Care Management Leadership

Dr. Michael Simons Medical Director, Telehealth

Dr. Michael Simons presently serves the Medical Director of Banner Telehealth. In this capacity, he is charged with serving as a resource for medical matters, as well as working with his administrative dyad partner to develop those strategies, policies and practices to ensure the highest quality and efficacy for existing and putative Telehealth programs. He has served in this capacity since October 2017. Dr. Simons also serves as the physician executive for Banner’s Critical Care Clinical Consensus Group (CCG), which functions as the repository of clinical expertise for this discipline. Dr. Simons joined Banner Health in 2006, after completing his Internal Medicine residency and Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He currently continues to practice clinically in Banner’s Tele -ICU program. Dr. Simons is married with no children and enjoys travel, reading and photography in his spare time.

Dr. Bethany Bruzzi Senior Director, CMO Clinical Efficiency

Dr. Bruzzi is the Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Efficiency for the Tucson Market. In this role, her focus is on length of stay, throughput, utilization, transitions of care and provider satisfaction. In addition, she acts as the executive lead for BUMGT medical directors and BUMGT hospitalists. She also serves as the Hospital Medicine Executive Sponsor after serving as the lead for several years. She graduated the Advanced Leadership for Physicians and started the advocacy graduate track for the program. Dr. Bruzzi gladly accepted the role of Chief Medical Officer of the South Campus in 2019. During her time in this role, the hospital improved CMS scores by one-star, improved Leapfrog ratings to A’s and received the Top Loan Institute Hospital. Dr. Bruzzi remains on faculty as a Board-Certified Family Medicine Hospitalist and assistant professor. She was named Tucson’s 20/20 “Woman of the Year” and has received three Banner Health Amazement awards. She is currently working towards completion of her MBA at UA Eller College of Management. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her husband, SCUBA diving and playing with her dog Penelope.