NYPMI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Fellow
- Senior Vice President of HealthCare Network Strategy & Business Development / Eastern Operations
Charlie Shaw joined RadNet in 2010. He has been involved in the delivery of health care for over thirty years. He develops managed care strategies to ensure financial stability during unprecedented challenges in a rapidly changing health care industry. He has held leadership and management positions in health care policy, contract management, marketing, operations and coordinating policy and administration for large hospitals and healthcare networks.
He is a retired US Navy Medical Service Corps Commander. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of Maryland University College, receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Care Management. He has an MBA (Finance Major) from Loyola College of Baltimore, and is a 1997 graduate from the Naval War College.
Charlie is a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives (FACHE), a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Managed Healthcare Professional with the Health Insurance Association of America.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice - President of Operations for RadNet 's Northern California Operations
Christine N. Gordon currently serves as the Senior Vice-President of Operations for RadNet's Northern California Operations. Ms. Gordon began her career in radiology in 1984 as a multi-modality Technologist, then quickly transitioned into a role in Practice Management for an Orange County, California, based radiology group specializing in hospital-based and outpatient imaging. Ms. Gordon joined RadNet in 1994, bringing her diverse skill set and expertise to multi-site, multi-modality operations and personnel management, physician and site credentialing, reimbursement operations, payer contracting, acquisitions, and project and assets management. The Nominating and Governance Committee has recommended, and our Board of Directors confirmed, Ms. Gordon as a nominee because of her extensive operational experience, with more than 37 years of broad-based experience in the field of medical imaging.
David J. Katz - Chief Legal Officer, EVP, Secretary
Job Titles:
- Corporate Secretary
- Executive Vice President
- General Counsel
Mr. Katz joined RadNet from the international law firm Perkins Coie LLP, where he was a partner for 20 years, and he has been in private practice for 30 years. Mr. Katz's legal practice has focused on corporate finance, international transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business planning, and SEC compliance for domestic and foreign companies. Mr. Katz has also served as a Reserve Deputy for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department since 1990, and he is a two-time Medal of Valor recipient from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
David Swartz has 35 years of experience providing accounting and advisory services to clients in several industries, including manufacturing, wholesale, retail, entertainment, real estate, and professional services. Since 1993, Mr. Swartz has been the managing partner of Good Swartz Brown & Berns. Prior to this, Mr. Swartz served as managing partner and was on the national Board of Directors of a 50-office international accounting firm. Mr. Swartz is also a former CFO of a publicly-held shopping center development company. Mr. Swartz has been a guest lecturer at several Southern California universities and is a frequent presenter to area trade and professional organizations. He has served on the advisory boards of several companies. Mr. Swartz is the President of the California Board of Accountancy. Active in the community, Mr. Swartz is past president of the Jewish Big Brothers of Los Angeles and serves on the boards of several other charitable foundations.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor to LLR Partners
Gregory E. Spurlock is currently a Senior Advisor to LLR Partners, a Philadelphia-based private equity fund with a focus on health care, and to Global Medical Response, a KKR company with over 38,000 employees that provides emergency response to the ill and injured. He retired in 2019 as President of Alliance Healthcare Services, where he directed operations for their professional, technical, and global hospital-based services, encompassing 40 centers across 19 states.
