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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.

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Assoc. (FHFMA)Board Member of Louisiana Hospital AssociationBoard Member of LHA Trust FundsBoard Member of ShareCorBoard Member of LaRhixMember: American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA) Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accounts (LCPA) American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) National Rural Health Association (NRHA)Experience in Prospective pay and Cost-based hospitals; for-profit and non-profit hospitals; acute-care and specialty hospitals; public accounting specializing in healthcare

Brent Fisher Is a "broad range" leader and has held leadership positions spanning a wide variety of complex and start-up organizations: manufacturing (pharmaceutical & medical device), software development, hospitals (academic and community), medical groups, consulting, hospice, military, engineered devices, engineered plastics, and private equity. His writings have been published in various magazines, trade journals, and medical journals, including the Physician Executive Journal, Healthcare Executive, Modern Healthcare, Group Practice Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Healthcare Management (Best Article Award). Served on the Board of Directors of professional associations, civic organizations, and businesses. He currently serves as President & CEO of Alyeska International Inc., as well as other organizations.