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JOHN D. COURIS
PRESIDENT & CEO
John D. Couris is the President and CEO of the Florida Health Sciences Center (FHSC), which comprises a portfolio of organizations, including Tampa General Hospital, one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit academic health systems, in partnership with the University of South Florida. Under Couris’ leadership, Tampa General’s footprint has grown from 17 facilities to now include six hospitals and more than 150 care locations statewide, employing approximately 14,000 team members and physicians. Couris also serves as Chair of the Board of Managers of the three hospitals that comprise TGH North (formerly Bravera Health).
Couris is recognized as a national expert in health care as well as organizational leadership, and workplace culture transformation and management, having successfully built companies nationwide by driving innovation, operational excellence, team member and stakeholder engagement and strategic collaboration.
Couris provides counsel and works closely with elected officials at all levels to help address issues impacting the health care industry in Tampa Bay, in Florida and on a national scale. He was recently appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Florida Health Care Innovation Council by Senator Kathleen Passidomo, President of the Florida State Senate.
Since taking the helm of the Florida Health Sciences Center in 2017, Couris has championed innovation. Under his leadership, Tampa General established an artificial intelligence and predictive analytics care coordination center designed to improve the safety, quality and affordability of health care. Couris helped launch a venture capital fund, TGH Ventures, which is dedicated to fostering a culture of innovation within the organization while supporting early-stage startups and direct investments. Today, Couris is executing Tampa General’s largest master facility plan in the health system’s history, a $550 million capital commitment to bring the most advanced technology and innovative care by creating a growing medical and research district in downtown Tampa. This district, inspired by renowned medical districts in the nation’s greatest cities, houses an ever-growing hub of world-class clinical care, academics, research and biotechnology anchored by Tampa General and the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.
Before joining the Florida Health Sciences Center, Couris served as President and CEO of Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Florida, for eight years, where he forged partnerships with notable institutions such as The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida, creating robust service lines and elevating the hospital to a regional medical center. Couris served in various executive leadership roles at BayCare Health System over a 10-year period before moving to Jupiter. He began his career at Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers.
Couris often speaks and presents at conferences across the country and internationally on topics relating to leadership, organizational transformation and growth, regulatory impact, consumerism, innovation and design, and empowering and leading high-performing teams across the health care space and various sectors. His most recent speaking and panelist engagements include Veterans Health - MIT Hacking Medicine 2024 at the USF Morsani College of Medicine, the ViVE 2024 conference, Harvard Medical School (2024), JP Morgan Healthcare conference (2024), Press Ganey 2024 Human Experience Summit, Vizient Inc. Annual Meeting, (2024), Milken Institute Future of Health Summit (2023), KLAS (2023) and the ACHE Annual Meeting (2023).
Couris serves as an expert source and contributor to multiple national publications, offering insights on topics ranging from his visionary approach to care coordination to the principles of authentic leadership. He was recently featured in “Three Healthcare CEOs Discuss Evolving Priorities and the Potential of AI and Big Data,” in Healthcare Business Today (April 2024). His peer-reviewed case study, “Tampa General Hospital: Harnessing Authentic Leadership to Transform an Academic Health System,” was recently published in Management in Healthcare (Volume 8 / Number 4 / Summer 2024).
Couris has earned national recognition for his leadership, including being named to the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s “Power 100” list of Tampa Bay’s most influential leaders for 2022, 2023 and 2024 and the Journal’s “25 People to Watch in 2022.” He was also included in Modern Healthcare’s 2022 class of Top Innovators, which recognizes leaders instituting innovation and leading transformative programs that improve care by achieving measurable results and contributing to their organization's clinical and financial goals. Couris was recently recognized as a top academic health systems CEOs in the U.S., according to the Becker’s Hospital Review 2024 list of “96 Academic Medical Center CEOs to Know,” and as a national health care leader with his inclusion on the Becker’s 2024 and 2023 “Great Leaders in Healthcare” list and the Becker’s 2023 “60 Health System CEO Influencers.”
