PAN Co-Owners & Partners:
Kristie Garner, CPA
Partner and co-owner of Partner Advisory Network, LLC (PAN)
Kristie brings to PAN over twenty-five years of experience working with the healthcare industry in a variety of settings nation-wide. Throughout her career, Kristie has worked closely with governance and management to help organizations strengthen their internal control environment. Most recently she served as the executive responsible for client service operations and business development for a boutique consulting firm providing value-based healthcare services. Prior to that role, Kristie served as the Chief Audit Executive leading the internal audit department for a health system. There she was a trusted adviser assisting management to improve operational, financial, clinical, and information technology processes and controls.
Following graduation from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master in Professional Accounting, Kristie started her career as a staff accountant at the hospital where she was born, and soon was promoted to a leadership position in finance for a national healthcare organization. Since then, Kristie has spent the majority of her career dedicated to client service including over fifteen years of public accounting internal audit, corporate compliance, and management consulting experience serving healthcare clients including hospitals, health systems, physician practices and health plans.
She has also served in numerous leadership roles within the Lone Star Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Kristie’s experience and her background in internal controls and consulting uniquely position her to help PAN achieve its mission of supporting the healthcare industry by providing internal audit, corporate compliance services, and management consulting services at the right time, in the right place, for the right price.
Andrea Merritt, Ed.D, CHC, CIA, CHCO
Partner and co-owner of Partner Advisory Network, LLC (PAN)
Andrea has been serving the healthcare industry over twenty years working with a variety providers both in-house and on a consulting basis. Through her experience, Andrea has had the opportunity to build and strengthen compliance programs while also working on a number of specialized projects with hospitals, physician practices, and other types of healthcare providers. She provides ongoing and interim Compliance Officer services with a specialization in risk assessments, audit and monitoring, and education.
Andrea is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association and the Institute of Internal Auditors. She has presented for many professional organizations on compliance effectiveness, compliance investigations, and statistical sampling and auditing. Andrea has a Doctorate in Education with a focus on adult learning. She also earned an MBA and BS in Accounting from Wayne State University. Andrea is Certified in Healthcare Compliance through HCCA, a Certified HIPAA Compliance Officer through AIHC, and is a Certified Internal Auditor.
Andrea brings a wealth of healthcare experience and knowledge in order to help support the mission of PAN while implementing the values to helps strengthen client’s corporate integrity functions and emerge as transformational leaders.
PAN Team Members:
Faye T. Rogan
Resource support for PAN Consultants to help clients meet goals and objectives in a trusted advisory capacity.
Faye T. Rogan, CIA
Partner Advisory Network (PAN) – resource support to PAN Consultant Advisors in such areas as healthcare topic research, risk assessment, policy and procedure review, physician contracts, and internal audit project management covering a wide range of health care operational processes. Faye earned a BS degree in Business Administration – Accounting Emphasis, from the University of Southern Mississippi while working fulltime, raising son and supporting her husband in his career. During her career in the Healthcare industry for some twenty-six years, Faye completed certification requirements and maintains her license as a Certified Internal Auditor.
Although she retired from Crowe Horwath Healthcare Risk Management in 2017 as an Audit Senior Manager, she seeks to continue her endeavors to make a difference by supporting PAN Consultants to help clients meet goals and objectives in a trusted advisory capacity. Faye enjoys her work-life balance as grandmother of two wonderful grandchildren, part-time porcelain artist, and resource support consultant.
Faye currently resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Maggie Gambill
Maggie is a health information management professional with over 40 years of experience.
Maggie Gambill
Maggie is a health information management professional with over 40 years of experience in coding, revenue cycle and healthcare compliance. Maggie brings many years of audit and advisory experience related to clinical coding, reimbursement and regulatory compliance in a variety of healthcare settings.
As a compliance auditor Maggie has conducted risk assessments, managed audit plans, designed process improvement implementation plans and performed audits of varying level of complexity including reviews under attorney client privilege. Maggie’s degree in education has been a valuable asset in her consulting and compliance career, creating and providing education programs to clinical and administrative staff.
Beth Bayes
Beth, SHRM-SCP, SPHR is a versatile human resources executive with over 30 years of human capital experience.
Beth Bayes
Elizabeth Bayes, SHRM-SCP, SPHR is a versatile human resources executive with over 30 years of human capital experience including change management, employee engagement, internal communications, talent management, and leadership development. Prior to serving as an Independent Consultant, she was the CHRO for a Louisiana based healthcare system and held senior level roles with Time Warner Cable as well as Paramount Parks, Inc. a Viacom Company. She holds a BSBA from Xavier University and is a Betsy Magness Leadership Institute Fellow.
Rebecca Cowan
Rebecca has over 15 years of internal audit, compliance and process improvement experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, logistics and retail.
Rebecca Cowan
Rebecca Cowan is a team member of Partner Advisory Network, LLC (PAN). Rebecca has over 15 years of internal audit, compliance and process improvement experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, logistics and retail.
Prior to joining PAN, Rebecca most recently served at Walmart as the US Market Project Management Office lead for the company’s Sarbanes Oxley compliance testing. In this role, she established a framework to gain efficiency and improve effectiveness that helped to achieve the company’s goal for a 20% reduction of hours over prior year. Rebecca joined PwC while completing her college degree and was promoted to Manager and served as the Houston Market Internal Audit Champion. Following PwC, she served as the Director of Internal Audit for a long-term care client after building strong client relationships while at PwC.
