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Lorie Glisson

New Position: president, chief financial officer, JSA Healthcare Corp., St. Petersburg. Previous Position: executive vice president, JSA Healthcare Corp., St. Petersburg

By Times Staff Writer
Published August 8, 2005

While the furniture hasn't change, the duties have for Lorie Glisson, who was promoted to president and chief financial officer of JSA Healthcare in May.

She oversees all the financial aspects of the company, dealing with external bankers and auditors, as well as overseeing all of the company's information systems. Glisson also is responsible for the more than 60 physician partner groups and eight pharmacies in a five-county core territory: Pinellas, Hillsborough, Hernando, Manatee and Pasco.

The company is also opening additional offices in Orlando.

Overall, the new position provides "a greater leadership role for the company," Glisson said.

A new responsibility for Glisson is overseeing JSA Healthcare's eight pharmacies, which the company is working to expand. Her responsibilities include "determining business opportunities for expansion of these pharmacies. These coexist, for the most part, with our clinic operations," and expansion efforts currently are focused on Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough counties, she said.

Glisson is a native Floridian. She was born in West Palm Beach, and her family moved around the state when she was a child, finally settling in Ocala.

She earned her bachelor's degree in accounting in 1985 from Florida State University, and a master's degree in accounting from Auburn University the following year.

She began her career with an accounting firm in Montgomery, Ala., and worked there until 1988, when she moved to Tampa to join KMPG as an account auditor. In six years, she worked her way up to manager.

In 1994, Glisson joined the Florida Spine Institute in Clearwater as controller. She joined JSA Healthcare a year later, also as controller, and two months later was promoted to vice president of finance. In the decade she has been at JSA Healthcare, Glisson also has been senior vice president and, most recently, executive vice president.

"I think health care is a tremendously exciting industry to be in," Glisson said. "There are a lot of changes. I like changes. Changes, I think, provide opportunities.

"And I still think there are a lot of changes to be made in heath care," she said. "It's a rewarding industry."

Glisson, 42, and her husband, Rob, recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. They have two children - Bradley, 12, and Ashley, 5 - and live in Tampa. Glisson said the family likes to go snow skiing at least once a year, usually during spring break, and especially like the slopes of Colorado.

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