Couris was recently named Tampa Bay Business Journal’s “10 Most Admired CEOs and in June 2024, Couris was recognized as Business Leader of the Year by the South Tampa Chamber of Commerce. In May 2024, Couris was awarded the President's Fellow Medallion from the University of South Florida, one of the highest honors the USF President can bestow. He was honored with the 2022 Tampa Bay Chamber H.L. Culbreath Jr. Profile in Leadership Award, and the 2022 Dean’s Award from the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. He has also been named to Florida Trend’s “Florida 500” list of most influential business leaders in the state for the last four years (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024), INFLUENCE magazine’s "150 most influential people in Florida politics" for 2022 and 2023, City & State Florida’s “Health Care Power 100” (#4 in 2022), and Florida Politics’ “Influence 100” list of most influential people in Florida politics. Couris was inducted into the Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame in 2023.
Couris is also committed to serving his community and professional organizations as a member of the Executive Advisory Council of the University of South Florida Muma College of Business, Chair of the Board of Tampa Bay Thrives and Chair of the Board of The Florida Aquarium and serves on the boards of Boston University, Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Florida Council of 100, the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida, the New Hampton School and the PGA TOUR Valspar Championship. In addition, he is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and many national health care associations. Recently, Couris completed his appointment as Vice Chair to the Florida Council of 100 Healthy Florida Committee and the Florida Hospital Association Political Advisory Committee.
Couris is a graduate of Boston University and holds a Master of Science in Management from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds a doctorate in business administration, management sciences from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business, where he is a Research Fellow. His dissertation examined the impact of the practice of authentic leadership on teams and organizations.
Couris resides in Tampa with his wife and is the proud father of two children.
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SCOTT ARNOLD
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF DIGITAL & INNOVATION OFFICER
Scott Arnold is the Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at the Florida Health Sciences Center (FHSC), which comprises an array of organizations, including Tampa General Hospital, one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit academic health systems, in partnership with the University of South Florida.
In his role, Arnold oversees technology, cyber security, analytics, clinical engineering and TGH Ventures – Tampa General’s venture capital arm and innovation team. He pushes the advancement of Tampa General’s digital systems to position the academic health system as a leader in innovation.
At Tampa General, Arnold has led the implementation of information systems across the organization to ensure safety, consistency and excellent technology systems for patients, providers and team members. He joined Tampa General Hospital in 2010 to manage the conversion of its electronic medical record system — the largest technology implementation in the hospital’s history.
Arnold has earned national recognition for his efforts to drive innovation and technological advancement at Tampa General, including being named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of “Hospital and Health System Chief Innovation Officers to Know” in 2024 and 2023. He was also named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s “CIOs to Know” list in 2023 while serving in his former role as Tampa General’s Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer.
Tampa General has earned several awards for health information technology throughout Arnold’s tenure with the academic health system, including the prestigious “HIMSS Stage 7” award three times from Hospital and Health Networks’ “Most Wired – Advanced” recognition (11 times) and has been rated one of the “Best Hospital IT Departments” (over 200 personnel) by Healthcare IT News.
Prior to joining Tampa General, Arnold served as a vice president for Mercy Health in Saint Louis, Missouri, and held leadership positions with Daleen Technologies, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace. Scott serves on the board of directors for the Humane Society of Tampa Bay and holds board positions in several FHSC entities.
Arnold earned a master’s degree from Washington University’s School of Engineering, a master’s degree from Webster University’s School of Business and Technology, a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University’s College of Applied Science and he’s accredited by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) as a Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) and Certified Digital Health – Executive (CDH-E). A leader in his field, Arnold presents technology innovation and information technology in health care at leading national conferences and is a regular article contributor to the Wall Street Journal and several other national publications.
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STACEY BRANDT
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
Stacey Brandt is the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Tampa General Hospital, a nationally renowned nonprofit academic health system.
Brandt is responsible for the development and execution of the strategy, market planning and growth, marketing, public relations, physician business development, health care transformation, process engineering, external affairs, and project and program management for the enterprise’s 17 institutes and service lines across six acute care hospitals and more than 150 care locations in Florida. She led the development of – and now is responsible for - the health system’s 19 service lines and institutes.
