Katherine Grichnik

Dr. Katherine Grichnik has extensive executive experience across the spectrum of healthcare management, including strategic, operational, fiscal, and administrative responsibilities in a variety of settings. She is the Chief of Anesthesiology Services at SCA Health, where she supports strategic partnerships and business models to create stakeholder value, ensures aligned and skilled anesthesiology professional services, and collaborates to enhance the quality of care, enhance facility operational success, ensure safety, create risk visibility, and support risk resolution.

Fritz Buerger

Fritz Buerger is a partner and managing director for William Blair based in the firm’s Chicago office. He has been an advisor to healthcare companies for nearly two decades, having completed 100+ transactions for over $50 billion in enterprise value.

Sunny Eappen

Dr. Sunny Eappen currently serves as the President and CEO of The University of Vermont Health Network, where he oversees 6 hospitals including The University of Vermont Medical Center, 5 community hospitals, the Home Health and Hospice resource, a pediatric hospital and a Cancer Center with over 1600 beds covering a million patients in Vermont

Jason Klopotowski, M.D.

Dr. Klopotowski is a clinically active anesthesiologist with over a decade of experience in critical care medicine and anesthesia leadership. As an interim chair of anesthesia, he has shepherded multiple anesthesia groups through transitions to employment, working collaboratively with hospital leadership and the group to ensure efficient transitions with no disruptions to service or decrease

Michael Thorogood

Dr. Thorogood is a clinically active cardiothoracic anesthesiologist with more than 20 years of hospital leadership experience. In addition to his role with Surgical Directions, he currently holds appointments as both the Medical Director of Perioperative Services and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at his current health care system Delaware. He is a certified

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