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Cocktails with the Chiefs
September 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Please join us for our always popular Cocktails with the Chiefs event where we will hear from some of our prominent healthcare leaders from across the DFW Metroplex. We are excited to learn about upcoming initiatives, innovations and what the future of healthcare delivery looks like for our healthcare institutions and communities across North Texas. You won’t want to miss this one.
Moderator:
Will Maddox
Senior Writer for D CEO Magazine
Editor of D CEO Healthcare
Panelists:
Carmen Bowling, DNP, RN
Senior Vice President, Women & Infant Specialty Health Division
Parkland Health
Jason Cave
Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer
VA North Texas
Winjie Miao
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Texas Health Resources
John Phillips
President
Methodist Dallas Medical Center
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Speakers’ Bios:
Dr. Carmen Bowling has more than 32 years of nursing experience in women’s and children’s services. She has progressive executive leadership experience and has served as a legal nurse consultant. Additionally, she has developed and mentored young adults from immigrant families to become future leaders in the workforce. Dr Bowling is a visionary leader who has a passion for improving health outcomes for all women.
Dr. Bowling received her BSN and MSN from Wright State University in Ohio. She completed her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Oh. She is an active member of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, National Association of Hispanic Nurses and sits on the Nursing Advisory Board for Duquesne University School of Nursing in Pittsburg, Pa.
In her current role, Dr. Bowling works to support improving access to care for pregnant and non-pregnant women, including expanding that care beyond the walls of Parkland. She and her team have several initiatives to support the WISH patients including the implementation of Respectful Maternal Care, building a doula program, and addressing mental health needs for pregnant and non-pregnant women.
Dr. Bowling considers herself incredibly honored to be at Parkland and lucky to be able to represent the Division of Women & Infants. She believes it is important to be present and accountable for everything that we do, and to help who we can with what we can. She reminds all of us that Connection is what makes our time here together better. She is the mom of three wonderful young adult children, and she is excited about her first grandbaby boy on the way.
As the executive medical center director of the nation’s second-largest VA health care system, Mr. Jason Cave oversees health care services for almost 206,000 enrolled Veterans in 38 Texas counties and two southern Oklahoma counties, with an operating budget of $1.8 billion and 6,600 employees.
Mr. Cave has held key leadership positions within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) since he joined in 2011 as a Presidential Management Fellow. He has served VA Medical Centers of all complexity levels across three different VISNs and VA Central Office. Additionally, he has performed in various capacities, including health systems specialist, financial manager, general attorney, public affairs officer, and emergency manager. Before his appointment, Mr. Cave detailed as the interim medical center director for VA South Texas Health Care System, VISN 17, San Antonio, Texas, from June 2022 to January 2023.
Mr. Cave graduated from VISN 4’s Leadership Development Institute Class in 2013, VA’s Leadership VA Class in 2016, and VHA’s Health Care Leadership Development Program class in 2019. He holds an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of New Mexico and a Juris Doctor from the University of Akron School of Law in Akron, Ohio, including certificates in trial advocacy and dispute resolution.
Will Maddox is the senior writer for D CEO magazine and the editor of D CEO Healthcare. He’s written about healthcare fraud, Texas healthcare policy innovation, leadership, and the future of healthcare in North Texas.
Will was just recently recognized by the Texas Hospital Association for his story about Dale Okorodudu, MD and his work around diversifying the medical profession.
Winjie Tang Miao serves as senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of Texas Health Resources. In her role, Miao is charged with fostering the evolution of the system’s core services and developing an integrated, high-performance delivery network that is consumer focused. She oversees Texas Health’s Hospital Channel, physicians’ group and ambulatory and virtual care services, along with clinical excellence and network navigation functions.
Prior to assuming the chief operating officer position, Miao served as Texas Health’s chief experience officer, leading the organization in elevating the needs and preferences of consumers. With a focus on moving beyond episodic sick care to provide consumers a lifetime of health and well-being, Miao expanded access to services by opening new channels of care delivery when, where and how patients prefer. She led the organization’s Connected Health strategy and implementation and was integral in developing capabilities around data and insights, virtual patient experiences and customer relationship management competencies.
Miao joined Texas Health in 2000 as an administrative resident at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and served in a progression of leadership roles, including opening Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance as its inaugural president. She joined the system leadership team in 2015 as senior vice president of system integration and innovation and was instrumental in creating Reliable Care Blueprinting™, Texas Health’s approach to care design to deliver a safe, reliable and quality experience in every consumer encounter.
A biomedical engineering graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Miao also earned a master’s degree in healthcare administration, with a concentration in financial management and quality management, from the University of North Carolina.
John Phillips, FACHE, serves as president of Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
Since stepping into the role in 2018, Phillips has guided the hospital through accomplishments including recruitment of additional medical staff members to meet the growing needs of the hospitals service area, further development of the Da Vinci minimally invasive surgical program, established the MHS Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program and numerous hospital expansion and renovation projects providing the hospital’s patients access to high-quality healthcare services. Under his direction, Methodist Dallas has received accreditations as an American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Facility, ENA ED Lantern Award, Level I Trauma re-designation and Level III maternal and neonatal intensive care designation.
Phillips has been a member of the Methodist Health System family since 2011. Philips served seven years as president of Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, a 254-bed non-profit acute care hospital. Under his leadership in Mansfield, the hospital achieved Magnet designation for excellence in nursing and opened the $118-million Amon G. Carter Foundation Heart and Vascular Center as well as a new patient tower and $11.8-million professional office building.
Prior to joining Methodist, Phillips served as Chief Operating Officer at CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System in Texarkana and Chief Operating Officer at Davis Regional Medical Center in North Carolina.
Phillips earned a Bachelors in Physical Therapy from UT Southwestern, an MBA from Hardin-Simmons University and a Master of Health Care Administration from Trinity University. Outside of his role at Methodist Dallas, Phillips and his wife enjoy family vacations, hiking and traveling.
