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Interim CEO |
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Robert L. Smith is Interim CEO of Parkland Health & Hospital System.
Smith is a health care executive with a varied background in complex teaching, urban and rural health care settings.
Before joining Parkland, Smith served as senior vice president of the Central region of Tenet Healthcare from 2003 to 2011, where he was responsible for 21 acute care facilities across five states. Prior to his tenure at Tenet Healthcare, he managed multi-state regions for Universal Health Services in 2002. In 2000, he served as CEO and director of Clarent Hospital Corporation in Houston to complete a complex restructuring of the corporation and its hospitals. Smith also served as vice president of division operations for CHRISTUS Health in Dallas from June 1995 to March 2000. He held a variety of leadership positions at National Medical Enterprises from 1984 to 1995 and at Methodist Hospitals of Dallas from 1979 to 1981.
Smith holds a Master of Health Administration degree from Washington University School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of Missouri, both in St. Louis. In addition, he completed an administrative residency at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. He was the 2011 recipient of the Texas Hospital Association’s Earl M. Collier Award for Distinguished Health Care Administration – the highest award bestowed by the organization.
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| Interim Chief Financial Officer |
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Walter ‘Ted’ Shaw serves as Interim Chief Financial Officer for Parkland Health & Hospital System.
Before joining Parkland, he served as Associate Vice President for Medical Financial Affairs and Chief Financial Officer at the University of Miami Medical Campus. While there, he led the redesign of the financial functions at the School of Medicine.
From 2004 to 2011, he was a partner at Financial Resource Group, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm. Prior to that, he served as President of W. T. Shaw Company from 1998 to 2003. With a history of tackling problems head-on through his skills in strategic planning, capital formation and restructuring and transforming operating results, Shaw has served many medical institutions as an Interim Chief Executive Officer and/or Chief Financial Officer. He has worked for the Jackson Health System, East Jefferson General Hospital, Fletcher Allen Health Care and Maricopa Integrated Healthcare System.
Shaw holds various leadership roles in several professional organizations. He serves as a fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He also sits on the Board of Directors for the VNA Foundation, is a graduate of Leadership Dallas and is a former member of the National Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America Board.
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| Interim Chief Medical Officer |
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Christopher Madden, MD serves as Interim Chief Medical Officer for Parkland Health & Hospital System.
Dr. Madden previously worked in the Parkland system as Associate Vice President, the primary liaison between The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Health & Hospital System. He began his career with UT Southwestern in 2003 as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and eventually became Director of Neurosurgery for Parkland. Dr. Madden performed his residency at The Ohio State University and he completed a fellowship in skull base surgery at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England.
Dr. Madden is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, American Medical Association, Congress of Neurological Surgeons and Neurocritical Society. He is a former president of the Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Madden has been honored by Best Doctors, Inc. and D Magazineas one of the best neurosurgeons in the nation and city, respectively.
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| Interim Chief Operating Officer, for Hospital Operations, Chief Implementation Officer |
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Ron Laxton, RN serves as Interim Chief Operating Officer for Hospital Operations and Chief Implementation Officer for Parkland Health & Hospital System.
Prior to Parkland, Laxton worked as a healthcare consultant for various medical systems. In this role, he provided consultative services on all aspects of performance improvement to hospital and healthcare organizations, including productivity analysis, patient satisfaction, physician engagement, cost containment, survey preparations and strategic planning. Laxton also served as the Chief Nurse Executive for Renown Regional Medical Center and Renown Children’s Hospital from 2003 before being promoted to CEO in 2005. Before that, he worked as Chief Nurse Executive at Inova Fairfax Hospital from 1996 to 2000.
He is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives, American Organization of Nurse Executives, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and other professional leadership organizations. Laxton is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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| Interim Chief Operating Officer of Ambulatory and Behavioral Health Services |
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Sharon Phillips, RN serves as Interim Chief Operating Officer for Ambulatory Care & Behavioral Health Services for Parkland Health & Hospital System.
