Tom Florence
Tom Florence serves as Executive Vice President of Recruiting for Merritt, Hawkins, the leading physician search and consulting firm in the United States and a company of AMN Healthcare (NYSE: AMN), the nation’s largest health care staffing organization. Mr. Florence is a seasoned physician staffing executive with over 15 years of experience in the field. Mr. Florence has personally conducted or supervised hundreds of physician and advanced allied health professional search assignments nationwide.
Mr. Florence’s areas of expertise include all strategic and operational issues pertaining to the recruitment of both physicians and allied health care professionals, including search strategies, physician and allied needs assessment, incentives, contracts, candidate sourcing, interviewing and retention. In addition, Mr. Florence is responsible for the management of the nation’s largest resource of physician recruiting consultants. Mr. Florence attended Indiana University and resides in Dallas, Texas.
Phillip Miller
Phillip Miller serves as Vice President of Communications for Merritt Hawkins and Staff Care, companies of AMN Healthcare, the largest healthcare staffing organization in the United States. Mr. Miller has over 30 years of experience in corporate communications and public relations, including over 29 years with Merritt Hawkins.
Mr. Miller is a highly regarded commentator on healthcare staffing trends and has authored or co-authored dozens of articles on health care staffing issues for numerous journals, including Health Affairs. He is the author or co-author of four books, including: Will the Last Physician in America Please Turn Off the Lights? A Look at America’s Looming Doctor Shortage. Mr. Miller also is the author of Merritt Hawkins’ Guide to Physician Recruiting and Have Stethoscope, Will Travel, Staff Care’s Guide to Locum Tenen, the leading works on permanent physician recruiting and temporary physician staffing. Mr. Miller’s most recent book, In Their Own Words: 12,000 Physicians Reveal Their Thoughts on Medical Practice in America, examines the morale crisis in the medical profession and is available through Amazon.com or all major book stores.
Mr. Miller is the lead author of a number of national surveys and white papers, including Health Reform and the Decline of Physician Private Practice, a major white paper completed by Merritt Hawkins on behalf of The Physicians Foundation, a non-profit, grant-making organization comprised of 20 state and regional medical societies. Mr. Miller is the lead analyst and author of A Survey of America’s Physicians: Practice Patterns and Perspectives, of one of the largest physician surveys conducted in the United States which is commissioned biennially by The Physicians Foundation. Mr. Miller also is the lead analyst and author of survey reports completed by Merritt Hawkins on behalf of The Indian Health Service, Trinity University’s Department of Healthcare Administration, the American Academy of Physician Assistants and other organizations.
With over 30 years of experience as a corporate spokesperson, Mr. Miller has been cited by The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, USA Today, People magazine, Hospitals & Health Networks, Modern Healthcare and many other general interest and health care media outlets and has addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Mr. Miller is the originator of the Country Doctor of the Year Award (
www.countrydoctoraward.com) and a key organizer of the University of Pennsylvania-based Council on Physician and Nurse Supply (
www.physiciannursesupply.com)
Kurt Mosley
Kurt Mosley serves as Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Merritt Hawkins and Staff Care, companies of AMN Healthcare, the innovator in healthcare workforce solutions. With over 25 years of health care staffing experience, Mr. Mosley is one of the nation’s leading authorities on medical staffing trends and has been cited for his expertise in numerous publications, including USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Modern Healthcare, Hospitals & Health Networks, HealthLeaders, Medical Economics and many others and has been heard on XM Radio’s “Reach M.D.” program. A regular columnist for the noted recruiting web site RecruitingTrends.com, Mr. Mosley served on The Council on Physician and Nurse Supply, a group of health care experts based at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to finding solutions to the shortage of nurses and physicians. Mr. Mosley served as Contributing Editor to Merritt Hawkins’ highly regarded book “Will the Last Physician in America Please Turn off the Lights,” and was an expert adviser to the Health Care Advisory Board’s white paper “Transforming Primary Care.” In addition, Mr. Mosley has keynoted healthcare staffing roundtables for the U.S. Army and for the American Society of Healthcare Journalists. Mr. Mosley was selected as the keynote speaker for the 2012 annual meeting of State Hospital Executives Forum, an organization of all 50 state hospital association presidents as well as the president of the American Hospital Association. A nationally noted speaker, Mr. Mosley has addressed over 70 healthcare professional organizations over the last two years reaching over 5,000 industry leaders. A graduate of California State University, Fullerton, Mr. Mosley spent several years in professional baseball and now resides in Dallas, Texas.