With a background that spans more than seventeen years of experience in healthcare, supply chain and technology sales, operations and consulting, Christopher Parks established change:healthcare in 2006 and serves today as the company’s CEO.
He began his career as a Program Manager for disease management firm Healthways, where he led the start-up and management of two inpatient/outpatient hospital-based chronic disease clinics. Following a successful four years there, he became a senior consultant at HealthCare Microsystems, responsible for the company’s business with HCA. Later, as Regional Director of Operations for National Seating & Mobility, he increased same store sales and total market revenues and oversaw the Kaiser southern California seating & positioning capitated agreement. His most recent position was with Global Healthcare Exchange (previously Neoforma), a billion dollar healthcare technology and services organization, where he held a series of national services and sales positions.
He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University.
Robert Hendrick is co-founder of change:healthcare and leads the team as chief operations officer (COO).
He launched his career as an entrepreneurial executive in 1992, co-founding Creative Syndicate, the first interactive design agency in middle Tennessee. The firm later merged with Edge Internet Services to become EdgeNet Media. While at that company, Hendrick was chief marketing officer overseeing product development and acquisition growth involving some of the region’s marquis brands. He later co-founded IncLabs to support new companies within the technology and healthcare industries in the early stages of their growth.
Hendrick is a published author of historical fiction and sits on the board of Houston, TX-based Controlled Healthcare and the Mid-South Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Auburn University and a Masters degree from The Ohio State University, through which he also held a one-year foreign fellowship at the University of Bonn in Bonn, Germany.
Click here to read a short interview with Robert about My Healthcare is Killing Me.
Katrina Welty has worked at change:healthcare as a project manager almost since the company’s inception. Her role encompasses everything from implementing new client relationships to website content to supporting the research, sales and marketing functions of the budding healthcare company.
She played a particularly critical part with My Healthcare is Killing Me, having steered all aspects of its production, in addition to contributing a portion of its content.
Over the last five years she has worked in various fundraising campaigns and held intern positions with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the American Cancer Society. Welty is a cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University with an emphasis in Medicine, Health and Society – an interdisciplinary major that fueled her interest in the American healthcare system, the uninsured, and basic consumer healthcare education.
