National Board of Advisors

The Center for Healthcare Governance is committed to helping you resolve real-world issues in a fast-changing health care environment. Our National Board of Advisors, comprised of hospital CEOs and trustees, physician leaders, AHA and state association executives and governance thought leaders, ensures that our offerings are closely aligned with marketplace needs. It also will advise and counsel our organization on the development of our educational curriculum, key content and other products and services.

  • Don C. Wegmiller: 
    Center Board Chair: Chair, Chairman, Clark Consulting Healthcare Group
    Wegmiller is chairman of Clark Consulting's Healthcare Group in Minneapolis and is the former vice chairman and president of HealthSpan Health Systems Corp., Minnesota's largest health care network. He served as AHA chairman in 1987. 

  • Gary S. Carter:
    President, New Jersey Hospital Association
    Carter is president and CEO of the 110-member New Jersey Hospital Association.

  • Richard de Filippi, Ph.D.
    Trustee, Cambridge (MA) Health Alliance
    De Filippi has been a trustee at Cambridge (MA) Health Alliance since 1977 and is a member of the Finance, Public Health, and Strategic Planning Committees.

  • Susan Dentzer:
    Trustee, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
    Dentzer is an on-air correspondent with "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," where she leads a unit dedicated to providing in-depth coverage of health care, health policy and social security. She also serves as a trustee of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  

  • Douglas D. Hawthorne:
    President & CEO, Texas Health Resources
    Hawthorne is the president & CEO of Texas Health Resources, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in Texas.

  • Todd Charles Linden:
    President & CEO, Grinnell Regional Medical Center
    Linden is president and CEO of Grinnell Regional Medical Center, an 81-bed, private non-profit hospital in Grinnell, Iowa. He also serves on the AHA's Board of Trustees.

  • James E. Orlikoff:
    President, Orlikoff & Associates, Inc.; Senior Consultant, Center for Healthcare Governance
    Orlikoff is president of Chicago based Orlikoff & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in health care governance and leadership, strategy, quality, organizational development and risk management.

  • Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM
    Associate  Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Surgery, & Health Policy & Management Medical Director, Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Pronovost, a practicing physician, is an associate professor in the Department of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and surgery at the St. Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as the director of the university's Quality and Safety Research Group and medical director for Hopkins' Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care.

  • Lawrence Prybil Ph.D.
    Vice-Chairman of the Sisters of Charity Health System’s Board of Directors, Compensation Committee Chair
    Prybil received his PhD in hospital and health services administration from The University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1970.

  • Roger W. Raber:
    President & CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors
    Raber is president and CEO of the National Association of Corporate Directors, a 16,000-member organization dedicated to providing information, research and education for corporate directors and boards.

  • James L. Reinertsen, M.D.:
    Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
    Reinertsen is president of the Reinertsen Group, a Wyoming-based independant consulting and teaching practice, and serves as senior fellow to the Boston-based Institute for Health Care Improvement.

  • Frank Sardone:
    President & CEO, Bronson Healthcare Group
    Sardone is president and CEO of Bronson Healthcare Group, Inc., the second largest employer in Kalamazoo, Mich.

  • Stephen M. Shortell, PhD :
    Dean and Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy Management, University of California, Berkeley
    Shortell is dean of the University of California at Berkeley's School of Public Health and the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management.

  • Ernest Sutton:
    Member, Leadership Development Committee; Trustee, Albemarle Hospital
    Sutton is a trustee of Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City, N.C.  He is a member of the Leadership Development Committee of AHA’s Committee on Governance.

  • Bruce Vladeck:
    Interim President, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
    Vladeck is principal in Ernst & Young LLP's Health Sciences Advisory Services practice and east coast director of the company's academic medical service line. He served as administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now called the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) from 1993 through 1997.