In this capacity, Brandt served as the architect of Tampa General’s five-year strategic plan, driving the planning process and partnering with the academic health system’s senior leadership team, board of directors and other stakeholders to oversee its successful governance and execution. Under her leadership, the organization’s patient volume increased substantially, and market share grew from 19 percent to 24 percent, surpassing competitors to become the consistent market leader in just five years.
A veteran of the health care industry, Brandt brings over 20 years of health care strategy, business development, marketing and communications expertise to her role at Tampa General. Before joining Tampa General in 2017, Brandt spent 17 years in hospital administration at Jupiter Medical Center before serving as vice president of marketing and strategic planning.
As a recognized industry leader, Brandt frequently serves as an expert source and contributor for national media outlets, including Becker’s Hospital Review and has been invited to speak at industry conferences, including the Becker’s Annual Meeting and the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development (SHSMD) Connections Annual Conference.
In 2024, Brandt was included in Modern Healthcare’s 2024 class of Women Leaders, a distinction which annually honors influential women from all sectors of the health care industry who are making significant contributions to their organizations by developing policy, leading change and guiding improvements in care delivery.
In 2023, Brandt was recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review on their lists of “60 Hospital and Health System Chief Marketing Officers to Know” and “65 Health System Chief Strategy Officers to Know,” one of the few health system leaders in the state of Florida – and the only leader in the West Central Florida region – to earn these distinctions.
In 2020, Brandt was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie Award in the “Communications or PR Campaign of the Year – COVID-19-related Information.” In addition, she was recognized for her exemplary communications work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Under her leadership, Tampa General became a model for other healthcare systems across the country for her transparent communications strategies for managing COVID-19 communications for TGH’s team members, physicians, volunteers, patients, and the community.
Brandt spearheaded media relations efforts and marketing strategies to leverage Tampa General’s leadership and expertise throughout the pandemic, including coverage spanning across multiple local and national media platforms, including USA Today, Journal of Healthcare Management, CNN, The Associated Press and The Washington Post.
In 2019, and under Brandt’s leadership, Tampa General Hospital received the prestigious AMA Tampa Bay Marketing 2019 Hall of Fame Award, recognizing her team's work on a bold marketing campaign to differentiate TGH from other hospitals and health systems. That same year, her team was recognized as “PR Team of the Year” for 2019 by Ragan Communications and PR Daily, a national leader in training for professionals in corporate communications, public relations, social media and management.
In service of her community, Brandt is a current member of the Board of Managers of TGH Crystal River, the Tampa General Provider Network, the Tampa General Ambulatory Network, and MORE Health.
Brandt is a member of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development. She received her master’s degree in business administration from the University of South Florida, and her bachelor’s degree in public relations from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications with a minor in business administration and management.
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JENNIFER CRABTREE
VP, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS & CHIEF OF STAFF, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT & CEO
Jennifer Crabtree serves as the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Chief of Staff for the Office of the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tampa General Hospital (TGH), one of the nation’s leading academic health systems. With nearly a decade of experience in health care marketing, communications, and corporate strategy, Jennifer is recognized as an invaluable member of the organization’s senior leadership team, an integrator in the organization’s rapid growth and transformation, as well as a dynamic strategist and committed team player.
Since joining Tampa General in 2019, first serving as Director of Marketing and Consumerism and then Chief of Staff before assuming her current role in 2023, Jennifer has experienced a trajectory of advancement leading to increased levels of responsibility and scope of work. In her current role, Jennifer’s primary focus is driving strategic communications and partnership initiatives across the enterprise to position Tampa General as an industry-leading research and academic-based health system and elevate the unique expertise of the organization’s senior leaders.
Jennifer facilitates the CEO’s vision for the organization through her leadership of strategic projects, such as the development of the Tampa Medical & Research District, which is part of the health system’s historic $550 million capital commitment to bring the most advanced technology and innovation to the region. Launched officially in 2023 as a partnership between Tampa General and the Tampa Bay Economic Development Council, the District houses a growing hub of world-class clinical care, academics, research, and biotechnology anchored by TGH and the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and will, upon completion, generate a total economic impact of $8.3 billion annually for the State of Florida.
