John Andazola, MD, FAAFP, Program Director, Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program, Memorial Medical Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico, earned his M.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He completed his Family Medicine residency at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program, a fellowship in Advanced Hospital Training for Family Physicians in Phoenix, and a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of Arizona. He is President of the board for New Mexico Primary Care training Consortium, Past President of the New Mexico Academy of Family Physicians, and a board member of Center for Health Innovation (New Mexico’s Public Health Institute). He is also an inaugural member of National Physician Advisory Board for LifePoint Health. His major interests include health equity, inter-professional training, and medical education reform. Andazola has been involved in academic medicine throughout his career. A presenter at national meetings, he and has authored several book chapters and peer reviewed publications and been recognized for his contributions to public service and the community.

Jeff Bourgeois, MS, is President and CEO, San Juan Regional Medical Center and outgoing Chairman of the NMHA Board of Directors. He came to Farmington from San Antonio, Texas, where he led CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital, Westover Hills, as its President and Administrator and oversaw completion of construction and the start-up of operations from the ground up. While working in Texas, Bourgeois served on the Board of Trustees of the Texas Hospital Association from 2003-2010. His broad-based association and community service work includes policy and advocacy; PAC fundraising; rural and small hospital issues; and payer/provider relations. As past Chair of the NMHA Quality Committee and Secretary Treasurer of the NMHA Board of Directors, he oversaw new program development including the establishment and growth of the statewide NMHA Quality Awards. Bourgeois earned his MS in Health Care Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Troy Clark, MAcc, CPA, is President and CEO, New Mexico Hospital Association (NMHA), and oversees all operations of the organization and its subsidiaries, including the Hospital Services Corporation. Prior to joining NMHA, Clark was Vice President of Regional Operations, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, responsible for hospitals and clinics in Socorro, Ruidoso, Clovis, Tucumcari, Española and Santa Fe. Clark has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare in both operational and financial roles including physician practice management, ambulatory surgical centers, specialty hospitals, rural and critical access hospitals, large hospital systems, opening five new hospitals, and working in for-profit, not-for profit and academic environments. He is a past member of NMHA’s Board of Directors, Preserving Access to Rural Care Task Force and HealthPAC Steering Committee. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Brigham Young University.

Jeff Dye, MA, FACHE, spent 16 years as President and CEO of the New Mexico Hospital Association (NMHA) and we celebrate his retirement and honor his leadership at this 75th Annual Meeting. In his tenure at NMHA, he oversaw all operations of the organization and its subsidiaries, including the Hospital Services Corporation and served boards and committees across the state and at the national level. Key among his passions has been ensuring the growth, sustainability and readiness of the New Mexico trauma care system. Prior to NMHA, Dye served as Administrator for Presbyterian’s Socorro General Hospital for 17 years, following a variety of hospital leadership positions in other New Mexico communities. Jeff has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of New Mexico. Congratulations and best wishes to our esteemed friend and colleague.

Tom Garrity, President, The Garrity Group Public Relations, specializes in public relations, issue management and crisis communication strategies for businesses and organizations in the public and private sectors. Before starting his Albuquerque-based company in 1997, Garrity had an Emmy Award winning career in television news. It included work in local and national markets out of Dallas/Fort Worth, Billings (MT), Houston, Miami and Albuquerque. The Garrity Group (http://www.garritypr.com) helps small businesses to be heard and large organizations to be understood. The firm provides media relation and community engagement services for companies and organizations with a presence in New Mexico. In 2012, his contribution to the communications industry was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Public Relations Society of America New Mexico Chapter. He is an alum of Texas Christian University.

Stefany Goradia, MS, is Co-founder of Versatile MED Analytics, a rapidly growing healthcare analytics and business intelligence startup headquartered in Albuquerque, NM. She is responsible for tools and analytics development, as well as overseeing the technical component of product and services delivery. She has subject matter expertise in healthcare data and in using data to design and monitor initiatives that achieve cost reductions, target impactable patients/members, improve operations and quality, and meet complex regulatory requirements. She has worked across a wide array of healthcare information technology systems, including open source data, claims processing, financial, and clinical encounters. She is a strong advocate for open collaboration and knowledge sharing, data fluency, and women and minorities in STEM. She is an active Board member of NM HIMSS who earned her BS in statistics and economics and MS in industrial engineering from New Mexico State University.

