Ben Eckert Email & Phone Number

Dallas, TX, US

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Oversee management of all activities and projects associated with the Gene Therapy Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dallas, Texas

• Management and coordination of administrative personnel functions
• Appointment, evaluation and termination of faculty physician, fellow and research personnel, including payroll, personnel, and budgetary issues
• Partner with other members of department business office for strategic planning, assessment and reporting.

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed office of the Regional Dean to facilitate increased medical education in Central Texas
• Implemented vision of government officials and University of Texas system to create a new medical school in Austin
• Worked with state government and community leaders and local physicians to build support and enact legislation, with local and national entities for organizational and financial buy-in, and with national accreditation.
• Helped to translate community healthcare needs and training mission into a new teaching hospital, medical school and research facility within existing physical and financial constraints.
• http://dellmedschool.utexas.edu/about

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Directed and coordinated activities ofthe Office of the Associate Dean for Medical Education including the Dallas and Austin offices of Graduate Medical Education and the Convergence and Colleges programs
• Successfully managed transition of office; hired and trained replacements; prepared for transition to Austin office.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Implemented a novel program integrating clinical skills, case-based learning, ethics, and medical professionalism into medical education.
• Organized 500 medical students into small-group and individual experiences training
• Managed space planning and renovation, website design
• Improved educational outcomes of medical education and met requirements of accreditation agency
• Became a successful selling point of the medical school
• http://utsouthwestern.edu/colleges

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Hired as division administrator for Pediatric Endocrinology; transferred to manage larger division of Endocrinology with 54 personnel and $5M annual budget
• Supervised staff including accounting, medical billing and administrative assistants.
• Managed division move, from planning and design of new office and laboratory facilities, to completion of move

Athens, Texas

• Coding and billing services for private practice physicians and non-physician practitioners
• Installation of and training for private practice billing and facility database systems
• Consultation for coding, statistical analysis and software selection
• Collections, maintenance of accounts receivable and payable
• Compliance research

Athens, Texas

• Managed all aspects of practice, which included medical direction of 6 long term care facilities
• Renovate facility, purchase equipment
• Brought billing in-house leading to 30% increase in gross income

Waco, Texas

Contract placements with manufacturing companies for manufacturing and inventory control