See the list of 2018 CRC Symposium speakers
Credentialing Resource Center has expanded its speaker line for the 2018 CRC Symposium. Yes, our well-known veteran faculty are back, but along with a few new names.
Our speaker lineup includes:
Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS
Advisory Consultant
The Greeley Company
Danvers, Massachusetts
President
PRO-CON
Plainfield, Illinois
Cairns has more than 40 years of experience in the medical staff services profession. She is the president of PRO-CON, and an advisory consultant and frequent presenter with The Greeley Company. A recognized expert in the field, Cairns has been a faculty member with the National Association Medical Staff Services since 1990. She presents frequently at state and national seminars on subjects such as basic and advanced credentialing and privileging, core privileging, AHP credentialing, CMS’ Conditions of Participation, and the standards of—and survey preparation for—The Joint Commission, NCQA, HFAP, and DNV GL. For the past 18 years, Cairns has been an advisor to healthcare attorneys, including providing expert witness testimony regarding credentialing and privileging issues. She conceptualized and wrote all six versions of Verify and Comply, an industry textbook and favorite since 1999.
Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS
Advisory Consultant
Chief Credentialing Officer
The Greeley Company
Danvers, Massachusetts
Pelletier is an advisory consultant and chief credentialing officer with The Greeley Company. She brings nearly 25 years of credentialing and privileging experience to her work with medical staff leaders and MSPs across the nation. Pelletier advises clients in the areas of accreditation and regulatory compliance; credentialing redesign, including change management, standardization, and centralization; medical services department operations; privileging redesign; and leadership and development training for MSPs.
Todd Sagin, MD, JD
President
National Medical Director
Sagin Healthcare Consulting
Laverock, Pennsylvania
Dr. Sagin is a physician executive recognized across the nation for his work with hospital boards, medical staffs, and physician organizations. He is the national medical director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting, LLC, and HG Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which provide guidance on a wide range of healthcare issues. He served for more than half a decade as the vice president and national medical director of The Greeley Company, Inc. Dr. Sagin is a practicing family physician and geriatrician who has held executive positions in academic and community hospitals and in organized medicine. He frequently lectures and facilitates retreats on medical staff affairs, physician leadership skills, relationships between hospitals and doctors, strategic healthcare planning, governance, and related topics.
Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS
Senior Consultant
HG Healthcare Consultants, LLC
Chief Medical Officer
Morrisey Associates, Inc.
Dr. Smith is a senior consultant with HG Healthcare Consultants, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm, and the chief medical officer for MorCare LLC. He brings 30 years of clinical practice and hospital administration experience to his work with physicians and hospitals across the United States, where he provides expertise in system quality and performance improvement, peer review, ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation, management of deficient practitioner performance, criteria-based privileging, low-volume practitioners, population health management, and external focused review. Dr. Smith is a board-certified surgeon who practices part time as a clinical assistant professor of surgery in the vascular and endovascular surgery section at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. Previously, he practiced general and vascular surgery in a private practice setting.
New Speakers for 2018
Catherine Ballard, Esq.
Vice Chair
Bricker & Eckler
Columbus, Ohio
Ballard is a partner at the law firm of Bricker & Eckler and vice chair of its healthcare practice group. She works with clients in the areas of hospital/medical staff integration, medical staff and hospital-employed physician integration, quality assessment and performance improvement, and related peer review matters. She develops medical staff/advanced practice provider governing documents, and she provides advice on Medicare Conditions of Participation and private accreditation, provider scope of practice, physician recruitment/employment, and general patient care. She also provides mediation and arbitration services. From 1985 to 1987, she served as a law clerk to Judge John D. Holschuh of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and as an adjunct assistant professor in legal writing at The Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law. Ballard is a regular speaker for the Ohio Hospital Association and the American Health Lawyers Association on a variety of healthcare issues and speaks at national forums on topics, such as healthcare quality management, credentialing and peer review, medical staff governance, fair hearings, and ethics.
Heather Johnson, CPCS
Manager of Physician and Practitioner Services
Pinnacle Health
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Johnsonis manager of physician and practitioner services at PinnacleHealth and president of the South Central chapter of the National Association Medical Staff Services. A 15-year veteran of the medical staff services profession, Johnson recently applied her extensive skills and experience in creating PinnacleHealth’s CVO. Her professional objectives are to enhance the practitioner onboarding experience while empowering credentialing staff through ongoing education.
Barbara A. Warstler, MBA, CPMSM, FASPR
Director of Medical Staff Services and Credentialing
University Hospitals
Cleveland, Ohio
Warstler is the director of medical staff services and credentialing at University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland, where she began in 2007 as the manager of the medical staff office. In 2010, she was promoted to director of medical staff services and credentialing as a result of a merger between the two departments. Under Warstler’s leadership, UH’s medical staff services and credentialing department has centralized into a systemwide corporate department that serves as the health system’s source of practitioner data, feeding the intranet, internet, mobile app, electronic medical record, and billing computer systems. The department transitioned to working paperlessly and with a systemwide reappointment cycle in 2011-12. Warstler led the integration efforts for six new hospital medical staffs into the system. She developed a career ladder program for the department to encourage employee development and an internship program with healthcare administration students from the University of Toledo and Ohio University to increase awareness of the medical staff services profession. Warstler has more than 17 years of experience in credentialing, medical education, physician relations, and physician recruitment. She completed a fellowship in medical staff development and earned her certification as a physician recruiter through the American Academy of Medical Management, is a certified fellow in the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters, and holds Certified Professional Medical Services Management (CPMSM) certification.
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