Wayne W. Oliver
Executive Director
Wayne W. Oliver is Executive Director of Patients for Fair
Compensation.
As a healthcare thought leader, Oliver has focused his
professional career in the healthcare policy arena.
Oliver formerly served as Vice President of Pharmacy Advocacy &
Governmental Relations for RxAlly. Based in Leesburg, Virginia,
RxAlly offers unique and innovative solutions for employers and
health plans, leveraging the role of community pharmacists to help
patients improve their health outcomes and reduce healthcare
costs.
From 2006 to 2012, Oliver was a Vice President at the Center for
Health Transformation (CHT), a health public policy think tank.
While at CHT, he directed and managed Center projects on health
justice (civil justice and tort reform) transformation, FDA
Modernization, 21st Century Intelligent Pharmacy, health
information technology and electronic prescribing, and healthcare
quality and price transparency.
Prior to CHT, Oliver spent 19 years with the Georgia Pharmacy
Association, during which he helped build a highly effective,
dynamic grassroots governmental affairs program.
Richard L. Jackson
Chairman
Richard L. Jackson serves as Chairman of Patients for Fair
Compensation and Patients for Fair Compensation Institute.
Jackson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jackson
Healthcare. Jackson Healthcare provides hospitals with physicians,
clinicians and allied health professionals to ensure the delivery
of timely, high quality patient care.
For the past 34 years, Jackson has been instrumental in
conceptualizing and developing more than 25 healthcare
companies. His ownership and operation of staffing companies,
surgery centers, practice management companies, clinics and
hospitals have endowed him with the depth and breadth required to
thrive in the ever-changing healthcare environment.
Jackson has demonstrated a unique ability to anticipate industry
trends, identify underserved niches and create industry-leading
companies. Jackson partners with industry thought leaders and
continues to play a lead role in transforming the way healthcare is
delivered.
Driven by a personal mission to inject hope and opportunity into
the lives of underserved children, Jackson actively supports
numerous local and international charitable organizations. In
2010, he established a national Hospital Charitable Service Awards
program - the only recognition program in the healthcare industry
celebrating hospital accomplishments at the program level.
Jackson serves on the board of directors of the
Georgia Department of Community Health and the Metro Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce.
Charles R. Evans
Vice-Chairman
Charles R. Evans serves as Vice-Chairman of Patients for Fair
Compensation and Patients for Fair Compensation Institute.
Charlie is President of the International Health Services Group
(IHSG) and Senior Advisor at Jackson Healthcare. IHSG is a
social enterprise he founded in 2007 to support health services
development in underserved areas of the world. It is the
mission of IHSG to work with established organizations to
supplement their capabilities in healthcare management and
development as they work to achieve their broader missions.
Projects are currently underway in Kenya, the Democratic Republic
of the Congo, Nigeria, Belize, Honduras and the Dominican Republic
working with such partners as Rivers of the World, MedShare
International, the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, the Ropheka
Hospital in Nigeria, Hampden-Sydney College, and Indiana University
Medical School.
Evans is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare
Executives and is a Past Chairman. He served as a Governor of
the College from 2004 through 2007. He also serves as
chairman of the Solantic board and is a member of the boards at
Jackson Healthcare, Angelica and MedicalMissions.org. He is
active in numerous professional associations and community
organizations, and is also Clinical Assistant Professor of Family
and Preventive Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.
Evans has also served in executive positions at Memorial Medical
Center of Jacksonville, Florida, and Community Hospitals,
Indianapolis, Indiana. He joined HCA in 1995 and managed company
divisions including North Carolina, MidAmerica, and Southeast.
Evans was named President of HCA's Eastern Group in 2004, where he
was responsible for operations in the Eastern half of the
company.
Jeffrey Segal, MD
National Advisory Board Member
Dr. Jeffrey Segal is a board certified neurosurgeon and the
Chief Executive Officer and founder of Medical Justice, a
physician-based organization focused on broad-based solutions for
challenges affecting the U.S. healthcare system. He is a Fellow of
the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Legal
Medicine, and previously was CEO of the biotech company DarPharma
Inc.
