Brandon Bennett, DNP, APRN, CNOR, CNS-CP, CSSM, CNAMB, NE-BC, is a professional practice-focused expert specializing in strategic change and management. Dr. Bennett specializes in strategic change management and use of evidence-based practice to improve operations and outcomes. He has led hospital departments through process redesign, physical plant reconstruction, and IT installation projects. His focus is working with clients and individuals to identify the most efficient, effective, and innovative methods to operate and staff their departments while meeting--or exceeding--standards and expectations. He has created and served as faculty for numerous perioperative education workshops and is the principal instructor for Competency & Credentialing Institute's CSSM Prep Webinar series.

Dr. Kelvin McCree is a globally recognized thought leader, 6 x author, international speaker on change management, mental agility and cultivating an agile workforce. His work is focused on helping teams to thrive in the midst of disruption. His ground breaking new book "The Pivot: Leading The Future of Work" provides organizations and businesses the trends, trajectories, challenges and opportunities in the changing workforce. 

Dr. McCree and Laser Focus Leadership Solutions are SHRM Recertification Providers. He holds a Masters of Executive Leadership and a Doctorate in Strategic Leadership, Certifications in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Inclusive Leadership, as well as multiple Advanced Executive Coaching Certifications recognized by the International Coaching Federation.  

Cindy Cannon is the Executive Director of Finance for Massachusetts General Hospital, responsible for the full spectrum of financial functions such as analysis and new program development, directing the establishment and monitoring of the capital and operating budgets, compliance and policy implementation, and ensuring effective/efficient transaction processing. In addition, she is the Finance Lead for the Mass General Brigham (MGB) Business Excellence (BEx) initiative responsible for overseeing the implementation of Workday across MGB ($16B organization) as well as transforming the processes across the enterprise to standardize and implement best practices. Cindy is a graduate of New York University, where she earned a Bachelor's in Administration, and Babson College, from which she received an M.B.A. A mother of 2 college aged boys, she is also a devoted long distance runner and triathlete, having competed in ten Boston Marathons and many triathlons, including five Ironman competitions.

Mary Anne has demonstrated strong leadership skills for proactively creating a COVID-19 policy and managing elective surgery shutdowns and post-COVID staffing challenges.

She has spent her entire career in surgical services and has loved every minute of it. She began over 41 years ago as a surgical technician at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah, before becoming a nurse and a nurse leader.

Mary Anne's career has included Neurosurgery Team Leader at a major trauma center, OR Educator, OR Manager, and Surgical Services Director at a Trauma One regional referral pediatric center, Primary Children's Hospital, also part of Intermountain Healthcare.

Along the way she branched out and was a consultant, traveling throughout the United States and even to Korea providing education on a neurosurgical drill.

Currently she is Nurse Executive Director of Surgical Operations at Intermountain Healthcare. This portfolio includes 25 hospitals serving over 215 operating rooms along with Same Day Surgery, PACU, Endoscopy, Anesthesia, and Central Processing throughout Idaho and Utah.

Mary Anne and her husband have three children who have all gone into nursing, two of whom are in surgical services.

Although I hold a Doctor of Nursing degree now, my career started as a Surgical Technologist in 1980 and have been a lifelong student, completing my ASN in 1986, BSN in 1992, MSN in 2005 and earning my DNP in 2015. I consider educational degrees important and have always combined them with certifications for the specialties in which I am working. My career includes 40 years of experience in perioperative services focused on optimizing departments to achieve clinical, operational and financial goals while facilitating technology adoption. I am currently employed full-time with Common Spirit as the Senior Director of Nursing, Perioperative Services. In 2022, I opened Clinical Project Resource as a consulting business, working with vendors and attorneys.

After spending over three decades as an operational leader in healthcare, Pamela Hunt currently serves as an Executive Advisor| Consultant and Associate Faculty for the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University.

Pam is nationally known as a nurse executive, author, financial, quality, safety and strategic expert, and community leader. She has delivered over 800 nursing and healthcare leadership presentations and published on subjects regarding workforce development, strategic planning, connecting to the purpose of our profession and most notably healthcare finance.

