Jim Hinton has been with Presbyterian since 1983 and has the distinction of being New Mexico's longest tenured healthcare CEO. He serves as a member of the Presbyterian Board of Directors and also serves as the chairman for the Presbyterian Health Plan Board of Directors.

Mr. Hinton has served as chair of the Governor's task force for health care reform and served on the Insure New Mexico Council. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Foundation Open Government Freedom of Speech award. Leadership Albuquerque selected him as "Outstanding Leader" in 2002 and The Health Care Forum named Mr. Hinton "One of the Nation's Four Emerging Leaders" in 1993.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Economics from the University of New Mexico, and his Master's in Health Care Administration from Arizona State University.

He served as Chief Operating Officer of PHS from 1992 to 1995, when he became CEO.

David Scrase, M.D., joined Presbyterian Health Plan in 1998 as medical director later the same year was named health plan president. He continues to practice internal medicine and geriatrics with Presbyterian Medical Group.

His career has included significant leadership roles in hospital administration, primary care medical group management, a physician hospital organization, and in managed care.

He received his undergraduate, Medical, and Master's in Health Administration degrees from the University of Michigan.

Paul Briggs joined Presbyterian in early 2005 from Via Christi Regional Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, a five-hospital not-for-profit network.

He has more than two decades of experience in healthcare finance, serving in senior leadership roles in not-for-profit hospital systems, integrated delivery systems, and health plans.

He earned a master of accountancy from Brigham Young University and is a certified public accountant.

Diane Fisher, Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Diane Fisher joined Presbyterian in 2002.

After graduating from Stanford University and the University of New Mexico School of Law, Ms. Fisher practiced law in several venues, focusing on healthcare issues including organization, licensure, healthcare contracting and state and federal legislative and regulatory issues.

She was the General Counsel for the New Mexico Department of Health and was in private practice in Albuquerque just prior to joining Presbyterian.

She is licensed to practice law in New Mexico and Colorado and before the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the Order of the Coif and the American Health Lawyers Association.

Peter Snow, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning Services

Peter Snow is responsible for strategic development for Presbyterian.

He has his Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago, and has an extensive consulting background with Herman Smith and Associates and Booz, Allen, and Hamilton.

Before starting a career in health care, he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Brazil from 1969 through 1972.

Mr. Snow joined Presbyterian in 1983 and has subsequently developed and fine-tuned the Presbyterian strategic planning process leading to the organization's program model and its two major business unit expansions: Presbyterian Medical Group and Presbyterian Health Plan.

He participated on the teams involved in the development of the organization's product for Salud (the state's managed care program for Medicaid recipients) and the acquisitions of FHP and the Talbert Medical Group.

Joe Calvaruso, Senior Vice President and Performance Acceleration Officer

Joe Calvaruso leads operating performance in quality, patient safety, and community health improvement.

Mr. Calvaruso joined Presbyterian from Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, OH where he served as president and CEO for eight years. Mr. Calvaruso is credited with guiding Mount Carmel Health System to achieving significant accomplishments. In 2005, Mount Carmel Health System achieved the International Spirit at Work recognition as one of the only ten organizations worldwide and in 2003, received Solucient Top 100 recognition in orthopedics.

Mr. Calvaruso received his master's degree in business administration and his bachelor's of science in economics from the University of Akron in Akron, OH and attended the executive program in health care management from Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

Michelle Campbell, Vice President Communications and Marketing

Michelle Campbell leads a team of employed and agency professionals who provide the system and business units with marketing strategies and programs that cause customers to select Presbyterian products and services.

Ms. Campbell also facilitates Presbyterian's public policy program and government relations activities.

Ms. Campbell came to Presbyterian in 1994 with over 16 years of experience in communications and marketing. Since then, her team has grown in scope and depth, parallel with the expanding needs and complexity of the system and business units.

Zizi Fritz, Vice President and Executive Director Foundation

Zizi Fritz spearheads a volunteer board of over 50 members and oversees a staff of 11, conducting major fund-raising campaigns and a variety of community events.

She is also responsible for Volunteer Services and Chaplaincy Services.

She came to the Foundation with over seven years of experience as the Market General Manager for The Alderwood Group, which operates funeral homes and cemeteries in New Mexico and Texas. Before that she served as General Manager of an assisted living facility in Lubbock, Texas, and was vice president of Trust Company of New Mexico.

She has served as president of Rotary Club of Albuquerque, is past president of the local chapter of Toastmasters, and is on a number of other community boards.

Ms. Fritz earned her BA from Stephens College of Business Management in Missouri and also has taken specialty training in accounting, business and law.

J.J. Parsons, Vice President, Quality and Business Development

J.J. Parsons is responsible for improving the value and quality of services for patients and customers at Presbyterian.

She also oversees the Albuquerque Delivery System strategic planning process, business development activities, the Quality Improvement Center, Safety, Infection Control, Senior Services, and the organization's market research function.

Ms. Parsons facilitates the PHS Quality Council, provides support to the PHS Board Quality Committee, and will support the system effort to achieve the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Ms. Parsons has been with Presbyterian since 1984 and previously served as the Vice President of Network Marketing and worked a number of years at the Health Plan.

Ms. Parsons graduated from Ohio University with a Bachelors of Science with honors in Journalism, and is a graduate of the IHC Advanced Training Program in Healthcare Delivery Improvement. She also received quality training at the Juran Institute.

Jackson R. Ellison, Vice President Corporate Compliance

Jackson Ellison joined PHS in 1993 as Executive Director of Presbyterian Physician Resources. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, Robert O. Anderson School of Business & Administrative Sciences, B.B.A., 1969.

Prior to joining PHS, Mr. Ellison served as the Executive Director of Radiology Associates of Albuquerque, PA. He is the former President of the New Mexico Chapter of the Medical Group Management Association.

Mr. Ellison served as the Administrative Director for PHS-A Ancillary Services from 1995-1998, and served on the Board of Directors for the Reference Laboratories, Affiliated Imaging Associates, and Southwest Magnetic Imaging Associates.

He assumed PHS Corporate Compliance Officer duties in late 1998. Mr. Ellison is responsible for corporate business ethics and regulatory compliance.