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18 Sign up for the COMPLIMENTARY Becker's Hospital Review CEO Report & CFO Report E-Weeklies at www.BeckersHospitalReview.com or call (800) 417-2035 Health System, Mr. Connelly oversees all fiscal affairs such as capital development and mergers and acquisitions — including the system's pending deal to merge with Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Health System. Before joining Henry Ford, Mr. Connelly served as senior vice president and CFO of TriHealth in Cincinnati. He also was senior vice president and COO of Cincinnati-based Bethesda North Hospital. Mr. Connelly's executive career began at Arthur Andersen in Detroit as an audit partner. Mike Connors. Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO of Cape Cod Healthcare (Hyannis, Mass.). Mr. Connors has served as senior vice president of finance and CFO of Cape Cod Healthcare since March 2009, and executives at the two-hospital system have said Mr. Connors' knowledge and understanding of expense and revenue cycle management has helped make Cape Cod Healthcare a financially sound institution. Prior to Cape Cod Healthcare, he served as senior vice president and CFO of Signature Healthcare, a long-term care system based in Brockton, Mass. Mr. Connors also was CFO of Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., and vice president of finance at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass. Diane Corrigan. CFO of Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). Since 2000, Ms. Corrigan has been with the 772-bed Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — the largest hospital in Philadelphia and flagship facility of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Before she joined HUP, it had recorded three straight years of losses, but she and others helped the hospital post operating margins above 10 percent from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, the Philadelphia Business Journal named Ms. Corrigan as the city's "2011 CFO of the Year" for an extra-large company. Thomas Corrigan. Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO of Christiana Care Health System (Wilmington, Del.). Since 2006, Mr. Corrigan has served as senior vice president and CFO of Christiana Care, the largest health system in Delaware with more than $2.1 billion in total patient revenue in fiscal year 2011. Before joining the health system, he was CFO for the ADP Brokerage Services Group in Jersey City, N.J., and was also president of the ADP Investment Center in Wilmington, Del. He also served in various financial roles at Anheuser-Busch. David Cox. CFO of Marin General Hospital (Greenbrae, Calif.). Mr. Cox was a consultant to the Marin Healthcare District before joining as full-time CFO in 2009. Previously, he held various finance and management positions at Sutter Health in Sacramento, Calif., Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt., and St. Mary's Health System in Waterbury, Conn. Healthcare has been Mr. Cox's primary professional field since he left the U.S. Air Force as a captain in 1982. Kelly Curry. Executive Vice President and CFO of Health Management Associates (Naples, Fla.). Mr. Curry has been an executive vice president at Health Management since July 2007 and officially became CFO in January 2010. He also served as Health Management's COO and chief administrative officer, and held various other management positions with the for-profit chain during its infancy from 1982 to 1994. Along with his professional financial endeavors, Mr. Curry and his wife founded Foundation in Christ Ministries, a religious organization based in Ireland, in 1995. Dennis Dahlen. Senior Vice President and CFO of Banner Health (Phoenix). Mr. Dahlen oversees all financial operations of Banner Health, which operates 23 hospitals across seven states and has nearly $5 billion in annual revenue. He started his career at Banner Health in 1983 as an internal auditor and worked his way up the ranks to become vice president of finance in 2000 and senior vice president of finance in 2006 before taking on the CFO role in 2009. Prior to Banner Health, Mr. Dahlen was an auditor for accounting firm McGladrey. Robert DeMichiei. Senior Vice President and CFO of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. As senior vice president and CFO, Mr. DeMichiei leads the financial initiatives of one of the top-grossing systems in the country. Before joining UPMC, Mr. DeMichiei held various execu- tive finance roles at General Electric — including manager of finance and global business development for GE Energy and CFO of GE Transportation Systems — and worked for PwC in Pittsburgh for 10 years. Chris Denton. CFO of Henrico Doctors' Hospital (Richmond, Va.). Mr. Denton has served as CFO of 767-bed Henrico Doctors' Hospital, one of the largest hospitals within HCA Virginia, since October 2007. Before Henrico Doctors' Hospital, Mr. Denton held various other executive positions at HCA hospitals, including CFO and COO of Parkland Medical Center in Derry, N.H. He also held executive accounting positions at HCA hospitals in Florida and Virginia, and he has 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Roger Deshaies. Senior Vice President and CFO of Fletcher Allen Health Care (Burlington, Vt.). Mr. Deshaies has served as senior vice president and CFO of Fletcher Allen, the only academic medical center in Vermont, since 2008. His healthcare financial experience spans almost 35 years. Before joining Fletcher Allen, Mr. Deshaies served as CFO of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for 10 years. Stephanie Doughty. CFO of Poudre Valley Health System (Fort Collins, Colo.). Ms. Doughty's healthcare finance career dates back to 1982 after she graduated college with a bachelor's in business administration. Prior to joining Poudre Valley Health in 1998, Ms. Doughty was CFO of St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. She previously worked with Bayfront Medical Center, also in St. Petersburg, for 10 years as the controller and vice president of finance, and with Englewood (Fla.) Community Hospital as the controller. John Doyle. CFO of IASIS Healthcare (Franklin, Tenn.). Since April 2010, Mr. Doyle has served as CFO of IASIS Healthcare. He has also held other positions within the for-profit hospital company, including vice president, chief accounting officer and treasurer. Previously, Mr. Doyle was a senior manager at Ernst & Young from February 1997 until March 2002, and he was at KPMG from August 1994 to January 1997. Between 1991 and 1994, Mr. Doyle also served as CFO for two community hospitals, one in Tennessee and one in North Carolina. Ben Dunford. CFO of Texas Regional Medical Center at Sunnyvale. At 36 years old, Mr. Dunford is one of the younger CFOs in the hospital sector. He joined the 70-bed, physician-owned Texas Regional Medical Center in August 2011, where he has improved profitability by roughly 30 percent while lowering accounts receivable days and supply costs. Previously, Mr. Dunford was a senior leader at Bain & Company and an associate at Goldman Sachs in Dallas. Gordon Edwards. CFO of Gundersen Lutheran Health System (La Crosse, Wis.). Mr. Edwards joined Gundersen Lutheran in February 2011 as CFO and has helped the system garner an "A1" credit rating from Moody's Investors Service. Before his time with Gundersen Lutheran, Mr. Edwards worked at Legacy Health in Portland, Ore., for eight years. He held a variety of roles, including vice president and controller, acting CIO, vice president of finance, director of finance operations and director of government reimbursement and payor contracting. Mr. Edwards also spent eight years in public accounting firms Arthur Andersen and KPMG. Marvin Eichorn. Senior Vice President and CFO of Mountain States Health Alliance (Johnson City, Tenn.). Since 1998, Mr. Eichorn has been part of Mountain States Health Alliance, a regional healthcare system with 13 hospitals throughout Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina. Mr. Eichorn was influential in MSHA's acquisition of five community hospitals in southwest Virginia throughout the past several years. Mr. Eichorn previously was with Covenant Health, based in Knoxville, Tenn. Chris Ellington. Executive Vice President and CFO of UNC Health Care (Chapel Hill, N.C.). Mr. Ellington has served as executive vice president and CFO of UNC Health Care since July 2010, monitoring all

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