b'pilots. It worked for three hospitals. Thus, his journey with transforming the landscape of healthcare for Arizona began.Fast forward to 1987 when Jim, along with his colleague and friend Dr. Art Nelson, created the Scottsdale Memorial Healthcare System, which comprised Scottsdale Baptist on Osborn and soon the newly approved north hospital, now known as HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center.It started with two hospitals, outpatient care and inpatient care from Mayo, reects Jim. From there we built it up to include Scottsdale Memorial Foundation, our rst philanthropic effort, to help serve the community and fund new, innovative technology, such as the rst MRI machine.Jim Schamadan and his daughter,His youngest of three children, daughter Barrie, says Barrie that her dad also helped develop the Shea Corridor through his work designing and planning the hospital Jims work and vision has helped raise Arizona fromat Shea while growing the emerging Scottsdale a sleepy southwest town to an accomplished urbanMemorial Healthcare System.oasis with a sprawling healthcare system. His resume reads military pilot, physician, engineering professor,It brought jobs and shops and restaurants to the global medical consultant and healthcare executive.area. The only thing along there at the time was Just as impressive is his personal roles as husband,Handle Bar Js and a Circle K, Barrie recalls. But father, son, granddad, friend, uncle and mentor. through his leadership in the hospital system, my dad also chaired the Human Services Commission with its Of everything I have ever done, Im most proud of work on critical social services and developed city-my family, remarks Jim. All my children are extremelywide tness and community outreach programs with family-oriented, so smart and great mothers andMayor Herb Drinkwater.fathers. We all live within a short distance of each other to this day. When told that he chose a perfect location for the hospital based on the layout of Scottsdale today, he Trained as a military pilot during the Korean War hesmiled and told the story of how he asked graduate obtained his undergraduate degree in engineering, which he jokingly refers to as his version of pre-med. He went on to earn his medical degree from the Ohio State University which he put to good use at various naval bases, but ultimately left the military and began teaching as a professor of engineering atI was brought up as an engineer Arizona State University. Not one to enjoy idle hands, he also worked as the solo emergency room physicianand look at medicine from that at Scottsdale Baptist Hospital (now HonorHealthpoint of viewthe mechanics of Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center) between classes and during the all night shift. It was here heit. How does it all fit together?developed a system to efciently schedule physician shifts, based on an algorithm TWA used for stafng HonorHealth Foundation Magazine 19'