Dr. Crane is currently the chief clinical officer for emergency medicine for TeamHealth where he supports clinical quality and safety for the company’s emergency medicine service line, performance improvement and innovation initiatives, leadership development programs, performance analytics and workforce development.

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and medical degree from Medical College of Virginia. He is currently a board-certified practicing emergency physician. Considered one of the leading experts in emergency department operations in the U.S., Dr. Crane has taught and led healthcare and emergency department improvement efforts with hundreds of organizations in a wide variety of settings on six continents.

Dr. Noon is head of the department of Business Analytics & Statistics at the University of Tennessee. He is a founding member of the highly-ranked Physician Executive MBA program and continues to teach in the program. Dr. Noon also teaches in the department’s Masters and PhD programs, and in a number of executive education programs including the longstanding “Lean for Healthcare” offered by the University of Tennessee.

His teaching interests include operational improvement, business modeling, simulation, and decision analysis & support. He holds a PhD in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. His published research concerns computer-based modeling and process improvement.