Mr. Spurlock helped lead U.S. Radiosurgery, LLC, through its acquisition by Alliance HealthCare Services in 2011. As a member of the senior executive team, he led Alliance Healthcare's transition from publicly traded to international privately-owned in 2017. Previous leadership includes work as the Executive Director of the Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance in Nashville and Executive Director of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles. Mr. Spurlock has served on a number of boards, including the CyberKnife Coalition, the Corporate Advisory Council of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, and the Board of Directors of the American Association of Orthopaedic Executives. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
- President
Howard G. Berger, M.D., Chairman, co-founded RadNet in 1980 and serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Primedex Health Systems, Inc., RadNet's parent. Dr. Berger has more than 25 years of experience in the development and management of successful healthcare businesses. He began his career in medicine at the University of Illinois Medical School, following college graduation from Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is Board Certified in Nuclear Medicine and trained in an Internal Medicine residency as well as in a masters program in medical physics in the University of California system. Dr. Berger's extensive expertise in radiology and business operations, knowledge of the marketplace, and personal relationships within the industry give RadNet the leadership, insight, and experience necessary to successfully compete in a dynamic marketplace.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs
Laura Foster, BSRT, MPH, J.D., has more than 20 years of experience in radiology and manages RadNet's highly regarded Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement programs. Since joining the company in 1997, she has held multiple roles in compliance, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs. She spearheaded accreditation of RadNet imaging centers through the prestigious Accreditation Association of Ambulatory HealthCare Center, and she established RadNet's Compliance and Quality Assurance sector in the Middle East. Laura is responsible for overall Compliance and Regulatory Affairs for the entire company. She completed her Master of Science in Public Health Administration from the University of Laverne and her Juris Doctorate law degree from Southern California University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
Until June of 2020, Ms. Jacobs was managing principal at GE Healthcare Partners, where she has worked since 1990. Prior to her current role, Ms. Jacobs led the firm's healthcare management consulting business from 2015 to 2019. She is a national expert on healthcare trends and their impact on providers, and she has been involved in healthcare management for the past 40 years, including the past 30 years with GE Healthcare Partners, advising healthcare providers regarding strategies, operations, and financial performance improvement initiatives. Ms. Jacobs has advised physician organizations, complex health systems, and other healthcare entities on strategies for growth, technology adoption, and financial performance improvement. Ms. Jacobs has led strategic, financial, and operational redesign of health systems, including transforming the framework for decision-making and care delivery. Ms. Jacobs has led the organizational and compensation redesign for provider organizations to achieve greater integration and aligned incentives. She is a frequent speaker regarding current trends in healthcare, payer strategies, risk-based payment models, consumer expectations, clinical integration, governance, and performance optimization.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
- President
Lawrence L. Levitt has been the President, Chief Financial Officer and a shareholder of Canyon Management Company, a financial services firm which is General Partner of Genesis Investors, a "fund of fund" hedge fund investing primarily in marketable securities, since its inception in 1987. Since 1981, he also has been Managing Partner of Round Two Investment Partners, a privately held investment partnership engaged primarily in securities-related activities. Mr. Levitt is a director of River Downs Management Corporation, which operates a thoroughbred race track in Ohio. From 1973 until 1981, Mr. Levitt was Executive Vice-President of a closely held international crude oil reseller. Prior to 1973, Mr. Levitt was a Certified Public Accountant and tax manager with Arthur Young and Company, Los Angeles, California.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
Mark D. Stolper has served as RadNet's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2004 and prior to that was an independent member of the company's Board of Directors. He is responsible for all aspects of the Company's financial functions and disciplines.
Before joining RadNet, he had diverse experiences in investment banking, private equity, venture capital investing, and operations. Mark began his career as a member of the corporate finance group at Dillon, Read and Co., Inc., executing mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings, and private equity investments with Saratoga Partners LLP, an affiliated principal investment group of Dillon Read. After Dillon Read, Mark joined Archon Capital Partners, which made private equity investments in media and entertainment companies. Mark also worked for Eastman Kodak, where he was responsible for business development for Kodak's Entertainment Imaging subsidiary ($1.5 billion in sales). Mark was also co-founder of Broadstream Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based investment banking firm focused on advising middle market companies engaged in financing and merger and acquisition transactions.
Mark graduated with a liberal arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a finance degree from the Wharton School. Additionally, Mark earned a postgraduate Award in Accounting from UCLA.
Job Titles:
- Chief Development Officer
- Executive Vice President
Michael Murdock joined RadNet in November of 2006 upon the acquisition of Radiologix by RadNet. Mike was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Radiologix since January 2005.
Mike has spent the majority of his career in senior financial positions with health care companies, including positions with American Medical International and its successor American Medical Holdings, Inc., a $2.4 billion in revenue publicly traded owner and operator of acute care facilities that was acquired by National Medical Enterprises, now Tenet Healthcare.
