Moderator/Panelist Biographical Information
Moderator:
Vickie White
Assistant Vice President; Florida Hospital Nicholson Center
Born, raised and currently residing in Florida, Vickie is a true Floridian through and through. While her
home has remained in the Sunshine State, her work has taken her around the globe. As a hospital
executive at Florida Hospital, Vickie has shaped various service lines that draw patients nationally and
internationally. Vickie is noted for her executive oversight of the Nicholson Center – a state-of-the-art,
international training center that trains over 12,000 physicians and clinical learners annually. Vickie has
successfully negotiated mutually beneficial affiliations with leading healthcare organizations that span
four continents and lectures internationally on healthcare strategy and innovation. She has a
background in healthcare marketing, business development, strategy and operations. When she is not
working, Vickie enjoys playing with her two boys and husband, Brad.
Panelists:
CHRISTOPHER NIKLAS, MBA
Senior International Consultant, Nemours Children’s Hospital
Mr. Niklas is an independent business consultant with focus in the Healthy Living, Wellness and
Longevity sector. His academic and business backgrounds distinguish his work in corporate business
development and strategy for healthcare systems. His approach stresses creativity in business thinking,
products and processes.
In his professional engagements Mr. Niklas has reported directly to COO and CEO level leadership. He
often collaborates with top tier management firms, including McKinsey & Co., Boston Consulting Group,
Booz & Co. and Deloitte Consulting. His work has engaged strategies of Creative Destruction, the Art of
Innovation and emphasis on Quick and Nimble remedies to problematic business practices, much of
which he has learned first-hand from prestigious authors, mentors and colleagues.
Mr. Niklas was most recently contracted as senior International consultant at Nemours Children’s
Hospital in Medical City, Lake Nona. His emphasis was to establish processes to support an international
medical program. His vision was to create global relationships in health care bringing collaborative value
to education, research and clinical care for children in Central, South America and the Caribbean.
Mr. Niklas is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and holds an MBA from the
Anderson School of Business Management, UCLA. He lives in Lake Nona with his wife, Dr. Victoria Niklas
who heads the Division of Newborn Critical Care Medicine for Nemours Children’s Hospital.
HANK KEARNEY, MHP, RHU
CEO, PHM International
Hank Kearney started working in healthcare in the emergency department of an inner city hospital and
30 years later he is an advisor to the world’s leading financial and healthcare institutions and
corporations. Multilateral banks, private equity firms, leading hospital companies, institutional investors,
and multi-national companies all seek Mr. Kearney’s counsel on strategic planning and policy direction.
Hank is president and founder of PHM International, Inc. and he is based in Florida. PHM International is
the established brand holder of the PHM Emerging Markets Healthcare Monitor, GHAN - the Global
Health Access® Network, and PHM Macedonia, LLC.
Today, Hank helps companies better understand how the combination of policy, politics, market risks,
and geopolitics impact the healthcare markets at large, and client companies in particular.
Hank also leads the company's capacity development efforts; building relationships with legislative,
regulatory, and government executives around the world.
As the publisher of the PHM Emerging Markets Healthcare Monitor, Hank is a frequent commentator on
healthcare developments around the world. Targeting private healthcare and emerging markets, Hank’s
commentary is sought after for its refreshingly honest and independent approach. His is also a speaker
at industry conferences.
In the US Hank is a leading expert and consultant in the area of health insurance. Among many cases he
has worked on, he was the consultant to the State of California in their amicus brief for the Hailey Court.
Hank has participated in industry symposia and think tanks including "Pharma Futures: One Year On,"
"ARISTA II: Health People" and the Future Directions Group of Mosby. In 1999 he founded Global Health
Access®.
Prior to PHM International he served as Executive Director Marketing at Mosby Consumer Health, a
division of then listed Times Mirror. He was also a product manager at one of "The Blues," developing
the USA's first data driven wellness program.
Hank Kearney has a BA in Economics from Rutgers University and is one of only a handful of individuals
with both the MHP (Managed Healthcare Professional) and RHU (Registered Health Underwriter)
designations.
DONNA MALVEY, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
Donna Malvey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Informatics at
the University of Central Florida. She has also held an appointment as an Adjunct Associate Professor of
Healthcare Leadership at Brown University, teaching in their inaugural executive program in healthcare
management and leadership.
She received her Master’s Degree in Health Services Administration from the George Washington
University and completed an administrative residency and postgraduate fellowship in health systems at
the VA Medical Center in Washington, D. C. She earned her Ph.D. in Administration-Health Services
from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and received a national award from Sodexho Marriott for
her dissertation research on medical group practices.
Donna is a nationally known speaker with audiences of practitioner organizations and academic
conferences. She has been interviewed in the press and on television about health care issues, ranging
from physician unions to retail health care. Her funded research includes a study of patient flow
management in local public health departments, which was underwritten by a grant from IBM.
Donna has published extensively in the health care field. She is co-author of The Retail Revolution in
Health Care, which was published by Praeger, 2010, and received a recommendation from the American
Library Association’s Choice Review. This book examines the silent revolution in health care delivery that
is being driven by the private sector. She is currently at work on a book about mobile health applications
and their impact on healthcare service delivery. The book, m-Health: Transforming Healthcare (Springer)
is scheduled for release later this year. She is also working as a co-editor for a forthcoming handbook of
healthcare management research (Elgar).
Donna is a reviewer for a number of health care management journals and has served as a member of
the editorial advisory board of Health Care Management Review. She was appointed by the Governor of
Florida to serve two terms as a member of the Florida Cancer Control and Research Advisory Board.
Donna has worked in a variety of health care settings and served as the executive director of a national
trade association, representing health professionals in private practice. She also has worked as a
congressional aide on Capitol Hill.