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Leif Murphy
President and Chief Executive Officer |
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Mr. Murphy is the President and Chief Executive Officer of DSI.
Prior to joining DSI, Mr. Murphy was the SVP Finance of CVS Caremark, Inc., an $85 billion provider of prescriptions and related health services. Mr. Murphy was responsible for financial operations in Caremark’s specialty pharmacy, industry relations, disease management and pharmacy services functions.
Mr. Murphy also served as Caremark’s Treasurer. |
Mr. Murphy has had extensive experience in the dialysis industry where he has held executive positions at Renal Care Group (RCG) and National Nephrology Associates (NNA).
At RCG, Mr. Murphy was SVP Finance and Development, responsible for corporate finance, treasury, managed care and corporate development.
At NNA, Mr. Murphy served as EVP, CFO and Corporate Secretary. Mr. Murphy has an MBA from The College of William and Mary and a BA from Furman University.
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M. Stephen Harrison
Executive Vice President - Chief Development Officer |
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Mr. Harrison is a 35 year veteran of the healthcare services industry. He was responsible for founding Community Dialysis Clinics in the mid-1970s, which ultimately was transformed into Vivra, a New York Stock Exchnge company, and finally acquired by Gambro. While at Vivra, the company grew from 4 dialysis clinics to 36 clinics.
In the early 1980s he formed a privately held dialysis company, and in 1990 came to REN Corporation USA as the head of new business development.
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At REN, he grew the company from 15 dialysis clinics to over 70 clinics. In 1998 he was a co-founder with Dr. Tannenbaum of National Nephrology Associates. While there, he grew the company from startup, with no dialysis clinics to 85 clinics.
Over the years Mr. Harrison has spearheaded the development of over 200 alternate site therapy locations, mostly in the areas of chronic and acute dialysis. His responsibilities included medical director negotiation, site selection, construction management, provider-payer relations, and licensing and regulatory. |
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Judy W. Lefkovitz
Executive Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer |
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Mrs. Lefkovitz, who received a Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University and a Master of Science degree from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has over 25 years experience in business systems and data processing.
Most recently, she was executive vice president and general manager for IMRAC Corporation, an IT affiliate of National Nephrology Associates.
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At IMRAC, she oversaw operations, human resources, sales, marketing, customer service, contract billing services, HIPAA compliance and program development. While there, she was responsible for information technology functions used by all the facilities owned or operated by National Nephrology Associates.
These systems include a fully integrated electronic medical record, a physician order entry system, centralized perpetual inventory control, centralized risk management, laboratory systems for each facility, centralized asset tracking, automated drug dispensing, centralized automated purchasing, centralized payable processing, centralized payroll processing and employee benefits management, centralized billing and collections, multi-facility and multi-department general ledger, clinical quality assurance and automated staff assignment scheduling.
National Nephrology’s home office systems managed the procurement and delivery of approximately 25,000,000 supply items per year for almost 1,000,000 outpatient dialysis visits and 40,000 in hospital, critical care unit dialysis treatments per year.
In addition, these systems managed the collection and government reporting of the quality assurance and medical data on each of these treatments, the procurement and administration of over 4 million intravenous drug infusions per year, and the procurement and reporting, including critical value alerting, of over 7,000,000 laboratory studies per year. The registration, discharge, and transfer activities involving these patients, and interaction with the representatives of various managed care entities who contracted for services with NNA, nationwide, were under the general direction of Mrs. Lefkovitz. |
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Jay A. Yalowitz
Executive Vice President – General Counsel
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Prior to joining DSI Holding Company as General Counsel, Mr. Yalowitz was in private practice in Chicago for almost 15 years, as a partner with McGuireWoods and prior to that, Ross & Hardies. Mr. Yalowitz represented health care providers including dialysis facilities, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices and ancillary providers in a wide range of matters including mergers and acquisitions, regulatory matters and corporate matters.
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Mr. Yalowitz received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
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