Hardwiring Clinician & Administrative Input into Our Decisions

These executive groups serve as a forum for our clinicians and managers to advise on UK HealthCare’s direction. This input supports UK HealthCare in meeting our mission and achieving our vision to advance the health of Kentucky. Through these groups, transparency and communication are promoted up, down and across our healthcare system.

Operating Group

The Operating Group meets weekly to focus on key issues within our academic health system. The committee is composed of many UK senior leaders with various fields of expertise. This committee is focused on UK HealthCare as an academic health system. 

• Robert DiPaola, MD, Co-Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
• Eric Monday, PhD, Co-Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
• Jay Blanton, UK Chief Communications Officer
• Craig Collins, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
• Angela Dearinger, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean, Graduate Medical Education
• Chris DeSimone, MD, Executive Chief Medical Officer
• Rob Edwards, DPH, MBA, Vice President and Chief Strategy & Growth Officer
• Timothy M. Gaillard, MHA, MSBA, FACHE, Vice President for Strategic Workforce Initiatives
• Chipper Griffith, MD, MSPH, Dean, UK College of Medicine
• Donald H. Lloyd II, President & CEO, UK St. Claire
• Sara Marks, UK King’s Daughters President & CEO
• Fredrick Martin, Associate Vice President for Human Resources (UK HealthCare)
• Ian McClure, JD, LLM, Vice President for Innovation (UK HealthCare)
• Gwen Moreland, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nurse Executive
• Jason Schlafer, Executive Associate Athletic Director & Chief Revenue Officer
• Brett Short, CHC, CHPC, CHRC, Chief Compliance Officer
• Colleen Swartz, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, Acting Chief Operations Officer; Vice President for Hospital Operations
• Tukea Talbert, DNP, RN, CDP, Chief Health Disparities Officer
• Michael Hatfield, MPA, Director for Administration

Medical Group

The Medical Group is a monthly meeting series focused on issues overlapping both UK HealthCare hospital operations as well as the faculty practice within the UK College of Medicine. The committee is composed of clinical department chairs along with members of UK HealthCare’s senior leadership.

• Robert DiPaola, MD, Co-Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
• Eric Monday, PhD, Co-Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
• Matthew Bush, MD, PhD, MBA, Chair, Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
• R. Carter Cassidy, MD, Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine
• Craig Collins, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
• Darwin Conwell, MD, MS, FACG, Chair, Internal Medicine
• Scottie Day, MD, FAAP, Physician in Chief, Kentucky Children’s Hospital & Chair, Pediatrics
• Emily DeFranco, DO, MS, Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Chris DeSimone, MD, Executive Chief Medical Officer
• B. Mark Evers, MD, FACS, Director, UK Markey Cancer Center
• Teresa Gevedon, MD, Acting Chair, Psychiatry
• Amy S. Gewirtz, MD, Acting Chair, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
• Larry Goldstein, MD, Chair, Neurology & Co-Director, Kentucky Neuroscience Institute
• Ginny Gottschalk, MD, Chair, Family & Community Medicine
• Chipper Griffith, MD, MSPH, Dean, UK College of Medicine
• Zaki Hassan, MD, Chair, Anesthesiology
• Roger Humphries, MD, Chair, Emergency Medicine
• William B. Inabnet III, MD, FACS, MHA, Chair, Surgery & Surgeon in Chief
• Susan McDowell, MD, Chair, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
• Gwen Moreland, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nurse Executive
• Elizabeth Oates, MD, FAAWR, FACR, Chair, Radiology
• Andrew Pearson, MD, Chair, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
• Jake Stover, MHSA, Associate Vice President for Finance
• Stephen Strup, MD, FACS, Chair, Urology
• Colleen Swartz, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, Acting Chief Operations Officer; Vice President for Hospital Operations
• Craig van Horne, MD, PhD, Chair, Neurosurgery
• Eddy Yang, MD, PhD, Chair, Radiation Medicine
• Michael Hatfield, MPA, Director for Administration

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