Barbee, who has nearly 25 years of combined clinical and health-care management experience, is responsible for the operational and strategic activities of UTMC and its clinics that average more than 12,000 admissions, 36,000 emergency department visits and 250,000 ambulatory care visits annually.

Barbee earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Illinois State University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Phoenix.

He is a trustee of the Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio and a board member of The University of Toledo Medical Assurance Co. and Toledo/Lucas County CareNet. Barbee is a member of the UT College of Nursing’s advisory board and Mercy College of Ohio’s nursing program advisory committee. Barbee is also a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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 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.

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.

Toussaint, who has more than 20 years of leadership experience in health care and retail operations, designs strategies and deploys national best practices to achieve organizational goals. His role provides a single vision across all methods of customer contact.

Prior to his appointment to chief experience officer, Toussaint was senior director of operations for UT’s Main and Health Science campuses. Before his tenure at the University, Toussaint traveled the U.S. and Canada as a consultant, helping health care systems improve their performance management skills, ancillary operations and patient experience outcomes.

Toussaint earned a master certificate in hospitality management from Cornell University, and is a certified customer experience professional as well as a graduate of the Studer Group CXO Institute.

Among other achievements, Toussaint is best known for significantly improving his division’s patient, employee and student experience outcomes.