An experienced operational leader, she has led significant safety improvements in the acute care setting including perioperative services. For over 15 years she served as a perioperative director.
In addition to serving on the editorial board of Nursing Management, and as Chairperson of the Nursing Management Conference, Pam has served on community and non-profit boards impacting the advancement of population health and the nursing profession for over 25 years.

In 2020 Pam was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Stephanie Landmesser, MSN, RN, CCNS, CNOR, is a clinical nurse specialist at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She has more than 30 years of experience in perioperative nursing and holds a TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer certificate.

Monica Young RN, DNP, MBA, CNOR, NEA-BC, FACHE has worked in the operating room setting for over 30 years. For the last eight years Monica has had the role of Vice President of Perioperative Services at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. Monica also has a black belt in Lean Six Sigma and has been the project manager for many process improvement initiatives. Monica has previously been a guest speaker at AORN, OR Manager and Surgery Compass conferences.

James Burdette is a proven, multi-faceted leader driven by the highest standards of service and ethics that champions innovation, interpersonal communication, financial stewardship, and creative problem-solving. His current role is Director of Perioperative Business Operations at UCHealth. James holds a Master's degree in Healthcare Administration from Columbia Southern University and a Bachelor of Science in International Finance from Colorado State University.

Briana Houghton is a proven leader in Perioperative Services with 15+ experience in project management, capital and operational budget maintenance, strategy, building teams and process improvement. She currently oversees business operations at Longs Peak Hospital, Longs Peak Surgery Center, and Broomfield Hospital in the role of Perioperative Business Operations Manager at UCHealth. Briana holds a Master's degree in Healthcare Administration and a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and Business Administration.

Jenessa joined LeanTaaS as a Product Implementation Specialist following her Administrative Fellowship at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. She is passionate about helping customers transform their operations and developing teams that are confident in understanding and leveraging data to make decisions. She holds a Master's of Health Administration from the University of Washington and a Bachelor's Degree from Carroll College.

Michelle Larson, DNP, RN, CCRN-K, NE-BC is a Nurse Administrator at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Dr. Larson obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Loyola University Chicago. Her capstone project focused on nursing surveillance and screening for sepsis to improve timeliness of recognition of sepsis and compliance with treatment guidelines. Dr. Larson has a passion for engaging clinical nurses in the evidence-based practice process. She has been in various leadership positions including Manager of Critical Care and is currently the Nurse Administrator for Hospital Surgical Services at Mayo Clinic.

Jeff Robinson, MSN, RN, NE-BC is an Operating Room Nurse Manager at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
Jeff graduated with a Masters in Nursing in Leadership with an Emphasis in Health Care settings from Grand Canyon University in 2016. Jeff is a nursing advocate focusing on transformational and servant leadership, with a passion for providing excellent patient centered care. He has held a variety of positions as a Manager and Director in the surgical and procedural arena.

Dusty Clegg began her leadership career as a Specialty Leader over Plastics and has dedicated 41 years to the surgery setting. She has been an Operating Room Manager, Director of Surgery, Regional Surgical Director and is currently one of the few female Operations Officers at Intermountain Healthcare (IH). Dusty helped design, build and open the flag ship hospital, Intermountain Medical Center oversighting 22 operating rooms and eventually began leading dozens of managers as the Central Regional Director over eight hospitals in the greater Salt Lake Valley. Dusty received her Bachelor's degree in nursing from Westminster College and a Master's in Science from The University of Colorado at Denver in a combination program with the Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) which included curriculum or an additional semester of classes to receive a Perioperative Management Certificate. She has been a Certified Nurse in the Operating Room and an active member of Operation Smile, volunteering for over 35 humanitarian missions throughout world including Kenya, Thailand, Congo, Vietnam and Guatemala just to name a few. Dusty was asked to be a clinical coordinator for Operation Smile because of her organizational and leadership skills. Beyond performing operations, she is on the advance team and helps plan for and set up missions. Dusty received the Nursing Excellence in Leadership award from IH and the Donna Poe Leadership Award from Operation Smile. During 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Dusty's team nominated to be a flag carrier in the opening and closing ceremonies. These are all accolades from those she leads which speaks volumes to the respect she is given. Dusty is an advocate for students and surgery teams.

