Parkland Hospital


	Ron J. Anderson, M.D. Ron J. Anderson, M.D., is President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, Texas. Parkland is considered the premier public hospital in the United States. It has served the Dallas County community since 1894. Dr. Anderson was named Parkland’s chief executive officer in 1982 at the age of 35, after serving as medical director for Ambulatory Care and Emergency Services at Parkland and head of the Department of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. His belief in the equality of mankind, rich, poor, male, female, black, white, yellow, brown, is central in his personal and professional lives. From the beginning, he worked to destroy the glass ceiling for women. Today, over half of Parkland’s management positions are held by women. Dr. Anderson is one of the nation’s leading advocates of health care for the poor. As chairman of the Center for Community Responsive Care (Boston) and as a member of the National Health Policy Initiative (advisor to the White House on health care issues), he is concerned that the health care industry’s pursuit of corporatization may abandon the disenfranchised. In 1985, he played a major role in the passage of landmark legislation concerning indigent health care in Texas. The legislation banned “patient dumping” — the practice of transferring medically unstable patients from private to public hospitals because of inability to pay. Anderson became a national spokesperson on this issue, which led to passage of federal legislation signed into law April 7, 1986, by President Reagan. He has served the citizens of Texas as Chairman of the Texas Department of Health; a member of the Institute of Medicine Governing Panel Access to Health Services Panel; a member of the Texas Advisory Board for the Children’s Defense Fund; a member of the Texas Hospital Association’s Special Advisory Committee on the Uninsured and Indigent Health Care: member of the Institute of Medicine’s Health Disparities Committee; co-chairman of the American Foundation for Trauma; a member of the Medical Care Advisory Committee of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission; a member of the Kaiser Commission; among others. His vision of health care for all, regardless of ability to pay, paved the way for Parkland’s Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) program — a network of neighborhood-based health centers that act as the “family doctor” to primarily low-income communities. Today, the network includes 10 local health centers, 11 school-based clinics and provides medical services in 22 homeless shelters. The program has won numerous national awards for its ability to involve the community in clinic activities. Dr. Anderson has been honored locally and nationally for his contributions to health care. Among the honors he has received: American Hospital Association’s Award of Honor, 2004; Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare, 2003; J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award from the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at Southern Methodist University, 2003; American Public Health Association Award for Excellence, 2001; Champions of Health Award from the Texas Medical Association Foundation, 2000; Children’s Defense Fund Award for Child Advocacy, 1999; Who’s Who Among Top Executives, 1996; Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 1996; the John P. McGovern Award for Humanitarian Medicine and Lectureship from the Association of Academic Health Centers, 1994; International Who’s Who, 1994; and countless others. Under Dr. Anderson’s leadership, Parkland Health & Hospital System has been honored with the Foster G. McGaw Award for Community Service from the American Hospital Association; The National Association of Public Hospitals Safety Net Award for Community Service (multiple winner); His commitment to education is profound. Along with his leadership role as president and chief executive officer, Dr. Anderson continues to teach the doctors of tomorrow as an active attending physician and Professor of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in Health Policy, Management and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Health Care Administration, Trinity University; Adjunct Faculty, Advanced Studies in Health Law, Parkland Hospital Internship, Baylor University School of Law; and the University of Maryland at Baltimore, External Advisory Board for the Center for Minority Health Research. The community is very important to Dr. Anderson and as such, he actively participates in numerous civic and volunteer activities. He is a member of the Salesmanship Club of Dallas; Life member of the Texas Health Foundation; member of the Medical Advisory Board for the Children’s Oncology Services of Texas, Inc. (Ronald McDonald House); charter member of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission’s Strategies for a Safer Dallas Committee; member of the Leaders Society Advisory Council for the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas; member, Board of Directors of the March of Dimes, Dallas; and member of the Medical Advisory Board of the North Texas Poison Center; among others.
	John M. Haupert John M. Haupert serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Parkland Health & Hospital System. He comes to Parkland from Methodist Health System in Dallas, where he has served as Executive Vice President for Corporate Services and Business Development since 2003. He has been with Methodist Health System since 1992, where he began as an administrative resident at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. He received a master's degree in health care administration from Trinity University in 1992. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Trinity University. Haupert’s leadership experience spans a variety of areas of hospital operations in both clinical and non-clinical areas, including strategic planning, business development, medical education, information technology, materiel management, quality improvement, patient safety, medical staff, pastoral care, facilities and development, among others. Haupert is certified as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is a recipient of the organization's Regent's Leadership Award. Currently, he is chair-elect of the Board of Trustees for the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council. He will begin the role of chairperson in January 2007.
	John F. Dragovits John F. Dragovits serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Parkland Health & Hospital System. Before joining Parkland, he served as Vice President of the Cerner Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to that, Dragovits was with Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. From 1992 to 2003, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In addition, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Children’s from 1986 to 1992. Prior to that, Dragovits worked at Deloitte in Dallas from 1981 to 1986. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1977 to 1981 as a Naval Officer. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a master’s degree in accounting and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rice University in Houston. He is a member of several professional organizations, including Healthcare Financial Management Association, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Dallas Chapter of Texas Society of CPAs, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
	John Jay Shannon, M.D. John Jay Shannon, M.D., serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Parkland Health & Hospital System. He came to Parkland after more than a decade at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, where he served as senior attending physician and associate chairman of medicine for Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine. Shannon graduated cum laude from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, with a bachelor's degree in biology. He received his medical degree from Rush Medical College in 1986, completed his internship, residency and chief residency at Parkland and his specialty training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. Shannon is a member of the American College of Physicians, American Thoracic Society and the Society for Critical Care Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, and Critical Care Medicine. In 2005 he was given the Public Health Service Award by the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago.
	John D. Crossley, RN, Ph.D, MBA John D. Crossley serves as Parkland Health & Hospital System's Chief Nursing Officer. Crossley will be responsible for ensuring the overall direction, leadership and executive management of Nursing Administration, Education, Recruitment and Centralized Staffing departments. In addition, he will continue the development and implementation of an ongoing program to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality of nursing care. Crossley comes to Parkland from Scott and White Health System in Temple, where he served as Executive Director for Quality and Chief Nursing Officer since 2004. Notably, in 2001, Crossley led the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service, awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. For more than 30 years he has served in various capacities as a staff nurse, director, vice president and chief nursing officer for academic health care systems including the University of Michigan Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and University Hospitals of Cleveland/University Hospitals Health System.
	Michael Silhol Michael Silhol serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Parkland Health & Hospital System and reports dually to the CEO and the Parkland Board of Managers. Silhol is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in health law. He brings years of experience in the health care industry. He comes to Parkland from Radiologix Inc. in Dallas. His experience also includes six years in Legal Operations at Triad Hospitals in Plano and three years at Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation in Tennessee and Louisiana. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Silhol served in the U.S. Army as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Silhol serves on the Board of Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association.