Emma Wollschlager Schwartz serves as President for the Medical Center of the Americas (MCA) Foundation. In this position, Schwartz leads, advocates for and coordinates the development of the MCA campus. She reports to the MCA Foundation Board of Directors. She is also founder and President of Wollschlager Consulting, LLC, d/b/a W Consulting, LLC, a healthcare management and regulatory compliance consulting company.
Prior to launching her own consulting firm, Ms. Schwartz was Director of Compliance Consulting for Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting, Inc. in Los Angeles, California. While at Sinaiko, she regularly lead operational performance improvement projects, prepared detailed business and strategic plans, created operational and billing related policies and procedures, audited claims and processes for specific audit protocols, and developed and monitored compliance programs for environments as varied as hospitals, physician practices, clinical laboratories, dialysis facilities and diagnostic imaging centers. She also gained extensive experience in the areas of Organ Transplant, Cardiology and Dialysis billing, reimbursement and compliance. Prior to consulting, she was Assistant Director of Legal Compliance for Sierra Providence Health Network, a multi-hospital Tenet Healthcare System in El Paso, Texas. At Tenet, she directed legal and contract compliance efforts. She is a co-author of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethic’s “The Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual,” and she has been published in the Journal of Health Care Compliance, Bureau of National Affairs’ Health Care Fraud Report, Chimera (the quarterly Journal for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons), American College of Cardiology Annual Abstract Compilation and Cardiovascular Disease Management. She has given many presentations on healthcare and corporate compliance, as well as presentations on the development of the life sciences industry and MCA in the Paso del Norte region.
Ms. Schwartz involvement in the community is extensive. She is a director of WestStar Bank in El Paso and a lay member of the TTUHSC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. She is a member of the Paso del Norte Group where she serves on the Executive and Civic Committees, in addition to being a founding member of the Young Leadership Group and co-chair of the Membership Committee. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce and has also served as a trustee on the YWCA Foundation Board.
Her Bachelor of Arts degree is in Human Biology from Stanford University with a concentration in Comparative Health Policy. Her Masters is from the UCLA School of Public Health in Health Services Management. She is married to Doug Schwartz, they have two daughters, Sienna and Milan.
