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132 Speakers Announced for the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Center Conference

John Atwater, MD. Dr. Atwater is a spine surgeon at Downstate Illinois Spine Center and McClean County Orthopedics , both in Bloomington, Ill. He treats a wide range of spinal conditions and performs many types of spinal surgery. He currently serves as a medical consultant to several medical device companies. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and interned at John Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Kenneth Austin, MD. Dr. Austin is an orthopedic surgeon at Rockland Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Airmont, N.Y. He received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and completed his surgical internship and orthopedic residency at the NYU/Bellevue Medical Center. His expertise includes treating traumatic and sports-related injuries of the upper and lower extremities, and hip and knee replacements.

Scott Benglen. Mr. Benglen is CEO of Via Novus Medical , a healthcare consulting group based in Dillon, Colo. He brings 20 years of financial and operational performance to the healthcare arena, having started his career in aviation as a commercial airline pilot for United Airlines. He has also served as a financial negotiator for United Pilots' Contract 2000 and as a managing partner for Sovereign Capital Partners. Christopher Bishop. Mr. Bishop is a partner and senior vice president of acquisitions and development for Blue Chip Surgical Partners . His responsibilities with Blue Chip include optimizing performance at ASCs within the Blue Chip network as well as acquiring and "turning around" underperforming centers. Prior to joining Blue Chip in 2010, Mr. Bishop was a vice president with ASCOA. Jeff Blankinship. Mr. Blankinship serves as the CEO of Surgical Notes , a company founded in 1998 to address the needs of digital medical records for the ASC and surgical hospital markets. Mr. Blankinship has since created several internet-based companies and is currently a part owner of an international medical software and service company. Prior to founding Surgical Notes, he worked with pain management centers and the home healthcare industry. Robert Boeglin, MD. Dr.

Concurring Opinions » KPMG: A Contracts Cornucopia

1. KPMG claimed that the indemnification dispute was arbitrable. Factual disputes abounded (some defendants had distinct contract language, and the firm had apparently done a relatively weak job at capturing “Separated Members” in new arbitration agreements). But “in any case,” Judge Kaplan found the arbitration agreements void as against public policy. This was no surprise, because he wrote just three months ago that “Assuming that . . . KPMG remains insistent upon its alleged arbitration remedy, the questions whether the arbitration clause properly is so construed and, if so, whether it is void as against public policy [as frustrating the court’s decision] will be addressed . . . .”

Now I usually tell my students that arbitration is favored by courts and that public policy arguments are weak ones. Not here. The Court found several factors weighed against the arbitration clauses’ enforceability: (1) the public’s right to a speedy trial; (2) the right to a fair trial, with “counsel of his or her choice” and “the funds lawfully available to each” to effectuate that choice; (3) the fact that if the Court didn’t advance these costs from KPMG, it might have to dismiss the indictment altogether; (4) the public’s burden in paying for these defendants’ defense were they to become indigent (not the Judge’s best argument); and (5) the public determination of an issue intimately connected with a public criminal trial. Judge Kaplan found that the arbitration agreement itself “affords an opportunity for delay, and KPMG obviously has no interest in having the advancement dispute decided quickly.” (Slip. Op. at 32). That “purely private interest” was “decisively outweighed” by the defendants’ constitutional rights and the public interest in avoiding dismissal of the indictment.

This is a very odd holding, on a few levels. Fundamentally, it runs counter to the great weight of authority, which burnishes arbitration as the best way to save judicial resources, a paragon of efficiency. Unlike, say, the now-common claim that arbitration clauses ought not to be enforced when not bargained for, Judge Kaplan’s criticism that arbitration causes delay and is private justice would seem to sweep rather far. (Notwithstanding his disclaimer on p. 39.) It surely is true that KPMG will be incented to delay an arbitration. But, if that were true, why not reform the agreement and require the arbitrators to rule promptly. That would effectuate both parties’ intent (not, as Judge Kaplan states, merely KPMG’s) in securing a private forum for personal disputes of this kind.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, scandal in U.S. housing

[365] KPMG lead partner Kenneth Russell acknowledged last year that the LIHTC adjustment was significant. Other than KPMG's receipt of the Rawls memo, ...

The Government accountants journal

... New York Thomas R. Bloom, CGFM, Inspector General, US Department of ... said Ken Russell, partner in the department of professional practice at KPMG. ...

UK Directory of Executive Recruitment

... Gareth Knight, Richard Landsberg, Max MacLennan, Kenneth Mannion, ... International KPMG People Services Russell Reynolds Associates Whitehead Mann ...

Business review weekly, BRW

... 57 KPMG, 69 Lonsec Managed Funds Research, 70 Macpherson and Kelley, 57 Macquarie Bank ... Ken Uchtda SECTION EDITORS: Amanda Gome (Emerging Companies). ...

Annual report

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