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1 CHRISTOPHER E. PRESS, FACHE MORGAN HEALTHCARE CONSULTING, LLC, SUITE 200, 5555 GLENRIDGE CONNECTOR, ATLANTA, GEORGIA OFFICE: DIRECT TO DESK: FAX: BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY M r. Press has served in various executive positions since 1980, principally as chief marketing, strategy and development officer for faith-based hospitals and healthcare systems. Since 1998, he has provided expertise in these areas as an independent advisor to clients in the South and Midwest. He is sought as a strategist who can implement, possessed of the ability to see the big picture but also plan and implement using analysis, structure, and rigor. An excellent communicator, he listens to stakeholders, as well as speaks and writes with unusual facility. Since 2000, he has been adjunct faculty of Emory University s Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, where he teaches Master of Public Health candidates. Mr. Press has developed and implemented numerous successful strategic and product line plans and worked extensively with boards, board committees, physicians, medical staff, and executive management. His experience includes: helping expand a Midwestern Catholic hospital into an area system, including the merger of two Catholic hospitals; interim executive officer service for a Midwestern healthcare system; development of several long range and product line plans; medical staff development plans; reprogramming and reconstructing an emergency department subsequently featured in World Architecture magazine; creating one of the nation s first hospitalist programs; executive sponsorship of $80 million bed tower replacement and campus redevelopment project; repositioning an international medical specialties product portfolio, and; developing a successful suburban medical mall. He collaborated closely with KPMG on a variety of projects, including its 1998 path-finding study, Consumerism in Healthcare. He introduced geodemography to health care in the early 80s, and accurately predicted in a 1984 book that DRGs would become an essential tool of hospital marketing and financial management. A published author, he has served on the Editorial Board of Frontiers of Health Services Management and the faculties of The Estes Park Institute and American College of Healthcare Executives Congress on Healthcare Administration. He has served community and professional organizations and been a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives since He has been several times listed in the Atlanta Business Chronicle s Top 100 Healthcare Who s Who, and is also listed in Who s Who in Healthcare and Medicine, and Who s Who in America. A native of Cincinnati, he earned an MBA summa cum laude in Finance and Marketing from the University of Cincinnati and a BBA summa cum laude in Economics from Ohio University, where he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma. With daughters in Ann Arbor and St. Louis, he lives with his wife in Atlanta.

2 CHRISTOPHER E. PRESS, FACHE Page 2 of 5 PRESENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE MORGAN HEALTHCARE CONSULTING, LLC, Atlanta, GA Partner (1998- present) Senior Vice President ( ) Practice services include: strategic and long-range planning and market assessment; temporary executive service; medical staff development planning, custom projects and reports, special topic retreats, market foresight. Extensive experience with executive management, medical staffs, and boards. Clients based chiefly in Midwest and Southeast. Recent engagements include: executive sponsorship of $80 million bed tower replacement and campus redevelopment project; several strategic plans; several medical staff development plans. EMORY UNIVERSITY, ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Atlanta, GA Assistant Professor (adjunct), ( present) Visiting Instructor ( ) Department of Health Policy and Management. Faculty for Master of Public Health and Career Master of Public Health degrees. Teach: Principles of Management; Strategic Management Cases; Operations Management, Healthcare Marketing. Rewrote Principles of Management and substantially revised Healthcare Marketing courses. Also serve Emory University School of Medicine Transfusion Medicine Program. Recipient of Teaching and Mentoring Community Award. EDUCATION Master of Business Administration, dual major: Finance and Marketing, summa cum laude, University of Cincinnati (AACSB accredited), Bachelor of Business Administration, Economics, summa cum laude, Ohio University (AACSB accredited), PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL, Atlanta, GA Senior Vice President ( ) Vice President ( ) Reporting to CEO, responsible for strategic planning in one of US s most complex and dynamic markets, directing varied operating departments with 80 FTEs and $12 million annual revenue. Executive Officer to board Planning Committee, Internal Medicine Department, and Medical Staff Primary Care Committee. Developed strategic plans and implementing action plans in cooperation with medical staff, board committees and board, executive and middle management, and product line managers. Conceived, planned, implemented, and managed off-campus 100,000 square foot medical mall with freestanding outpatient surgery, lab, radiology and pharmacy and 50 physician tenants. Re-engineered all operations for 40,000 visit/year Emergency Department. Executive officer for construction of $8 million replacement ED facility based upon re-engineered operations, completed on time and on budget. Increased volume, decreased mean throughput time by

