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Casey G. Cegielski, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and a KPMG LLP Advisory Faculty Fellow in the College of Business at Auburn University. He has authored over 30 research articles that have appeared in numerous international information systems journals and proceedings. Dr. Cegielski has served as a senior IT executive as well as an executive IT advisor in the financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing industries. Dr. Cegielski is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) as well as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). |
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| Joy L. Clark, PhD, is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of the Business School at Auburn University Montgomery. Dr. Clark received her PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University in 1988 and her undergraduate and Masters degrees from Auburn University. She has published articles in the area of microeconomic theory of the firm and natural resource economics. Dr. Clark teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level and was instrumental in the development of the economics core course (Economics of Decision-making) in the AUM MBA program. |
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Jackie Di Pofi, PhD, is Director of the Small Business Development Center at Auburn University. Dr. DiPofi has over 30 years of work experience that has developed into an expertise in various aspects of analytical planning and creative implementation of management, marketing, advertising, communications and public relations for a variety of companies ranging from small to large, domestic to international. Prior to this position, Dr. DiPofi served as owner and consultant of Strategic Marketing Services in Montgomery, Alabama and developed and implemented the RAMPS Plan to Marketing Success: Research, Advertising, Merchandising, Promotions, and Sales Training© for a variety of business clients. |
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| Sarah Freymann Fontenot, JD, BSN, is a lawyer and a nurse. She graduated with her JD in 1990 and teaching evolved as her greatest focus; she taught graduate students hospital law and public health law in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale Medical School before moving to Texas in 1994. Ms. Fontenot is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Trinity University in San Antonio, where she teaches graduate courses in health law. The Trinity Executive MHA Class of 2000 voted Ms. Fontenot “Most Outstanding Professor.” Ms. Fontenot is a member of the Bar in both Texas and Connecticut, and teaches physicians across the country through Southern Medical Association, Texas Medical Association, and other provider organizations |
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| Stanley G. Harris, PhD, is the Torchmark Professor of Management, and Director of the Physicians Executive MBA Program, and Director of Graduate Programs in organizational Analysis and Change at Auburn University. He teaches in the areas of organizational behavior and management skills at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD levels. Dr. Harris received his BS degree in Psychology from North Georgia College and his MA and PhD degrees in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. His research has appeared in a wide array of both academic and professional journals. In recent years, he has provided consulting services for over 15 companies and not-for-profit organizations. |
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| G. Richard Holt, MD, MPH, MSE, MABA is clinical professor and program director for the Department of Otolaryngology and associate faculty for the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and previously served as the Executive Vice President of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Foundation. Prior to this position, he served as head of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has served as a member of the American Board of Otolaryngology, the Residency Review Committee for Otolaryngology, and is currently Chairman of the Ethics Commmittee for the AAO-HNS. He is board certified and received his MD degree at University of Missouri at Columbia. Dr. Holt has received Master of Engineering and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Texas, and a Master of Bioethics from Loyola University in Chicago. |
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Jean Edwards Holt, MD, MHA is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Holt served two terms as President of the Medical Executive Board for the Baptist Health System, and two years as the medical director of the Baptist Health Network, a physician/hospital MSO. She has completed a Master Degree in Healthcare Management at Trinity University in San Antonio, and currently is a faculty member in the department. She was the 2001-2002 President of the Southern Medical Association and has served as the champion of business and leadership education for the Association. Her present emphasis is teaching regional courses at medical schools preparing senior and chief residents for leadership positions in their residencies and transitioning into the American Healthcare System following completing of graduate medical education. |
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| John S. Jahera, Jr., PhD is the Colonial Bank Distinguished Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Finance at Auburn University. He has been a member of the Auburn faculty since 1980. A native of Augusta, Georgia, Dr. Jahera received his BS, MBA, and PhD degrees from the University of Georgia. He is widely published with more than 70 articles in the leading academic and professional journals. In addition, Dr. Jahera has been an active member in several professional associations and has developed and taught several executive development seminars. He regularly teaches in the Physicians Executive MBA program as well as in other MBA programs at Auburn. |
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| Dianne Love, PhD is a healthcare consultant specializing in the development and strategic management of physician organizations. She has developed over 75 physician organizations both multi-specialty and single specialty. Since forming DB Love & Associates in 2000, Dr. Love has developed group practices without walls (GPWW), physician joint venture ambulatory surgery centers, and physician joint venture hospitals. She has extensive experience in the development and financing of Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Surgical Hospitals, USDA and HUD 242 and 232 financing, managed care contract negotiation, and strategic planning. Dr. Love is also an associate professor of healthcare administration at the University of Houston – Clear Lake and the founder of, and served as the director of, the MBA for Physicians program. Dr. Love holds a BS and MBA from Auburn University and a PhD from the University of Arkansas with a major in accounting and minors in economics and finance. |
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| Sharon L. Oswald, PhD Professor and Head of Management in the Auburn University College of Business, holds the Colonel George Phillip Privett Professorship. After a 10-year career in healthcare administration, she earned a PhD from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and joined the Auburn faculty in 1987. Dr. Oswald has published over 40 articles in prestigious academic journals and presented numerous papers at international and regional meetings. Because of her knowledge and expertise in healthcare, she has been an invited lecturer internationally in Japan and in the Czech Republic. Dr. Oswald was instrumental in the development of the healthcare administration track for the Auburn MBA program and teaches two of the core courses. |
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Rhonda W. Sides, CPA is the Principal of Business Valuation, Litigation Services and Healthcare Services for Crosslin & Associates and for Stat Solutions in Nashville, Tennessee. Rhonda lectures nationally for various healthcare and financial organizations regarding the issues of combining the practicality of accounting with the needs of healthcare practice management. Rhonda has been named three times as one of Middle Tennessee’s top healthcare executives in Nashville Business Journal’s Healthcare 100. Proficient in healthcare management issues, Rhonda specializes in physician practice management, practice valuations, cost accounting, operational assessments, accounts receivable, and financial feasibility issues related to group and integrated delivery system development. In addition to publishing numerous professional articles, Rhonda is the co-author of two books, Valuation of a Medical Practice (April 1999) and Accounting Handbook for Medical Practices (April 2000), both published by John Wiley & Sons of New York. |
| SMA Disclosure Policy and Conflict of Interest Resolution |
In accordance with the ACCME's Standards for Commercial Support, it is SMA's policy that all individuals involved with the planning and implementation of the content of an SMA CME/CE activity are required to disclose to the audience (1) any relevant financial relationships with entities producing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients, and (2) unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices discussed in their presentation. Conflicts of interest will be resolved prior to the activity and disclosures will be noted on a slide at the beginning of the lectures and in the syllabus. |
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