Larissa Jimerson began her healthcare career as a Surgical Technologist followed shortly thereafter as an Operating Room nurse and has dedicated her 31-year career to Surgical Services. The first 10 years practicing in the Operating Room at The Genesee Hospital, in Rochester, New York; where she was the lead clinical consultant charged with the opening an orthopedic free-standing surgical center.

Larissa then accepted a position with Intermountain Healthcare and has held several leadership positions including department Charge Nurse, Patient Liaison and Nurse Education Consultant; followed by Nurse Project Coordinator with Surgical Specialties Clinical Program prior to joining Surgical Operations.

During this time, she was an instrumental member of the advance team opening the flagship hospital, Intermountain Medical Center. She subsequently collaborated with multiple stakeholders and shared her clinical insights on multiple stewardship and best practice initiatives.

She received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing from University of Phoenix. Larissa embodies a process improvement mindset and is uniquely positioned to facilitate critical communication between clinical and non-clinical teams; in support of Perioperative care and financial stewardship.

John Sturzenegger, MBA, SSBB, serves as the Continuous Improvement Manager of Supply Chain for the Operations and Service Line Group of Intermountain Healthcare. John supports operational excellence by sharing best practices, and supporting the OR strategy. John received his undergraduate degree in Business Management and his MBA with an emphasis on Marketing. He has worked in healthcare for 17 plus years, with roles ranging from Materials Management, to Data and Analytics, Supply Chain Supervisor, and Standardization Manager specializing in Perioperative services

Chris is a results-oriented leader dedicated to building trust and transparency for over 30 years in healthcare. Within his focus and specialty in Surgical Services, he exhibits a thorough expertise in leading people, creating positive culture change, and facilitating performance improvement initiatives resulting in better reliability, higher quality and lower cost. Chris motivates others through honesty, integrity, collaboration and mentoring.

Chris is familiar with working directly with C-Suite, departmental, and physician leaders in the formulation of operational improvement initiatives in both the perioperative environment and throughout integrated health systems. He is known for his "rolling up his sleeves" approach along with an ability to build and support teams in achieving organizational goals and vision. Chris has held several executive leadership positions and consulted in settings ranging from top 10 academic centers to community hospitals across the globe, where he provided executive leadership and oversight into key clinical service areas and care redesign. Prior to entering the private sector, Chris proudly served in the US Navy, delivering high-quality and compassionate medical care to servicemen and women for 12 years.

Chris holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration and Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland- University College. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of Nebraska Medical Center and is board certified as both a Certified Surgical Services Manager (CSSM) and Nurse Executive, Advanced (NEA-BC).

Kimberly B. Merritt is the President and Principal Consultant of Merrittorious Services. Merrittorious Services was formed in 2019 to assist clients with assessing a healthcare organization's readiness for accreditation, regulatory compliance and/or with performing a surgical/infection control-focused review. Kimberly has more than 35 years of experience working in various healthcare positions, most notably serving as a member of the Nurse Corps in the U.S. Air Force from 1995 - 2016. Clinically, she is a licensed registered nurse with civilian and military nursing experience including medical-surgical, home health, ambulatory, behavioral health and human services, operating room, family practice clinical and leadership experience in healthcare operations. She also has expertise in the evaluation of healthcare compliance, infection prevention and control, continuous process improvement strategies and leadership development. Kimberly is trained in the application, teaching, and facilitation of the requirements and recommendations of The Joint Commission, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other regulatory and accrediting agencies. Kimberly can galvanize staff to identify issues and promote systematic processes and sustainable solutions, as well as create and provide coaching and informative sessions.

