I wanted to use my first Regent message to introduce myself as your new Interim Regent and thank M. Lee Holmes, FACHE for serving as our Regent through March when he relocated to Houston.  Lee did a great job with organization and communication and I hope I can do as well.

I am a professor of health administration at Texas State University where I teach and research healthcare financial management and economics.  Prior to joining academe fulltime in 1986, I was Director of Process Management in the Hospital Division of Humana for six years. Prior to Humana, I held a variety of administrative positions at Valley Medical Center in Fresno, Hutzel Hospital in Detroit, Georgetown University Medical Center, and Lubbock Medical Center.

I joined ACHE as a student associate in 1975 during my graduate work.   I passed the certification exam in 1980 and became a Fellow in 1988. During the 1990s, I helped write questions for the certification exam and for the last several years I have taught financial management for ACHE in clusters, in certification exam reviews, and Congress presentations.  Locally I served as the second president of the Central Texas Chapter and have been active in the South Texas Chapter.  I have also provided recent training support to such organizations as the Indiana Army National Guard, the medical command at Vandenberg AFB, Ascension Health, Cardinal Health, Spectrum Health, Kaiser Permanente, University Hospitals in Cleveland, HCA, Mercy Hospitals of Northern Ohio, Baylor Healthcare System, and Howard University Hospital.

I also wanted to remind members of upcoming events: the Central Texas Chapter is providing Face-to-Face credit for Leading Information Safety: Planning for Data Privacy and Security on April 28 and will have a Social & Networking Event on May 7.

Please let me know if I can do anything for you. I can be reached at nowicki@txstate.edu.

Michael Nowicki, EdD, FACHE

Regent for Texas - Central & South