Jennifer oversees all C-suite thought leadership positioning and, under her leadership, Tampa General has earned national recognition through prestigious awards programs, speaking engagements and establishing strong relationships with media. Jennifer also manages all internal, external and legislative communications to effectively strengthen the health system’s brand and relationships with stakeholders. Her approach to internal communications and emphasis on organizational culture has resulted in an increase in team member engagement scores year over year, which now sit at the 87th percentile.
Prior to joining Tampa General, Jennifer served as the Manager of Marketing and Consumerism at Jupiter Medical Center where she led the organization's marketing, public relations, and community outreach strategies as the region's only independent health system. In this capacity, she spearheaded the website redesign project for 10+ domains, led the development of consumer segmentation personas as well as drove the adoption and implementation of a call center and customer relationship management.
In addition to her work at Tampa General, Jennifer is an active leader in the Tampa Bay community. She is a proud member of the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Tampa Class of 2023, serves on the boards of OnBikes and the Tampa Bay Metropolitan Area YMCA and is a member of the Young Professionals Board of Embarc Collective.
Jennifer holds a Master of Business Administration with a focus in marketing strategy from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Florida State University. Jennifer currently resides in Tampa with her two daughters.
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RON DONCASTER
INTERIM CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Ron Doncaster is the Interim Chief Operating Officer at Tampa General Hospital (TGH), one of the nation’s leading academic health systems and the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.
Doncaster, who joined Tampa General in April 2024, is responsible for overseeing all clinical and operational strategies, including managing partnerships with key constituents. He is a solutions-focused leader who uniquely balances adaptability and decisiveness to achieve clinical operations, service and support, strategic planning and execution, budget and cost control, and continuous improvement.
In addition to his current role with Tampa General, Doncaster is the principal owner of Hospital Operations Insights, LLC, a consultancy based in Massachusetts that specializes in hospital support service operations and management.
Doncaster brings more than two decades of health care leadership experience to Tampa General. Before starting Hospital Operations Insights, LLC, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for nearly two years at Catholic Medical Center, a nonprofit acute-care hospital and with 330 licensed beds and an affiliated medical staff of more than 400 providers and over 3,000 employees, it is one of New Hampshire’s largest health systems. In this role, Doncaster directed daily organization-wide clinical and support services, including oversight of compliance, Outpatient Rehab, Imaging, The Pain Clinic and the Wound Center. He led the development of programs for operations improvement, quality care delivery, revenue enhancement and volume growth. He also innovated primary care processes to drive efficient workflows and continuous process improvement.
For more than five years, Doncaster served as Vice President of Operations and Performance Management at Steward Health Care System, where he directed system-wide operations for Facilities, Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Health, Safety and Security for Steward’s 35 community-based hospitals in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Texas, Utah, Arizona and Alaska.
Doncaster’s other previous leadership roles have included working as the Vice President of Operations of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Chief Operating Officer at Lynn Community Health Center and Director of Operations Management Services at Newton-Wellesley Hospital among others.
Doncaster earned a Master of Science in Management, with a concentration in Health Care Administration, from Lesley University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Fitchburg State University. He is an Advisory Board Fellow and a United States Army National Guard veteran.
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PEGGY DUGGAN, MD
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE & CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
Peggy Duggan, MD, FACS, is the Executive Vice President, Chief Physician Executive and Chief Medical Officer at the Florida Health Sciences Center (FHSC), which comprises an array of organizations, including Tampa General Hospital (TGH), one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit academic health systems and in partnership with the University of South Florida. Duggan also has a collaborative faculty appointment in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine’s Department of Surgery.
Since joining Tampa General in 2021, Duggan has overseen a multitude of functions related to physicians and patient care for the academic health system, which includes nearly 14,000 team members and providers across 150-plus locations.
Duggan is also responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of many innovative programs across Tampa General — impacting both patient and team member safety, enhancing world-class care and supporting a compassionate culture.
In 2022, Duggan initiated TGH Schwartz Rounds, an international program using research-based strategies, tools and support to provide caregivers with resources to create and sustain a culture of compassion. During regularly scheduled times, physicians, nurses, social workers, health care professionals and psychologists openly and honestly discuss the social and emotional issues they face in caring for patients and their families. The benefits of TGH Schwartz Rounds include strengthening caregiver-patient relationships, improving caregiver support and boosting caregiver resiliency.
