2024/2025 Executive Leadership Speaker Series

“The purpose of the Executive Leadership Speaker Series is to help develop and encourage future leaders by exposing them to different leadership perspectives and styles from past and current trailblazers throughout the healthcare ecosystem. 

“Our diverse speakers, who come from the public and private sectors, share their experiences to highlight the role leadership plays in the rapidly changing healthcare environment. Through dialogue and facilitated discussions, our students learn how to lead effectively through change. A key emphasis of the Executive Leadership Speaker Series is servant leadership. We are appreciative to all the speakers who shared topics of relevancy to our students during the 2024/2025 academic year.”

—        Joel Allison, Robbins Institute for Health Policy & Leadership Executive in Residence and former CEO of Baylor Scott & White Health

SEPTEMBER 2024

“Baylor Scott and White Preview Day” and “Leadership Competencies for a Changing World”

6          Charles Williams, MBA, MOT, FACHE 

            President DFW West Region, President of Baylor Scott & White All Saints 

            Fort Worth, Texas

“CHRISTUS Health Preview Day” and “Faith-Based Healthcare”

13        Jason Proctor

            Ministry President, Christus Health

“Tenet Health Preview Day” and “The Changing Healthcare Landscape”

20        Traci Holton, PharmD, MBA

            Vice President, Operations for Tenet Healthcare

            Tarek Naser, MBA

            Vice President, Operations Finance for USPI

“HCA Preview Day” and “Hospital Leadership and Executive Presence”

27        Allen Harrison, MBA

            President and CEO at HCA Healthcare North Texas Division, Medical City Healthcare. 

            Dawna Hansen

            Assistant Vice President in Urgent Care of HCA Healthcare of the West Region

NOVEMBER 2024

“Mercy Health Preview Day” and “Making the Most of Your MBA Experience” and “ACHE Regent Presentation” and “Physician Practice Management”

1          David Argueta, MBA

            Regional President, Mercy East and Southwest Communities

            Christian Lieneck, PhD, FACHE

            Director of the School of Health Administration at Texas State University

“BCM Preview Day” and “Academic Medicine”

22        Paul Klotman, MD

            CEO and Executive Dean of Baylor College of Medicine

            Lorie Tabak, MPH

            Chief of Staff, Baylor College of Medicine

JANUARY 2025        

“Budgeting and Financial Planning” 

28        Chase Ogden, MBA (Class of 2011)

            VP-Finance, Community Hospitals Memorial Hermann, Houston, Texas 

“Catalyst Health and Stellus Rx Preview Day” and “Value-Based Healthcare” 

31        Lance Spivey 

            Co-founder and President of Catalyst Health Group

            Tony Willoughby, PharmD 

            CEO, Stellus Rx

FEBRUARY 2025

“Creating a Strategic Plan”

4          Macy Scott, MBA (Class of 2022)

            Practice Administrator 2

            Baylor Scott & White Health, College Station, Texas 

“Role and Challenges of the Healthcare CFO”

10        Brian Elisco, MBA, FACHE (Class of 2011)

            CEO-Arizona Group & CEO-Abrazo Arrowhead Hospital

            Abrazo Arrowhead Hospital at Tenet Healthcare, Phoenix, Arizona

“Well-Informed Decision-Making” 

14        Joel Allison, MBA

            Ken Hall 

“Healthcare Finance and Revenue Cycle Leadership”

17        Jamie Hill-Walters, MBA, FACHE 

            Chief Customer Officer, Janus Health

            Chris Kubin, FHFMA

            Director of Debt, Baylor Scott and White Health

“Government Relations” 

19          David Tesmer, MPA

            Chief Community and Public Policy Officer

            Texas Health Resources, Arlington, Texas

“Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions”

21        Mark Rountree, MAcc/Tax, CPA

            Ernst & Young, LLP, Dallas, TX

“Medical Practice Operations & Physician Compensation”

26        Jason Reinhardt, MBA (Class of 2007) 

            Vice President-Operations

            Concentra-South Central Region, Addison, Texas

“AccentCare Preview Day” and “Home Health and Hospice”

28        Kelvin Bailey

            Vice President-Enterprise Transformation, AccentCare

MARCH 2025

“Creating a Financial Case for Labor”

4          Sarah Jeon, MBA (Class of 2023)

            Director of Surgical Development

            St. David’s Healthcare, Austin, Texas

“The Physician-Administrator Relationship” 

7          Lauren Barron, MD

            Clinical Professor and Director

            Medical Humanities Program at Baylor University, Waco, Texas

“Preparing for the Monthly Budget Review”

17        Darrell Leggett, MBA (Class of 2019)

            Co-Founder, Bespoke Coffee Roasters, Palm Beach 

APRIL 2025

“Health Policy and Policy Making”

4          David Tesmer

            Chief Community and Public Policy Officer, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, Texas

“Population Health Management and Finance”

7          Wesley Bryan, MBA (Class of 2013)

            Director of Business Development

            Southwestern Health Resources

“Service Line Development/Pro Formas/Dashboards/ KPIs”

16        Justin Pond, MBA (Class of 2013)

            Vice President Hospital Operations 

            Baylor Scott & White Health, Waxahachie, Texas

“Revenue Cycle Management, Chargemaster Integrity, and Pricing"

25        Reece Fitzgerald, MBA (Class of 2014)

            System Director, Revenue Capture and Optimization

            Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, Texas
 

            Kate Johnston, MBA 

            VP, Revenue Analytics

            Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, Texas

“Approaches to Organizational Leadership and Ethics"

25        Rachel Pate

            VP of Economic Development and Lemonade Day Director

            Cen-Tex African American Chamber of Commerce