Leadership and People

Chris Durovich, the Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Health, has more than 30 years of leadership experience in adult and pediatric health care and physician practice management. Since becoming President and Chief Executive Officer in 2003, he has guided Children's Health to be the eighth-largest pediatric health care system in the nation, serving nearly 300,000 children each year.

Chris Akeroyd serves as Senior Vice President, Information Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO), and is responsible for leading all efforts of the Information Services groups in the organization. His oversight encompasses systems and technology, cyber security and health care technology management and support.

Pamela Arora serves as Senior Vice President, Strategic Technology, and is responsible for directing technology efforts in support of strategic capital projects planned and underway across the Children’s Health system.

David Berry joined Children’s Health in April 2016 and serves as President of Strategic Capital Projects, overseeing capital projects planned and underway across the Children’s Health system.

Kim Besse serves as President and Chief People Officer for Children’s Health. Her areas of responsibility include recruitment and staffing, benefits, compensation, learning and development and employee relations.

Tom Burt serves as Senior Vice President of Total Rewards and Human Resource Operations for Children’s Health. His areas of responsibility include compensation, benefits, absence management, employee relations, compliance, human resource information systems and human resource service delivery.

Joe Don is Senior Vice President and Associate Chief Nursing Officer, overseeing the clinical practice of Nursing at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. In his role, Joe Don is responsible for the hospital transport operations (fixed-wing, rotor-wing, and ground ambulance), respiratory care, operative services, the Pauline Allen Gill Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders, and the advanced practice service (nurse practitioners and physician assistants).

As president of Children’s Medical Center Foundation, Brent Christopher leads the team focused on fundraising in support of Children’s Health and its components: Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Plano, eight specialty centers, multiple Children’s Health Pediatric Group primary care practices, Our Children’s House specialty hospital and rehabilitation facilities, home health, physician services and the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern.

Dai Chung, MD, serves as Chief Medical Officer and EVP, Physician Organizations for the Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Joint Pediatric Enterprise (JPE), as well as the Senior Vice President of Surgical Services, and Surgeon-in-Chief. Dr. Chung is a highly acclaimed pediatric surgeon who is widely recognized as an accomplished clinical investigator and educator with renowned expertise in pediatric surgical oncology, neonatal surgery, ECMO, and burns.

Brenda Clayton, RN serves as Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, and is responsible for leading all aspects of supply chain management and operations that include clinical value analysis, strategic sourcing, contract and inventory management, and distribution.

Matt Davis serves as Executive Vice President, Dallas Market. In this role, he is responsible for driving market strategy with direct responsibility for Children’s Medical Center Dallas campus operations and performance.

Linda Dunlap serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Process Officer for Children’s Health. In her role, Linda’s responsibilities include directing all efforts of the Enterprise Transformation Office. Her oversight encompasses project management, performance improvement, DSRIP and change management.

Bill Elvey joined Children’s Health as Senior Vice President, Facilities and Real Estate in October 2016. He is responsible for facilities planning; real estate acquisition and disposition; property management; facilities project management, design and construction; major repair and repurposing of facilities and a host of other facilities-related functions.

Robert Fries serves as Senior Vice President of Finance for Children’s Health. In this role, Robert leads the development and execution of the system's financial strategies, designed to drive the achievement of financial goals while increasing operating performance. He oversees the preparation of budgets and creation of business plans. He collaborates with executive management team members, Board of Directors and senior leaders of Children's Health to execute financial decisions.

Julie Hall-Barrow serves as the Senior Vice President, Network Development and Innovation for Children’s Health, spearheading the organization’s development and implementation of innovative care delivery models.  She oversees Children’s Health Care Network; a collaborative network of health providers, including both employed and community physicians as well as other like-minded providers, who work together to provide the best care for children in the community.

Doris Hunt serves as Executive Vice President of Corporate Services for Children’s Health. Doris is responsible for leading the Children’s Medical Center Health Plan transition from developing solution options and programs to the tangible implementation of these assets by partnering with business leaders. She has 25 years of experience in health care administration, hands-on operational and accounting solutions for delivery systems and provider sponsored HMO’s.

Keri Kaiser serves as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Experience Officer for Children’s Health. Since joining Children’s Health in November 2012, Keri has led a complete transformation of the marketing and communications function for the organization, instituting a strong emphasis on consumer-driven marketing efforts and a communications plan that is solidifying the status of Children’s Health in the national health care dialogue as an industry leader.

Miya Maysent serves as Senior Vice President of Talent Management at Children’s Health. In her role, Miya leads the development of a fully integrated talent management system bringing together talent acquisition and selection practices. Miya focuses on diversity and inclusion priorities and learning and development strategies to attract, develop and grow the careers of productive and engaged team members to help further the Children's Health mission to make life better for children.  

Javier Montemayor serves as the Senior Vice President of Accreditation and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer at Children’s Health, where he leads the regulatory compliance departments. With more than 25 years of experience in health care administration, he has an extensive background in accreditation, compliance, regulatory affairs, policy, safety and quality review activity.

Matt Moore serves as Senior Vice President for Government and Community Relations at Children’s Health. In his role, he is responsible for developing and leading the implementation of strategy, relationship building and public policy engagement with federal, state and local policymakers and stakeholders to further the Children's Health mission to make life better for children.

Pete Perialas Jr. serves as President and Chief Operating Officer. Pete has been with Children’s Health since February 2015, and has architected our current organizational strategy and the development of an expansive integrated pediatric delivery network.

Jeremiah Radandt serves as the President of Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer. In his role, he oversees finance, treasury, revenue cycle, supply chain, managed care contracting, insurance, and government relations and public policy.

James Rhodes serves as Senior Vice President, Strategic Development for the Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Joint Pediatric Enterprise (JPE). In his role, James’ responsibilities include leading business development, integration and growth efforts for the JPE.

Loyd Skinner serves as Senior Vice President, Revenue Cycle, and is responsible for developing change to ensure accuracy and quality of demographic and financial information. He oversees the accurate and timeliness of coding medical records and ensures the maximum reimbursement is obtained for all services provided.

Jean Storey serves as the Senior Vice President for the Heart Center and Maternal, Fetal-Neonatal Services, at Children’s Health. In her role, Jean is responsible for the strategic planning and business development of these services, while she oversees operations and performance.

Dr. Ray Tsai serves as Senior Vice President for Dallas Market Operations and has direct responsibility for ambulatory, ancillary and support operations, and the Emergency Department.

Vanessa Walls serves as Executive Vice President of the Northern Market and is responsible for driving market strategy with direct responsibility as the Administrator for Children’s Medical Center Plano.

Tammy Webb, MSN, RN, NE-BC, serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer of Children’s Health. Tammy is responsible for leading the nursing strategy and driving clinical excellence for all patient care services, while fostering a culture of patient- and family-centered care and advancing the Children’s Health vision for nursing excellence.

Amy Yeager serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for Children’s Health, joining the Senior Leadership Team at Children’s Health in February 2019. In her role, Amy oversees the strategy and direction for legal services at Children’s Health.