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Meet Your GB Healthcare Leadership Team

With decades of experience as defense attorneys, insurance claims executives, registered nurses, and certified healthcare risk managers, our team works as an extension of yours — to deliver real results without any surprises. Find out more about each of our GB Specialty Healthcare experts below.

Bill Bower

Senior Vice President - Director of Healthcare

 

Bill has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, with formal qualifications as a defense attorney and time spent as a Chief Risk Officer for a top 10 academic medical center. In this role, Bill was responsible for leading claim operations, clinical risk management, corporate insurance and key system-wide initiatives. He has built a reputation for excellence and integrity and is able to draw upon his diverse knowledge and experience to provide advice and solutions that drive real change for healthcare carriers' and organizations' claims management.

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Gary Leonard

Executive Vice President
Director of Account Management

 

Gary has worked across the healthcare industry in claims management for more than two decades, and brings creative and out-of-the-box thinking to ensure each client's expectations are not only met — but exceeded. His strong focus on collaboration helps GB Specialty and our healthcare clients identify what truly matters to them, what is able to be changed, and what results will be achieved.

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Pamela Popp

Executive Vice President - Chief Risk Officer

 

Pamela has over 35 years of experience managing claims and risk management programs for large carriers, hospital systems, and physician practices across the United States, including a top ranking academic health center. Her extensive experience, combined with industry leadership roles, a law degree and multiple certifications, equip her with unique strategic insights into industry trends and solutions. Pamela is a frequent speaker and author on claims and risk management topics and serves as faculty for both the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) and the Institute for Captive Insurance Education (ICCIE).

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Brian Clausen

Senior Vice President - Physician Practice Leader

 

Mr. Clausen holds a Juris Doctorate and has over thirty years of medical malpractice claim and litigation management experience.  He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and maintains a license to practice law in both California and Washington. Prior to joining GB Healthcare, Brian was the managing partner of a law firm focusing on trial and appellate work involving healthcare malpractice defense. In his current role of Senior Vice President and the Physician Practice Leader at GB Healthcare, Mr. Clausen specializes in the management of medical malpractice litigation and claims for healthcare providers and insurers of healthcare providers.

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Kara Knowles

Executive Vice President -Gallagher Bassett Specialty

 

Since 2020, Kara Knowles has served as Executive Vice President of GB Specialty and in 2021, Kara was promoted to the Hospital and Allied Care Practice Leader. In her current role, she is responsible for professional liability and general liability claim management for multiple healthcare systems. Kara holds a Juris Doctorate and over twenty years of medical malpractice and risk management experience. and was recently recognized as a Business Insurance Women to Watch 2021 Honoree. In addition, she was the Specialty Claim Professional of the Year in 2020.

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