member at United Community Bank. She has worked as Director:Bus Office at Harbin Clinic, Chief Operating Officer at Harbin Clinic, and Executive Director at Harbin Clinic. Kenna studied at Shorter University and Lindenwood University.

Shane is a pharmacist and entrepreneur specializing in innovative patient-care models and the use of technology to improve adherence, patient health outcomes and quality measures.He created the first central-fill pharmacy in Western Canada, using automation to prepare medications in patient-specific, multi-dose packaging that eased medication administration (med-pass) for nurses in long-term care facilities. His work with these facilities sparked his vision for Catalyst, now the leading provider of electronic medication administration record (eMAR) software in Canada, with a growing global presence in pharmacies and facilities.He has consulted for North America’s largest chains and smallest independents. As chair of the advisory committee for Healthy Residential Solutions Inc (HRS) in 2009, Shane led an independent pharmacy collaborative that applied technology to ensure high-quality patient care.Shane serves as an advisor to pharmacists, government agencies and industry leaders on matters related to pharmacy technology, medication administration accuracy, adherence, patient outcomes, and related areas. He was a leading contributor to the development of centralized filling and checking legislation for the province of British Columbia.