Erie Chapman, M.T.S., J.D., is president and chief executive officer of the Baptist Healing Hospital Trust, Nashville, Tennessee.  He is the author of the acclaimed book, Radical Loving Care - Building the New Healing Hospital in America (BHT-2003), now in its eighth printing, and Sacred Work, Planting Cultures of Radical Loving Care in America (BHT-2006) and The Caregiver Meditations - Reflections on Loving Presence, all available through the Baptist Healng Trust and through www.amazon.com.

    Across his extraordinary career Mr. Chapman has served as a successful trial attorney, federal prosecuting attorney, night court judge, producer/host of an internationally syndicated television show (Life Choices with Erie Chapman & Kathleen Sullivan), publisher of a healthcare magazine, newspaper columnist, radio talk show host, documentary film producer, and author.  He is also a prize-winning photographer and a music composer.  He is a 2002 graduate of Vanderbilt University Divinity School. 

   The primary focus of Mr. Chapman's career, however, has been in the leadership of hospitals and healthcare organizations.  Over a quarter century he served as President and CEO of Riverside Hospital in Toledo, Ohio (chosen at age 33) Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, the fifteen hosptial OhioHealth Corporation, Columbus (founding president and CEO, 1983-1995) chief operating officer of the publicly traded InPhyNet Medical Management Co., Ft. Lauderdale; and Baptist Hospital System, Nashville where he served as President and CEO from 1998-2002.

   Mr. Chapman is the author of the children's book, Scotty the Snail; a novel; a collection of short stories & a play. He is finishing a book of collected poems, some of which appear elsewhere on this website. The following comments on Radical Loving Care from well known leaders reflect the positive national reaction to this work:

         Splendid, poetic, and eminently practical. Erie Chapman is a beacon of light in American Health care.

                                                         - David Whyte, poet and best selling author of The Heart Aroused

         Chapman has written a book that should be in the hands of every healthcare executive who

         truly believes in the core mission of taking care of others. Anyone who leads a healthcare

         organization of any kind should read this book.

                                                        - Chuck Lauer, publisher, Modern Healthcare magazine.

    About his book, Sacred Work, George Mikitarian, President & CEO of Parish Medical Center said:

          No single person is doing more to affect the delivery of health care than is Erie Chapman.

   Mr. Chapman's music compositions are available on three separate CDs and can be sampled on this website. His two films, Sacred Work and The Servant's Heart are available through the Baptist Healing Trust.

   Erie and his wife, Kirsten, a prize-winning journalist and author of The Way Home, live in Nashville.  They have two children and one grandchild.