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Jim Bartimus FOUNDER, BARTIMUS, FRICKLETON, ROBERTSON & RADER When you consider the body of legal work in Jim Bartimus’ 45 year career, one can only wonder why this Belton native doesn’t have his own show on CourtTV. He’s been the face of success ful medical malpractice in this region for decades, and why not? He’s one of the few practicing that legal art who have actually gone to medical school. Along with his wife Dana, he has a proven track record as a philanthropist, too.

David Callanan CEO, AE WEALTH, ADVISORS EXCEL

David Callanan came out of small-town Kansas to do big things, none bigger than the 2005 founding of Advisors Excel, which pro vides support for more than 700 wealth advisers nationally, and AE Wealth Management, one of the nation’s fastest-growing Reg istered Investment Advisory firms, with $19.6 billion in AUM and more than 142,000 client accounts.

COLLEGE: B.A., Business/Commerce, J.D., University of Missouri-Columbia; UMKC School of Medicine RESPECT: Lawdragon, Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, the KC Metropolitan Bar Association, and many others have bestowed on Bartimus in the Lawyer/Litigator of the Year vein. GIVING BACK: Bartimus and his wife, Dana, started the DanaJames Charitable Foundation to assist children in need, including major contributions to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Children’s Mercy Hospital. LUNCH IS SERVED: Every Tuesday, the law firm’s staff assembles more than 350 ham and cheese sandwiches to feed the homeless sheltered at City Union Mission. “It’s all hands on deck,” Bartimus says. “People love it,” he said. “It’s unusual.” CALL OF DUTY: “There’s so much need out there. We’re supposed to be lawyers and leaders in our community. We can’t bury our heads in the sand and hope someone else does it.”

COLLEGE: B.A. Management/Marketing, Washburn University SMALL START: Callanan’s hometown was the Cowley County burg of Burden, which has a current population of just 620. ABOUT ADVISORS EXCEL: It’s the nation’s leading independent marketing organization assisting in dependent financial advisors around the country with assistance in wealth management, broker-deal er divisions, annuity, Medicare, and life insurance. SPREADING THE WEALTH: Fewer than 5 percent of AE Wealth’s clients fall in the category of high net worth investors; non-HNW accounts average just $215,000. PHILANTHROPY: Advisors Excel gave more than $925,000, and employees provided more than 5,500 volunteer hours on behalf of a diverse set of causes: reducing hunger, fighting poverty, enhancing education, and improving financial literacy. Total giving since 2008 is $6.3 million.

David Campbell PRESIDENT/CEO, EVERGY

Scott Campbell CEO, KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM-ST. FRANCIS

David Campbell draws from personal experience when he ponders guidance for young executives: “Focus on the customer and always deliver your best,” he says. “When there are stumbles—and there will be stumbles—if your customers see the commitment and un derstand the value that you will deliver, it will make all the differ ence.” He makes that difference for more than 1.6 million Evergy customers in Missouri and Kansas at the largest electrical utility.

If you’re reading between the lines on the health-care executives in this elite leadership group, you may notice a Texas-to-KC pipe line at work. The latest product of that system is Scott Campbell, who came to the University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus this summer. He made his way to Topeka from Athens, Texas, where since 2019, he had been chief executive officer of UT Health Athens.

COLLEGE: B.A., Yale University; J.D., Harvard Law School; Masters, International Relations, Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar) MANAGING AMID CRISIS: Campbell came to Evergy nearly a year into the global pandemic and says that “roughly half of our team shifted to working from home, and they have managed that transition very well. It has gone much more smoothly than anyone had anticipated. Half of our team continued to report to the workplace, keeping the power plants online and the system up and running so that the lights stayed on for everyone.” POWER EMPLOYER: Following the 2018 merger of Great Plains Energy and Westar, the new compa ny had a combined workforce of roughly 5,000 people in Missouri and Kansas. BROAD MANDATE: Beyond his goal of enhancing customer experiences, Campbell is responsible for the modernization of the electrical grid, improving the system’s reliability and ensuring competitiveness.

COLLEGE: B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; M.A., Healthcare Administration, Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University WITH UT HEALTH: Campbell honed his leadership skills for the Houston-based health system as a leader at hospitals in the Texas burgs of Jacksonville, Quitman, and Pittsburg. CAREER PATH: Campbell is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a two time CEO of the Year honoree with Health Management Associates. He’s spent more than 30 years in health care, with additional stops in Lancaster, Pa., Naples, Fla., and Columbia, S.C., among others. REBUILDING SKILLS: When Hurricane Michael visited its devastation on Panama City, Fla., in 2018, Campbell was the CEO of Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Health. The facility was clobbered, and Campbell was credited with leading the restoration and repairs that allowed it to reopen just five months later.

Faruk Capan CEO, EVERSANA INTOUCH

Mitzi Cardenas CAO, UNIVERSITY HEALTH

More than 20 years of work went into taking Intouch Solutions from a startup to a takeover target worth nearly $1 billion, but with that box checked on his to-do list, Faruk Capan now leads the charge with dual duties as CEO at Eversana Intouch and as chief innovation officer at the acquiring firm, Eversana. He leads a global workforce of thousands in those roles, making good on what he told us in 2016: “I believe my best career moment is still yet to come …”

More than most, even most within health care, Mitzi Cardenas gets it when it comes to the vital role that tech plays in delivering positive patient outcomes. She’s worked in the industry for 30 years, most of that within IT disciplines. She currently serves as the executive chief administrative officer for University Health, where she’s tasked with overseeing corporate administrative operations and services, construction and real estate, strategy and planning, and IT systems.

COLLEGE: Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey; MBA, University of Central Missouri AMERICAN DREAMER: Capan grew up in Istanbul, and after college there found his way to the Midwest and UCM. He interned at Marion Merrell Dow (now Sanofi) and worked at Teva Neuroscience before founding Intouch in 1999. GROWING INTOUCH: It started off as a digital marketing service for the pharmaceutical in dustry, but over the years, Capan turned Intouch Solutions into Intouch Group, with seven separate operating units. ABOUT EVERSANA: Based in Chicago, it’s a leading provider of commercial services to life-sci ences enterprises around the world—more than 670 of them at this point. Late last year, it came calling with cash—a reported $950 million—and added Capan’s enterprise to its fold.

COLLEGE: B.B.A., University of Texas-Arlington; M.S., Troy State University UP THE LADDER: Since joining the former Truman Medical Centers in 2008, she’s been senior vice president and chief information officer. BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW: Before her health-care career, Cardenas did a stint as a dancer with the Chicago Lyric Opera. BEFORE TRUMAN/UH: Cardenas spent six years with Children’s Mercy Hospital as its director of information technology. Before that, she logged four years with Kinetra as director of operations. HONORS: Ingram’s previously recognized her as one of its Heroes in Healthcare, and Health Data Management declared her one of the Most Powerful Women in Health IT two years in a row. INDUSTRY: Cardenas served as chair of the Interoperability Advisory Group for the American Hospital Assn. since 2014 and previously chaired the Missouri Hospital Association’s HIT Committee. Outside her sector, she’s on the board of trustees for Park Univ. and the executive committee and board of the YMCA of Greater KC.

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