Katharine Winograd, PhD

Vickie Fisher, CPA

Vickie Fisher is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The International Cat Association, Inc.  She previously served as Deputy Chief Administrative Officer with the City of Albuquerque and has held executive positions in a legal firm and a national insurance company.  Other positions included Bernalillo County Manager and Cabinet Secretary for the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department.

Ms. Fisher received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from California State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.  She chairs the PHS Board Compliance and Audit Committee.

Jim Hinton

Jim Hinton has been with Presbyterian since 1983 and has the distinction of being New Mexico’s longest tenured healthcare CEO.  As President and CEO of Presbyterian Healthcare Services since July of 1995, Mr. Hinton has been recognized both locally and nationally for his exceptional leadership.

His most recent leadership accomplishments include chairmanships and board roles of the TriCore Reference Laboratories, Albuquerque Economic Development, Albuquerque Economic Forum, United Way of Central New Mexico, New Mexico First, Association of Commerce & Industry, and Acción New Mexico. Mr. Hinton is past chair of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and served on their board of directors for more than ten years.  He also serves on the Boards of Premier, Inc. and Healthcare Institute.

Mr. Hinton has served as chair of the Governor’s task force for health care reform and served on the Insure New Mexico Council.
 
Prior to joining Presbyterian, Mr. Hinton received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the University of New Mexico and his master’s of Health Care Administration from Arizona State University in 1983.  He chairs the Presbyterian Health Plan Board of Directors.
 

George Isham, MD, MS

Dr. Isham is the Chief Health Officer and Plan Medical Director for HealthPartners in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He is a founding board member of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, past board member of the American's Health Insurance Plans, and currently serves on the board of the Alliance of Community Health Plans.

In 2003, Dr. Isham was appointed as a Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies of Science in recognition of his contributions to the work of the Institute of Medicine.

Dr. Isham received his bachelor's degree in Zoology, master's degree in Preventive Medicine/Administrative Medicine from the University of Wisconsin Madison and his medicine degree from the University of Illinois.  He completed his internship and residence in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin.
 

Charles Milligan

Charles Milligan was appointed deputy secretary for health care financing at the Maryland Department of Health in March 2011. In this role, he administers the state's Medicaid program and serves as the department's overall operational lead on health care reform efforts in areas that include the development of the Exchange in Maryland, workforce and delivery system capacity building, and payment reform.

From 2004 to 2011, Mr. Milligan was executive director of The Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Mr. Milligan guided Hilltop's work with the Maryland Medicaid program, the New Mexico Medicaid program, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, other state and local agencies, and private foundations. During his tenure at UMBC, Hilltop established a national reputation for objective and unbiased analysis of publicly funded health care systems, and served as the sole external consultant to the Congressional Medicaid Reform Task Force.

Before joining Hilltop, Mr. Milligan was vice president at The Lewin Group where he provided consulting services to 20 separate states primarily involving the Medicaid program, public purchasing pools, and performance measurement in publicly-financed health care. Prior to that, he was Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance program director for the state of New Mexico and practiced health care law earlier in his career.

Mr. Milligan holds a juris doctor from Harvard Law School, a master's in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, and a bachelor's in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame. 

M. Ries Robinson, MD

Dr. Ries Robinson initiated research into noninvasive blood chemistry monitoring in collaboration with the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Sandia National Laboratories in 1988.  He has co-authored in excess of 30 United States patents and has authored several peer-reviewed technical articles, received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the New Mexico Inventor of the Year Program in 1992, and was named the New Mexico Inventor of the Year in 1994. 

Dr. Robinson completed a post-doctoral research fellowship with a joint research appointment at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.  He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer and director of VeraLight, Inc., the Chairman of the Board for InLight Solutions, Inc. and as a director for Lumidigm.

He holds a medical degree from the University New Mexico School of Medicine and master's and bachelor's of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Sandra Taylor-Sawyer, Ed.D, PhD

Sandra Taylor-Sawyer, Ed.D, PhD is currently the Director of Clovis Community College-Small Business Development Center. She is responsible for the management of all programs and services to provide individual advising and to assist clients and organizations with business development. In her role as Director, Dr. Taylor-Sawyer also works with local, regional, state and national organizations on programs related to the creation and expansion of the local economic business base.

She is a native New Mexican from Clovis who received both her bachelor's degree and master's degree in Business Administration from Eastern New Mexico University. She went on to earn a doctorate of education in Community College Leadership from New Mexico State University.  Ms. Taylor-Sawyer chairs the PHS Board Governance Committee.

Jennifer Thomas

Jennifer Thomas is Chairman and CEO of Bank of Albuquerque.  She joined Bank of Albuquerque in 2003 and was promoted to President in April 2008.  Prior to becoming president, she was Executive Vice President and market executive for Bank of Albuquerque’s Wealth Management Group.

Ms. Thomas has more than 25 years of banking experience.  Her extensive background includes experience in commercial and real estate lending, credit administration and trust management.
She is a graduate of Texas Tech University and the Oklahoma Graduate School of Banking and received her master’s degree in business administration from West Texas A&M. 

She is a member of the board of directors for Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, Albuquerque Economic Development, Economic Forum, Albuquerque Community Foundation and United Way of Central New Mexico.  She is also a member of the Kirtland Partnership Committee.   Ms. Thomas was chair of the 2010 Samaritan Counseling Center’s Ethics in Business Awards and was a past board member of CNM Foundation and advisory committee chair for the Center for Non-Profit Excellence.

She is a graduate of Leadership Albuquerque and Leadership New Mexico and is a past member of the Rotary Club of Albuquerque.  Ms. Thomas was the recipient of the 2001 YWCA Women on the Move award, was honored by the New Mexico Business Weekly as a Woman of Influence, was recognized as a Top Performing CEO in 2010 and is an alumnus of the New Mexico Power Brokers.