Officers and Staff

Janice S. Johnson, President

Janice Johnson has a strong background in both healthcare and government relations. She has been an active advocate and lobbyist on issues related to the family and children. She has received national recognition for her work in this area. She maintains strong relationships with elected officials and health care professionals both within the state of Tennessee and in Washington DC.

Bill Tait, Chief Financial Officer
Bill Tait is a successful insurance broker and healthcare industry venture capitalist. Mr. Tait is an accomplished keynote speaker on insurance matters and a life and qualified 30 year member of the Million Dollar Roundtable, of which only 1% of the insurance industry qualify. He is a well-known community advocate for disadvantaged populations and was one of the founding members of Memphis chapter of Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Dr. Julie K. French, Principal Investigator
Dr. French is a registered nurse who has over 20 years of combined clinical expertise and management experience in a variety of healthcare settings including non-profit private medical centers, rural county hospitals, home health agencies, university medical centers and governmental agencies. She is nationally certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Advanced Nursing Administration and has received many honors for demonstrating excellence in practice, compassion and leadership to the nursing profession and the community.

Shawna Rhynard, Customer Development Director
Shawna is a forensic drug screen collector, phlebotomist, and a medical records specialist. She is fluent and compliant with the strict guidelines for collection practices in accordance with 49 CFR Part 40. She also provides other collectors and breath alcohol technicians with initial and recertification training. Shawna provides quality medical records services to national companies and private doctor's offices and is compliant with all HIPAA regulations. Before transitioning into the medical field, she worked for the state of Arizona in the Maricopa County Regional School District as registrar working within the guidelines of the Family Rights and Privacy Act. She also headed the SIRS user meetings at the district level. She strives to maintain quality services while protecting the privacy and rights of all individuals.

Amy Cate, Sales Assistant
Amy Cate is a sales and marketing professional with over six years experience in the healthcare industry. Amy has sold medical products into physician offices, surgery centers and hospitals across Tennessee. She has also worked as a Sales Manager for a local medical distributor. In addition, Amy has freelanced in editing and graphic design by creating brochures and marketing packages for several medical companies and local non-profit organizations. Amy has a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Logistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Carolyn Wilkerson, Sales Assistant
Carolyn Wilkerson brings more than 30 years of experience and progressive responsibility in health care office management and administration, primarily group and solo physician practices. She manages daily business operations and handles bookkeeping and administrative support functions.

Lori Jenkins, Executive Assistant
Lori Jenkins is responsible for administrative and project management duties.   She has many years of experience in sales support, information systems and project management.

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Consultants

Yigzaw Belay
Yigsaw Belay has extensive experience in environmental epidemiology and tuberculosis elimination. He has designed, planned, implemented, evaluated, and directed state-wide health promotion, disease prevention and community outreach programs for Medicaid recipients and underinsured.

David Bennett, CPA
David brings a mastery of accounting & finance issues related to the healthcare field. Other finance expertise includes SEC work and bank financing. Among his former employers are the Bureau of TennCare and the US Attorney's Office (healthcare regulation enforcement).

Paul Van Hoeson
Paul Van Hoesen has over 28 years experience in digital networking,  application integration, large scale network deployment, and community networking  which spans a number of vertical markets including government, education, medical, technology, insurance, publishing, entertainment, and manufacturing.  

Paul was also co-founder and CTO of Education Networks of America which provides Internet access and web-based educational content to all public K-12 schools in the State of Tennessee and is the winner of numerous service and excellence awards.   ENA has grown to become the largest private network provider of Internet access to the public K-12 market serving over 1.7 million children a day and ensuring the operation of educational applications to thousands of classroom teachers.

Paul’s foundations include nine years of military experience in building secure data and voice networks. He is the recipient of the National Security Agency’s Innovation Award for cryptography. Paul attended Middle Tennessee State University and lives in Nashville with his song-writing wife Mary.

Perumal Mohan
Mr. Mohan will be responsible for the areas of information integration, database design and coordinate the project resources required to accomplish the objectives of the research.
 
Mr. Mohan has over 18 years experience in the fields of information systems, integration and engineering.  Prior to founding eTransX, he was a vice president with URS Corporation, a $3 billion dollar engineering and systems firm, responsible for developing new clients and managing a team of professionals.  His technical and management experience spans all aspects of system and application integration, information system design and implementation, and project management for various commercial and industrial enterprises. He currently helps many Fortune 1000 companies with technical and strategic IT issues such as enterprise application integration, security, and business intelligence.

He is the chief architect for an XML-based, application integration tool set, called eTXIntegrator. This technology integrates information from various disparate databases in real-time.

Lowell Perry
Lowell Perry is a marketing and business development professional with extensive, broad-based business experience including substantial background in sales and marketing management and strategic planning for a wide variety of institutions, including two professional sports teams (NFL and MLB). A Yale University business graduate, he is a confident hands-on manager with tremendous relationship building skills.

Carolyn Pope
Carolyn Pope is an experienced public health administrator, including her service for the Tennessee Department of Health as Bioterrorism Coordinator.  Her expertise in setting up and running clinics and programs is key to our efforts.

