Penn Executive Veterinary Leadership Program: Making an Impact as a Global Health Leader

Associate Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Prof. Grant has consulted and taught executive education for a wide range of clients, including Medco, Borders Group, Time-Warner Cable, Grant-Thornton, Duke Energy, Asahi Glass, the American Financial Services Association, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy.

Before joining the Wharton faculty, he taught at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he won UNC’s two most prestigious teaching awards: the university-wide Tanner Award for Excellence and the business school’s Weatherspoon Award for Excellence.

Prof. Grant earned his PhD and MS degrees in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, and his BA from Harvard University with Phi Beta Kappa and highest honors.

Adjunct Associate Professor,
Operations and Information Management Department
The Wharton School

Kathy Pearson, PhD, serves as an adjunct associate professor in the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School. She has taught operations management courses in the MBA program and Executive Master’s of Technology Management program as well as probability and statistics, simulation modeling, and other courses for the department and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, Dr. Pearson is a senior consultant and director, Executive Education, for Decision Strategies International (DSI), a management consulting firm focused on scenario-based strategic planning and decision making. She specializes in subject areas such as critical thinking, scenario planning, strategic decision making, project management, and stakeholder analysis. Dr. Pearson has also worked with executives from a wide variety of industries and has taught at CEDEP at INSEAD in Fountainebleau, France.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Yale School of Medicine

David N. Berg is Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. His special interests are group and intergroup relations. From 1977 to 1992, he was a professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management (SOM), where he taught courses in organizational behavior, group dynamics, and organizational diagnosis. In 1990, he received the SOM Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In 1992, Dr. Berg opened a private practice in organizational psychology, continuing his work as a consultant and as a teacher in executive programs. He has consulted for a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, municipalities, not-for-profit foundations, and public school systems. He has written several articles and books. In addition, he was deputy editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science from 1994 through 2004, and formerly served on the editorial boards of both the Journal of Management Inquiry and the Journal of Management Education.

Dr. Berg received his BA in Psychology and MA in Administrative Sciences from Yale University, as well as both an MA and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dr. Gregg BeVier is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years experience in the global agricultural business. He has successfully managed more than 650 people for the world's leading Animal Health Company and has also led a large global operation for a swine genetics firm. He has had a successful career designing winning strategies for leading organizations and has a reputation as an innovative thinker. He also does international consulting work with various companies and offshore veterinary schools.

Dr. BeVier holds a BS in Agriculture Science, an MS in Animal Science, a DVM and an MBA, all from the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. His extensive background and experience in global livestock production and as a Board member of a public company have helped him shape leading organizations such as Sygen, PIC, Merial and Premium Standard Farms. He has been a lifetime member of the American Veterinary Medicine Association and the American Association of Swine Veterinarians and serves on the Dean's advisory council at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois.

The Gilbert S. Kahn Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Joan C. Hendricks became the 12th dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine in 2006. She is the third female dean of a veterinary school in the United States. Dr. Hendricks has served on the faculty of the School for more than 20 years. In 2001, she became the first woman to hold an endowed professorship at Penn Vet, when she was named the Henry and Corinne R. Bower Professor of Small Animal Medicine. In addition to serving as chief of critical care in the Department of Clinical Studies at Philadelphia, Dr. Hendricks is founding director of the Veterinary Clinical Investigation Center (VCIC) and holds a secondary appointment as professor in the Department of Medicine at Penn’s School of Medicine. Dr. Hendricks also has served in a leadership position in the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association (PVMA).

In the area of critical care, Dr. Hendricks has played a key role in enhancing teaching and patient care. With colleagues at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital, she was instrumental in establishing a Center for Critical Care at the hospital, which brought the Emergency Service, Intensive Care Unit and the Anesthesia Service together into a single section. Dr. Hendricks has significantly advanced the stature and importance of the School’s clinical investigation capabilities by successfully recruiting highly regarded tenure-track faculty in the Department of Clinical Studies, and by establishing an innovative partnership with Pfizer Animal Health to support clinical trials.

Dr. Hendricks' work has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Journal of Applied Physiology, and she is frequently invited to lecture at major conferences around the world. Dr. Hendricks is a recognized expert in the field of sleep and sleep disorders, and has recently published pioneering studies on the molecular biology of sleep in fruit flies in the high-impact journals Nature Neuroscience and Neuron.

In 1979 and 1980, Dr. Hendricks earned her VMD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. She also carried out her residency and postdoctoral fellowship at Penn. She has a BS in biology and psychology from Yale University.

Veterinary Attorney and CEO, Veterinary Business Advisors, Inc.

Dr. Charlotte Lacroix owns and manages Veterinary Business Advisors, Inc., a legal and business consulting firm, and advises veterinarians and attorneys nation-wide on business and legal issues. Dr. Lacroix received her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine in 1988 from the University of California at Davis. After completing a large animal internship at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), she worked for several years at an equine medical and surgical referral practice serving northern New Jersey's large equine community. In pursuit of her goal to make greater contributions to the veterinary profession, Dr. Lacroix attended law school and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Dr. Lacroix's legal and consulting activities include: legal document preparation and negotiation; assisting practice owners in selecting and forming business entities; advising on all aspects of veterinary partnerships, including associate buy-ins, specialty and general practice governance and management, and partner retirement and withdrawals; negotiating and facilitating the purchase and sale of practices of all types; consulting on specialty practice "shared leases" and other commercial leases; assisting with all employment law issues; and advising on malpractice cases, animal law and other legal and business problems. Dr. Lacroix lectures extensively on all these topics nation-wide and overseas, and is a frequent speaker at AVMA, AAHA, NAVC, WVC, and other veterinary association and industry meetings and seminars. She is also an enthusiastic adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lacroix is a regular contributor to JAVMA, Veterinary Economics, DVM Magazine, Veterinary Forum, Partners in Practice, and AAHA publications. She has written numerous other articles, contributed to several books, and appeared on radio and television. Dr. Lacroix also volunteers her time and expertise to veterinary and other organizations, including AVMA, AAHA, AAEP, NJAEP, NJVMA, PVMA, and NAVC.

President, Moussa Consulting
Senior Fellow, Wharton Executive Education
University of Pennsylvania

Co-author of The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas, Mario Moussa directs and teaches programs for hospital leaders and physicians, corporate security managers, and energy and banking executives. He teaches negotiation, influence, strategy, change, and corporate culture and is co-director of Wharton's Strategic Persuasion Workshop: The Art and Science of Selling Ideas. Previously, he was a principal at CFAR, Inc., a management consulting firm that began as a Wharton research center. A specialist in large-scale organizational change initiatives, he has consulted to many of the world's leading corporations, universities, and foundations, including United Health Group, PNC Bank, the Georgetown University Medical Center, and State Farm Insurance. He has published widely in the field of organizational dynamics, power, and influence.