Throughout her career, Rebecca has served in leadership roles to promote consistency, efficiency and effectiveness across decentralized teams of varied staff levels from staff to senior directors/partners. Rebecca brings big picture perspective and maintains a focus on root cause and sustainable solutions. She is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and holds a BS in Accounting from Arkansas State University.
David Ponder
Technology risk specialist. Partner at Cential.
David Ponder
Technology risk specialist. Partner at Cential. Prior experience Highlights include Big 4 IT Audit and Technology consulting experience (Ernst & Young), managing web development teams and building Website / Application Testing for fortune 500 clients (Crowd Favorite) and implementing a GRC / IS Risk Management department from the ground up at a major healthcare organization (SCL Health).
Experienced with implementation and management of Technology Risk Management functions, as well as designing, developing, and implementing the RSA Archer eGRC system.
Certified Information Systems Auditor skilled in security framework and regulatory framework assessments, IT governance, risk management, compliance, control design and operation assessments, monitoring, reporting, process improvement, and application and infrastructure security. Versed in cross-team collaboration and coordination of competing priorities. Seasoned as a liaison between management and Internal/External Audit functions.
Frank Castronova
Dr. Castronova has been responsible for statistical issues relating to healthcare and provider compliance audits for the past 20 years.
Frank Castronova
Dr. Castronova has been responsible for statistical issues relating to healthcare and provider compliance audits for the past 20 years. Dr. Castronova is an Accredited Professional Statistician™ as certified by the American Statistical Association. His work history spans over four decades in the areas of research and statistical analysis.
For the past 42 years, Dr. Castronova has been teaching part-time in the areas of statistical analysis and research methodology at various Michigan universities. He currently possesses part-time associate graduate faculty status in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Wayne State University and in the School of Social Work, also at Wayne State. Dr. Frank Castronova has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from Wayne State University. His PhD is in the area of evaluation and research, with a minor concentration in community medicine.
Holly Giammanco
Holly is an accomplished professional with 20 years of experience as an information technology and cybersecurity leader.
Holly Giammanco
Holly Giammanco is an accomplished professional with 20 years of experience as an information technology and cybersecurity leader. She has expertise in partnering with management to identify risks and opportunities for her clients to improve their security posture and achieve compliance with various regulatory frameworks. She works with business leaders and vendors to define needs, evaluate technology solutions, and introduce and oversee the adoption of tools, operational processes, and best practices to drive awareness, mitigate threats, ensure safe computing, and achieve regulatory compliance across complex environments.
Holly is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), RSA Archer Certified Administrator and holds the CMMC Provisional Assessor certification up through ML3. Professional experience includes 9 years in public accounting offering professional services with both Big 4 and another national firm, 4 years in healthcare IT internal audit and an additional 4 years in IT governance, risk, security and compliance at a large midwestern healthcare system.
John Mott
John is a Certified Professional Coder and Federal coding auditor and has 30 years of experience in medical compliance.
John Mott
Sarah Castronova
Sarah is Nurse Practitioner serving as a subject matter expert in clinical documentation and nursing.
Sarah Castronova
Sarah is Nurse Practitioner serving as a subject matter expert in clinical documentation and nursing. She has ten years of clinical experience in a large hospital system in the areas of home health, pediatrics, trauma, orthopaedics, and medical necessity reviews. Sarah has experience reviewing documentation and medical necessity for various types of providers. Sarah earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Wayne State University and a Master’s of Science – Family Nurse Practitioner program at Oakland University.
Ally Molletti
Ally is currently a Senior Compliance Specialist at PAN and is Certified in Healthcare Compliance.
Ally Molletti
Ally Molletti is currently a Senior Compliance Specialist at PAN. She received a B.S. degree in Psychology from Wayne State University, a Health Care Compliance Certificate from Mitchell Hamline Health Law Institute and a Master’s in Health Administration from the University of Cincinnati. Ally is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association and is Certified in Healthcare Compliance. She most recently worked at Summa Health as a Senior Compliance Specialist and previously was a Compliance Specialist at Piedmont Healthcare. Her interests lie in education, auditing, and risk assessments.
PAN Affiliates:
IRMC Group is part of a consortium of healthcare service firms based in the Midwest. We specialize in assisting Healthcare organizations in reducing operational and information technology risks. Our firm provides experienced specialists in areas of Technology, Cybersecurity and Audit & Compliance.
Our clients include large Health Care Systems, Law Firms, and Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies, some of which are Fortune 1000. IRMC group strives to implement best practices through specialized projects that aid our clients in optimizing their operations while strengthening their internal control structure. Our Healthcare risk management experience spans internal audit augmentation, enterprise-wide risk assessments, security governance implementations, privacy and security services, disaster recovery development and recovery auditing. We also specialize in risk analysis, compliance assessments, IT general controls and Medical Device audits.
Cential helps organizations design, build, and operate efficient and effective compliance and risk management functions.
We help organizations on their journey from siloed governance and compliance to fully integrated risk management programs.