Additionally, as a leader in Tampa General’s initiative to become a certified Collaborative High Reliability Organization®, Duggan was instrumental in the Tampa General Hospital becoming the first academic health system and Level I trauma center to receive two key qualifications — Collaborative Just Culture Program® and Reliability Management Team™. The qualifications are the initial steps in the process of achieving Collaborative High Reliability Organization certification. Organizations worldwide, from airlines to major utilities, have achieved high reliability by demonstrating they have maintained high levels of safety, quality and efficiency over an extended period, and health care organizations have just started to take this approach to achieving safety and improving quality.
Under Duggan’s leadership, Tampa General has also revolutionized its approach to sepsis management, creating an early warning system that helps with improved intervention for this life-threatening complication of an infection. As a result, TGH showed a significant reduction in sepsis mortality, accounting for more than 200 lives saved annually. Through this ongoing work, TGH has developed pathways to get patients home from the hospital in a timelier manner.
In honor of career successes and dedication to patient safety and clinical innovation, Duggan was recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of its “Hospital and Health Systems Chief Medical Officers to Know” for 2024. This marked the third consecutive year that Duggan was recognized on the Becker’s list, which highlights physician leaders who champion patient safety, uphold rigorous quality standards, act as liaisons between leadership teams and medical staff, manage risk and much more. Also in 2024, Duggan was honored as one of the esteemed recipients of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Businesswoman of the Year recognition. Duggan was one of 30 of the city’s most dynamic and influential businesswomen to make the prestigious 2024 list.
Before joining TGH, Duggan spent more than 15 years in the Mass General Brigham Health System (formerly Partners Healthcare). During that time, she practiced as a breast surgeon and medical director of the breast center and ultimately became the chief medical officer for the Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital. In her role as CMO, Duggan worked at both the hospital and the system level on a variety of operational, clinical and strategic activities. She held several other leadership positions while there, including medical director of credentialing and president of the medical staff.
Duggan earned a medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Boston University. She has completed the Brigham Leadership Program at Harvard Business School and has trained at the Association of American Medical Colleges CMO Leadership Academy. Castle Connelly has listed Duggan as one of America’s Top Doctors since 2014.
Outside of her role at Tampa General, Duggan also serves in an advisory capacity with several organizations, including the Vizient Chief Medical Executive Steering Committee, the American Hospital Association Southeast Region Policy Board (member) and the Florida Chamber Health Council (member). She is recognized as a national expert in health care and health care management and frequently speaks and presents at conferences across the country.
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WENDI GOODSON-CELERIN, DNP, APRN, NE-BC
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF NURSING EXECUTIVE
Wendi Goodson-Celerin is the Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive at the Florida Health Sciences Center (FHSC), which comprises an array of organizations, including Tampa General Hospital (TGH), one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit academic health systems, in partnership with the University of South Florida.
Goodson-Celerin is responsible for leading nursing services across the academic health system with a focus on further developing cross-functional collaboration among nursing teams across hospital departments. She develops and implements nursing practice standards to ensure the delivery of world-class care complies with state, federal and local regulations, laws standards and protocols. Additionally, Goodson-Celerin collaborates on designing and implementing system-wide nursing initiatives that include consistently reviewing clinical practices to ensure patients of the academic health system receive care that reflects evidence-based practice.
She has spearheaded the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program, a prestigious designation Tampa General has achieved five times since 2005. Goodson-Celerin also oversees compliance with accrediting bodies and regulatory groups systemwide, including implementing strategies to achieve or exceed quality and patient safety goals.
Goodson-Celerin's career at TGH is a testament to her dedication and continuous growth. She started as a graduate nurse in 1988 and has since held various roles, each one contributing to her comprehensive understanding of the healthcare system. Her journey includes serving as SVP and Interim Chief Nursing Officer, Vice President of Patient Services, Vice President of Neuroscience, Orthopaedics and Clinical Education, Director of Acute Surgical Inpatient, Critical Care and Clinical Education, Director of Women’s & Children’s Services and Clinical Education, Director of Nursing Education, and Clinical Nurse Manager.
