We are deeply saddened to report that Beall Dozier "Nap" Gary, Jr., President, Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Regent Surgical Health, died suddenly on Sunday, May 10. The cause of death was a heart attack suffered during his weekly early-morning, 13-mile run at his home in White Hall, Va.
As President and COO of Regent, Nap was responsible for all aspects of operations for the company’s nationwide network of surgery centers. He was also the immediate past president of the Board of Directors of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association and the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation, two associated organizations that collectively constitute the trade association for the ambulatory surgery center industry and its 3,000 surgery center members. He was also a regular speaker at ASCA, state surgery associations, and other surgery center and hospital industry conferences.
Before joining Regent in 2006, Nap worked at HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Ala. from 1996 until 2005. There he served as lead council for the company’s network of more than 125 surgery centers and President and Supervisory Principal of the company’s NASD-registered broker-dealer subsidiary. He later served HealthSouth as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, heading up the department responsible for acquisitions and de novo development of all the company’s inpatient rehabilitation facilities and surgery centers (2004-05). From 1982 until 1996, he was an associate and then a partner at the Birmingham law firm of Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, where he concentrated in corporate, securities and healthcare law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, registered and exempt offerings, and general representation of closely held and public corporations.
Nap had been a member of the Alabama State Bar since 1982. He earned a J.D. earlier that same year from Washington University School of Law, where he was Associate Managing Editor of the Washington University Law Quarterly. He received his B.A., cum laude, in 1979 from Duke University, where he made the dean’s list for three years and served as President of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. In 1975, he graduated from Indian Springs School in Helena, Ala., where he served as mayor and sang in the glee club.
Nap’s civic activities included serving as chairman of the board of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham. Of all his volunteer work, Nap was proudest of the partnership he helped forge among ASCA, Regent and Partners in Health (a nonprofit co-founded by one of his fraternity brothers at Duke) to donate equipment no longer needed by surgery centers to PIH facilities in Haiti and other developing countries.
Regent extends its deepest sympathies to Nap’s wide circle of family and friends – and especially to Amy, his wife of 30 years; his daughter, Emily; and his sons, Britt and David. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to either the scholarship fund at Indian Springs School,
Indian Springs School 190 Woodward Dr. Indian Springs Village, AL 35124,
or Partners in Health,
Partners In Health PO Box 845578 Boston, MA 02284.