Dr. Heidi Silver
Dr. Heidi Silver has received her BS in Speech and Hearing Science from University of Massachusetts and her MS and PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics from Florida International University. She has conducted over 50 workshops, courses, lectures, and oral presentations on nutrition and health related issues in the community to various age groups Dr. Silver has also conducted introductory nutrition courses to 450 medical school students, conducted core dietetics curriculum courses to 250 bachelor’s level dietetics students, conducted graduate level courses to 125 master’s level dietetics students, and rained several dozen clinical practitioners in dietary assessment and nutrition therapy. In addition to teaching, Dr. Silver has published 15 peer-reviewed original research publications, several invited review papers, as well as many other publications in clinical and community journals.

Betty K. Steele
Betty Steele, our consultant who focuses on electronic data transmission standards and HIPAA compliance, brings expertise in health law, e-business and management of medical data and technology.  She is a partner at Baker Donelson Bearman & Caldwell.

Other consultants bring experience in Tennessee's TennCare program, records as hospital administrators and COOs, health care quality control and management and medical staff credentialing.

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Strategic Partners

American Health Care Partnership, Inc. (AHCP) is a fully integrated health management company providing the full continuum of health education, wellness, prevention, and health advocacy services for health plan members.

Focused Approach
We work closely with treating physicians to deliver a fully integrated approach to health management that strives to help people find the path to healthier living. Our approach enables employers to focus on controlling healthcare costs through three pro-active program components.
You will realize measurable and desirable results with our program where other managed care systems often fail. We impact healthcare costs through

Effective assistance to physicians in managing and controlling chronic disease Successful reduction of absenteeism for employers Increased productivity of the company workforce

AARIW (American Association of Refugee and Immigrant Women)
The American Association of Refugee and Immigrant Women is a non-profit organization in Tennessee dedicated to addressing issues of vital concern  to refugees and providing services not available through other social service programs. Emerging leaders are encouraged to share with others from their cultural community and to link newcomers with appropriate resources to ensure early economic and social empowerment.

Complete Wellness Plus is a corporate wellness company created to
help identify problems and provide solutions to help improve the mind and
body. We want to foster an environment of change among Corporate
America and their employees. Our corporate wellness program concentrates on
the following three areas:

The Initial Assessment encompasses the idea of "discovery". Risk
factors are determined through biometric screenings and health risk
assessments.

Health Management encompasses the idea of "engagement". We want you
to be proactive about your health but realize you may need some coaching
along the way. We give you the necessary wellness tools and health
coaching to realize and achieve your goals.

Disease Management encompasses the idea of "containment". If an
individual has a chronic disease, our goal is to improve on these conditions
or at a minimum maintain them through a clinical-based management
team as well as our health coaches.

David Bennett
David Bennett (CPA, CFO).  Mr. Bennett is a top performing global professional providing innovative and strategic leadership in investigations for Fortune 500 caliber and high growth entrepreneurial environments. A strong investigator, interviewer, relationship builder, negotiator, and facilitator able to develop consensus with key internal and external decision makers.

Digital Union LLC
http://digitalunionllc.com
Digital Union is a Los Angeles-based company providing communication technologies enabling industry to revolutionize the way people do business through real time collaboration and on-demand content from multiple locations via the Internet.

EBC (Employee Benefits Consultants)
www.ebctpa.com

Our goal is to provide fully integrated administration services with
the most advanced technology and resources available.

We were one of the first full-service TPAs to implement Trizetto
Company's QuickClaim system for claim administration. In partnership with
Trizetto, we have developed today's leading edge technology solutions
for self funding plans. Our customer-driven solutions include claim auditing
and processing, PPO interfacing, network discount solutions and 24/7
Web access to information through EBC Online.

eTransX
http://www.etransx.com
The mission of eTransX is to provide cost-effective information solutions for issues involving e-Business and e-Commerce enablement to commercial and industrial enterprises through the prudent use of technology and resources.

 JVPowers and Associates
www.jvpowers.com

JV Powers and Company offers a combination of plastic card printing
and personalization, project management to facilitate your plastic card
printing project from start to finish, photo identification systems and
services, smart card development including chip implementation and encoding,
magnetic stripe encoding, bar coding services, equipment and supplies,
badge accessories, and custom plastic production products.

We are an authorized reseller for every major manufacturer in the
plastic card world and carry all certified supplies for those manufacturers.
Examples of our offerings I include: Health Insurance ID Cards, Photo ID
Badges,, Membership Cards, Access Cards, VIP and Loyalty Cards, Discount
Cards, Phone Cards, Accessories, Promotional Items and Complete
Turnkey Photo ID Systems.

Tom Nelson
Mr. Nelson is an attorney, concentrating his healthcare practice on managed care, forming provider networks, and government regulation, including the coverage and payment rules of Medicare and Medicaid. Mr. Nelson has represented the gamut of the healthcare industry from ambulatory surgery centers and ambulatory surgery center chains to hospitals, healthcare management companies to rehabilitation agencies.

Tennessee Association of Audiologists and Speech/Language Pathologists
The TAASLP works to meet the needs of persons with hearing, communication, and swallowing disorders and to enhance the professional development of audiologists and speech/language pathologists. This Association is providing hearing and speech development screening for our EPSDT initiative.

Tennessee Nurses Association
The mission of the Tennessee Nurses Association is to promote and protect the registered nurse and to advance the practice of nursing in order to assure a healthier Tennessee. Member nurse practitioners are assisting in our efforts to provide primary care and EPSDT screening services to underserved communities.

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