20205 AKAMSP Annual Educational Conference Registration & Speakers
Sara Chambers
Boards and Regulations Advisor - Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Sara Chambers is an expert on board governance, organizational management, and servant leadership. She has more than a decade of experience in healthcare regulation and professionally equips leaders in government across the state and internationally in her role with the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. Her independent consulting work prepares leaders and encourages nonprofit organizations. Sara is a former elected Juneau Assemblymember, recipient of Alaska's Top 40 Under Forty award, worship leader, and Juneau Crimson Bears Football mom.
Sara Cameron, CPMSM, CPCS
Senior Director, Professional Services & Senior Consultant
Sara Cameron is a 22-year Medical Staff Services leader holding her CPCS, CPMSM and NAMSS Leadership certifications. She has held roles in critical access, academic and tertiary care facilities in Alaska, Missouri, Washington, Oregon, and Illinois. She served as Director at Large on the NAMSS Board of Directors, 2019-2021. Sara now serves as Senior Director of Professional Services. Her role allows her to share her knowledge, creativity and passion for Value Based Peer Review, Quality, Risk Management, and Physician leader and medical staff professional development.
Debbie Kesslering, CPCS, CPMSM
Debbie Kesselring, CPCS, CPMSM is the Director of Medical Staff Services at SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium in SouthEast Alaska. In her role, she oversees credentialing/privileging, ensures compliance with bylaws, accreditation standards, regulatory entities, and legal requirements pertaining, and is the executive associate to the Chief of Staff. She has served as a President of the Alaska Association of Medical Staff Professionals, NAMSS Director at Large (DAL), Chair for the NAMSS Leadership Development Work Group, and is currently a member of the Subject Matter Expert Committee.
Cassie Bush
Mrs. Cassie J. Bush has lived in the Anchorage area since 1992 and has enjoyed working at Providence Alaska Medical Center, Alaska Spine Institute, Alaska Regional Medical Center, Mat-Su Regional Medical Center and Joint-Base Elmendorf-Richardson: 673 MDG, Medical Staff- Credentialing. She began her credentialing career in the Mat-Su in 2016. As a front-line credentialing professional she ensures that information provided is accurate and meets required standards for the Defense Health Agency: United States Air Force. My goals for my career field is to network with other credentialing specialists, strive to attain credentialing consistency in the military treatment facility. My values are organization, consistency, honesty, and proactivity. She has been married since 1996 and has two adult children, two dogs & two chinchillas. She loves her career field because it is the foundation of the treatment facility, supporting providers and ensuring quality and safe patient care.
Pauline Tise, CPCS, CPMSM
Director of Provider Credentialing and Privileging
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Monica Martin, MA, CPCS
NAMSS Director at Large (California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Alaska)
Monica Martin is currently the Administrator of Central Nephrology Clinic, PLLC. She has over twenty-five years of experience in the Medical Services Profession. Originally from Texas, she has resided in the Jackson, MS Metropolitan area since 2017. She earned her B.S. in Speech Communication from the University of Texas at Austin and a M.A. in Organizational Management form the University of Phoenix. She received her CPCS Certification in 2009.
Ms. Martin is currently Director At Large for NAMSS and a former Board member with the Mississippi Association of Medical Staff Services and Texas Society of Medical Services Specialists. In addition, she served as an officer with the Greater Houston Society of Medical Services Specialists. In 2019, she received the NAMSS Joan Covell Carpenter Award for her published article “Taking the Leap” and has written subsequent articles “Experiencing the 2021 NAMSS State Leadership Conference” and “Still Taking the Leap: Growing as an MSP Leader”. She has presented at NAMSS, MAMSS and GHMSS. Ms. Martin is a member of True Vine Missionary Baptist Church in Brandon, MS, where she volunteers on the Intake Team and is leader of the Hospitality Ministry. She has been married to Fulton for 31 years and they are the parents of Callie who resides in Houston, TX.
Megan Carter, PESC
Provider Enrollment & Payor Contracts Manager
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC)
Megan has been with SEARHC since October 31, 2016. She oversees all individual practitioners and facility enrollments with contracted health insurance agencies for the Organization. Currently overseeing approximately 650 active enrollments (credentialed/non-credentialled) and managing facility enrollments in 27 Southeast Communities and continuing to grow. Megan is involved in multiple layers of the Revenue Cycle for SEARHC. Megan manages two full-time staff who assist with the day-to-day operations.