Kimberly's extensive Air Force experience afforded her the opportunity to work with various members of the military and the local community. Having been awarded a fellowship at the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC), she reviewed standards, answered inquiries, participated in board meetings and accreditation activities and updated electronic documentation systems. She has also had the responsibility to oversee Health Services Inspections and Joint Commission surveys, for clinics as well as perioperative services. Kimberly worked with quality, accreditation and chief nurses in authoring facility policies, risk management reviews and spearheaded oversight and reviewed data of performance measures such as incidents, mortality rates, Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) and hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). Since retiring from the Air Force, Kimberly has had the opportunity to provide consultative services with various healthcare consulting agencies, involving multi-level healthcare systems. She has also worked with the Defense Health Agency to analyze trends of patient safety events during the pandemic and co-authored a white paper for the agency's executive leadership. Kimberly has a passion to help organizations achieve excellence and compliance through evidence-based research, data, and collaborative endeavors.

Kimberly has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina - Greensboro and a Master of Healthcare Administration from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. She is a certified perioperative nurse emeritus and is a healthcare accreditation certified professional. In December 2019, Kimberly completed Duke University's Legal Nurse Consultant course. She has spoken at professional conferences and earned numerous awards. Kimberly is a member of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

Rich Miller is a career entrepreneur in the healthcare and software space with a passion for creating products and services that make a meaningful impact and create strategic value for customers. As Chief Innovation Officer at QGenda, Miller focuses on executive management, workforce analytics, and healthcare strategy. He has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Vermont and enjoys mentoring entrepreneurs and serving on the boards of nonprofits in healthcare, the arts, and education.

Andrew Martin is experience in Nursing, Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Risk Management. Andrew started his professional nursing career in 2001 working in the intensive care unit; from there transitioned to working in the emergency department of a level 1 trauma center where he became certified in emergency room nursing. Andrew was promoted to the director of emergency services and the aeromedical program where his responsibilities included clinical and business operations of the Emergency Department, Flight Program, Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Program and the Emergency Department Specialty Float Pool. Andrew then accepted a role as the Corporate Clinical Risk Manager for one of the state's largest rehabilitation networks; whose locations include 2 acute care licensed rehabilitation hospitals, 2 long term acute care hospitals, 2 long term care homes and close to 100 hospital based out-patient rehabilitation clinics. Andrew was then promoted from this role and accepted the position of hospital administrator for one of the Networks Long Term Acute Care Hospitals. Most recently Andrew joined the team of professionals at the ECRI Patient Safety Organization as a Patient Safety Analyst / Consultant. Andrew leverages his extensive background while reviewing event data, writing research responses, analyzing root cause analysis and partnering with patient safety and health networks across the nation working to improve patient safety in healthcare.

Prior to coming to ECRI Andrew was recognized for his contributions to nursing literature with the Nursing Research and Quality Award for Promotion of New Knowledge, Innovation and Improvements. Most recently Andrew was awarded the Most Notable Graduate of the Decade from Cedar Crest College located in Allentown Pennsylvania. Andrew has facilitated the implementation of innovative programs during his career, these include an escalation model in the Emergency Department allowing for the adaptation of processes in response to emergency department patient volume and acuity and MyMobility program which focuses on the early mobility of critically ill patients in the Long Term Care Hospital setting helping to decrease hospital length of stay and improve the patient's clinical outcomes.

Joan Dentler is president and chief executive officer of Avanza Healthcare Strategies, which provides healthcare organizations with strategic guidance, with a focus on outpatient services and community collaborations. For more than 25 years, Joan has been consulting on, developing or operating ambulatory surgery centers, hospital outpatient services and outpatient strategy. She founded ASC Strategies in 2007 and Outpatient Strategies in 2011, unifying the two companies under a single brand, Avanza Healthcare Strategies, in 2013.

Joan's breadth of experience and disarming nature help her quickly build trust and establish credibility with clients and other stakeholders. She is known for her incisive business acumen and elegant solutions to complex problems. Before founding Avanza, Joan worked in healthcare administration, serving as a hospital liaison for physician-hospital joint ventures and as an administrator of community-based women's health and pediatric primary care facilities.