Certified with the ANCC Nurse Executive Board, Goodson-Celerin has earned national recognition for her excellence in nursing leadership and was named by Becker’s Hospital Review to its list of “Hospital and Health System Chief Nursing Officers to Know” for 2023. In 2024, Goodson-Celerin was recognized again by Becker’s Hospital Review on its 2024 list of “231+ Black Healthcare Leaders to Know,” which spotlights Black health care leaders who are helping to shape the health care industry. Goodson-Celerin and Qualenta Kivett, Tampa General’s executive vice president and chief people and talent officer, were the only two leaders in the region recognized on the list and were two of just 12 leaders recognized statewide.
Goodson-Celerin has also received several additional industry honors, including the Excellence in Management Leadership Award (2004), the Excellence in Nursing Leadership Award (2009), and the Excellence in Education Award from the Florida Organization of Nurse Executives (2014).
Goodson-Celerin earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice and both her Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of South Florida. In recognition of her career growth and commitment to the nursing profession, the USF Health College of Nursing presented her with the “Outstanding Recent Alumni” award in 2023 as well as a three-year appointment as Assistant Dean of Academic-Practice Partnerships.
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QUALENTA KIVETT, JD
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF PEOPLE AND TALENT OFFICER
Qualenta Kivett, JD, is the Executive Vice President and Chief People and Talent Officer of Tampa General Hospital, a nationally renowned non-profit academic health system.
Kivett is responsible for leading Tampa General Hospital’s Human Resources Department with a focus on the voice of team members and an evidence-based strategy to provide support and enhance engagement.
Prior to joining Tampa General, Kivett served as Market Vice President, Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer for CHI St. Vincent, a regional health network in Arkansas. Kivett previously worked at Medical University South Carolina as an Associate Chief People Officer.
Kivett earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock-William H. Bowen School of Law after receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees in Spanish and criminal justice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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FRANN M. LEPPLA
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER
Frann Leppla believes that world-class healthcare has the greatest ability to improve lives and strongly advocates for philanthropic investment as the fuel for health systems to provide such care. Joining the Tampa General Hospital Foundation in 2018, Leppla brings over 12 years of both for-profit and non-profit executive leadership to her role. As the Executive Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer, she is a dynamic leader who directs sustainable fundraising initiatives to benefit the Tampa General Hospital (TGH) system and its patients.
Before joining the Foundation, Frann served as the Senior Director of Development at USF Health, helping the University of South Florida reach $1.1 billion in capital for its “Unstoppable” campaign. From 2011 to 2016, she was the Director of Development and Strategic Initiatives for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida where she led a $300 million campaign as part of the University’s $1.72 billion capital campaign, “Florida Tomorrow”. With expertise working with both health care and higher education organizations, Leppla offers a unique perspective, especially valuable within academic medical centers such as TGH. Leppla came to non-profit advancement following a highly successful 16-year sales and sales leadership career in private industry.
The TGH hospital system is currently undergoing the most transformational period in its history as it expands the depth and breadth of its services, increases its geographic footprint, and assembles new alliances. Under Leppla’s hand, the TGH Foundation has launched its first ever fully comprehensive campaign --- ELEVATING EXCELLENCE: Innovating Tomorrow’s TGH --- which is a five-year, $100M initiative that is the catalyst to build modern and technologically advanced facilities, programmatic support for key strategic priorities, and system-wide initiatives which will further advance the mission of the institution.
Outside working hours, Leppla enjoys spending time with her husband, Rob, her two adult children, Mason, and Asher, and her four grandchildren. She received her bachelor’s degree in health sciences from the University of North Florida.
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CHARLES J. LOCKWOOD, MD, MHCM
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER, TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, USF HEALTH, DEAN, USF HEALTH MORSANI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Dr. Charles Lockwood is Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer at Tampa General Hospital (TGH), the Executive Vice President of USF Health, and Dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine (MCOM). He is a Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Public Health.