Megan was born and raised in Alaska, living in Juneau most of her life. She moved to Malta (Saratoga County) New York in 2006 and returned to Juneau in 2016. Megan did not have medical administrative experience when she accepted the position of Provider Enrollment Coordinator with SEARHC. Megan’s background has been in data analytics and contracts, with the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (10 years) and Research Analyst in the Grants Department for the Research Foundation of Suny Albany (9 years). Megan holds an associate degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Southeast Alaska, Juneau.
Megan keeps busy outside of work, enjoying the outdoors, hunting, fishing, hiking. Pretty handy with her compound bow and used to shoot competitively as well as participating in pistol league at the Juneau Hunter Education Shooting Complex. Instead of human children, she has two Arabian horses (Faith and Buddy), a chocolate lab (Remington) and 3 cats (Maisy, Caramel, Taffy) who keep her on the run daily.
Beth Korinek, MPH
Chief Executive Officer at CPEP
Beth has been with CPEP since 1993. Under her leadership, the program gained national recognition as one of the premier physician competence assessment and education programs in the U.S. Among her accomplishments, Ms. Korinek established the CPEP Physician Reentry Program in 2003, which has proven to be an invaluable resource for physicians returning to practice. She has spoken both nationally and internationally on the subject of physician competence and physician reentry. In recent years, she has presented at meetings sponsored by the Association of Medical Educators of Europe, Administrators in Medicine (2011, 2012), the American Association of Osteopathic Examiners (2012, 2013) and the Defense Research Institute (DRI) Seminar on Medical Liability and Health Care Law (2013). She has also presented to medical societies, medical staff services associations, and hospital executive leadership meetings.
Mary Ann Foland, MD
Dr. Foland is an award-winning family physician with a special interest in women’s care and helping patients with eating disorders or chemical dependencies. Regardless of her patients’ health issues, she enjoys caring for and getting to know them over time. Dr. Foland is also the Medical Director of the Physician Health Committee of Alaska which operates programs that monitor substance use, mental health and behavioral health problems for MDs, DOs and Physican Assistants.
Jason Kaeser
Licensing Supervisor
State Medical Board
Dustin Jackson, MHA, CPCS, CPMSM
Dustin Jackson has over 14 years’ experience in Medical Staff Services, currently working as System Director, Medical Staff Services at MultiCare Health System based in Tacoma, WA. Dustin received his master’s degree in health administration from Missouri State University and is certified as CPCS and CPMSM through NAMSS. Dustin serves as Immediate-Past President of the Missouri Association of Medical Staff Services and serves on the Education Committee for NAMSS. Dustin has previously served on the Membership Committee and the Leadership Selection Committee for NAMSS.
Pam Ventgen
Executive Director of the Alaska State Medical Association (ASMA)
Pam has been working in the Anchorage medical community for over 50 years. She began her Alaska career at Anchorage Community Hospital many years ago. She then moved to private medical practice management working in general surgery, cardiology, OB/GYN and family practice. From there she was hired as the first executive administrator for the Alaska State Medical Board and spent five years supporting the medical board. Following her term with the board she worked as committee support at ASMA before joining the University of Alaska as a professor in the medical assisting program.
When Pam retired from the university, she was contacted by Dr. Mary Ann Foland who asked her to join the Physician Health Committee (PHC) as committee coordinator. The purpose of the PHC is to provide resources and facilitation for physicians whose functioning may be impaired due to alcoholism and /or drug abuse, or other emotional and cognitive impairments, to receive assistance and thereby restore their function. During the last two years ASMA’s PHC has seen a three-fold increase in the number of physicians in monitored recovery. Most of these are voluntary participants, a few are mandated to the PHC by the State Medical Board.
The value of the PHC is unquestioned. Without ASMA the PHC couldn’t exist. Pam’s commitment to the PHC and ASMA made her the logical choice to step in and serve as Executive Director when the position opened during COVID. In addition to the PHC, much of her time is focused on a variety of legislation to help physicians care for their patients.