Amanda Brown started her nursing career in pediatrics providing bedside care in a surgical trauma unit. In addition, she gained experience in pediatric home care setting. In 2007 she transitioned into perioperative practice as an Operating Room Nurse in both circulating and scrub nurse roles. She has traveled internationally twice with surgical mission teams and served as a Registered Nurse First Assistant. In 2012 she earned her Master's Degree as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pediatrics. Amanda has practiced as a Clinical Educator and Professional Development Specialist in Perioperative Services as well as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Inpatient care. In 2019, Amanda transitioned to adult perioperative care and currently serves as a Nursing Professional Development Specialist and Educator for Perioperative Services.
She has held the CNOR credential since 2009 and the Clinical Nurse Specialist - Certified Perioperative credential since 2019. Amanda is also a Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist and Advanced Practice Nurse.

Deborah Hedrick MA, BSN, RN, has been a nurse for 45 years and a Perioperative Director for over 30 years. Deborah began her nursing career in Women's Services and in the 1980's found her passion for the Operating Room. She is certified in Advanced Nursing Administration and Surgical Services Management and received her Master's in the Arts from Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia and her BSN in nursing from Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado.

Anthony is the Director, Perioperative Solution at Qventus and has also co-led the design and development of the new Qventus Perioperative Solution.

Throughout his career, Anthony has focused on helping hospitals and health systems design growth, partnership, and competitive strategies. He has previously held healthcare advisory roles in organizations including The Chartis Group and GE Healthcare.

Director of Robotics and national speaker with 31 years' experience in healthcare. Sherry is a champion of technology and its impact on patient care. Sherry's involvement in the early developmental stages and adoption of robotics in 2002 with numerous "pilot programs" and "partnering initiatives", helped lay the groundwork and building blocks for the successful growth and development of the Robotics Program today, performing over 1600 cases per year in multiple specialties.

Dr. Grichnik joined SCA Health in 2021 as the organization's first ever Chief of Anesthesiology services. She brings an impressive 30-years of experience and a thoughtful approach to integration of anesthesiology services in facilities' management, goals and operations that improve patient outcomes and enhance the patient experience. Her prior roles include being the founder KPG Healthcare Consulting, the President of American Anesthesiology, the CMO at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital and the Vice President of Clinical development at Surgical Directions. She also spent 22 years as a professor of cardiothoracic anesthesiology, being the Associate Dean for CME and a co-founder of a patient safety organization within the Duke University Health System. Dr. Grichnik earned her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, her Master of Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College.

I. Naya Kehayes is a Partner and the Ambulatory Surgery Practice Leader for ECG Management Consultants. She has spent more than 30 years in the healthcare industry and over 25 years in consulting.

She has devoted her career to working with ASCs, hospitals, and physician practices with a proven track record of serving clients as a strategic adviser in ASC operations, hospital-to-ASC surgery migration and strategy assessments, managed care contracting, and business analysis. She has provided direction to a number of national health organizations on the issues of managed care contracting, the integration of ASCs into health systems, and the revenue implications associated with evolving payment systems and structures.

John Bring, RN, BSN, is the nursing executive at OrthoNebraska Hospital. He has an extensive background working in various roles in healthcare for nearly 20 years and a bachelor's degree in psychology. John currently oversees all nursing and perioperative services, education, employee health, pharmacy, IT, and clinical informatics. Bring has been highly regarded for his performance improvement strategies and innate ability to create buy-in and influence change with quality, efficiency, and patient experience to ultimately achieve strategic organizational goals. He has been instrumental in evolving OrthoNebraska operations to sync up with the hospital's 20% surgical growth over the last two years. Bring's efforts have included a heavy focus on leveraging technology and data to drive systematized actions that can be reproducible and automated and result in improved efficiency, resource utilization, and outcomes.

Abby Thomas is a Perioperative Solutions Manager and brings deep expertise in perioperative operations. As a trusted advisor, she partners with clients to align operational goals with product capabilities to drive measurable improvements. Abby earned her MPH from the University of Michigan and her BA from Central College.

