Speaking Engagements & Board Affiliations

• American Urological Association: Featured Speaker. International Annual Conference.  Managed Care Foundation Training- How to Achieve Success with your Third Party Payers. San Francisco, CA May, 2010.

• Large Group Urology Practice Association: How to Effectively Increase Commercial Revenues for a 30+ Physician Practice Corporation. Chicago, IL. November, 2009.

• American Urological Association:  Keynote Speakers, National Practice Management Conference, Chicago, Il, May, 2009 and Anaheim, CA  June, 2007.  Web cast:  How to Negotiate Profitable PPO Agreements.  

• Beckers Hospital/Health Systems: 16th Annual Improving the Profitability of and Establishing ASCs. Building Great Orthopedic and Spine Programs. How to offset anticipated Medicare decreases by Increase Revenues from Third Party Payers. Las Vegas, NV October 2009.

• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2009 AAOS/OREF/ORS Clinical Scientist Development Program: Third Party Payer Reimbursement and its Impact on Available Financial Resources for Clinical Scientists. Chicago, IL June, 2009.

• UC Berkeley School of Public Health: Managed Care Overview- How to Navigate the American Healthcare Delivery System. Berkeley, CA.  June, 2009.

• American Urological Association: Keynote Speaker. International Annual Conference.  Managed Care Foundation Training- How to Achieve Success with your Third Party Payers. Chicago, IL May, 2009.

• Santa Clara Medical Association, (March 2009), San Francisco Medical Association (May 2009): A Blueprint for Success: How to Effectively Negotiate Physician PPO Agreements. San Jose and San Francisco, CA

• University of San Francisco, Adjunct Faculty, Master of Healthcare Administration: How to Navigate the American Healthcare Delivery System. San Francisco, CA. 2008-09.

• Infectious Diseases Society of America: Keynote Speaker- How to Effectively Negotiate contracts with PPOs. National IDSA conference. September, 2007.

• Arizona Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Keynote Speakers- How to Effectively Negotiate ASC contracts with PPOs.  Phoenix, AZ, October, 2006. 

• New York State Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers:  Keynote Speakers- How to Effectively Negotiate ASC contracts with PPOs.  Albany NY.  

• Natividad Medical Center, Board of Trustees:  Trustee.  Monterey County, California.   

• American Ambulance Association.  Strategic Direction Committee: Committee Member. November, 2000 - Present.

• American Ambulance Association. Annual National Conference: Marketing your Services to SNFs Physician Groups and HMOs. Las Vegas, NV. 

• American Ambulance Association. Annual National Conference: Integrated Delivery Systems and Contracting with HMOs. San Antonio, TX

• American Ambulance Association.  Annual National Conference: Medicare Reimbursement, A Strategic Planning Guide.  Working with ER Physicians- Contracting and Managed Care Strategies.  Tampa, Florida

• Boston University School of Public Health, National Demand Treatment Conference: Substance Abuse Providers and Third Party Payers: Reimbursement and Contracting Strategies for the New Millennium.  San Jose, CA

• National Association of Emergency Medical Dispatch, Annual National Conference: A Practical Guide to Implementing Access Management with IPAs, Hospitals and other Ancillary Providers.  Navigator 2000.  Las Vegas, Nevada

• American Ambulance Association, Annual National Conference: Managed Care Trends in the New Millennium". Nashville, TN, November, 1999.

• National Academy of Emergency Medical Dispatch, Annual National Conference:  "Establishing Performance Benchmarks and Managed Care Contracting". Navigator 99, Austin, TX, September, 1999.

• George Washington University Medical School: Guest Lecturer, "Emergency Services and Managed Care – An Integrated Delivery System", Washington, D.C. - October, 1998

• District of Columbia EMS:  Washington DC Metropolitan Area EMS Providers Quarterly Conference:  911 Emergency Services and Managed Care  - Washington, D.C. 1998

• National Academy of Emergency Medical Dispatchers: Navigator 98, September, 1998.