Don Leedy is Chairman of the Board of PIM and is Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Fox Chase Cancer Center. As the COO of Fox Chase, he works directly with the CEO and Board and has responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the cancer center. He also holds leadership positions in several national cancer center organizations.
Prior to joining Fox Chase in 1971, Don worked for a public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers). During his 37 years at Fox Chase, he held several different positions including CFO for twenty years. He was promoted to COO in 2000.
Don holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Mount St. Mary’s College and an M.B.A. from Drexel University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Leonard Karp is the President and CEO of Philadelphia International Medicine and its hospital consulting and management subsidiary, PIM-MD. He is a two-decade veteran of the U.S. healthcare industry.
At Philadelphia International Medicine (PIM), Mr. Karp leads an organization whose goal is to establish the Philadelphia region as an international healthcare destination of choice. PIM is seen as an economic development initiative and works closely with city, state and federal commerce departments.
This unique hospital marketing and management company is owned by some of the most prestigious hospitals in the United States including The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Pennsylvania Hospital, Temple University Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
PIM and PIM-MD have three product lines – the care of international patients at Philadelphia area hospitals; training and continuing education of health care professionals from around the world; and management and consulting services to international hospitals and health agencies.
PIM patients have contributed about $135 million to the Philadelphia economy, while its training and continuing education events utilize faculty from its university medical centers to explain the latest in medical techniques and research. PIM organizes clinical training for physicians, advanced training for nurses, and MBA-like training for international hospital administrators.
Through PIM-MD, the organization has planned new hospital projects in Korea and the Caribbean. Consulting projects are customized to meet the clients needs, and have ranged from a feasibility study for an international hospital in Asia to a master plan for a hospital in the tropics. PIM-MD is seeking joint ventures to plan, design and manage hospitals in China.
Mr. Karp is also an international trade advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as a member of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Services. He is a co-founder of Greater Philadelphia Global Partners, a regional organization to promote global trade in the Philadelphia area. He has spoken on international health care to audiences in Korea, Abu Dhabi and throughout the United States.
Michael Dandorph is the Senior Vice President for Business Development at the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS). As a member of the health system's senior leadership team, he has responsibility for all business development functions for the $3 billion enterprise, including strategic planning, new program development, service line management, marketing, managed care contracting and provider network affiliations.
Joining UPHS in 1996, Michael has led several major system-wide organizational redesign and operational improvement initiatives, and was responsible for well over $200 million in top-line revenue growth as part of a financial resurgence since the system announced a loss of $300M on operations from 1999 to 2000. During the past few years, Mike has dramatically improved third-party payer rates, negotiated the sale of Phoenixville Hospital for $100M, led the business planning for the Robert's Proton Therapy Center, established a joint venture to acquire Chestnut Hill Hospital and most recently, led the acquisition of Graduate hospital and formation of a joint venture to develop comprehensive post-acute care services to UPIIS' patients.
Prior to joining the UPHS, as the Director of Provider Network Development at First Option Health Plan, a provider owned HMO based in New Jersey. He also spent several years at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey were he co-developed the hospital's "Sports Institute" - a successful community outreach and orthopedic development program within the hospital's physical therapy department.
Michael received his undergraduate degree in Physical Therapy / Sports Medicine from William Paterson University and his MBA from Cornell University.
After graduating with a degree in medicine in 1974 from Mosul Medical College in Iraq, Dr. Nawal Khafaji did her residency at Baghdad University Hospital. In 1975 she served as a family practitioner in the rural areas surrounding Baghdad as part of the obligatory government program for all medical residents. It was the first of many forays into Iraqi cities and the Iraqi countryside, where her concerns for public health led to a general surgical practice that ministered to a population in urgent need of medical care and attention.
Her intense love of children led her to choose pediatrics as her specialty and she completed the three-year residency program in Pediatrics at Tahawra Pediatric Hospital, in Baghdad. In 1978 Dr. Khafaji was appointed as an attending physician at Basrah University Hospital, specializing in the treatment of children with blood disorders, malaria, gastroenteritis and severe dehydration. She later pursued opportunities for further pediatric studies in both London and Dublin, Ireland.
In 1979 Dr. Khafaji moved to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, where she spent twelve years working in neonatal intensive care, as a clinical neonatologist managing patients requiring critical and transitional care, and high-risk deliveries. Finally, in 1992, her studies took her to the United States. At Bryn Mawr Hospital in Pennsylvania she spent two years in the neonatal ICU. During her ensuing years in the U.S. she gave up practicing medicine to raise her two young children. Throughout the years, she assisted in several private family practices as a way to keep in touch with the medical field.
In 1999 Dr. Nawal Khafaji joined the staff of Philadelphia International Medicine, a healthcare organization that provides medical services to international patients and educational and training services and management consulting services to international health care professionals worldwide. As the organization’s Vice President for Patient Care Services, Dr. Khafaji ministers to the needs of the international community, participating in the management of foreign patient cases. She also works to create international awareness of the Philadelphia Region’s great healthcare resources and is part of a team that develops educational, training and consulting services offered worldwide.
Thomas J. Lewis is the President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.; the Vice Chair of Jefferson University Physicians; and a Member of the Management Team of the Jefferson Health System®. Mr. Lewis has held a number of previous positions at Jefferson from 1977 to today, including Director of Planning, 1982 to 1984; Associate Hospital Director, 1984 to 1989; Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, 1989 to 1990; Chief Executive Officer, 1990 to 1995; and President and Chief Executive Officer, 1995 to present.
Mr. Lewis is also a Board Member of several other organizations, including the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), Magee Rehabilitation, The Food Trust, and Beneficial Savings Bank.
Mr. Lewis received his BA from Bucknell University in 1974, MHA from Duke University in 1976, and was an Administrative Resident at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in 1976.
Tom Todorow is the Executive Vice President for Corporate Services and Systems and Chief Financial Officer at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In this role, he oversees Finance, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Billing Operations, Treasury, Managed Care Contracting, Supply Chain, Facilities Real Estate & Construction and Investment.
Prior to joining CHOP in 2001, Tom was Vice President of Finance and later Chief Financial Officer of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. In his career, Tom has worked with several health care start-up ventures, JP Morgan’s health care investment banking group, the Fox Chase Cancer Center and in public accounting.
Tom holds a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Drexel University and has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul Walker is a senior healthcare executive currently serving as Director, Business Development-Office of the President, for Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Temple Health System currently consists of four hospitals totaling 1120 inpatient beds; Temple Physicians, Inc employing some 125 physicians; and Temple Transport Company with three ambulances and helicopter air service. Mr. Walker works in developing and coordinating business development initiatives both within the Health System and with the 400 Chairs and Faculty of the Temple University School of Medicine.
Prior to this role, Mr. Walker was a hospital Chief Executive Officer in numerous markets including Philadelphia, Miami, West Palm Beach, Charlotte and Birmingham. During his 28 year career in hospitals he has spent much of that time in hospital turn- arounds including serving as VP of Operations for Tenet Philadelphia post bankruptcy of the Allegheny Healthcare System-an eight hospital system.
Mr. Walker has, and is, an active member of community groups and Boards, as well as professional associations too numerous to mention. He is married to. Rosemary Vickers, D.O., proprietor of City Line Pediatrics in Philadelphia, and Chair of Pediatrics at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.