Natalie Bright, RN, MBA, is the Department Administrator for Enterprise Surgical Operations at the Cleveland Clinic. She started her career in the perioperative setting as a nurse in the operating room. Throughout her nursing profession, has transitioned into several leadership roles within Surgical Nursing and Surgical Operations. Natalie also served as a Captain in the US Army Reserves Nurse Corp and was honorably discharged in 2007.
She thrives on innovation, teamwork, process improvement, and uses her down to earth humor as way to break the ice with new colleagues. Her passions include block optimization, analytics, service line movements, and programmatic shifts that help to create and enhance access for patients.

An experienced program and project manager, Teri has worked across multiple industries and with organizations both big and small. With the combination of being highly organized, strategic, and personable, she has been effective at many leading teams to successful completion of projects. As a leader in project management and PMP certified, Teri is well versed in project management methodologies, process improvement, organizational change, project planning, and operational efficiencies. At the Cleveland Clinic, Teri manages a variety of projects that support surgical operations with process improvement, regulatory compliance, and patient experience.

Wendy Simmons, MSN, RN is the Director of Ambulatory Surgical Nursing for the Ambulatory Surgical Centers at Cleveland Clinic. In her role she oversees the daily operation of multiple surgery centers across northeast Ohio. As a nurse for over 25 years, she has experience in Primary Care, Women's Health, Pediatrics, Pain Management and Perioperative services. In her current role she is a content expert in creating a mobile workforce, responsible for regulatory compliance and nursing practice standardization. She is a member of the Ambulatory Surgery Quality Council and Ambulatory Surgery Centers Board of Managers. Wendy has her Bachelor's degree in Nursing and her Masters in Nursing with an emphasis on Healthcare Leadership.

Megan is a business operations leader with over leader with over 12-years of experience in the construction and successful deployment of strategic plans with clear outcomes, intentional organizational design that meet or exceed specified requirements. Result-oriented leader skilled in conceptualizing ideas and successfully seeing them through to completion.

Megan started her career in healthcare as an information technology project manager facilitating the state-wide implementation of Epic as the electronic medical record for LSU Health System. She has spent the last eight years of her career at The University of Kansas Health System, during which time she held positions as senior information technology project manager, assistant director of supply and clinical applications which was a shared role between supply chain and perioperative and procedural services. In the past four years as director of business operations, Megan established a centralized support team designed to develop and implement business processes and provide clinical system workflow support to all departments within perioperative and procedural services which include: business development, informatics, revenue and resource, and centralized surgical and procedural scheduling. Megan currently has the role of senior director of business operations for perioperative and procedural services at The University of Kansas Health System.

Megan completed a bachelor's and a master's in business administration from Capella University. She is certified in Lean Management for Healthcare. Megan has contributed setting industry-leading practices through Epic User Group Meetings and in her participation with several focus groups centered on transformative process and system development.

Noreen Hudson currently serves as an Associate Director in BRG's Healthcare Performance Improvement Practice working collaboratively with physician and executive leaders. Noreen has extensive experience in facilitating multidisciplinary partnerships and introducing best practices/innovative strategies for the development of programs resulting in improved performance and operational efficiencies. Noreen has proven success in building surgical programs utilizing lean processes to address operational efficiencies while breaking down silos and building cross-functional relationships. With over 25 years of nursing experience, Noreen has held a range of clinical positions and responsibilities in for-profit hospitals prior to joining BRG.

His operational consulting experience includes clinical labor and productivity, performance improvement, and clinical redesign based on quality and performance benchmarks and industry best practices.

Mr. Orrell also has experience in clinical supply-chain performance improvement, strategic planning, physician-hospital alignment, documentation integrity, and developing and implementing standardized policies and procedures.

Before joining BRG, Mr. Orrell was a director with global management consulting company, where he was responsible for labor-workstream project management, implementing labor cost reductions, productivity monitoring, and daily staffing tools at community hospitals and academic medical centers. He focused on clinical labor and productivity in inpatient nursing, perioperative services, cardiology, and the emergency department. He was also previously a clinical senior associate in the healthcare advisory practice at a large professional services firm.

Mr. Orrell's clinical experience includes more than seven years in the emergency department and trauma before his consulting career. He has also worked as a clinical instructor in medical/surgical and critical-care settings.