BridgeHealth Medical

 

Management Team

Victor Lazzaro, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer

Victor Lazzaro is the Chief Executive Officer of BridgeHealth International. With over 20 years of senior management experience in the health and managed care fields, he has held positions responsible for marketing, finance, administration and healthcare delivery.

Previously, Mr. Lazzaro was president and CEO of United Healthcare Corporation - Mountain States (UHC). Prior to his position at UHC, Mr. Lazzaro was regional vice president of Health Plans Operations, Gulf South for Prudential Insurance Company of America. At Prudential, he also had CEO responsibility for healthcare management in the Houston Health Plan, Arkansas, Southeast Texas and Louisiana, where his responsibilities included oversight of 30 primary specialty care clinics. Prior to entering healthcare, Mr. Lazzaro was International Controller of a Black & Decker Subsidiary.

Mr. Lazzaro is also the Managing Director of Volante Capital, and an active board member of a number of charity and business organizations and previously served on the advisory board of MediExpress, a UHC affiliate, in Kuala Lumpur. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado at Denver MBA in Health Administration program. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania.

 

Terry White
President

Mr. White has over 25 years of leadership experience in the healthcare industry. During his career he has served as CEO of hospitals and multi-hospital systems in Hawaii, Colorado and Maryland. White has also been a healthcare consultant, Board member and turnaround specialist. He is a cofounder of Centura Health, Colorado's largest healthcare system, with revenues of over $1 billion annually. He is an active member of the executive team of Signum US Healthcare, developing CyberKnife and radiation oncology treatment centers throughout China.

Mr. White also has provided leadership in a number of healthcare businesses including healthcare information technology, healthcare staffing, financial services and outpatient cancer treatment centers. Additionally, he has consulted a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit businesses including hospital operational turnaround assignments. Hospitals under his leadership have received national recognition for quality and service.

Mr. White has a Master of Healthcare Administration from Loma Linda University in California and is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is active in a variety of community and church organizations and has served on community and healthcare industry boards. Mr. White is a frequent speaker at workshops and seminars.

 

Lonnie Busby
Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Busby has over 30 years of domestic and international experience in senior level management positions in the healthcare industry. He has been a CEO, COO, Board Member, management consultant, and entrepreneur. He has served as a consultant to a variety of healthcare clients domestically, as well as in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. His management experience in healthcare ranges from multi-hospital systems and solo-hospitals to surgery centers, technology companies, imaging centers, rehab facilities, physician organizations and group practices. He is skilled at building market share and producing profitable operations in both public and private companies, and has a strong background in start-up operations, new business development, financial management, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and turn-around situations.

Mr. Busby has spent over five years studying the Chinese healthcare market and developing healthcare projects in China. In 1995, Mr. Busby founded Delta Healthcare Management, a company that provides interim and long-term management, as well as strategic, operational and financial performance improvement services to hospitals, physician organizations, and other healthcare businesses.

Prior to forming Delta, Mr. Busby was President of the Midwestern Division for HCA Healthcare Corporation. He had P&L responsibility for all operations within a three-state region encompassing Colorado, Arizona and Nebraska, and total revenue exceeding $1.5 billion. He expanded HCA’s presence in the Denver market from two hospitals to nine hospitals, growing the company’s market share from 9% to 36% in two years. Mr. Busby received his Master of Healthcare Administration degree from Baylor University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Arkansas State University. He is a Diplomat in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

 
Dr. Andrew Dombro
Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Dombro serves as Chief Medical Officer at BridgeHealth International, overseeing the development and review of all clinical issues and strategies, including patient safety, quality of care, patient education, and scope of services.

Dr. Dombro has been a broadly experienced clinician, educator, administrator, and leader in the medical community for more than twenty years.  He has practiced primarily as a hospitalist, or specialist in hospital-based medicine, but also has practice and management experience in both Emergency and Occupational Medicine.  His most recent clinical/faculty appointment was as Instructor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, CO in the Division of Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine Section.  During his time at UCHSC, Dr. Dombro also served as Physician Liaison for the Department of Medical Informatics, working directly with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of Medical Informatics, as well as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Sports Medicine.

Currently, he also serves as the Medical Director of a company which is nationally recognized as the leader in healthcare regulatory compliance and clinical documentation improvement (CDI).  Working with hospitals and healthcare organizations regarding these complex issues, he is responsible for strategic planning and the development and presentation of educational materials to groups of physicians as well as key members of hospital and corporate leadership.

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley, he attended the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.  He completed residency training at the University of Louisville Hospitals and became board-certified in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Dombro is also an experienced and accomplished public speaker and medical author.

 

Jordan Klear, Esq.
General Counsel

 

Mr. Klear serves as General Counsel for BridgeHealth and leads the organization on legal matters including contracts, compliance, privacy and risk. Additionally, he serves as a Managing Director at Volante Capital in the firm's Philadelphia office where he focuses on private equity investments in the healthcare services sector.

Mr. Klear spent over 5 years at Centra Capital, LLC, a middle market investment banking boutique where he was involved in deal sourcing and execution, as well as building the firm. Prior to joining Centra, Mr. Klear was the Founder and Director of a venture-backed wireless technology company. He began his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he served an Associate in the firm¹s securities regulatory compliance group where he advised investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds.

Mr. Klear has a BBA from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and has a JD from the Widener University School of Law. He currently serves as an Advisor to Signum US Healthcare, which is developing CyberKnife and radiation oncology treatment centers throughout China.

