Corazon M. Ramirez, MD

CEO/COO

Dr. Corazon Ramirez has over 17 years of experience and leadership in healthcare development and management of physician owned acute care hospitals and surgery centers. She advocates a physician driven, patient focused approach to healthcare. This approach confirmed itself earlier in her career as the founder of two physician owned surgery centers. The clinical and financial success of these centers led to the development of Dallas based Pine Creek Medical Center a 100% physician owned acute care facility. As founder and CEO of Pine Creek her leadership has allowed this facility to grow from an initial 11 physician owners to over 50 of the area’s most highly respected physicians and over $200 million in annual revenue. As a result of such success she was approached to duplicate her expertise and management style. This demand led Dr. Ramirez to establish Physician Synergy Group in 2007. PSG is focused on facilitating and guiding other physicians in the development, syndication and operation of their own facilities. PSG’s resume includes the development of several physician owned hospitals that generate combined annual revenues of over $500 million in addition to partnering with over 100 physicians in financially successful hospitals, surgery centers, real estate ventures and management company opportunities. Dr. Ramirez shares with these physicians the utmost respect for the patient and the care they receive and realize that this care is best maximized when identified, delivered and managed by physicians. Dr. Ramirez continues to engage in the practice of medicine as well as provide leadership for the business of medicine. She firmly believes that when physicians are directly involved in every aspect of the delivery of healthcare, patients distinctly benefit.

Michael R. Conroy

CFO

Mike Conroy brings more than 30 years of healthcare/hospital financial management to PSG. While serving at PSG, he successfully established the financial management systems and participated as a key member of its effective physician relations programs at Pine Creek Medical Center located in Dallas, Texas. These systems have significantly contributed to positive returns for its 50+ physician investors annually. His healthcare career began at Memorial Hospital in Wyoming and has included medical centers ranging with annual gross revenues from $50 Million to $700 Million. Mr. Conroy’s work experience successfully spans both the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas of hospital financial/operational management in which he was the Chief Financial Officer. He served as Hospital Corporation of America’s (HCA) Vice President of Operations of their subsidiary company, Physician Services Corp., in which he provided the operational and financial management of physician practices located throughout the United States. Mr. Conroy’s oversight experience ranges from a single acute care hospital CFO to providing the leadership and strategic implementations for five Regional Service Centers. Mr. Conroy has senior level executive experience in the psychiatric segment of healthcare in which he served as Chief Financial Officer in two psychiatric hospitals that ranged in size from 60 to 120 inpatient beds. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from Clarion State University located in Pennsylvania.

Katherine Lower

Administrator

Kathie Lower has held executive management positions in a variety of healthcare organizations, from large, academic medical centers to community hospitals. At Johns Hopkins Hospital she managed the operations of orthopaedic and surgical oncology services, chaired the Quality Improvement Committee and served as the Surgery Department representative for patient care model restructuring and facility design of the Weinberg Building, a 66 bed long-term acute-care hospital and produced a positive EBITDA within 6 months. As the Administrator for Pine Creek Medical Center she developed the operations structure and processes and together with Dr. Ramirez managed the hospital to achieve $3 million in net income within the first 9 months of opening. She has extensive experience in acquisition, licensure and accreditation, organization of the medical staff and governing board, human resource leadership, performance improvement, risk management and managed care contracting. Prior to focusing on administration, Ms. Lower acquired experience in orthopaedics, surgical oncology, cardiac and neonatal intensive care, and home health, as well as in community health education and staff development. Ms. Lower has a BSN from the University of Maryland and a Master’s Degree from George Mason University.