>> My name is Karise Christner [assumed spelling] and I am the Corporate Director
of Financial Planning for Memorial Care Health System.
So Memorial Care stretches from Long Beach all the way down south to San Clemente.
And in the recent years, we've embarked on a journey
where we've become a fully integrated health system.
And my role in the organization is to manage the operational budget
and capital budget for the system.
When we acquired all these hospitals we also acquired a medical group,
each of those business units, the culture is completely different.
And so part of my challenge is working with each
of the administrative teams of each of those campuses.
So I work closely with each CFO.
Each CFO is very different.
They want to look at different things.
The personalities are a little different.
So in a day I have to quickly move from someone who wants a lot of detail
to someone who's looking more at a macro level and anticipate what each one wants
so I can move my team ahead of time and do the analysis before it's requested.
When you go into healthcare administration you will be working either on projects
or on a daily basis communicating with many clinicians.
And I remember my first budget meeting right after I graduated with USC.
It was at CHOC.
We met with one of the nursing directors.
I was in her office with her budget managers and I remember how quickly
that conversation turned into patient care acronyms.
I said okay, time out, and had to remind them that my background was finance.
But I so wanted to help them complete an accurate budget.
So I think that communicating this up front, being open,
helped them realize okay let us give Karise exactly the items we need to get
into budget so we can all be successful.
I graduated from USC's Marshall School of Business in 2002.
I majored in Business Administration with a double emphasis
in finance and global management.
Once I graduated, that's when I entered the healthcare industry.
And I went to work for CHOC as a financial analyst.
CHOC is Children's Hospital of Orange County.
It's important that you enjoy the journey.
It's a long haul to get to the goal.
And you have to be able to wake up in the morning and enjoy going to work
and enjoy everything that you're learning, that you're experiencing along the way.