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Amy Bantham, DrPH is the CEO/Founder of Move to Live More, a research and consulting firm helping clients combine evidence-based research with practice for improved communications, policy, and strategy to get people moving. She is Past President of the Physical Activity Alliance, the nation's largest coalition of organizations dedicated to promoting health and well-being through physical activity. A certified health and wellness coach, personal trainer, and group fitness instructor, she holds a Doctor of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.

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Jill DeTemple, Ph. D., is the Chair of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and Professor of Anthropology at ҹɫÍõ³¯.

Her research focuses on religiously sponsored development in Latin America and on the uses of dialogue for teaching in higher education. She is the author of two books that focus on the intersection of religion and international development in rural Ecuador and numerous articles on that subject as well as the use of dialogue for inclusive teaching and deep learning. She is currently working on a co-authored book that will introduce EP’s Dialogic Classroom to college professors.

Dr. DeTemple's research has been supported by the John Templeton Foundation, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, the American Academy of Religion, the Tinker Foundation, and the General Board for Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church.

She has taught courses on Religious Literacy; Social Scientific Approaches to the Study of Religion; Identity and the Sacred in the Southwest; and Religion, Gender, and International Economic Development, among other topics.

Dr. DeTemple is also the winner of the 2018 Award for Teaching Excellence from the American Academy of Religion.
B.A., Bowdoin College; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

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Dr. Shane Goodwin is the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Executive Education and serves as a Professor of Practice in the Department of Finance at The Cox School of Business at ҹɫÍõ³¯. Dr. Goodwin has over 30 years of experience in M&A, investment banking, and private equity as a practitioner, board member, and professor. Most recently, Dr. Goodwin served as a Senior Fellow and Director at the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University, a research institute established by Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School, served as a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. His research is focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and shareholder activism.

Dr. Goodwin is an expert witness on complex litigation issues regarding M&A, corporate governance, capital markets, and corporate finance matters and is a Board Leadership Fellow and a Certified Director at the National Association of Corporate Directors. Dr. Goodwin serves on the Board of Directors and the SEC Audit Committee Financial Expert for Principal Private Credit Fund and Principal Real Asset Fund, part of Principal Financial Group (Nasdaq: PFG) with $700Bn+ AUM. Additional Board of Director roles include OrthoMed Anesthesia, Crystal Clearwater Resources, Harvard University Club of Dallas, NACD North Texas Chapter, Investment Committee of the Dallas Regional Chamber, and the Advisory Board of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC), the sixth-largest commercial bank in the U.S. Additionally, Dr. Goodwin serves as an advisor to The Applied Corporate Governance Institute at The Center for Global Enterprise, an organization that advises companies to understand, engage, and succeed with their investors in complex and contested shareholder matters.

Most recently, he was a Managing Director and the Head of Investment Banking for the Southwest U.S. at Wells Fargo Securities. He has advised on over 250 M&A assignments totaling over $50 billion in transaction value, including sell-side and buy-side transactions, anti-raid, takeover and activism defenses, cross-border M&A, and restructuring advisory assignments. Additionally, he has executed over 100 public and private debt and equity investments totaling over $40 billion and has extensive private equity and corporate restructuring experience.

Dr. Goodwin was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University to conduct M&A and corporate governance research. He earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Oklahoma State University, with a focus on finance. His dissertation, “Corporate Governance and Hedge Fund Activism”, was cited by several journals and news agencies, including Bloomberg, and was used to create a proprietary trading index (Goodwin Chakraborty Activist Index™). Dr. Goodwin holds an MBA, with a concentration in finance, from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He graduated cum laude with a BSBA from the Collins College of Business at The University of Tulsa and was the recipient of the Jess Chouteau Outstanding Senior Award.

Dr. Goodwin was a three-year letterman in football, earning All-American Scholar and Student-Athlete of the Year awards, and was drafted by Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. Dr. Goodwin received the Outstanding Alumni Award and was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at The University of Tulsa and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame, as a member of the Canadian Junior Football League National Championship team.

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Ashraf S. Hegazy is a leadership instructor, consultant, and coach. He has been Program Faculty for post-graduate and executive education programs at Harvard Medical School since 2019. He designed and led the leadership track of the Global Health Master’s Program at St. Jude’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Prior to that, he was the Global Head of Leadership for Acumen, overseeing the gold standard “Acumen Global Fellows” program and all regional fellows’ programs, in addition to advising and coaching social entrepreneurs from around the world. He continues his consulting work through Adaptive Leadership International, LLC, which he co-founded in 2024.

Mr. Hegazy is an expert on Adaptive Leadership (“AL”), a framework for mobilizing system-level change, on which he consults with medical, business, and political leaders worldwide. His work encompasses several additional frameworks, including negotiations, Immunity to Change, Teaming, public narrative, systems thinking, and design thinking. As a Senior Associate at the Harvard International Negotiation Program, he explored the emotional and cultural identity questions underlying major conflicts.

Mr. Hegazy began his studies at Harvard University’s Psychology Department and earned a Bachelor of Arts, focusing on leadership traits, then earned his Master of Public Administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was awarded a Presidential Management Fellowship and a Lucius N. Littauer Fellowship. Mr. Hegazy is co-author of The Practical Guide to Adaptive Leadership (forthcoming), available at AdaptiveLeadershipInternational.com summer 2025.