Mike also served as Chief Financial Officer of Physician Reliance Network, Inc., a $398 million in revenue publicly traded physician practice management company, specializing in oncology. In 1999, PRN merged with American Oncology, Inc. to become U.S. Oncology, Inc., the nation's largest healthcare network dedicated to cancer treatment and research. From 1999 through 2004, Mike served as CFO of Dental One, a venture capital-backed owner and operator of 48 dental practices in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. Mike began his career in 1978 as an auditor with Arthur Andersen after receiving a B.S. degree from California State University, Northridge.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis, Chief Administrative Officer
Mital Patel joined RadNet in 2010, after working his way up from a clerical position to become the Director of Physician Liaison for Truxton Radiology. At Truxton he helped grow practice revenue, managed operation initiatives and Quality Compliance measures, and played a pivotal role in managing Truxton's acquisition by RadNet. He continues to help drive the day-to-day operations side of our business, working with regional operations managers and vice-presidents in all of RadNet's markets. He works with the Mergers & Acquisitions, Materials Management, Information Technology, Finance, and Revenue Operations/Analytics teams, as well as with RadNet's Board of Directors. Mital directs national budgets and finance, provides counsel regarding corporate acquisitions, and identifies opportunities for the company to deliver cost-effective medical services.
Mital is active in the community, having held board seats in several non-profit organizations. He earned his B.A. in Business Administration, with a concentration in Management and Marketing, from California State University in Bakersfield.
Job Titles:
- President and Chief Operating Officer / Western Operations
- President and Chief Operating Officer for Western Operations
Norman R. Hames serves as RadNet's President and Chief Operating Officer for Western Operations. Applying his 20 years of experience in the industry, Norman oversees all aspects of facility operations. His management team, comprised of Regional Directors, Site Managers, and Sales Managers are responsible for responding to all of the day-to-day concerns of our facilities, patients, payers and referring physicians. Before joining RadNet, Norman was President and CEO of his own company, Diagnostic Imaging Services, Inc. (DIS), which owned and operated 14 multi-modality imaging centers throughout Southern California. Norman gained his initial experience in operating imaging centers for American Medical International (AMI) and was responsible for the development of AMI's single and multi-modality imaging centers.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Information Officer and General Manager of ERAD
Ranjan Jayanathan is RadNet's Chief Information Officer and General Manager of eRAD, the company's information technology division. Ranjan joined RadNet in 2010 from Voyant Health, where he was the General Manager of American operations. Prior to Voyant, he was a member of the executive management team of Dynamic Imaging. During his nine year tenure at Dynamic Imaging, Ranjan managed sales, client services, and solutions architecture. He assisted with Dynamic Imaging's sale to General Electric in 2007 and its integration into GE's operations. Prior to Dynamic Imaging, he held various Chief Information Officer and Research and Development positions at Advanced Radiology, Reynolds and Reynolds, and National Medical Computer Services. Ranjan earned a degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President of Human Resources
Ruth Wilson joined RadNet in 1994. As Senior Vice President of Human Resources, she is responsible for the development and management of all employment related policy and benefits programs. Ruth earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is an active member in human resources societies, PIHRA, and SHRM.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- President and Chief Operating Officer / Eastern Operations
- Radiologix in 2000 As Regional Director of Operations
Stephen M. Forthuber was named Senior Vice President, Field Operations of Radiologix in November 2005 after serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Radiologix, Inc.
Steve joined Radiologix in 2000 as Regional Director of Operations for the Northeast, where he was promoted to Regional Vice President for the Northeast in 2002. Steve has 23 years of healthcare experience, with 18 of those years exclusively dedicated to radiology practice management.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President of Contracting and Network Strategy
Terri Herrick has more than 27 years of experience in medical imaging. In her 22-year tenure at RadNet, where she started as a Marketing Representative in 1995, she has earned Sales Rep of the Year honors and has been promoted, first to Director and then to Vice President of Sales & Contracting. Terri developed the policies and training programs for RadNet marketing representatives and is instrumental in identifying and capturing the California marketplace with contract negotiations for PPO, HMO, and Workers' Compensation clients. She has increased RadNet's capitation program to more than two million lives with many IPA/medical groups.
Terri coordinated and negotiated RadNet's sports contracts with all the major teams in Los Angeles, Orange, and Northern California. She created RadNet Direct, a successful entry into the workers' compensation arena for employer-based organizations. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing management from Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., and earned her MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is on the board of the Cancer Research Collaboration.