Live Stream: Health Care Conference

Dr. Amelia Hart is a distinguished educator and leader in the field of accounting. She is recognized as one of Poets & Quants' Top 50 Business Undergrad Professors. With a passion for teaching, Dr. Hart has built a reputation for transforming students' academic experiences through her innovative and engaging teaching methods. Her ability to connect with students has led many to consider her one of the most impactful professors they have encountered.

Dr. Hart's commitment to excellence extends beyond the classroom. She is known for her mentorship and her dedication to student success, fostering a supportive environment where students thrive academically and personally. Her innovative approaches to curriculum development, as well as her active participation in faculty development initiatives, have earned her numerous accolades, including the Richard C. Reizenstein Outstanding Commitment to Students Award, University of Tennessee President's Citation of Merit, Decosimo Faculty Leadership Award, Rhea and Ivy Excellence in Teaching Award, Volunteer Faculty Launchpad Mentor, and many more.

Her impact includes service for nonprofit boards, academic, and other organizations including Goodwill Industries, United Way, the American Accounting Association, Beta Alpha Psi International, and the Tennessee Society of CPAs. Dr. Hart's leadership roles in professional organizations and her contributions to the accounting field have solidified her as a respected voice in accounting education. She co-authors the bi-monthly articles Accounting and Auditing articles in the Tennessee CPA Journal.

In addition to her academic and professional achievements, Dr. Hart is a sought-after speaker, known for her ability to inspire and engage audiences across a variety of sectors. She has been invited to speak at academic conferences, government entities, and nonprofit organizations, where she advocates for innovation, inclusive practices, and the future of accounting education.

As a mentor, professor, and thought leader, Dr. Hart continues to shape the future of accounting education, instilling in her students not only technical knowledge but also the confidence to excel in their careers and make a lasting impact in the profession.

David N. Everett is an experienced consultant with expertise in operations, systems, finance, and quality management across industries including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services. He has advised Fortune 500 companies such as Chevron, Hewlett-Packard, and Bank of America, and is a certified professional in multiple disciplines, including accounting, purchasing, healthcare business consulting, and management consulting.

David currently serves as the Board Chair of the National Society of Certified Healthcare Consultants.

Joshua Hedrick is a member in Kraft Analytics, LLC, an affiliate of KraftCPAs, PLLC that focuses on valuation, forensics, and transaction advisory services. For nearly two decades, Josh has advised business owners, executives, investors, and attorneys on issues related to valuation, cash flow management, compensation systems, financial strategy, and economic damages. Prior to joining Kraft in 2009, Josh worked in the valuation, forensics, and transaction advisory group of a large North Carolina-based accounting firm. He started his professional career as lender and licensed financial advisor with Wachovia Bank.

Josh's practice focuses on measuring, evaluating, and communicating economic value. His valuations - which include appraisals of business enterprises, complex equity interests, debt instruments, intellectual property, and other intangible assets - are relied upon for investment, lending, managerial planning, compliance, accounting, tax, marital dissolution, restructuring, and litigation purposes.

Litigation support and forensic services include financial expert witness services in transaction, shareholder, and business disputes, marital dissolutions, and white-collar criminal matters. His reports and testimony have been relied upon in settlement negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, and trials.

Buy and sell-side transaction advisory and due diligence services include transaction feasibility analysis, fairness opinions, valuation and deal structuring, quality of earnings reports, working capital analysis, purchase price allocations, and post transaction cash flow projections. Josh's clients cover a broad spectrum of investor types and industries - ranging from venture capital and angels investing in pre-revenue tech start-ups to synergistic buyers acquiring late round healthcare companies to cautious first-time buyers acquiring single location retail businesses to the partners of service companies establishing buy/sell agreements.

Josh is frequently featured at corporate and legal industry events as a guest speaker on topics related to valuation, exit planning, mergers and acquisitions, and economic damages.

Josh manages a team of credentialed and experienced professionals who support and enhance his practice.

Anna is a healthcare partner at Bass, Berry & Sims. She focuses her practice exclusively on helping healthcare clients address healthcare regulatory matters. She provides advice on fraud and abuse, reimbursement and operational issues and serves as counsel to healthcare providers across industry sectors who are under investigation for potential False Claims Act (FCA) violations and in defending against adverse results in Medicare and Medicaid claims audit.

Anna is ranked in Chambers USA - Healthcare: Regulatory and is listed in Best Lawyers in America® in the categories of Health Care Law and Litigation: Health Care and is certified in healthcare compliance (CHC).

Michael Haas is a Director in RSM's Technology Consulting practice, with over 15 years of experience delivering strategic value to organizations within the healthcare and nonprofit sectors. In 2022, he was selected to participate in the firm's prestigious Industry Eminence Program as a Senior Analyst focused on the healthcare industry. In this role, he collaborates closely with the firm's Chief Economist and other program members to analyze key trends and dynamics influencing middle market businesses.