Dr. Segal was a practicing neurosurgeon for approximately ten
years, during which time he also played an active role as a
participant on various state-sanctioned medical review panels
designed to decrease the incidence of meritless medical malpractice
cases. In the process of conceiving, funding, developing, and
growing Medical Justice, Dr. Segal has established himself as one
of the country's leading authorities on medical malpractice issues,
counterclaims, and Internet-based assaults on reputation.
Dr. Segal holds a M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, where he
also completed a neurosurgical residency. Dr. Segal served as
a Spinal Surgery Fellow at The University of South Florida Medical
School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa as well as the AOA Medical
Honor Society. Dr. Segal received his B.A. from The University of
Texas. Dr. Segal graduated with a J.D. from Concord Law School with
highest honors.
Michael D. Connelly
National Advisory Board Member
Michael D. Connelly has served as president and CEO of Catholic
Health Partners (CHP) since 1995. CHP is a regional operator
of acute care and long term care facilities in Ohio and
Kentucky.
Connelly previously served as regional executive/CEO of
Daughters of Charity Health System West and president and CEO of
St. Joseph's hospital in Chicago. He currently serves as
Chair of the Catholic Medical Mission Board in New York, on the
Urban League Board of Greater Cincinnati, and the St. Vincent
DePaul Advisory Board in Cincinnati. Mr. Connelly also served
on the Premier Inc. Board from 2003 and as Board Chair from 2009 to
October 2011.
Connelly earned a bachelor's degree in business administration,
cum laude, and a master's degree in health services administration
from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He earned his J.D.
degree from DePaul University College of Law. He has earned
numerous professional and academic awards and served on parish and
community organizations.
Doug Wojcieszak
National Advisory Board Member
Doug Wojcieszak is founder of Sorry
Works!, America's leading disclosure advocacy and training
organization. He began Sorry Works! in 2005 after the loss of
his oldest brother to medical errors forced his family to file a
medical malpractice lawsuit. His family received a settlement
but (at the time) no apology for the errors.
Wojcieszak and Sorry Works! have trained
thousands of physicians, nurses, attorneys, and administrative
personnel in hospitals and insurers on full-disclosure methods as a
middle ground solution to the malpractice crisis.
Crittenden's Medical Insurance News wrote that Sorry Works! is "at
the forefront" of the disclosure movement.
Prior to Sorry Works!, Wojcieszak served as a consultant, a
spokesperson for Victims and Families United and as Executive
Director of Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch (I-LAW), a grass-roots,
pro-tort reform group.
John C. Goodman
National Advisory Board Member
John C. Goodman is president and CEO of the National Center for
Policy Analysis. The Wall Street Journal and the National Journal,
among other media, have called him the "Father of Health Savings
Accounts." He is also the Kellye Wright Fellow in health
care. The mission of the Wright Fellowship is to promote a
more patient-centered, consumer-driven health care system.
He is frequently invited to testify before Congress on health
care reform and retirement topics and is the author of more than 50
published studies on topics such as health policy, retirement
reform and tax issues and nine books, including Lives at Risk:
Single Payer National Health Insurance Around the World; Leaving
Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws; and the trailblazing
Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis.
Goodman received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia
University, and has taught and done research at Columbia, Stanford
University, Dartmouth University, Southern Methodist University and
the University of Dallas.
Ross Mason
National Advisory Board Member
Ross Mason is the founder of the Healthcare Institution for
Neuro-Recovery and Innovation (HINRI) and former Chairman of the
Georgia Department of Community Health Board. His focus is making
GA a national and global leader health innovation.
Originally from Madison, Georgia, Mason became passionate about
healthcare after volunteering at an AIDS hospital in Zambia the
summer of 1999. In 2004, he created HINRI, which provides venture
philanthropy to early-stage nonprofits. He also serves as a Senior
Fellow at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Mason served almost eight years on the Georgia Department of
Community Health Board, his last two years as Chairman. He is
former Chairman of the Metro Atlanta United Way's Health Access
Board, and Chairman of the Board of Visitors at Georgia Health
Sciences University. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the
Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Mason holds a bachelors degree in Industrial and Systems
Engineering from Georgia Tech and a masters of business
administration in finance from The Wharton School. He also studied
literature and history at Oxford and Russian at Middlebury
College.