Prior to his position at UTMC, Swaine had a long career with Beaumont Health System in Southfield, Mich. Among his responsibilities with Beaumont were leading the health system’s post-acute services and serving as hospital president of the 280-bed Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe.

Swaine earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Lawrence Technological Institute and a master’s degree in finance from Walsh College.

He is on the board of directors and finance committee for Seedlings Braille Books for Children, a Michigan-based nonprofit that takes written children books and converts them to Braille.

Ellis graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., as well as a fellowship in infectious diseases at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and has an ASTMH Certificate of Knowledge in tropical medicine and travelers’ health.

Ellis served 20 years in the U.S. Army, first as a field artillery officer and then as a medical corps officer. During this time, he was in a variety of leadership, clinical, teaching and research roles, most recently as deputy director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. His research interest focused primarily on the epidemiology and prevention of staphylococcal infections.

Ellis retired from active duty in 2015 and transitioned to UTMC as an infectious diseases faculty member and medical director of the Infection Control and Prevention Program.

In August 2017, he assumed the role of chief medical officer. As a professor of medicine, Ellis remains committed to medical education and patient care, providing continuity of care for patients infected with HIV and performing infectious disease consultations in inpatient and outpatient areas.

Prior to serving as the chief nursing officer, she directed and provided leadership to multiple nursing departments as a nursing director. She joined the medical center in 2001 as a staff nurse.

Smith has 25 years of combined clinical and health-care management experience.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Spring Arbor University and a master’s of science degree from The University of Toledo with a nurse educator major.

Smith also is on the EMS Advisory Board.