Physician Recruitment, Retention, and Compensation in an Evolving Landscape Webinar - December 17

President, Physician Division
Professor & Interim Chair, Gyn/Ob Emory Healthcare
Emory University School of Medicine

Penny Castellano was appointed President of the Physician Division and interim Director of the Emory Clinic in December 2023. Penny has strategic and operational oversight of all Emory Healthcare (EHC) physician practices, inclusive of Emory Clinic and Emory Specialty Associates. She also serves as the physician liaison between EHC and the School of Medicine and assumes all responsibilities as the Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Castellano has been a faculty member of the Emory University School of Medicine since 1990. She previously served as the Associate Clinic Director and Chief Medical Officer for the Emory Clinic faculty practice and Emory Specialty Associates, the employed non-faculty practice plan for EHC. She is also professor, and Interim Chair for the Emory Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She has held medical executive positions in Emory Clinic and Emory Healthcare for over 20 years and has served on a multitude of institutional committees and councils, co-chairing the Emory Healthcare Diabetes Council and the Emory Healthcare Opioid Stewardship Council recently. She is an active AAMC constituent and currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Group on Faculty Practice. She has been a member of several teams for Vizient and formerly UHC, including groups on academic practice plans, quality, rankings, a data and analytics committee, and is incoming chair for the Medical Executive Network Advisory Committee.

Principal, Physician Workforce Practice
SullivanCotter

Bob Madden is a Principal in SullivanCotter’s Physician Workforce Practice. Bob joined SullivanCotter in 2011 and has over 12 years of experience designing physician compensation programs, analyzing physician compensation arrangements and evaluating physician practices. Bob’s experience includes:

• Working with Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) to assess the alignment between funds flow, work effort allocations, benchmarking sources, compensation oversight, and compensation plan mechanics in support of all missions and strategic objectives.
• Conducting research and surveys focused on AMCs, covering topics such as recruitment and retention, work effort expectations, and pay practices.
• Developing physician compensation programs that incorporate a combination of volume and value components that align with organizations’ strategic objectives.
• Facilitating education sessions, webinars, and podcasts for physicians, administrators and executives that cover compensation design and fair market value methodologies.
• Writing fair market value opinions on physician compensation arrangements.
• Evaluating and developing on-call pay programs that recognize multiple dimensions of burden.
• Performing due diligence analyses for health care related transactions.
• Developing interactive tools that evaluate compensation and productivity alignment.
• Assisting clients in the process of migrating to new physician fee schedules for the purposes of compensation plan administration.

Bob received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh.

Managing Principal, Physician Workforce Solutions
SullivanCotter

Jason Tackett is a Managing Principal at SullivanCotter and serves as a leader in the development of physician workforce solutions with expertise in compensation design and evaluation. He assists health care organizations in aligning compensation programs with emerging market practices in support of critical strategic objectives. Leveraging 15 years of consulting experience, he partners with large health systems and academic medical centers on physician compensation evaluation, design, and fair market value assessments. He has worked with more than 100 health care organizations, including hospitals, health systems, physician faculty practice plans, academic medical centers, pediatric hospitals, and large physician groups. Prior to joining the firm, Jason spent seven years at Ford Motor Company holding various leadership positions in engineering and marketing. Jason received his Master of Business Administration degree and a Master of Science in engineering degree from the University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, with distinction, from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Vice Dean of Academic Administration and Finance, University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division
Pritzker School of Medicine

Elizabeth “Bess” Wildman is a healthcare executive with over 27 years of experience in hospital, practice plan, and School of Medicine administration, finance, and operations. She currently serves as the Vice Dean of Academic Administration and Finance for the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division. She has previously worked at the University of Virginia, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, University of California San Francisco, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Bess has extensive experience partnering with physician leaders to help create and transform teams, lead change, drive process improvement, operational efficiency and mentor developing talent. She has served in key leadership roles for several professional societies including Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the AAMC’s Group on Business Affairs (GBA), Association of Academic Surgical Administrators (AASA), and Association of Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM). She is currently on the AAMC’s Group on Faculty Practice Steering Committee. Bess has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a master’s in business administration from Wake Forest.

Senior Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical & Faculty Affairs
OHSU Health & OHSU School of Medicine

Atif Zaman, MD, MPH, received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 1987, his MD from Tufts University, and his MPH from Oregon Health and Science University in 2000. He is currently Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). He is the Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Faculty Affairs in the School of Medicine and Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer of OHSU Health.