Healthcare CFO Roundtable Speaker Faculty
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Keith Dickey, Ph.D. Mr. Dickey has 19 years of experience advising a broad range of healthcare clients, providing strategic, merger and acquisition, and financial advisory services. His clients have included independent community hospitals, integrated health systems, academic medical centers, senior living facilities, managed care plans, and ancillary service providers nationwide. |
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David A. Ettinger David Ettinger is a Partner in Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP's Litigation Department. He is a 1976 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School with graduate level training in antitrust economics and has spearheaded the firm's antitrust practice for 20 years. Mr. Ettinger's activities include the litigation of major antitrust cases, including both private cases and cases brought by federal and state antitrust agencies, as well as advice and counseling on antitrust and trade regulation issues for clients in a wide variety of industries. |
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Melissa Hearsch Melissa Hearsch has extensive experience in working with independent community hospitals on merger and affiliation studies, as well as supporting these hospital providers throughout the negotiation process. She is currently a Manager with Kurt Salmon and in addition to her merger and affiliation work, has led projects on strategic planning, financial feasibility studies, and development of physician hospital alignment strategies and arrangements. |
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Richard J. Lorenti Mr. Lorenti has served for over 25 years as an investment banker to a broad range of healthcare companies. His experience includes developing and implementing strategic and financial transactions primarily for privately held and not-for-profit healthcare companies. The types of transactions and services include mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, both publicly offered and privately placed, and strategic planning and options assessments. |
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Mark Parrington Mark Parrington is Vice President, Strategic Transactions and Development for Catholic Health Initiatives. Mark joined CHI in the fall of 2006. He has over thirty years of diversified and highly effective strategic planning, marketing, and business development experience with an emphasis on the planning for and development of integrated healthcare delivery systems. Prior to joining CHI, Mark held senior strategy and business development executive positions at Centegra Health System, The Cleveland Clinic Health System – Western Region, Sisters of Mercy Health System – St. Louis, and, for fifteen years, served as a member of the founding senior management team at Sutter Health – Sacramento, CA. |
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Luke Peterson |
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Linda S. Ross Linda represents hospitals, physicians and other healthcare systems and providers in connection with affiliations, acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, reorganizations, joint ventures and other alignment
strategies. She also represents Catholic health care organizations in joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. |
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Gary E. Vogan Gary is the CFO at Holy Cross Hospital, a mission driven Catholic hospital that serves 32,000 inpatients a year (including 9,000 births). His responsibilities include finance, hotel services and information services, as well as financial education, input to planning, development of new ventures (partnerships and new individual services), and general leadership development of management staff. |
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Monte Ward Monte is CFO at Cabell Huntington Hospital, a 313 bed tertiary care center affiliated with The Marshall University School of Medicine. Cabell serves the Huntington, WV/Ashland, KY/Ironton, OH area with a population of 325,000. The hospital has the only burn unit in the state of WV and one of the few Neonatal and Pediatric ICUs in the state. Monte is a CPA and holds a BBA in Accounting and an MBA from Marshall University and a MS in Healthcare Administration from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. After completing his Bachelor’s degree he joined the health care division of Hayflich and Steinberg, CPAs where he was senior auditor. |