J.R. Greene is the founder of Psychiatric Medical Care, the nation’s largest behavioral healthcare management company with over 400 hospital and health system partners in more than 35 states. He also serves as vice chair of PMC’s Board of Directors.
Prior to his career in behavioral healthcare, Greene held leadership roles in marketing and sales at the Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, and Revlon. Greene is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a board member of the Nashville Healthcare Council, and a member of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Board of Visitors.
Greene drew national attention as the “Big Orange Tux Guy” when he led UT’s football team onto the field for the 1999 national championship game. Learn more about this funny story at volstux.com.
P. Paul Smith Jr. is chief executive officer at PMC, the nation’s largest behavioral healthcare management company. Paul joined PMC in April 2023, bringing more than 30 years of experience managing progressive healthcare operations and delivering growth and transformational strategies to hospitals and healthcare systems.
Before joining PMC, Paul was group president at Bons Secours Mercy Health, the country’s fifth-largest Catholic healthcare ministry, where he oversaw operations in four markets that included 15 hospitals. Prior to that role, Paul served as president of division III operations for Community Health Systems, where he provided executive leadership to division operations teams supporting 26 acute care hospitals in six states. He supported the creation and execution of strategic plans to grow revenue and improve patient satisfaction. Paul spent 14 years with Health Management Associates, serving as vice president and chief executive officer of Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in North Carolina.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts in business administration and marketing from Mercer University and a Master of Business and a Master of Health Administration from Georgia State University. He and his family live in the Nashville area.
Stephanie Weatherly is chief clinical officer at PMC, the nation’s largest behavioral healthcare management company. She joined PMC in 2015 and is responsible for clinical oversight of all PMC divisions.
Stephanie’s career in healthcare began with laboring mothers and quickly evolved into clinical leadership in various settings, including care for the adult and geriatric psychiatric populations. After years of directing clinical care in individual care settings, Stephanie branched out into the oversight of multiple healthcare facilities. She has an extensive background in regulatory and quality management.
Stephanie has a passion for individualized, patient-centered care and has been instrumental in moving numerous medical model facilities to a more patient-centered approach. She teaches individuals, families, care providers, and clinicians about mental illness and how to care for those living with mental illness. She has dedicated her life to advocating for vulnerable populations such as individuals experiencing mental illness and dementia.
Stephanie holds a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Walden University. She has been the secretary, incoming president, president, and currently is acting as the past president for the Tennessee chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.
Dr. Greene, a geriatric psychiatrist and a gerontologist, is board-certified in both neuropsychiatry and family practice. After developing inpatient programs for several hospitals in Tampa, Florida and Knoxville, Tennessee, he left private practice to found Geriatric Medical Care, Inc. and take his concepts of geriatric psychiatry program management to other hospitals. Geriatric Medical Care (GMC) was founded in 1992, and focused on managing geriatric inpatient and outpatient care programs in 7 states. The company gained national attention and become the 5th largest behavioral health contract management firm before being acquired in 1997. Psychiatric Medical Care (PMC) was founded in 2003, with Dr. Greene’s support and counsel. He provides ongoing consultation to the PMC executive leadership team and serves as Medical Director of four Senior Life Solutions programs.
His professional career spans 50 years, 40 years of that in active clinical practice or academic teaching and over 30 years in geriatric psychiatry. In 2005, Dr. Greene was named Interim Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and permanent Chair in 2008, where he continues to provide strategic leadership that is guiding the department into the 21st century. Along with his current roles, he serves as an elected member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Board of Trustees and has served as chairman of the APA’s Committee on Long Term Care and Treatment of the Elderly and the Committee on Access and Effectiveness of Psychiatric Services, and as a member of the APA Committee on Psychiatric Administration and Management. He has served as Secretary and on the Board of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) and represented AAGP in the American Medical Association’s Specialty and Service Societies.
He has served on the Board of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) in his capacity as first chairman of COSAR (Council of State Affiliate Representatives). For more than 12 years he also served as AGS Alternate Delegate to the AMA House of Delegates. Dr. Greene has also served three terms as president of the Tennessee Psychiatric Association and was also President of the Southern Psychiatric Association. He was also elected a Fellow in the American College of Psychiatrists.
While Associate Director of the Geropsychiatric Training Program at the University of South Florida, he was the 1980 recipient of the NIA Academic Medicine Award in Geriatric Mental Health. He was the charter recipient of the AGS Clinician of the Year award (1989) and is included in multiple editions of The Best Doctors in America. Dr. Greene was the only psychiatrist named a delegate to the 1995 White House Conference on Aging. He has served as a specialist site reviewer of geriatric psychiatry fellowship programs and a pre-reviewer for subspecialty programs in geriatric internal medicine for ACGME. He has published three books and more than 40 articles on age-related issues and disorders.
