Becker's ASC Review

46 Becker's ASC 21st Annual Meeting – The Business and Operations of ASCs – Call (800) 417-2035 William Wilcox (United Surgical Partners Inter- national). Mr. Wilcox has served as CEO of USPI since April 2004. The company currently owns and operates outpatient surgical facilities across the United States and United Kingdom. More than half of the facilities in the United States are jointly owned facilities with nonprofit healthcare systems and hospitals. Prior to joining USPI in 1998, Mr. Wilcox served as CEO of United Den- tal Care, president of the Surgery Group of HCA, president and CEO of the ambulatory surgery division of HCA and president, COO and direc- tor of Medical Care International. He earned his Master's degree in health systems management from Tulane University in New Orleans. John C. Wilson Jr. (Meridian Surgical Partners). Mr. Wilson is CEO of Meridian Surgical Partners, a role he assumed in October 2013. He previously served as CFO of the company. He has also served as COO of Xtensia, a revenue cycle management company and executive vice president of finance and operations for Working Rx, a workers' com- pensation pharmacy services company and for- merly a division of Medifax-EDI. He is a certified public accountant and has more than six years of experience in public accounting. Tom Yerden (TRY Health Care Solutions). Mr. Yerden serves as CEO of TRY Health Care Solu- tions. During his more than 31 years of experi- ence in the ASC industry, Mr. Yerden has worked with group practices and healthcare systems. He previously founded Aspen Healthcare and helped plan, develop, open and manage more than 75 surgery centers. Prior to forming Aspen Healthcare, Mr. Yerden held COO and other ex- ecutive positions in several healthcare systems and large physician group practices where he developed outpatient surgery centers and new outpatient surgical delivery systems. Mr. Yerden has authored several publications on ASC issues and is a national speaker on those topics. He is also the host of an ASC governing board retreat program in Salmon, Idaho. Joseph Zasa, JD (ASD Management). Mr. Zasa is the co-founder and managing partner of ASD Management (formerly Woodrum/ASD). Founded in 1986, the company is one of the old- est continually operating surgery center compa- nies, with more than 125 surgery centers devel- oped and managed over the last 26 years. ASD is an operations-focused company and has had great success with ASC turnarounds and hos- pital/physician joint ventures, according to Mr. Zasa. In addition to his work with ASD Manage- ment, Mr. Zasa is the former president of the Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center Society. He also serves on the board of the ASC Advocacy Committee. Robert Zasa (ASD Management). Mr. Zasa is co-founder and managing partner of ASD Management, which is a national healthcare ser- vices firm that consults with physicians, physi- cian groups and hospitals to develop and man- age ambulatory surgery businesses. In the early 1990s, Mr. Zasa founded and served as president and CEO of Premier Ambulatory Systems, a firm that acquired, developed, owned and operated ambulatory surgery centers across the United States. Previously, Mr. Zasa was managing gener- al partner of a national ambulatory care consult- ing firm and was involved in the founding and public offering of the AlternaCare Corporation. He began his career as an administrator for the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. J.A. Ziskind (Global Surgical Partners). Mr. Ziskind is founder, president and CEO of Glob- al Surgical Partners, which currently manages nine surgical centers in Florida and Mississippi. He has been involved in Florida's healthcare industry since the 1970s, and has previously served as CEO of Miami's Cedars Medical Cen- ter. He is also a board-certified healthcare at- torney and has helped develop and manage sev- eral physician-hospital joint venture ASCs. Mr. Ziskind co-founded and was general counsel to the Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgical Centers, served on the Pan American hospital board of directors and has served as general counsel to the Dade County Medical Associa- tion for more than two decades. He currently serves as chairman of the board of directors for Mercy Foundation. n

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