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Professor of Law at the SMU/Dedman School of Law. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Texas - Southwestern Medical School (since 1994) and Of Counsel at Haynes and Boone LLP (since 1989). Among the 18 courses he has taught since joining ҹɫÍõ³¯in1984 are Health Care Law, Bioethics and Law, Public Health Law & Ethics, and (with UT-Southwestern) Law, Literature & Medicine. He has received the law school's outstanding teacher award three times, as well as the University's outstanding volunteer award for community service, the President's Associate award as the outstanding member of the tenured faculty, and the University's Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Award.

He is a co-founder and past director of SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. He was a co-founder of the pro bono Dallas Legal Hospice (now the Legal Hospice of Texas) for clients with HIV/AIDS and terminal illnesses.

From 1990 to 2024 he has served on seven hospital ethics committees, two of which he co-chaired for a combined 50 years of service. He is a co-author of the Texas Advance Directives Act, which passed unanimously in both houses of the Texas Legislature in 1999.

He has given nearly 300 public lectures on health-law-related subjects and made almost 2,000 media appearances around the world, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, BBC World Service Radio, The Economist, Anderson Cooper 360, NPR (Morning Edition, All Things Considered), MSNBC, CBS Evening News, and NBC (Today, Nightly News).

He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past Secretary of the Board of the American Health Law Association. In addition to his volunteer community activities, he is the past poetry columnist for the Dallas Morning News.

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Seema Mohapatra is the MD Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law and Professor of Law at ҹɫÍõ³¯Dedman School of Law. Her research centers around health care equity, the intersection of biosciences and the law, assisted reproduction and surrogacy, reproductive justice, and public health law. In addition to being the co-editor of “Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten”, she is a co-author of the third edition of the textbook “Reproductive Technologies and the Law. " She currently serves as the Chair of the AALS Section of Law Medicine and Health Care and serves on the Board of Directors of American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and the nonprofit Population Connection. She also co-chairs the Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy Initiative.

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John Phillips, FACHE, serves as president of Methodist Dallas Medical Center. Since stepping into the role in 2018, Phillips has guided the hospital through accomplishments including recruitment of additional medical staff members to meet the growing needs of the hospitals service area, further development of the Da Vinci minimally invasive surgical program, established the MHS Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program and numerous hospital expansion and renovation projects providing the hospital’s patients access to high-quality healthcare services. Under his direction, Methodist Dallas has received accreditations as an American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Facility, Level I Trauma re-designation and Level III maternal and neonatal intensive care designation.

Phillips has been a member of the Methodist Health System family since 2011. Philips served seven years as president of Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, a 254-bed non-profit acute care hospital. Under his leadership in Mansfield, the hospital achieved Magnet designation for excellence in nursing and opened the $118-million Amon G. Carter Foundation Heart and Vascular Center as well as a new patient tower and $11.8-million professional office building.

Prior to joining Methodist, Phillips served as Chief Operating Officer at CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System in Texarkana and Chief Operating Officer at Davis Regional Medical Center in North Carolina.

Phillips earned a Bachelors in Physical Therapy from UT Southwestern, an MBA from Hardin-Simmons University and a Master of Health Care Administration from Trinity University. Outside of his role at Methodist Dallas, Phillips, his wife and two children enjoy family vacations, hiking and traveling.

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Dr. Potter is a Clinical Professor in Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management in the Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Studies Department at ҹɫÍõ³¯ in Dallas, Texas. He has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and has served on several editorial boards. Doctor Potter has served at the editor for two Index Medicus publications. Before joining the faculty at ҹɫÍõ³¯, he was Vice President for Professional Affairs for LASIK Plus where he had developed and managed the risk management program for refractive eye surgery.
A graduate of Indiana University where he received both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Optometry degrees, Doctor Potter has been active in health care for more than 50 years. He was a faculty member at the University of Alabama in Birmingham – The Medical Center as well as other academic healthcare institutions.
At ҹɫÍõ³¯, he has served on and chaired the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Doctor Potter is currently a member of the Faculty Senate. He also developed and instructs in the Healthcare Collaboration and Conflict Engagement Certificate program, a transcript quality program for working professionals in healthcare.

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Amanda Taffy is the Inaugural Program Director and Lead Faculty for the SMU-MHA program, where she leads the collaborative design, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum development. She oversees faculty appointments and advises students. In addition to her administrative role, Amanda teaches Health Law, Negotiations, and Ethics in Healthcare. She brings two decades of experience in health law, policy, public health, and public service to her leadership and teaching.

Amanda leads a multi-institutional research team focused on violence in New York City, collaborating with faculty and researchers from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and Columbia University. Prior to joining SMU, she worked on gun violence mitigation in Jackson, Mississippi, where she collected and analyzed data from diverse sources and developed targeted policy recommendations. Amanda also spearheaded a community beautification initiative in partnership with the Yale Club of Mississippi. Previously, Amanda served as an attorney at the Appellate Division, 2nd Dept (MHLS) in New York City. She also served as the Director of Public Service & Social Justice for the Yale Alumni Association in NYC, where she founded and co-chaired the Public Service Committee and the Juvenile Justice Reform Task Force.

Amanda holds a Doctorate in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a master’s in public health from Yale University, and a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University. Amanda loves spending time with family, friends, horses, and dogs in her free time. She remains active in Pilates, spinning, and swimming.