Nashville Health Care Council - Board of Directors

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The Council is fortunate to have board leadership with a keen understanding of the industry and a commitment to Nashville's ongoing success as a health care industry capital. The Council's leadership is instrumental in the organization's growth and future success.

2009-2010 Board of Directors

ChairmaN Joey A. Jacobs Chairman, President & CEO Psychiatric Solutions, Inc.	VICE Chairman Ben R. Leedle, Jr. CEO Healthways, Inc.
Directors
Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., Ph.D. Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Vanderbilt Medical Center	Vicky B. Gregg President & CEO BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Bo Bartholomew Leadership Health Care Chairman President & CEO PharmMD	Christopher A. Holden President & CEO AmSurg
Michael Boroch Partner IBM	A.J. Kazimi President & CEO Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Richard Bracken President & CEO HCA Inc.	Ronald R. Kimzey Partner Ford & Harrison
Gary Brukardt President & CEO Specialty Care Services Group	Jim Lackey Chairman Passport Health Communications
Victor L. Campbell Senior Vice President HCA Inc.	Kevin P. Lavender Senior Vice President Fifth Third Bancorp
Thomas G. Cigarran Immediate Past Chairman Chairman Healthways, Inc.	Samuel E. Lynch, DMD President & CEO BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc.
William F. Carpenter, III President & CEO LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.	Linda Marzialo President & CEO Gould Turner Group
Reginald W. Coopwood, M.D., FACS Chief Executive Officer Metropolitan Nashville Hospital Authority	Keith Pitts Vice Chairman Vanguard Health Systems, Inc.
John A. Deane CEO Southwind Health Partners	Doug Rohleder Partner Ernst & Young
James Elrod Managing Director Vestar Capital Partners	C. Brian Shipp CEO, Southeast Region AMERIGROUP Corporation
Richard E. Francis, Jr. Chairman & CEO Symbion	Wayne T. Smith Chairman, President & CEO Community Health Systems, Inc.
Herbert A. Fritch Chairman & CEO HealthSpring	Leigh Walton Member Bass, Berry & Sims


Ex Officio
James W. Bradford Dean Owen Graduate School of Management	Ralph J. Schulz, Jr. President & CEO Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
William C. O’Neil, Jr. Director Healthways	Caroline Young President Nashville Health Care Council


Past Chairmen
Joseph C. Hutts 1995-1997 Chief Executive Officer BreatheAmerica	Martin S. Rash 2001-2002 Chairman American Pathology Partners
Harold "Rusty" Siebert 1997-1998 Chairman & CEO Winchase Gulf Coast Properties	Thomas F. Frist, Jr., M.D. 2002-2003 Chairman Emeritus HCA Inc.
Ken Melkus 1998-1999 Consultant Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe	Thomas G. Cigarran 2003-2004 and 2008-2009 Chairman Healthways, Inc.
James E. Dalton, Jr. 1993-2000 President Signature Hospital Corporation	Harry R. Jacobson, M.D. 2004-2006 Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs Emeritus Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jack O. Bovender, Jr. 2000-2001 Chairman HCA Inc.