Steven C. Bjelich, MHA

Steven C. Bjelich is President and CEO of Saint Francis Healthcare System. Bjelich has 25 years of extensive healthcare experience at the senior management level, previously serving as President and CEO at Saint Francis Hospital and Healthcare Services (Wilmington, DE); Executive Director at Wyoming Valley Health Care System (Kingston, PA); Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital (Louisville, KY); and Executive Vice President/Chief Operation Officer at Medical Center of North Hollywood (North Hollywood, CA).

Bjelich has a Master's Degree in Health Administration from Indiana University School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Mr. Bjelich is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Edmond B. Cabbabe, MD, FACS

Dr. Cabbabe is a plastic surgeon in private practice in St. Louis since 1980. He is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at St. Louis University School of Medicine and Chief of Plastic Surgery at DePaul Health Center and St. Anthony's Medical Center. Dr. Cabbabe is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He also holds a certification of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand.

Dr. Cabbabe is a past president of Missouri State Medical Association, National Arab American Medical Association, St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society, St. Louis Area Society of Plastic Surgeons, and Missouri Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is a member of American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons (Fellow), American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and American Association for Surgery of the Hand.

Joseph W. Crossett

Mr. Crossett is the Administrator of Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Missouri. Mr. Crossett graduated from William Jewell College with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and from the University of Missouri, Kansas City with a Master’s Degree in Health Care Administration. Mr. Crossett joined Liberty Hospital in 1976 serving in various administrative roles including Director of Personnel, Assistant Administrator, Associate Administrator, serving as Administrator since 1988. Mr. Crossett serves on the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Hospital Association, serving as Chairperson in 2004, and as the Kansas City Area Health Council president in 2001 and currently serves on the American Hospital Association’s Regional Policy Board.

S. Gordon Jones, Jr., MD

Dr. Jones graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. He practices family medicine with the Ferguson Medical Group, Sikeston. Dr. Jones is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Health Quality Association and the Missouri State Medical Association. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice and the National Board of Medical Examiners.

Daniel Landon

Daniel Landon is Senior Vice President of Governmental Relations for the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA).  He joined MHA in August 1993.  His responsibilities include managing the association’s federal and state advocacy functions and performance measure programs.

Becky Miller, MHA, CPHQ, FACHE (ex-officio member)

Ms. Miller is the Executive Director of the Missouri Center for Patient Safety. As Executive Director, she is responsible for the leadership, development and management of the Center. Ms. Miller holds a Bachelor's Degree in Management and a Master's Degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a Certified Healthcare Professional and a Certified Healthcare Executive. Having worked in health care for over twenty years, Ms. Miller's experience includes leadership of organization-wide quality and risk management programs, customer service, safety and security and medical staff services. She also has experience in the area of health care policy, most recently as Vice President for Quality and Regulatory Advocacy at the Missouri Hospital Association.

H. Jerry Murrell, MD

Dr. Murrell received his medical degree from the University of Texas-Galveston. He practices radiation oncology at Capital Region Radiation Therapy-Jefferson City, Boone Hospital Center – Columbia, Missouri Cancer Associates and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Murrell is board certified by the American Boards of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

Nancie McAnaugh

Nancie McAnaugh is currently the Deputy Department Director/Chief Operating Officer at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services where she oversees all departmental operational functions and activities throughout the state.  The Department serves as the statewide Public Health Authority and also houses the State Unit on Aging and the State Survey Agency.  The Department serves all Missourians, has approximately 1,900 current employees, a budget of over $800 million and has staff located in facilities statewide.

In addition to her day-to-day operational duties, she serves as a senior member of the Department’s Public Health Preparedness Advisory Committee, chairs the State’s Steering Committee on Emergency Preparedness Planning for Special Needs Populations, chairs the Altered Standards of Care Guideline Development Group, is a member of the State’s BioWatch advisory Committee and Pandemic Flu Planning Executive Committee, serves as Commander in the Department’s Situation Room and works on various other policy issues for the department.

She is the former Director and Deputy Director of the Division of Senior Services and Regulation (2003-05), was Chief of the Office of Governmental Policy and Legislation in the Department of Health and Senior Services, (2002-2003), served as a Senior Budget and Policy Analyst in the Governor’s Budget Office in Missouri, (1998-2002), and was Project Director for the Center for Interdisciplinary Geriatric Assessment at the University of Missouri-Columbia, (1997-98.)  Ms. McAnaugh was both a state delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging and an invited attendee to the 2006 Working Conference on Emergency Management and Individuals with Disabilities and the Elderly.

Ms. McAnaugh is a graduate of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona with a Bachelor of Science degree in English and holds a Masters of Social Work degree in Policy, Planning, and Administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Richard A. Royer, MBA

Richard A. Royer currently serves as chief executive officer of Primaris. Mr. Royer graduated from the University of Akron, Ohio, with a BS in Accounting, from Cleveland State University with an MBA, and from the Advanced Management Program of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He has 27 years of medical business experience and has been Chief Executive Officer at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, General Hospital; Executive Director of Columbia Regional Hospital; and founder and president of Avalon Development, a medical financial consulting firm.

Juliann G. Sebastian, PhD, RN, FAAN

Juliann G. Sebastian, PhD, RN, FAAN is Dean and Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Dr. Sebastian earned her Bachelor’s and Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Kentucky College of Nursing and her doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky College of Business and Economics. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Public/Community Health Clinical Nurse Specialist.

Dr. Sebastian’s areas of expertise are organization of care delivery systems, and in particular care for underserved populations. She has presented widely at national and international meetings on topics related to underserved and vulnerable populations and has published numerous papers, book chapters, abstracts, and three books. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellowship program (1998-2001) where she addressed change in large systems and models of academic nursing practice. Dr. Sebastian was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1999. She has been active in numerous national and international professional organizations, including service as the Vice President of the International Honor Society of Nursing from 1995-97 and Chair of the Board of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Foundation from 1997-2001. She served on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) Task Force on the Clinical Doctorate (2002-04) that developed recommendations for practice doctoral preparation for advanced nursing practice in the future and then on the AACN Essentials of Practice Doctoral Programs Task Force (2004-06). Dr. Sebastian served as the Associate Editor for Leadership for the Journal of Professional Nursing from 2007-09. She is a member of the Missouri Nurses Association and the Missouri Organization of Nurse Leaders and served as Treasurer for the Missouri Association of Colleges of Nursing (2007-08). She served as a member of the Missouri Baptist Medical Center Community Advisory Board (2007-10). Dr. Sebastian currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing where she was a Board Member-at-Large (2008-2010) and now serves as Secretary (2010-12).

C.C. Swarens

C.C. Swarens is Executive Vice President of the Missouri State Medical Association. He has been with the MSMA since 1972. He also serves as Treasurer of the MSMA Health Education Foundation, Treasurer of the Missouri Medical Political Action Committee and on the Board of the MSMA Insurance Agency.

Bruce R. Williams, D.O.

Bruce R. Williams, D.O. is a 1987 graduate of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed a General Rotating Internship at University of Health Sciences Hospital in Kansas City in 1988. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians.

Dr Williams is a Past President of the Jackson County Osteopathic Medical Association and the Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, and he is currently the President-Elect of the Missouri Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. He is an Alternate Trustee to the Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, serves on the J5 Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee, and has served as a Delegate to the American Osteopathic Association House of Delegates since 1997.

Dr Williams practices in Blue Springs, Missouri. His wife, Julie is an attorney and they have one son, Blake who is a student at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and studying Business Management.