Kaye Green, MBA, FACHE, CEO, Roosevelt General Hospital (RGH), is passionate about ensuring patients in rural areas have access to the safest care of the highest quality. A 30-year healthcare veteran, Green previously served as CEO of a health system in Salisbury, North Carolina, and Interim CEO in El Paso, Texas. Prior to that, she was the Chief Operations Officer at health systems in Albuquerque and St. Petersburg, Florida. Kaye began her healthcare career in her hometown of Amarillo, Texas, where she earned a master’s degree in Business Administration, with specialization in Health Administration, from Wayland Baptist University. She is current President and Chair of the New Mexico Rural Hospital Network, Co-Chair of the Child Wellbeing & Youth Success Task Force for Mental Health of Eastern New Mexico and Canon Air Force Base’s Honorary Commander for 2020-21.

John Harris, MHA, CEO, Memorial Medical Center, has been serving in that role since November 2013 and has continued to keep quality and patient safety top of mind. He is the 2020-2021 Chair of the NMHA Board of Directors and the current leader of the Quality Committee. He brings more than 40 years of healthcare administration experience to MMC and the Las Cruces community. His leadership focus is on developing and executing business strategies, growing service lines and enhancing physician relationships. Previously, Harris worked with Tenet Healthcare Corporation as President of the Sierra Providence Health Network in El Paso, Texas, and subsequently as group Vice President for 5 hospitals in southern California. Over his career, Harris has served as CEO of hospitals in Texas, Arizona, Washington and Utah. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University and his master’s in Hospital Administration from the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

Lea Harrison is the Executive Director of Haven Behavioral Healthcare of Albuquerque. Prior to this role, she served as the Director of Business Development at Haven for seven years. A committed advocate for quality care across the continuum, Harrison came to healthcare from marketing and communications. She earned her BA at the University of New Mexico.

Kristen Krell, MA, Academic Career Education Manager, Santa Fe Community College, served as the Consortium Director for the nationally recognized New Mexico Skill Up Network: Pathways Acceleration in Technology and Healthcare (SUN PATH) program. The SUN consortium included 11 community colleges and the Department of Workforce Solutions and focused on expanding and strengthening training programs in the healthcare field and aligning training programs with industry needs. Kristen has spent the past 21 years at Santa Fe Community College, managing and directing grants focused on implementing systemic change and improving educational access for students who are first from their family to pursue college. She holds an MA from the University of New Mexico in Educational Leadership.

Jenny Landen, MSN, RN, Dean of Health and Sciences, Santa Fe Community College, has been a certified family nurse practitioner for over 30 years. With extensive expertise in reproductive health, she has worked with the Indian Health Services, Planned Parenthood and school-based nursing. With Santa Fe Community College since 2009 as faculty, Director of Nursing Education and for the past six years, Dean of Health and Sciences, she has worked at the state and national level for the New Mexico Nursing Education Consortium as a champion for nursing education partnerships between universities and community colleges. Landen earned her bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) at the University of Alaska and her Master’s in Nursing from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is currently completing her PhD in nursing at the University of New Mexico.

Joy A. Lewis, MSW, MPH, is Vice President, Strategic Policy Planning at the American Hospital Association (AHA). She leads the Association’s efforts to identify long-term public policy issues, presenting solutions to further the AHA’s vision and mission. She also identifies issues requiring more study and analysis to help inform dialogue with both the membership and the public and provides leadership in organizing member work groups to ensure members’ involvement, gaining the value of their insights and perspectives to elevate the visibility of the AHA as a thought leader and agent of change around critical issues in health care in America. Prior to this role, Lewis was senior health policy leader at the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, based in Oakland, CA.

Lillian Montoya, MBA, is President and CEO of CHRISTUS St. Vincent Health System, where she previously served as the Chief Operating Officer. She has over 25 years’ experience in helping corporate, government, and non-profit leaders navigate organizational challenges—designing, developing, and implementing programs that make our communities better places to live and work. Prior to Christus St. Vincent, she served as the Executive Director of the NM Independent Community College Association and launched the NM Early Childhood Development Partnership. While leading the Community Programs Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory, she led strategic planning efforts, and the corresponding investments in regional education, economic development, and community giving. Her professional experience also includes an early career in state government including service as the Deputy Director of the NM Commission on Higher Education. A native New Mexican, Montoya earned her BA and MBA from the University of New Mexico.

Todd Oberheu, FACHE, has been Hospital Chief Executive, Lincoln County Medical Center, since July 2016. Prior to serving in Ruidoso, he was Chief Executive Officer at Spanish Peaks Regional Healthcare Center, a small, independent Critical Access Hospital in Colorado, for eight years. Oberheu was Chairman of the Colorado Hospital Association Shared Services Committee for 6 years and served the organization’s Board of Directors from 2013-2016, ending his tenure as Board Chairman. He holds a BA in Social Work from Texas Tech University, and an MBA in Health Care Administration from Wayland Baptist University.

