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Interim CEO |
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Thomas C. Royer, MD, is Interim CEO of Parkland Health & Hospital System.
Dr. Royer is a surgeon and has served in numerous executive health care positions as well as faculty appointments.
Prior to joining Parkland, Dr. Royer served as President and CEO of CHRISTUS Health from 1999 to 2011. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors to the Henry Ford Medical Group and Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit from 1994 to 1999. He served as CEO, President and Chief Operating Officer at Johns Hopkins Health System from 1992 to 1994 and various senior leadership positions at Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., from 1974 to 1992, including Senior Vice President and Medical Director.
Dr. Royer served as a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy, receiving nine commendations for outstanding service.
Royer graduated magna cum laude from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. He completed his postdoctoral training in general surgery at Geisinger Medical Center.
He is a member of the Texas Hospital Association Board of Trustees, Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education, American Medical Association, American College of Physician Executives and has served on the American Hospital Association’s Board of Trustees.
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Senior Advisor
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Ron J. Anderson, M.D., is the Senior Advisor to the CEO. He served
as President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland Health & Hospital
System from 1983 until November 2011.
Dr. Anderson’s leadership, dedication to the underserved,
commitment to improving the health care system for not just his
hospital but for the state and nation, was ultimately a byproduct
of his passion to do what’s right for those in need.
He began his career caring for many patients each day. However,
milestones in his career clearly illustrate that he has impacted
the health care of millions. His 35-year career as a practicing
physician and 26-year career as CEO have seen many changes in health
care, such as nursing shortages, new technology, HIPAA (patient
privacy laws), health maintenance organizations, natural and man-made
disasters (plane crashes, hurricanes, etc.) resulting in the loss
of countless human lives, and decreases in revenue streams which
often resulted in the cutting or rationing of services.
Yet Dr. Anderson often sought out much more work outside
the scope of his job description for the chance to better help
those in need. Dr. Anderson has long championed causes that improve
health care for the medically underserved and, as a result, he
has become one of the nation’s leading advocates of health
care for the poor.
Throughout his career he has provided sound advice and experience
to legislators of both parties regarding health care issues. He
has served on the National Health Policy Initiative to advise the
White House on health care issues as well. Since 1992, he has served
on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
His vision of health care for all, regardless of ability to pay,
and his desire to see that happen have led to groundbreaking changes
to the U.S. health care system. In 1985, he played a major role
in the passage of landmark legislation concerning indigent health
care in Texas that banned "patient dumping." Dr. Anderson
quickly became a national spokesperson on this issue and his work
ultimately led to the passage of federal legislation signed into
law April 7, 1986, by President Ronald Reagan.
His list of awards and honors is long. Notably in 2005, he was
chosen by his peers as number one on Modern Physician magazine’s
list of the 50 most powerful physician executives. That same year,
he was also voted number one by his peers for Modern Healthcare magazine’s
list of 100 most powerful people in healthcare. Since then, he
continues to be voted on the lists.
Under Dr. Anderson’s leadership, Parkland was honored
with the Foster G. McGaw Award for Community Service from the American
Hospital Association. The hospital system is also a multiple winner
of The National Association of Public Hospitals Safety Net Award
for Community Service.
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| Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer |
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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.
In 2008, Dragovits was named “CFO of the Year” for charitable nonprofit companies by the Dallas Business Journal. In addition, his work to secure the best financial opportunities during the sale of bonds to help finance construction of a new Parkland hospital earned “Best Bond Deal of the Year - Southwest Region” for 2009 by the national financial magazine, The Bond Buyer.
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| Executive Vice President, Chief Medical
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John Jay Shannon, M.D., serves as Executive
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.
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| Executive Vice President, Chief Nursing
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Mary K. Eagen 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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| Vice President of Human Resources |
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James R. Johnson, CPA, SPHR, is Vice President of Human Resources.
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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