Presenter:
Reid Anthony Fisher ED.D, ATC, LAT
Bio:
Dr. Fisher maintains the position of associate professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Having provided medical care for everyone from middle school students in central TN to college students in Quincy, MA and back to Chattanooga for professional women’s football, Reid has learned from the trenches to develop financial impact statements reflective of outcomes-based patient care.
That expertise has been put to the test over the past three years as he has functioned as co-principle investigator on a grant to demonstrate proof-of-concept impact assessment for athletic trainer integration with US Air Force Basic Military Training. The demonstration of $1.5 million annual cost avoidance has come from identifying population needs and creating interventions to mitigate risk factors. The USAF will be expanding athletic trainer hiring from the two grant-funded positions to 31 across seven squadrons.
Dr. Fisher completed his doctoral studies in learning and leadership at the University of Tennessee – Chattanooga with principle foci in program evaluation. Reid completed his master’s degree in Health and Human Performance at UT-Chattanooga as well. His bachelor’s degree comes from Southwestern University in the great state of Texas. Research pursuits have followed personal passions in running gait influence on injury incidence and, more pertinent to this discussion, integrating treatment documentation with prevention development to maximize patient and organizational outcomes. His wife and kids keep him humble as does his national ranking in the sport of triathlon.
Presenter:
Alexander Pinto, EdD, FACHE, CMPE
Bio:
Mr. Pinto is a senior director with GE Healthcare Camden Group, brining over 14 years of industry experience spanning allied health provider, health system, and healthcare consulting roles. Alex’s diverse background offers a breadth of knowledge related to health system strategy and operations, with added focus on physician enterprise management as well as the use of advanced analytics to improve and inform strategic planning.
Alex began his career with a clinical background in sports medicine and rehabilitation, working alongside physicians to provide orthopedic care to patients. In his health system leadership roles, Alex has managed ambulatory and ancillary networks to support health system operations, helping to grow one system by 50% during his tenure. On a system level, Alex has managed the onboarding, provider strategy, and performance improvement of new physicians for a national for-profit health system, and he has served as an executive on a two-hospital, 500-bed regional market, providing leadership for system strategy, provider recruitment, provider relations, and marketing. As a consultant, Alex has partnered with public and private hospitals alike to drive strategic and operational improvements within the physician enterprise as well as realign systems under value-based and clinically integrated systems of care.
Alex received his Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership from the University of Tennessee’s Chattanooga campus, specializing in Organizational Policy and Culture. Alex has also received a Master of Business Administration in Business Analytics and a Master of Science in Health and Human Performance from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Alex received his Bachelors from Southern Utah University. Alex is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is a Certified Medical Practice Executive from the Medical Group Management Association.