3 CHRISTOPHER E. PRESS, FACHE Page 3 of 5 20%, and increased patient satisfaction in peer group from last place to benchmark. Featured in World Architecture magazine. FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM OF CINCINNATI (FHSC), Cincinnati, OH physicians, 1,057 beds, 3 hospitals, 2 retirement facilities Corporate Vice President Senior Vice President and subsidiary COO Vice President Director, Corporate Development Executive Assistant to President Joined St. Francis/St. George Hospital in Instrumental in effecting mergers/acquisitions that helped create FHSC, a diversified local system offering acute hospital, specialty hospital, assisted living, retirement, SNF and outpatient surgery. Performed extensive operations integration during merger of acute care hospitals. Consolidated, centralized, and restructured corporate marketing and planning division; reduced FTEs. ACTIVITIES, SERVICE, AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives, 1990 present (recertified in 2000) Board of Directors, Metropolitan Atlanta YMCA, ; 2001 and 2002 Annual Campaign Chairman Board of Directors, Lutheran Camp Association, Arcadia, Michigan, American Association of Blood Banks AcademyHealth Association of University Programs in Health Administration ACHE Advancement Examination Tutorial, Georgia Association of Healthcare Executives, 2004-present Editorial Board, Frontiers of Health Services Management, Marist School Swim Team HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS Teaching and Mentoring Community Award, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Who s Who in Atlanta Healthcare Who s Who in America Who s Who in Healthcare and Medicine Val E Boeh Outstanding Graduate Student in Finance Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, 1976 Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, 1976 PUBLICATIONS SINCE Things AHA's 'Pricing Transparency' Implies For You, HealthLeaders.com, July 25, 2006 Of Boiled Frogs and Health Savings Accounts, HealthLeaders.com, February 9, 2005

4 CHRISTOPHER E. PRESS, FACHE Page 4 of 5 No Vacancy: An Analysis of Hospital Bed Supply and Demand in Atlanta, (with R Cochran, K Lederman and K Brown), Morgan Healthcare Consulting Whitepaper, June 2004 Why Strategies Fail, Health Forum Journal, Mar/Apr 2001 Defined Contribution Health Plans as the Next Payment Trend, Health Forum Journal, Nov/Dec 2000 "The Great Destabilization" Health Forum Journal, July/August 2000 The Hospital As Airport: A New Model for Health Care, Health Forum Journal, March/April 1999 PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1997 American College of Healthcare Executives, Congress on Administration, Chicago: Advanced Topics in Strategy: Seven Strategic Conundrums Facing Healthcare, March 2006 American College of Healthcare Executives, Congress on Administration, Chicago: Measuring Market Effectiveness: The Market Share Pyramid, March 2004 Public Attitudes and Perceptions About the Safety of the United States Blood Supply: Results of a Large US Survey, (with LK Ivansco, and CD Hillyer, MD, Emory University School of Medicine) Poster Presentation, American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, December 2003, San Diego, California Increase In Cost Inefficiency Of Autologous vs. Allogeneic Blood Given Decrease in Residual Risk of Infectious Diseases: A New Model, (with VA Kelley, Emory University School of Medicine, VL Phillips, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, CD Hillyer, Emory University School of Medicine). Oral Abstract Presentation, American Association of Blood Banks Annual Meeting, October 2002, Orlando, Florida Estes Park Institute: Defined Contribution Health Plans Palm Springs, California, April 2002 Hilton Head, South Carolina, April 2001 Monterey, California, October 2001 Alliance for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing, Annual Conference, San Diego: Wildcards Events That Could Reshape Healthcare, March 2001 American College of Healthcare Executives, Congress on Administration, Chicago: Defined Contribution Health Plans What They Are and What They Mean, March 2001 Alliance for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing, Annual Conference, Orlando: After Capitation: What Comes Next? March 2000 American College of Healthcare Executives, Congress on Administration, Chicago: Strategic Clinical Outsourcing; How and Why to Do It, March 2000

5 CHRISTOPHER E. PRESS, FACHE Page 5 of 5 Georgia Hospital Association, Annual Statewide Summer Conference, Amelia Island, Florida: How Are Airports and Hospitals Alike? Empowering CEOs to Respond to the Marketplace, July 1999 Alliance for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing, Cincinnati Chapter, Cincinnati, Ohio: The Hospital as Airport, February 1999 National Managed Care Leadership Conference, Washington, DC: How to Succeed and Maintain Market Share Without Buying Physician Practices, 1997 Google: christopher e press REFERENCE: christopher press for roger nutter.doc; DATE PREPARED: Wednesday, June 13, 2007