George D. Pozgar, MBA, CHE

George Pozgar received his Bachelor of Arts from the United College of Gordon and Barrington in Wenham, MA, and his Master of Business Administration in Health Care Administration from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.   Mr. Pozgar is presently a surveyor for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and has surveyed more than 700 hospitals across the nation. He served as Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Episcopal Health Services in Hempstead, New York; Administrator at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Smithtown, New York; Assistant Administrator at Huntington Hospital in Huntington, New York; Administrative Resident at Baptist Memorial Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida; Administrative Clerk at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.; and Research Assistant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton Management Consultants in Washington, D.C.

Nina Santucci, JD - Legal Review
Nina M. Santucci, JD, a graduate of the Jacob Fuchsburg School of Law, is presently General Counsel of the Windermere Group in Annapolis, Md. Prior to this position Ms. Santucci was the General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Program. In that capacity, Ms. Santucci also served as the designated ethics official. She went to the Justice Department from the Suffolk County, New York, District Attorney's Office where she served as Bureau Chief of White Collar Crime and as Deputy Bureau Chief in Family Crime. Those roles provided her with extensive investigative and prosecutorial experience in the areas of: child abuse; large scale embezzlements; and, complex computer and business crimes and scams. Moreover, she has dealt extensively with frauds perpetrated against health care providers and insurance companies. Her comprehensive background includes more than 12 years of teaching in the classroom setting. She was spokesperson of the Suffolk County Anti-Welfare Fraud Strike Force and chaired a state task force on elder abuse. In that capacity she drafted a bill that would make any financial exploitation or physical abuse of a vulnerable adult a criminal offense. She has lectured on that topic to senior citizen groups, the general public, and to state and local officials, in addition to giving keynote addresses at a variety of national conferences. She has written in the areas of health law, identity theft, computer crime, corporate governance, and business ethics.