Bob Zagerman is chief financial officer at PMC, the nation’s largest behavioral healthcare management company. He joined PMC in June 2020 bringing more than 30 years of behavioral health finance experience to the company.
Prior to joining PMC, Bob was the operations CFO at Acadia Healthcare in Franklin, Tennessee. Prior to Acadia, he was the CFO at a series of behavioral health hospitals in Pennsylvania, including First Hospital Wyoming Valley in Wilkes-Barre, Brooke Glen Behavioral Hospital in Fort Washington, and Foundations Behavioral Health in Doylestown. He also worked for the nationally recognized eating disorder program The Renfrew Center, and a community mental health / intellectual disabilities agency, both in Philadelphia. Bob started his career working for the international accounting firm Arthur Young & Company (now Ernst & Young).
Bob holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with concentrations in accounting and decision aciences.
Doug Wilson is the founder and president of Integrated Telehealth Partners (ITP), PMC’s telehealth division. Doug has been involved in the telepsychiatry industry since 2010. Having worked with psychiatric providers since 2003, Doug has experience and success in recruiting psychiatrists which is one of the key management services that PMC provides its partner facilities. In 2019, PMC gained Integrated Telehealth Partners as its third division allowing the company to provide timely access to behavioral healthcare for patients of all ages via telepsychiatry.
Prior to founding ITP, Doug held leadership positions within Pfizer Inc. and University Directories. He earned his BBA in Marketing and Management from Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, and his MBA and M.S. of Strategic Management from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
Doug is a behavioral health advocate and regularly presents at government agencies and mental health organizations.
Lynsey Perry serves as vice president of operations at PMC, the nation’s largest behavioral healthcare management company. She oversees a team of regional directors to ensure efficient and effective management in all Senior Life Solutions programs nationwide.
Lynsey joined PMC in 2010. She is responsible for upholding PMC’s standards of excellence, she collaborates with hospital leadership, regional directors, and local teams to ensure program operations are founded on exceptional patient care, diligent compliance, and dedicated community investment.
Lynsey earned her B.S. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO, and her M.S. in Healthcare Administration at Des Moines University in Des Moines, IA.
Passionate about serving older adults, Lynsey has dedicated the last 11 of her 17 years in behavioral health to geriatric care. She is enthusiastic about identifying individuals who may benefit from the multitude of services provided by Senior Life Solutions and its team members.
Maggie Music is chief human resources officer at PMC, the nation’s largest behavioral healthcare management company. She is responsible for talent acquisition, leadership and organizational development, compensation benefits labor and employee relations, diversity, employee engagement and partners with leaders and teams across the enterprise to drive transformational change. Maggie joined PMC in 2020.
Her HR experience crosses over various lines of business including physician-owned medical groups, hospital operations, and ambulatory surgery centers. In these leadership roles, Maggie and her teams partnered closely with business leaders to design people and culture strategies that accelerated performance and team member engagement. With over 17 years of healthcare experience, Maggie has a passion for developing HR teams and offering operational-focused HR leadership.
Maggie holds a B.S. from Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, MI, and attended Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
Sean Simpson is chief information officer at PMC, the nation’s largest behavioral healthcare management company. He provides management and governance of all information technology needs and cybersecurity.
Sean brings PMC more than 25 years of experience in commercial, defense, and healthcare industries, and worked at companies such as Xerox, Northrop Grumman, and EMCOR. Prior to joining PMC, Sean worked as an IT operations manager at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, overseeing a multi-million dollar counterintelligence program. Sean also served as IT director at Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital, where he updated IT infrastructure and implemented new policies and procedures. He later became executive director of information technology at Cullman Regional Medical Center. During his time there he implemented a new network design to bring the hospital up to best practices and created new policies and procedures for all IT tasks.
Sean earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Colorado Technical University and a master of science degree in business administration with a concentration on information technology security at Colorado Technical University.
Brad Miner is Vice President of Behavioral Health Development for PMC and the company’s Integrated Telehealth Partners (ITP) and Embrace Health divisions. He creates partnerships to help organizations that provide inpatient behavioral health, emergency/crisis treatment, skilled care, and outpatient services such as hospitals, clinics, community mental health centers, federally qualified health centers, assisted living centers, jails, prisons and schools deliver effective mental health treatment.
Brad has 25 years of experience in healthcare and partnership development.Before joining PMC, Brad created and led business development/strategic partnerships teams in addition to being a clinician and operator. He has developed partnerships at both the hospital and post-acute care levels throughout the country. Brad has a passion for creating care continuum models that serve all communities, both urban and rural.
Brad graduated from Utah State University and completed his master’s degree at Adams State University. He held leadership roles at LifePoint Health, Kindred Healthcare, and RehabCare.