As EVP of USF Health, he oversees the University of South Florida's colleges of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health as well the schools of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences and Graduate Studies. As MCOM Dean, he is responsible for the medical school's educational and research operations, and additionally leads the 900-provider faculty group practice. Since 2014, Dr. Lockwood has overseen a transformation of USF Health, dramatically increasing NIH Awards, and patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes as well as greatly enhancing student competitiveness and academic performance, lifting the medical school's ranking on the U.S. News & World Report from 80 to 48 out of 154 allopathic medical schools. In addition, he helped obtain approval and funding to opening the new USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute in Water Street with the support of TGH. Working with TGH CEO John Couris, he has strengthened the affiliation between USF Health and TGH through a substantial integration of clinical services.
As a clinician, Dr. Lockwood has delivered over 5,000 infants, cared for large numbers of medically complicated pregnancies, and been named to national and regional "Best Doctors" lists annually since 1995. He serves on the Florida Medical Association (FMA) Board of Governors, on the Executive Committee of the FMA political action committee, and on the Executive Committee of the Hillsborough County Medical Association. He has served on or chaired multiple committees of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and receive ACOG's Public Service Award for his "enduring commitment to women's health."
Dr. Lockwood's research has been supported by multiple NIH and March of Dimes grants. He is credited with leading the research team that discovered the first predictive test for preterm birth — fetal fibronectin. He has chaired and/or served on multiple NIH study sections and FDA committees, authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and another 300 invited papers, textbook chapters and editorials. He has also authored or co-authored five monographs and co-edited seven major textbooks, three with multiple editions. He is the Obstetrics Section editor for UpToDate and was the Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Ob/Gyn for 20 years, where his editorials garnered six national publishing awards.
Dr. Lockwood is past president of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society. His research has led to multiple awards including the SRI's Distinguished Scientist Award, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the NICHD-Frontiers in Reproduction Beacon award. Dr. Lockwood is an elected member of the Sigma Xi and Alpha Omega Alpha honor societies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine).
Previously, Dr. Lockwood was Dean at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and chaired Ob/Gyn departments at Yale and New York University. At the former institution, he chaired the Yale Medical Group Board of Governors and at the latter institution, he served as interim director of the Kaplan NCI-designated Cancer Center. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's in Healthcare Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. He served his Ob/Gyn residency at Pennsylvania Hospital, a Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at Yale and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in NYC.
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MARK MOSELEY, MD, MHA, FACEP
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT &
PRESIDENT, USF + TAMPA GENERAL PHYSICIANS
Dr. Moseley is the first president of the newly formed academic medical group, USF Tampa General Physicians. Dr. Moseley joins USF Tampa General Physicians after having served at USF Health for over five years, most recently as the chief clinical officer for USF Health, associate vice president for USF Health, and vice dean for Clinical Affairs in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. He will retain his academic titles and teaching roles at USF Health.
In his new role at the helm of USF Tampa General Physicians, Moseley will lead the approximately 1,400 team members who have joined USF Tampa General Physicians and serve and support physicians employed by USF Health and TGMG, providing practice infrastructure, clinical management, and related operational and administrative support services. Moseley will also work with private practice physicians on staff at Tampa General to offer purchased services and management services through the new organization.
Moseley joined USF Health in January 2017 to oversee the clinical operations of the faculty practice group and all clinical care that takes place at USF Health, build strategic hospital partnerships, and lead other key areas, including quality, safety, risk, and patient experience. He is also a professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Morsani College of Medicine and holds a courtesy appointment as professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management within the USF Health College of Public Health. He also is a member of the medical staff at Tampa General.
An Ohio native and alumni of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and College of Public Health, Moseley is the first graduate of OSU’s combined five-year MD/Master of Health Administration dual degree program. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., serving as chief resident in his final year of training. Moseley came to USF from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, where he served in numerous leadership capacities for 12 years. Moseley was a core academic faculty member, medical director of the Emergency Department, and vice chairman for Clinical Affairs in OSU’s Department of Emergency Medicine. His senior leadership roles at OSU were as assistant chief operating officer, medical director for Patient Flow Management, and medical director for Utilization Management.
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MARK RUNYON
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Mark A. Runyon is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at the Florida Health Sciences Center (FHSC), which comprises an array of organizations, including Tampa General Hospital (TGH), one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit academic health systems, in partnership with the University of South Florida.
