Mr Peter Fine was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Arizona-based Banner Health in November 2000. Banner Health is one of the largest secular, nonprofit healthcare organisations in the U.S., operating 28 hospitals and other services in seven states. Banner employs more than 46,000 people, has more than US$5.3 billion dollars in revenue and is Arizona’s largest private employer.

Prior to his appointment, he was Executive Vice President and CEO of Aurora Health Care, a large integrated system serving all of eastern Wisconsin. Before joining Aurora, Mr Fine was President and CEO of Grant Hospital, Chicago and Senior Vice President of Operations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, as well as Assistant Administrator of Porter Memorial Hospital in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Mr Fine received his Bachelor’s degree from Ohio University and his Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from George Washington University. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and previously served as a member of their Board of Governors.

A number of prestigious organisations have honoured Mr Fine, including Modern Healthcare and HIMSS with the 2010 CEO IT Achievement Award, Phoenix Business Journal with the Most Admired CEO Award 2010, and Arizona Business Magazine with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 and Healthcare Leadership Award in 2010.

Synopsis - Complexity, Reliability And Their Roles In Healthcare Delivery Today
A brief review will be presented describing the growing complexity in health care delivery and the need for the application of high-reliability principles to assure patient safety and clinical efficiency.  How Banner Health has organized to achieve the deployment of these principles and some review of sustained clinical change will be outlined.

Synopsis - From Taxi Driver To Healthcare System CEO - A Personal Journey
Careers develop along different pathways and an executive’s skills and style are influenced by the collective interaction with mentors. In addition, an executives approach to leadership development can be formulated by early roles, within the profession and outside the profession, as they observe how people solve problems. This session will outline the career of a senior healthcare executive and how early work activities and professional career positions influenced his development and enabled his ability to advance his career successfully.

Synopsis - Talent Management - A Key Strategic Investment
Once an organization determines its strategy, it must then be structured well to execute that strategy.  Further, it must be constantly staffed at the top with the right talent year after year. This will require adjusting that talent on a regular basis. This ‘adjusting’ is called Talent Management: ensuring the right talent is in the right place, at the right time, in the right amount and with the right motivation. And to be successful, this work must have the active sponsorship of the Chief Executive. This presentation will share a successful Talent Management approach, describing how one Chief Executive provides the Board of Directors assurance of the continuity of leadership talent required to deliver results year after year.