Robert L. Parkinson, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Baxter International, Inc.

Prior to joining Baxter in April 2004, Mr. Parkinson was Dean of Loyola University Chicago’s School of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business. Previously, Mr. Parkinson had a distinguished 25-year career at Abbott Laboratories, serving in a variety of domestic and international management and leadership positions.

Mr. Parkinson joined Abbott in 1976 and held a number of marketing and management positions there before being named vice president of European operations in 1990, president of the chemical and agricultural division in 1993 and president of the international division responsible for pharmaceutical, hospital and nutritional products in 1995. In 1998 he became a member of its board of directors before being named president and chief operating officer of the company in 1999. He retired from Abbott in 2001.

Mr. Parkinson began his career in 1976 with American Hospital Supply Corporation.

Mr. Parkinson is active on industry boards and community organizations, serving on the board of directors for Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and the Northwestern Memorial Foundation, as well as Loyola University Chicago's Board of Trustees. He also serves on the boards of directors for Catholic Charities, Junior Achievement, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), and the Executives Club of Chicago.

Mr. Parkinson earned both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in business administration from Loyola University - Chicago.

Rulon Stacey
President and Chief Executive Officer, Poudre Valley Health System
Chairman-Elect, American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)

Dr. Stacey came to Poudre Valley Hospital in 1996. Prior to that, Dr. Stacey held administrative posts at hospitals in Chicago, Illinois and Leadville, Colorado.

He spent three years in the U.S. Air Force as an assistant administrator of a base hospital in California. Dr. Stacey served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of St. Francis Hospital and Health Center, Chicago, Ill, Chief Executive Officer of St. Vincent General Hospital, Leadville, Colo., and Summit Medical Center, Frisco, Colo and Assistant Administrator, Ninth Strategic Hospital, Beale Air Force Base, California.

During his time in Fort Collins, Dr. Stacey has led the industry in finding ways to align incentives with physicians and form collaborative partnerships. During his tenure, he has created 13 separate joint ventures with physicians, which have allowed the health system and physicians to focus on quality outcomes better than at any time in the future, while nearly tripling the net revenue and net assets of the health system.

For his innovations, in 1999 Dr. Stacey received the Robert S. Hudgens Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives as the "Young Healthcare Executive of the Year." This award is given to the single best healthcare administrator under the age of 40 within the organization, which has 40,000 members in 30 countries.

In 1992, Dr. Stacey was recognized as an "up and comer" by Modern Healthcare magazine, designating him as one of the 12 young "rising stars" of the healthcare administration profession in the country. In 2000, the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver named Dr. Stacey a Milstein Scholar for having written that year's best dissertation. And most recently, in February 2005, Dr. Stacey was named as Northern Colorado's Business Leader of the Year by The Coloradoan newspaper.

A native of Provo, Utah, Dr. Stacey holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Master's Degree in Health Administration from Brigham Young University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy from the University of Colorado. He and his wife Linda are the proud parents of four daughters, Laura, Maria, Jennifer, and Catherine.