In his role, Runyon leads and oversees all financial plans for Tampa General as the academic health system continues to develop its complete system of care for the community, region and state. He works collaboratively with the president and CEO, board, senior leaders and the entire TGH team to create a continuously improving atmosphere of safety, innovation, and financial stability and integrity while finding new ways to enhance financial performance and operations efficiency. Runyon played an instrumental role in Tampa General’s acquisition of the Bravera Health network – now TGH North – as he led all financial aspects of the transaction, including obtaining debt financing, implementing core financial systems, and transitioning the acquisitions to TGH accounting, payroll, accounts payable, decision support, managed care contracting and reimbursement. With the addition of TGH North, Tampa General’s academic health system now encompasses six existing and under-construction hospitals, more than 150 care locations and nearly 14,000 team members and providers.
Since joining Tampa General in 2020, Runyon has been recognized nationally for his excellence in financial strategy, including being named by Becker’s Hospital Review to its “Hospital and Health System CFOs to Know” and “Academic Medical Center Chief Financial Officers to Know” lists for 2023. Those accolades followed Runyon and Tampa General President and CEO John Couris’ inclusion on the Becker’s Hospital Review 2022 and 2023 “Highly Successful CEO-CFO Duos” lists, which recognized their leadership and for driving innovation to boost quality and lower the cost of health care.
With more than 30 years of experience in health care financial leadership, Runyon holds an impressive track record of recognizing opportunities and delivering results. Prior to joining TGH, Runyon served in senior financial leadership positions at Intermountain Health and Inova Health System.
Runyon earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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ABRAHAM SCHWARZBERG
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF OF ONCOLOGY & PRESIDENT OF THE TAMPA GENERAL PROVIDER NETWORK (TGPN)
VP, CLINICAL & TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH, TGH-USF HEALTH JOINT OFFICE OF CLINICAL RESEARCH
Abraham B. Schwarzberg, MD is the Executive Vice President, Chief of Oncology and President of the Tampa General Provider Network (TGPN) at Tampa General Hospital (TGH), a nationally renowned nonprofit academic health system.
Schwarzberg brings over 17 years of experience to his role. Prior to joining TGH, Schwarzberg was a member of the clinical staff at Jupiter Medical Center (JMC) from 2009 until 2014, when he was promoted to vice president and chief of oncology. In addition to his current role at TGH, Schwarzberg serves as president and managing member of the Cancer Center of South Florida, which he founded in 2008.
Schwarzberg is an associate member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, an advisory board member for the Richard David Kann Melanoma Foundation in West Palm Beach, Fla., and a board member for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Palm Beach, Fla. He was recognized by both Tufts University and Harvard Medical School in 2003 and 2004 for their Excellence in Teaching Awards.
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STEVE SHORT
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND MARKET PRESIDENT, TGH NORTH
Steve Short is the Executive Vice President and Market President, TGH North.
Short brings over three decades of health care experience to TGH in his role of EVP and Market President. Prior to joining the TGH team in 2000, Short served as Assistant Vice President of Finance at the University of Louisville Hospital, where he eventually took on the role of Vice President of Operations and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining the health care industry, he worked as a staff accountant for the State of Arizona.
Short is a graduate of Arizona State University and received a Bachelor of Science in accounting. He also received his Master of Business Administration from Indiana University in 2000.
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ADAM SMITH
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF AMBULATORY CARE OFFICER
Adam Smith is the Executive Vice President & Chief Ambulatory Care Officer at Tampa General Hospital (TGH), a nationally renowned nonprofit academic health system.
In his current role as Vice President of Ambulatory Services, Smith is responsible for inpatient and outpatient radiology, urgent care services, Telehealth, the primary care physician network, the ambulatory surgery center and our ambulatory buildings. He also executes the strategic plan related to the expansion of the ambulatory network and is responsible for the access strategy, the coordination of care and the patient experience in our ambulatory platform.
Smith came to TGH with over 19 years of experience in both hospital and ambulatory operations. Prior to joining TGH, he served as director of ambulatory imaging and diagnostic for Pinellas and West Pasco at BayCare, Ambulatory Division and manager of medical imaging at St. Anthony’s Hospital.
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