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Phillip B. Douglas, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
An accomplished executive, Phillip Douglas brings more than 30 years of healthcare and management experience to his role as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LifeCare Holdings, Inc. Mr. Douglas joined LifeCare in January 2006 and served as Chief Financial Officer until April 2008 when he was named President. He was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in March 2011. He serves as Board President of the Acute Long Term Hospital Association (ALTHA), where he has served as a Board member since 2006. Prior to joining LifeCare, he was Chief Financial Officer of Workscape, Inc., a technology-based human resources outsourcing company, from 2000 until 2005. From 1996 until 1999, Mr. Douglas was founder and Chief Executive Officer of Management and Technology Solutions, Inc., a developer and provider of IT solutions to physician organizations. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Douglas was Chief Financial Officer and co-founder of HealthSpring, Inc., a physician practice management company that was later acquired by The MetraHealth Companies ("MetraHealth"). MetraHealth was ultimately acquired by United HealthCare Corporation, where Mr. Douglas served as Senior Vice President of Finance for the combined companies from 1995 to 1996. Mr. Douglas began his career as a C.P.A. at Coopers and Lybrand in 1980 and was an executive with Humana Inc. from 1983 to 1992.
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Grant B. Asay, Executive Vice President of Operations
Mr. Asay is a healthcare veteran with more than 22 years of experience. From 2002 until joining LifeCare in June 2006, he served as a Regional Director for Select Medical Corporation, one of the largest providers of long term acute care hospital services in the country. Prior to joining Select, Mr. Asay served as the Chief Executive Officer of community hospitals in Montana, Nevada and Alaska.
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M. Raymond Alvarez, Vice President, Operations and Strategic Development
Dr. Alvarez joined LifeCare in April 2011. Raymond has 8 years of LTACH senior administrator experience, over 20 years of experience as a Vice President or Chief Operations Officer in short term acute care hospitals and a total of 35 years in administrative leadership positions in rural, urban and tertiary health care settings. He recently served as Group Vice President for Specialty Hospital of Washington, the largest provider of long term critical care services in Washington, DC. Prior to this, he was Vice President of Hospital Operations for Regency Hospital Company, headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.
Raymond is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, earned a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from West Virginia University, and completed his Doctorate in Hospital Administration from Central Michigan University where his dissertation involved a national study of LTAC quality outcomes and variations in levels of outsourced nursing. In 2011, the Journal of Nursing Administration published two manuscripts based on his dissertation research.
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Catherine Conner, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration
Ms. Conner joined LifeCare in May 2006. She was previously the Executive Director of Strategic Staffing with Applebee's International, Inc., a restaurant company with 30,000 employees and over 500 locations. At Applebee's, she also held the roles of Executive Director/Total Rewards and Executive Director of Franchise HR. Ms. Conner also served as Director of HR for a Boston Market franchisee and headed up staffing for Houlihans restaurant group. In addition to her years in the hospitality industry, Ms. Conner worked in
the healthcare industry as Vice President of Human Resources with Rehab Designs of America, a prosthetic and orthotic provider.
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Chris A. Walker, Chief Financial Officer
Chris Walker has served as Senior Vice President - Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer since 1997. Prior to joining LifeCare, he worked as a Certified Public Accountant with KPMG LLP from 1991 until 1997.
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T. Brian Callister, M.D., National Medical Director
With over 25 years of clinical and leadership experience, Dr. Callister is a Board Certified Internal Medicine and Hospitalist specialist who is nationally recognized as an expert in long term acute care and the post-acute continuum. Dr. Callister has served as the National Medical Director for LifeCare Hospitals since 2004 and has directed its’ Medical Staff leadership for a dozen years. As the Chairman of the Clinical Committee of the Acute Long Term Hospital Association (ALTHA), he led the effort to develop the first LTAC industry outcome benchmark study and helped develop the initial post acute criteria with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the The Joint Commission (TJC). Dr. Callister now serves on both the CMS Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for quality for LTAC hospitals and the CMS TEP for Intermediate Rehabilitation Facilities (IRF). He is the Nevada State Chairman for the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Organized Medical Staff Section (OMSS).
In addition to his work in national acute care medicine, Dr. Callister serves as the current President of the Nevada State Medical Association and the American College of Physicians (ACP) Northern Nevada District and was the Chief of Staff or the Chief Medical Officer of several hospital systems spanning three decades. In 1995, he co-founded the Sierra Hospitalists medical group that grew into one of the nation’s largest private Hospitalist physician practices.
Dr. Callister is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Economics, and received his M.D. from the University Of Utah School Of Medicine where he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his specialty training in Internal Medicine at UCLA. He was in the inaugural class of 500 physicians worldwide to be awarded the title of Fellow in Hospital Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Nevada and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Touro University. He lectures nationally on multiple subjects ranging from the post-acute continuum to employee motivation. The American College of Physicians (ACP) Nevada Chapter named him as the 2011 Volunteerism and Community Service Award winner, and he is a recipient of the Congressional Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Service to the community.
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Erik C. Pahl, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Secretary
Mr. Pahl joined LifeCare in August 2009. With more than a decade of experience in corporate and health care law, previous positions include General Counsel and Vice President for national home care corporation, Intrepid U.S.A., and national staffing company, Snelling Staffing. He also served as Assistant General Counsel for Triad Hospitals, where he advised hospitals, surgery centers and physician groups. Mr. Pahl remains active in the Air National Guard as a Lieutenant Colonel and chief legal advisor to the 136th Airlift Wing in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago.
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