 

 

Chip Burgett
Vice President of Provider Relations

Mr. Burgett leads the BridgeHealth International provider relations unit which includes responsibility for both contracting and value management.  His unique experience in managed care network development and management includes: custom networks for large employers; provider-sponsored managed care organizations; and traditional insurance carrier networks.

Most recently, Mr. Burgett was managing director in charge of network development for Healthplace America, a specialty network company.  Prior to Healthplace, he spent ten years as chief executive for a large provider organization in Wisconsin.  His healthcare experience includes work in the insurance industry, medical products manufacturing and consulting.

Mr. Burgett is a graduate of Northwestern University.

 

Gordon Larson
Senior Vice President of Sales

Mr. Larson is BridgeHealth Medical’s Senior Vice President – Sales, leading the introduction of BridgeHealth’s World-Class Provider Network to Plan Sponsors throughout the US, delivering claims savings to insurance companies, third party administrators, and self insured companies. With over 20 years of senior management experience in commercial insurance and healthcare, he has held positions responsible for sales, marketing, and underwriting operations.

Mr. Larson was Senior Vice President – Corporate Development and Chief Knowledge Officer at CNA Insurance Company in Chicago IL, directly managing cross marketing initiatives for the $18 Billion organization. Mr. Larson also has held management positions with Great American Insurance Company, USF&G Insurance, and McKee Benefits prior to his most recent position with Healthplace America where he led the introduction of a specialty network to the insurance company market.

Mr. Larson is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also holds BA/MS Degrees in Economics from Northern Illinois University.

 

Ami Rakshit, PhD
Vice President of R&D, QA, Ops
& Systems Engineering

Dr. Amitabha Rakshit has been a key consultant and entrepreneur in the area of healthcare services. Since the late 1980s, he has been focused on Healthcare Cost Reduction and Consumer Driven Healthcare. He has worked with various medico-economic and medico-legal projects during this period and has specialized in “Patient-Empowerment” as a strategic solution to reduce the excessive use of surgery. He was one of the earliest pioneers of Demand Management and the several commercial Patient Empowerment/ Shared Decision Making modules which he has designed and produced, were some of the industry’s benchmarks in the mid to late nineties. 

Dr. Rakshit’s experience was not limited to the design and development only. He also developed significant perspectives in the various practical, hands-on logistical issues of deploying demand management programs within the context of existing patient flows. Later, through partnerships with Integrated Therapeutics Group, an early Disease Management subsidiary of Schering-Plough, a major pharmaceutical company, as well as Health Decisions, an early Demand Management company with major call center operations based in Denver, Colo, Dr. Rakshit gained valuable experience in many of the key operational aspects of Disease Management. 

In the mid-1980s, Ami was charged with guiding a major Fortune 100 company into healthcare business as a part of its corporate diversification effort. There, he was credited with conceiving and initiating the first US national project in 1986 to create a three-dimensional digital anatomical database from human cadavers in collaboration with Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. This project was eventually completed with public funding, under the auspices of the National Library of Medicine; it is known as the “Visible Man.” 

During 1994-5, Dr. Rakshit was asked by and offered his expert views to the US Congress (through the Office of the late Sen. Jesse Helms) on the beneficial role of patient empowerment as a cost savings strategy for considerations by the US policy makers with regards to the then-continuing debate over the “Patient’s bill of rights”.

Dr. Rakshit has authored several US and international patents in healthcare.

 

Will Garin
Vice President of Marketing

Mr. Garin provides extensive marketing and management experience gathered across a host of sectors including healthcare, personal luxury items, retail, and architectural design/build over his twelve-year professional history. In his role as Vice President of Marketing for BridgeHealth International, Inc., he guides the evolution of BridgeHealth products and services in the medical travel industry, with a focus on business-to-business and direct-to-consumer initiatives.

As Vice President of Marketing for SmartCare Family Medical Centers, Mr. Garin assumed comprehensive responsibility for the strategic marketing and communications functions for the multi-unit, consumer-driven retail healthcare organization he helped lead from business plan to twenty-one operating units. He also maintained strategic accounts with host partners Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., The Kroger Company and other partners in the pharmacy, grocery and retail industries.

Prior to his work with SmartCare, Mr. Garin doubled top line revenue and opened a new market for a mature business in the competitive design/build industry. He held primary responsibility for all aspects of marketing, brand communication and executive management for the firm and earned it national attention on Home & Garden Television, The History Channel and in The Financial Times.

While pursuing a graduate degree in business administration, Mr. Garin worked with the Rocky Mountain Regional Office of Starbucks Coffee Company, implementing field level marketing initiatives for the 9 state, 175+ store region.

Mr. Garin is a co-founder of For a Good Cause, a non-profit serving non-profits, and sits on the board of Anchor Center for Blind Children. Mr. Garin holds an MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver and earned a BA in English and Studio Art, with Honors, from Wake Forest University.

 

Mary Brook
Controller

Ms. Brook is the controller for BridgeHealth International, Inc. where she manages the accounting, reporting and financial controls for the organization.

Ms. Brook has experience in a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining BridgeHealth, she worked as a financial accounting consultant to businesses in the healthcare and financial services industries. From 1989 to 1997 she was the controller and director of Investor Relations for the Hallwood Companies, a group of 30 publicly traded oil and gas companies located in Denver and Dallas. From 1981 to 1989 she worked as an auditor for Deloitte & Touche, LLP, most recently as senior manager; there, she served clients in the healthcare, financial services, oil and gas, retail, government, not-for-profit, manufacturing, automotive and construction industries including General Motors, Janus Funds, Oppenheimer Funds, Catholic Charities, the Colorado Department of Education and the American Lung Association.

Ms. Brook is a Certified Public Accountant and obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.