Michael specializes in enhancing operational and financial performance for clients across the healthcare sector. With a comprehensive understanding of the industry's complexities and constraints, he delivers tailored solutions that address client challenges effectively. He prioritizes cultivating strong client relationships to stay ahead of emerging trends and issues, enabling him to provide insightful, integrated strategies.

Michael's expertise spans technology implementation, process improvement, revenue cycle management, client software application training, and project management. He primarily serves large integrated delivery health systems, behavioral health and community organizations, community hospitals, FQHCs, clinics, and physician practices.

In his role as co-lead of the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence practice, Michael partners with clients to identify and deploy AI-driven use cases that drive cost efficiencies, mitigate workforce limitations, and unlock new opportunities. Beyond client engagement, he has led national CPE events, enterprise growth and innovation initiatives, and plays a pivotal role in recruiting and retention efforts to enrich the employee experience at RSM.

Joe Dolan joined Covenant Health as executive vice president and chief financial officer in 2023. Dolan is responsible for overseeing the financial operations and strategic financial planning for the health system.

With more than 17 years of experience in healthcare and finance, he joins Covenant Health from Atrium Health (newly named Advocate Health) in Charlotte, N.C., where he served as senior vice president and enterprise controller of one of the nation's largest health systems. Under his leadership, he was essential to the integration, growth, and development of the corporate accounting and finance teams. He played an important part in the development of the enterprise shared service strategy and was responsible for leading several key strategic finance and technology transformations.

Prior to Atrium, Dolan held various finance leadership roles at Wake Forest Baptist and Duke University Health System. In previous roles, he has served as a board member for CHESS LLC Finance; Wake AirCare, LLC; Wake Forest Emergency Providers, and Wake Forest Baptist Outpatient Imaging. He began his career in public accounting with Grant Thornton LLP and is a licensed Certified Professional Accountant (CPA). He received a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He has received multiple recognitions from Becker's Hospital Review as a "Chief Financial Officer to Know."

Ash is a U.S.-based Advisory executive with KPMG specializing in healthcare IT, including meaningful use achievement, health information exchanges, longitudinal clinical records, cloudbased healthcare IT, and clinical and other healthcare business intelligence.

Ash is a highly experienced healthcare professional at the cutting edge of information technology (IT) advances in the sector. In a career spanning over 25 years, Ash has worked for some of the world's leading IT and consulting firms, using technology to drive improvements such as telemedicine, e-commerce, membership systems, customer service and healthcare management.

As Senior Executive Director Healthcare for Americas with Cisco, he was responsible for payers, providers and life sciences accounts including the Mayo Clinic, WellPoint, Cigna, Wellcare, Medtronic and Kaiser. He led the development and deployment of telemedicine solutions with key clients and government agencies.

Prior to this, Ash was Vice President Health Solutions for Wellpoint, supporting over 32 million members (one in 10 Americans) in enterprise applications. He also held senior positions with KGT Global Technologies, IBM and Accenture, leading executive teams in the U.S. and around the world through major change programs in hospitals, medical service providers, physician group practices and managed care organizations.

Ash's breadth of experience is typified by his first two roles: first as owner of his own consulting and medical management business, and then with The University of Cincinnati Medical Center in the U.S., where he managed a $250 million annual budget for several departments including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Lab Medicine, Managed Care, Cancer and Pharmacy.

Adam Middleton has committed his entire professional career to healthcare. Adam works as a business consultant for hospitals, physician groups and healthcare related entities. Since 2008, Adam has consulted with physician practices, post-acute providers and hospitals with particular focus on physician compensation, fair market value, management, operations, finance and strategic planning. Among other projects, his key consultancy roles included the merger of two hospital managed service organizations, the start-up of physician practices, and the negotiation of numerous physician-hospital acquisitions. He also leads strategic planning for physician groups and hospital service lines.

He founded Healthcare Advisory Network in 2011 and joined The Viability Company as a Principal in 2012 to specialize in profitable growth strategies for hospitals, physicians and healthcare companies. HAN affiliates with subject matter experts and numerous organizations to assist clients find the best solutions for issues.

Prior to consulting, Adam was an executive at two major healthcare organizations in the greater Dayton area; Dayton Heart Hospital (physician owned jointly with MedCath) and Premier Health Partners.

As a lifelong Ohioan, Adam has been actively engaged in serving his community where he lives and raises his family. He has served on the boards of directors of The Far Hills Surgical Center, The Dialysis Centers of Dayton and as board chair of Life Essentials and South Community Behavioral Health.

Adam is currently a Board Member of the National Society of Certified Healthcare Business Consultants and holds the designation of a Certified Healthcare Business Consultant. He is also a long-time member of the MGMA. Adam is currently the Chair of the Board of South Community Inc., a large not-for profit community mental health care provider in the Dayton market. He has been a member of the Ohio Hospital Association Legislative Committee, The Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association Disaster Committee, the Dayton Regional EMS Council and the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce as an ambassador and a Legislative Committee member.

