Jared Leger has broad experience with healthcare services transactions, start-up, transitions, and ongoing management. Jared started his healthcare career as a licensed Registered Nurse in the Operating Room. Jared quickly moved into the business side of healthcare with a successful career in the medical-device industry, growing a regional territory and developing physician relationships.

Jared has always enjoyed the business side of healthcare. This has allowed him to focus on developing ancillary income for physicians as well as Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) and ASC management. Jared holds a Registered Nurse license and is CASC certified. This has allowed Jared to fully understand both the clinical and business aspects of healthcare management.

Jared has a proven track record of successful healthcare ventures. Jared has syndicated and operated multiple physician-owned surgery centers. Jared has been involved with equity-based corporate ASC transactions as well as ASC development. Jared has successfully re-syndicated and turned-around underperforming healthcare facilities. He also has experience in developing and syndicating successful physician-owned Functional Restoration Programs and Physical Therapy programs. He was previously a partner in a privately held healthcare management company. He also currently owns a real estate investment company based out of Austin, Texas.

Jared holds family and faith as top priorities. He is married and has three daughters who keep him extremely active. He enjoys outdoor activities and travel with his family.

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Bruce Johnson's experience in the HC field is broad and spans twenty- plus (20+) years, twelve (12) of which are in the Ambulatory Services field.  In the 1990s, Bruce developed the physical therapy division of HealthSouth in Austin, Texas and was promoted quickly to oversee the development of HealthSouth’s Diagnostic and Surgery Divisions of Central Texas. In 2002, Bruce was promoted to focus exclusively on its ASC division and had responsibility in Texas, New Mexico, Louisianna, and Arizona for Surgery Development. While with Surgical Care Affiliates, Bruce successfully re-syndicated ASCs in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Bruce has an impressive track record and is responsible for ASC syndications, re-syndications, surgeon retention, and surgeon recruitment.

He combined these talents with a tenacious desire to form a deal and has proved vital in the formation of physician partnerships. Bruce has a talent for recruiting surgeons and ensures the partnership has the synergistic mix needed for achieving a bottom line that's successful.

Shares in an ASC are securities which are regulated by the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). As a Registered Representative with the SEC, Bruce works with physicians interested in ownership with Arise Healthcare's ASCs.

He also has oversight responsibility for the individual marketing needs of ASC partnerships. Bruce ensures volume retention, same-store growth, and physician satisfaction. Bruce also played a key role in retooling operations, which was critical to the successful turnaround of our Albuquerque facility.

Bruce has lobbied for ASC legislation as well as other legislation in Austin, Texas; Washington, DC; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bruce's political background includes time in the Texas legislature, both House and Senate, as well as working for the Republican party of Texas.

Bruce is passionate about his faith, his family, and his work. He is married with one daughter.

Dr. Wills graduated from the University of Texas with a BS,and then attended Southwestern Medical School where he received a medical degree. He completed a three-year surgical residency at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and a residency in anesthesiology with Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, a program which is recognized widely for pain management training and regional anesthesia.

He began practicing pain management and anesthesiology in Austin in 1996, and in May 2002 he founded Austin Pain Associates (www.AustinPainAssociates.com) to further his goal of treating patients suffering from chronic pain syndromes in an interdisciplinary, comprehensive clinic.

In addition to Dr. Wills’s expertise in managing and setting up a multimillion-dollar ASC that focuses on pain, he also plays a vital role in the successful start-up and syndication of physician-owned Functional Restoration Programs.

Dr. Wills has produced several successful businesses, Many involve real estate ventures he spearheaded personally. He has firsthand experience in the capital requirements necessary to get a start-up off the ground.

Dr. Wills has four children and is married. Two of his children are twins. Active in church, he enjoys outdoor family activities and boating.

Marcena Sorrels, CPA, CMPE

Chief Financial Officer

Marcena Sorrels is a Certified Public Accountant with a long history in healthcare administration.  Having started in public accounting, she found she had an affinity for working with physician clients.  She moved early in her career to manage a large specialty group of physicians and from there worked in a number of physician specialties, large and small.  She not only managed their practices, but took the reins in the development of surgery centers and other ancillary services.

Through years of working with healthcare providers, Marcena has developed a knack for communicating financial information in ways that are meaningful and understandable to her audience.  In addition, her managerial experience in healthcare settings has given her a unique education in organizational matters, business operations and team performance.  Marcena is a Certified Medical Practice Executive, as designated by Medical Group Managers Association.

Marcena’s functions with Arise vary from operational management of surgery centers and hospitals, to the intricacies of reporting financial performance, both historical and projected.  Her role is largely to provide timely and useful information, through analysis of situations and data, in support of decision makers at all levels.

Having lived in Austin for almost 30 years, Marcena is married, has a daughter and son, and two grandchildren.  Marcena likes to spend her free time riding her bike, gardening and traveling to cooler climates.

Dr. Brannon Frank, MD
Principal

Dr. Frank is a partner with Dr. Robert Wills at Austin Pain Associates (www.austinpainassociates.com).

He has Board Certifications in both Interventional Pain Management and Anesthesiology under the American Board of Anesthesiology.

His undergraduate degree was earned from Texas A&M University while his medical degree was acquired from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX.

In Atlanta, GA, Dr. Frank trained at Emory University in both Interventional Pain Management and Anesthesiology.  Currently, he is the medical director of Austin Pain Associates and President of the Austin Pain Society.