The Boot Camp faculty members are professional facilitators with extensive backgrounds in health care. They are both experts in pedagogical techniques and also personally knowledgeable about the specific issues facing physicians in today’s health care environment. With many years of experience teaching physicians specifically, they are able to create fully engaging learning environments for participants—ensuring that the knowledge gleaned from Boot Camp sessions is accessible, actionable, and aspirational.

Boot Camp Faculty

R SEAN BENOIT, MD, FACS

Sean Benoit is currently a Director and Faculty Member with the Advisory Board Academies.  In that role, Dr. Benoit is responsible for developing curriculum, teaching classes, and conducting workshops at leading hospitals in the United States. He is also responsible for ensuring the quality of academy presentations and for coaching and mentoring Academy faculty.

In addition to his Academies Faculty assignment, Dr. Benoit continues to practice adult and pediatric trauma surgery and serve as a surgical intensivist at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Prior to joining the Advisory Board Company, he held faculty appointments at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Georgetown University Medical Center, Howard University Hospital and maintained a surgical practice. 

Dr. Benoit earned his AB from Princeton University, his MD from Howard University College of Medicine, completed a fellowship in Critical Care/Trauma at the University of Maryland, and research fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Arkansas.  He is board certified in General Surgery as well as Critical Care and Trauma Surgery.

WILLIAM E. BURKE, PA-C, MBA

Bill Burke current serves as a Director and Faculty Member of the Advisory Board Academies.  He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise from his experiences across different aspects of the health care industry. He has worked in both the private and public sector, was appointed a Faculty Lecturer at Harvard Medical School for first year medical students, and has over twenty-five years of clinical practice experience in neurosurgery, neuro-trauma, emergency medicine, urgent care, and surgical subspecialties.

Prior to joining the Advisory Board Company, Mr. Burke led the clinical and operational effectiveness practice group at GE Healthcare, a consulting services firm with offices in the U.S. and abroad.  He also served as the director of neurosurgery services at Washington Hospital Center in Washington DC, as well as the director of emergency, specialty, and acute care services at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, New England Service Network.

Mr. Burke received his Physicians Assistant Certificate from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He earned his Masters in Business Administration from the Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University in Boston, MA, and his B.S. from The George Washington University. He is board certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physicians Assistants for primary care and general surgery.

WILLIAM LYNAGH, M.D.

Dr. Lynagh is currently a Senior Director of the Advisory Board Academies. In that role, he has presented best practices research, facilitated case study sessions, conducted skills and performance assessments, and moderated leadership development exercises for physicians and physician leaders at over 100 health care institutions across the country.

Prior to joining the Advisory Board Company, Dr. Lynagh was founder and president of the Center for Holistic Leadership, a consulting firm that provides leadership development services with an emphasis on strategic planning, coaching, and team development. Clients included non-profit and for-profit organizations, foundations, and businesses including American Express and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Lynagh also served as the Vice President for Medical Affairs and Senior Medical Director at UnitedHealthcare of North Carolina and the Piedmont Healthcare Alliance. Prior to serving in leadership roles, he was a practicing physician in family medicine.

Dr. Lynagh received his medical doctorate at the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland and completed his residency at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida. He is board-certified in family medicine.

JAMES L. McKENNA, MBA

James McKenna is a Director of Leadership Development with The Advisory Board Company and a faculty member in the Advisory Board’s Academies. In that role, he has worked with over 40 hospital systems and is currently Faculty Advisor to 20 health systems and/or hospitals. He has conducted workshops for more than 150 hospitals, health systems, corporations and professional associations.

Mr. McKenna’s career spans 18 years of technology strategy and global business development in the private and public sectors. Prior to joining The Advisory Board, he started his own company to provide strategic and tactical guidance to domestic and international organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa.  He led multi-cultural training programs offering expertise in Business Planning, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Human Resources and Technology, assisting clients in attaining up to 40% increases in productivity while realizing a tangible ROI.

At Quokka Sports, a Silicon Valley Internet Sports programming firm, McKenna was the Director of Business Development and managed the team that attracted over $2M in investor funding instrumental in the company’s growth toward a $750M market cap. Serving as Market Development Engineer at the Intel Corporation, Mr. McKenna successfully marketed a new microprocessor line to CIOs and CTOs at industry-leading Fortune 500 firms.  In addition, he was Project Manager of a global environmental information system at the United Nations as well as a consultant to IBM, the OECD, and the World Bank.

Mr. McKenna received an MBA in International Business from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Marist College, where he received a Presidential Scholarship. A fluent French speaker, he also received a Certificate of French Studies from L’Institut Catholique in Paris, France.

CHARLES A. (TERRY) NICHOLS, MA

Terry Nichols is a Director and Faculty Member of the Advisory Board’s Academies. He has facilitated leadership development sessions with a broad range of audiences and participant types and now focuses exclusively on developing physician leaders.

Prior to joining the Advisory Board, he was a research associate at Harvard Business School, assisting professors with teaching on general business management topics and business ethics.  He has also worked as a senior associate at the Booz Allen Hamilton Center for Performance Excellence, leading professional development programs on leadership, project management, and core business skills.  He also served as senior manager to the Insurance Audit Practice at Ernst and Young to develop and deliver accounting seminars to clients.

Mr. Nichols received his M.A., graduate fellowship in ethics and the professions, as well as his B.A. from Harvard University. He also holds a B.S. in Business and Accounting from the University of the State of New York and has qualified as a Certified Public Accountant.

MICHAEL WAGNER, MPA

Mr. Wagner is currently Chief Teaching Officer in the Advisory Board Academies, helping to improve the management skills and maximize the leadership abilities of physicians, nurses, and other hospital leaders. In that role, Mr. Wagner is responsible for developing curriculum, teaching classes, and conducting workshops at leading hospitals across the United States. He has presented research findings, moderated case study discussions, and conducted workshops for more than 600 health care organizations, professional associations, government agencies, the United States armed forces, insurance firms, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers.

Prior to joining the Advisory Board Company, Mr. Wagner held multiple legislative offices in state government, including four terms in the South Dakota House of Representatives. Mr. Wagner has also served as an affiliate Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity, as well as developed and taught college-level business management curriculum at Kilian Community College.

He holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University and received distinctions as a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow as well as a Lucius N. Littauer Fellow.