Chairman and CEO of Pitts Management Associates, Inc. (PMA), a firm in its 20th year of service to the healthcare industry. PMA focuses on corporate reorganization and alignment, governance evaluation and consultation, strategic and business planning, selected executive searches, interim management and turnarounds, financial advisory services and workouts, and managed care strategy and contracting. Prior to PMA, Mr. Pitts was the CEO of the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans, and served in the federal government as the Executive Officer for Health Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as the Founding Associate Dean for Administration of the Hebert School of Medicine, and as the Executive Officer in the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General. |