Dr. Clay Runnels is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and nationally recognized healthcare executive with over two decades of clinical and administrative leadership experience. As Executive Vice President and Chief Physician Executive at Ballad Health, Dr. Runnels oversees system level quality, telehealth, hospital-based practices, research, academic programs, and a multi-specialty medical group of more than nine hundred providers across Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.

Known for his transformational leadership, Dr. Runnels has led major healthcare consolidations, pioneered telemedicine strategies, and generated multimillion-dollar operational savings through innovative contract negotiations and system-wide quality initiatives. His prior roles include Vice President, Service Line Development and CMO across multiple hospitals, where he championed LEAN methodologies, peer review reform, and infection control measures that significantly improved patient outcomes.

Dr. Runnels is a Certified Physician Executive and Fellow of both the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American College of Emergency Physicians. He holds an MBA from Milligan University and an MD from UT Southwestern Medical School, with residency training at Texas A&M/Scott & White Hospital.

A frequent speaker on healthcare issues, Dr. Runnels brings a unique blend of frontline clinical expertise and strategic vision to transform health system performance.

Jason Lay is the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the McNabb Center located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The McNabb Center is the region's leading nonprofit provider of mental health, substance use, social, and victim services.

In the Center's 74-year history, Jason is the first person to hold the CFO position. He is a Licensed CPA in the State of Tennessee, and his career specializes in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting. Jason is an active volunteer in both professional and community areas where he currently participates on the TSCPA Health Care Conference Planning Committee, the TSCPA Governmental & Not-For-Profit Conference Planning Committee and serves as the Treasurer of the Tennessee Association of Mental Health Organizations.

David McMillan is a Principal in the healthcare consulting group of Pershing Yoakley & Associate, P.C. and leads population health initiatives, strategic planning exercises, merger & acquisition projects, and provides physician-hospital alignment and advisory services to executives and boards of directors. David's experience includes the design of several clinically integrated networks. Additionally, David has assisted numerous networks with operational and financial challenges such as distribution methodologies and payer contracting strategies. He is active in the American Health Lawyers Association, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development. David is a 1992 honors graduate of the University of Tennessee Knoxville with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, and is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant.

Joey Peay is Chief Executive Officer of Murfreesboro Medical Clinic, a position which he has held since 2003. Prior to 2003, he served as the Clinic's Chief Financial Officer for more than four years.

Joey graduated with honors from Middle Tennessee State University with a bachelor's degree in Accounting. He passed the Uniform CPA Exam in 1988. He spent the first ten years of his career with KPMG, an international public accounting finn, leaving in 1998 as a Senior Manager.

Joey is a member of the Jones College of Business Dean's Advisory Council, the MTSU Accounting Advisory Board, the Endowment Committee of Special Kids, and the Murfreesboro Advisory Board for Alive Hospice. He is an Elder and Clerk of Session at Cripple Creek Presbyterian Church. Joey is also a graduate of the Leadership Rutherford Program, a member of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, a member of the Medical Group Management Association, and a Ce11ified Medical Practice Executive by the American College of Medical Practice Executives. Previously, Joey has served in leadership roles for the Kittrell Volunteer Fire Depaitment, American Heai1 Association, March of Dimes, and the Heart of Tennessee Chapter of the American Red Cross. In 2014, Joey was recognized by the Rutherford County Chainber of Commerce as its Businessperson of the Year.

Dr. Chris Kuehl is a Managing Director of Armada Corporate Intelligence. He provides forecasts and strategic guidance for a wide variety of corporate clients around the world. He is the chief economist for several national and international organizations, Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, National Association of Credit Management, Finance, Credit and International Business and the Business Information Industry Association. He is also the economic analyst for several state accounting societies – Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Kansas.

Prior to starting Armada in 1999 he was a professor of economics and finance for 15 years – teaching in the US, Hungary, Russia, Estonia, Singapore and Taiwan. He holds advanced degrees in economics, Soviet studies and East Asian studies.

Chris is the author of Business Intelligence Briefs and Executive Intelligence Briefs - both publications from Armada. He is also responsible for the Credit Manager's Index from NACM and Fabrinomics from the FMA.

Randy has been a top-rated speaker in the technology industry for over 40 years. Inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2011, Randy is listed as a Top 25 Thought Leader in Accounting from 2011-2023. His influence throughout the accounting profession is highlighted once again this year by being a recipient of the 2022 Accounting Today Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting award for the eighteenth consecutive year. Among his many other awards, he holds the honor of being one of nine technology stars in the U.S. by Accounting Technology Magazine.

In addition, Randy writes a monthly column and produces a weekly podcast for The CPA Practice Advisor, features for the Journal of Accountancy, creates articles for accounting and technology publications, and is the author of numerous books. He has started and owns multiple businesses, including K2 Enterprises in Hammond, Louisiana, and Network Management Group, Inc. in Hutchinson, Kansas. NMGI has supported CPA firms for 30+ years and is the largest managed service provider serving the CPA profession in North America. His wife and four children enjoy many experiences together, including theatre, music, travel, golf, skiing, snorkeling, and model trains. His experience as a college instructor, management and technology consultant, and advisor to the profession will be evident to you in today's presentation.