For over 40 years, Art’s passion has been growing and advancing Graduate Medical Education (GME) in America. After spending 28 years working with some of the largest academic institutions in the country, he left that position to focus full time on creating greater transparency and understanding of GME programs. His idea was to start Germane Solutions, a firm that combined cutting edge technology and years of hard-earned expertise in order to give clients more insight than they’d ever had before. In addition to being the Chief Executive Officer of Germane Solutions, Art also has extensive experience developing ambulatory care services, maximizing reimbursement opportunities, structuring of academic support agreements, and creating economic incentives for teaching, research and clinical programs. Art has conducted numerous training sessions and presentations for organizations such as the AHA, AAMC, GBA, AHME and various state health care organizations.

Ms. Hearn leads our Academic Medicine Consulting Group (AMCG) which specializes in consulting with graduate medical education programs on strategy, accreditation, finance, and operations. She has over thirty years of experience in clinical and administrative healthcare. Her unique knowledge comes from her experiences as a registered nurse and healthcare consultant along with her deep understanding of the healthcare industry. Ms. Hearn specializes in operations, strategy, financial planning, and change management. She has directed and managed both planning and strategy projects, and she’s also led implementation for large scale academic clients, health systems and small independent entities. Prior to Germane, Ms. Hearn worked as a Senior Manager in the healthcare practice at Deloitte Consulting. While in that role, she coordinated many of the firm’s large-scale healthcare engagements. Ms. Hearn holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the College of Mt. Saint Joseph and an MBA from the University of Cincinnati.

Mr. Scaglione joined the Germane team in 2010 and has since developed his subject matter expertise in the complex regulatory rules governing Medicare GME Reimbursement as well as the Medicare Cost Reports (MCRs). His tenure includes providing extensive GME consulting services across the entire life cycle of GME from initial planning and implementation to complex change management to a wide variety of clients across the country, including hospitals, health systems, and medical schools. Mr. Scaglione’s expertise in GME finance provides significant value to his clients in helping to identify cost savings, increased GME reimbursement, and financial strategies to improve GME teaching institutions. As Managing Director of the Academic Medicine Consulting Group (AMCG) division at Germane, Mr. Scaglione is responsible for the oversight of proforma development, reimbursement profiles, MCR review, and financial strategy development for all AMCG clients.

Mr. Scaglione is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Ohio and holds a BS/BA in Accounting from Ohio State University.

Since joining Germane in 2013, Mr. Catanese has become a nationally recognized expert in both GME program accreditation and AOA/ACGME Single Accreditation System (SAS) transitions. Mr. Catanese leads Germane's New Program and ACGME accreditation services lines where he and his teams support over 150 programs nationally. Mr. Catanese has a Bachelor of Science degree from John Carroll University, and a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) degree from Des Moines University.