Phillips began her health care career as a nurse in 1981. She joined Parkland in 1985 and quickly advanced to a variety of clinical and administrative leadership positions. She has led and collaborated with staff on projects that improved results of regulatory reviews, raised patient care standards, improved patient satisfaction and system financial performance.
In 1997, Phillips was tasked with managing 22 community based clinics, including 11 school-based clinics and the largest mobile program serving the homeless in the country. In 2006, her responsibilities expanded to include providing health care services for adult and juvenile inmates in the Dallas County Jail Health System.
She has received many awards and honors for her dedication to serving the underserved including the Dallas Top 100 Nurse’s Award, Dallas Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award, National Association of Public Hospitals Fellowship and other special recognitions.
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| Executive Vice President, Chief Nursing
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Mary K. Eagen, RN serves as Parkland Health & Hospital
System’s
Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer.
Eagen is responsible
for ensuring the overall direction, leadership and executive management
of the Nursing Administration, Nursing Education and Centralized
Staffing departments. In addition, she continues the ongoing development
and implementation of monitoring, evaluating and improving the
quality of nursing care.
Eagen comes to Parkland with more than
40 years of nursing experience. She most recently served CHRISTUS
Health Southeast Texas in Beaumont, Texas where she served as
the Regional Chief Nurse Executive since 2004. Prior to that,
she was the Associate Administrator/Chief Nursing Officer at CHRISTUS
Spohn Hospital Memorial in Corpus Christi. She holds a Master
of Science in Nursing from Texas Woman’s
University in Denton, Texas and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
from California State University, Los Angeles. She currently serves
on the Board of the American Heart Association and is a member
of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, American College
of Healthcare Executives and Texas Nurses Network.
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| Executive Vice President and General Counsel |
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Paul Leslie serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Parkland Health & Hospital System
Leslie oversees the Legal Affairs department of the Parkland system, reporting dually to the CEO and the Parkland Board of Managers. Leslie brings more than 25 years of legal experience, including as an in-house assistant general counsel of a Fortune 250 hospital and health care company, where he was responsible for its managed care legal operations and all enterprise-wide, non-insured litigation and government inquiries and investigations. Prior to joining Parkland, Leslie was a partner with Taber Estes Thorne & Carr, a Dallas-based law firm.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University and a law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law.
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| Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs |
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Josh Floren serves as Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs for Parkland Health & Hospital System.
Floren has been a valuable member of Parkland’s team since 2007, when he joined as Senior Vice President of Medicine Services. Floren came to Parkland from Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, West Virginia where he spent several years as the Assistant Administrator at the Women and Children’s Hospital and then Associate Administrator at the Neurosciences, Orthopedic and Trauma Hospital.
Floren received a bachelor of science in Biomedical Science from the Texas A&M University. He received his masters of health administration from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and also serves as board member on the local ACHE chapter. Floren was trained by GE in the Six Sigma methodology, Change Acceleration Process (CAP) and Workout. He has since led multiple project teams designed with the Six Sigma methodology and has trained, coached, mentored and served as an expert resource in the training of more than 500 employees in statistical process improvement.
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| Vice President of Human Resources |
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James R. Johnson, CPA, SPHR, serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Parkland Health & Hospital System.
Johnson is responsible for overseeing Parkland’s Human Resource Division, including the departments of Benefits & Compensation, Employment Experience, Leadership & Organizational Development, and Workforce Planning & Recruitment. He is an integral member of Parkland’s Senior Leadership Team.
Johnson joined Parkland in 1992 as an Internal Auditor. A year later he became a Benefits and Compensation Financial Coordinator. He then went on to become Benefits Manager; Associate Director of Benefits; and Director of Benefits, Compensation, Human Resource Information Systems and Human Resource Data Management, before being named Interim Vice President of Human Resources.
Johnson is a member of the North Texas Compensation Association, Society for Human Resource Management and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has a Bachelor of Business degree with a finance focus from Texas Tech University and a Bachelor of Business degree with an accounting focus from the University of Texas in Austin.
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