Susan Reynolds, MD, PhD
President and CEO
Dr. Reynolds is a nationally recognized keynote speaker, leadership development expert, and executive coach. She has shared her unique approach to today’s leadership and management challenges with Fortune 500 companies, major health care organizations, and national and state medical associations.

A former emergency physician and CEO of an emergency medical center, she created the Physician Leadership Training Institute for the American Medical Association. Prior to founding The Institute for Medical Leadership, Dr. Reynolds served on the White House Health Professionals Review Group from 1993 to 1994, as one of its few practicing physician members. During this appointment she was very much aware that physicians were not in the lead in the national health care reform debate. When subsequently recruited to develop and lead the Physician Executive Practices at Heidrick & Struggles and Russell Reynolds Associates, two highly respected international search firms, she decided to study what makes an effective leader and teach what she learned to physicians and healthcare executives. In so doing, she seeks to increase patient centered leadership that brings about much needed healthcare reform in local institutions and at the national level.

Margaret Cary, MD, MBA, MPH
Dr. Maggi Cary is currently Deputy Chief Business Officer for VA Plus Choice. She is also the former Director of Region VIII for the US Department of Health and Human Services serving the Rocky Mountain States. More recently she has been the Chief Medical Officer for the Colorado Business Group on Health and a member of the Leapfrog Group’s Incentives and Rewards Lily Pad. A nationally known speaker on quality initiatives and healthcare technological advances, she is the co-author of Telemedicine and Telehealth, Principles, Policies, Performance and Pitfalls.

Richard Corlin, MD
Dr. Richard Corlin is the Past President of the American Medical Association and Past President of the California Medical Association. He has also served as Speaker of the House of Delegates of both the AMA and the CMA. Currently he is Chairman of the Board of Audio Digest and in private practices as a gastroenterologist in Santa Monica, California. Known as an articulate and engaging speaker as well as a master of meetings management, he has special expertise in how to minimize your liability risk through effective communication.

Richard Frankenstein, MD
Dr. Richard Frankenstein is a JCAHO Commissioner appointed by the American Medical Association. He is also currently serving as Speaker of the House of Delegates of the California Medical Association. He is a well known lecturer on topics pertaining to medical staff affairs such as peer review, patient safety, and the JCAHO accreditation process. A pulmonologist in Orange County, he has served two terms as Chief of staff at Garden Grove Hospital.

Howard Salmon, MHA
Mr. Howard Salmon is a former hospital administrator and former Vice President of Hospital Corporation of America. He is currently a Partner at Phase 2 Consulting based in Salt Lake City. He provides consulting services to numerous hospitals and health care organizations helping them improve their bottom lines while delivering high quality care. He conducts strategic planning retreats for hospitals and health systems and has special expertise in how physician leaders and hospital senior executives can work together most effectively.

Leonard M. Randolph, Jr., MD
is a Certified Physician Executive and general surgeon, who currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Mercy Health Partners – Southwest Ohio. He is a Retired Major General in the USAF; former Deputy Surgeon General, USAF; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs; Past President of the American College of Physician Executives; past member of the Board of Governor’s, American College of Surgeons; and a member of Leadership Cincinnati XXIX.

Peter Rich, Esq
is a partner in the national firm of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, based in the Los Angeles office. He is a member of the firm's Health Department and co-chairs its national Managed Care Affinity Group. He provides legal services to the nation's leading health care companies, including large hospital systems, managed care organizations, and medical groups. He has lectured nationally on timely health care legal issues, and he has also written numerous book chapters and articles and has been recognized as one of the leading health care lawyers in the United States, most recently in the "The Expert Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers (2006).