Thomas Pascuzzi, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Versatile MED Analytics, merges his clinical experience and population heath insights for the benefit of clients and leverages healthcare data to improve organizational performance. He has expertise in improving operational efficiency, leading performance improvement initiatives and modeling growth strategy. Experienced at leading clinical and technical teams, Pascuzzi is adept at identifying the right tools needed for both short-term financial wins and long-term business success. His experience spans leadership roles in small group practices to large integrated health systems. He has also been involved with start-ups in urgent care centers, emergency physician staffing organizations, patient engagement platforms, business process outsourcing and healthcare analytics companies He is dedicated to the development of others and believes a well-coached TEAM is the key to success.

Mary Perez, RN, DNP, Executive Director, UNM Psychiatric Center, has worked the majority of her career in public and private healthcare settings, serving in a wide variety of positions with an emphasis on leadership. Her doctoral work focused on supporting adequate sleep in patients with psychiatric illness. Perez has a strong commitment to improved care for the citizens of New Mexico and is responsible for implementation of trauma informed and recovery-based models of care in the behavioral health settings where she works. For 30 years, she has functioned as a collaborative partner with various state and local agencies as well as serving on community boards to assist families challenged by social and structural determinants of health that combine with mental health challenges.

Chris Ramirez, MA, Investigative Reporter, KOB 4, Albuquerque has led the investigative reporting team since October 2011. His work has exposed lawmakers who swapped votes for favors and shed light on dark money in New Mexico politics, shaping state laws and making our community a safer, better place to live and work. He has earned numerous awards including three Emmys ® for investigative reporting. The New Mexico Broadcasters' Association named Chris "Reporter of the Year" in 2013 and 2015 and “Investigative Reporter of the Year” in 2017 and 2018. Ramirez also worked at KOAT-TV and served the City of Albuquerque for two years as the mayor's communications director and has reported in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and El Paso, TX. He earned his BA in Journalism and Mass Communications from New Mexico State University and his Master's in Public Administration at the University of New Mexico.

John Riggi, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity & Risk, American Hospital Association, is a 30-year decorated veteran of the FBI. In his role at the American Hospital Association (AHA), he is a resource to help members identify and combat cyber and other sources of risk to their organizations. Additionally, he supports AHA’s policy efforts and Federal agency relations on cyber and other risk-related issues. While at the FBI, Riggi served as a representative to the White House Cyber Response Group. He is the recipient of the FBI Director’s Award for leading a highly successful, classified terrorism, financing interdiction program and the recipient of the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism, the CIA’s highest counterterrorism award.

Mary Alice Scott, PhD, is Associate Professor, Anthropology, and Graduate Faculty, Integrated Behavioral Health Program at New Mexico State University. She is also associate program director at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program. She received her B.A. in Women’s Studies from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Kentucky. Her research program is part of an academic-community collaboration with a team of NMSU students and faculty and the residency program. The program includes explorations of the culture of medicine and medical education as well as development of curricula and tools to improve training in health equity in health care professions.

Tenika Sosa-Gonzalez, BSN, RN, Director, Behavioral Healthcare, Memorial Medical Center Tenika Sosa-Gonzalez, BSN, RN, Director, Behavioral Healthcare, Memorial Medical Center (MMC), Las Cruces, is a Native New Mexican and has been a behavioral health nurse for over a decade. MMC’s behavioral healthcare program is a trauma-informed practice and the only inpatient unit in Southern New Mexico to utilize peer support workers. Sosa-Gonzales has experience in adolescent to geriatrics, correctional settings, risk management, performance improvement, infection prevention and is a Trauma Informed Care Educator. She is Vice President, Board of Directors, Disability Rights New Mexico, Chair of Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness in New Mexico, Board Member of the Las Cruces LC3 Behavioral Health Collaborative, and member of the Third Judicial Criminal Justice Council. Most recently, she was a plenary speaker for New Mexico Bar Association, Civil Legal Services 13th Annual conference. She holds a baccalaureate degree in nursing and is currently working on her Master of Healthcare Leadership, both from Western Governors University.

Tiffany Wynn, MA, LPCC, is the Deputy Director of Treatment and Programs at the Behavioral Health Services Division of the New Mexico Health and Human Services Department. She and her teams oversee all state-funded behavioral health services including, but not limited to, specialty BH (IOP, CCSS, ACT, AARTC), Peer Support Services, Native American, Veteran, Sexual Assault, and LGBTQ. Her research includes intersectional approaches to behavioral health services and outcomes, as well as gender, neuroscience, trauma, and adventure-based psychotherapy. Wynn recently spearheaded the development and implementation of the Department of Behavioral Health Services new website “TreatmentConnection” (https://www.treatmentconnection.com/) that has a public-facing portal for those seeking treatment services, as well as a back-facing portal for providers.