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The 2010 Nightingale's Healthcare News' "People to Watch in Healthcare Transactions in the Southwest" will be honored at the

Third Annual Southwest Healthcare Transactions Conference on May 5. Congratulations again to last year's recipients:  

 

Sami S. Abbasi

NATIONAL SURGICAL CARE

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of National Surgical Care, which owns and operates numerous surgery centers across the U.S., performing over 110,000 cases per year. Co-founded Radiologix in 1996 and was instrumental in building the company from a creative idea to one of the nation’s leading providers of diagnostic imaging services.

Michael Arvin

METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM

Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer. Has artfully shepherded several projects to fruition, including Methodist McKinney Hospital partnership with Nueterra Healthcare; Methodist Rehabilitation Hospital partnership with Centerre Healthcare; and Methodist Hospital for Special Surgery partnership with Nueterra Healthcare/Staubach Realty Partners.

Steven K. Boyd

GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS, INC.

President and Chief Executive Officer. Has grown Guardian Healthcare both in size and geography through acquisitions as well as organically. Together with management team has positioned Guardian as a leading provider of home health services in the Southwest. A fair and decisive dealmaker with a combination of financial, operational, and leadership skills.

J. Christopher Brengard

US RENAL CARE

As Chief Executive Officer, has led US Renal Care from its beginnings in Arkansas to a network of 55 dialysis centers in Arkansas and Texas, caring for approximately 3,000 dialysis patients. The company has grown significantly thru the years via acquisition and organic growth and is backed by an impressive list of private equity firms and strategic investors.

Jay R. Dempsey

BANK OF TEXAS, N.A.

Vice President. An established industry leader, is currently working to create a young professionals healthcare forum in Dallas. In past three years, has provided over $100 million in loan facilities for healthcare businesses and projects in Texas, and has implemented treasury management solutions for numerous companies through the Bank of Texas platform.

William D. Lautman

NEXUS HEALTH CAPITAL, LLC

Managing Partner. Provides merger and acquisition advisory and other investment banking services to healthcare industry clients in the Southwest, with recent transactions in Arizona and Texas. A key player in the national attention the Southwest is receiving within the healthcare community as a desirous geography in which to build healthcare service companies.

Anthony L. Martin

GEMINO HEALTHCARE FINANCE

As Director of Gemino Healthcare Finance, his knowledge of asset-based financing and the reimbursement challenges in healthcare has helped Gemino to grow, in two short years, to include 26 clients with over $110MM in credit commitments. Gemino is now very well positioned for tremendous growth in 2009.

Kevin O'Brien

CCMP CAPITAL

 

James D. Rolfe

VMG HEALTH

Managing Director, focusing on transactional services. Expertise includes market identification, transaction proposals, presentations and negotiations, and interactions with hospital management, board of directors, county officials, and physicians. Also has a strong accounting background. Closed transactions are valued in the aggregate in excess of $2 billion.

Ken Ross

SOLARA HEALTHCARE

Founded Solara Healthcare in 2003. CEO of long-term acute care hospital in Oklahoma that received “The Best in Quality Hospital” award. Received “CEO of the Year” award for the National LTACH Company’s Southwest Region for superior performance. Led turnaround situation hospital to a “Top 100 Hospital” as recognized by HCIA in Modern Healthcare.

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