Founder, President and Chairman since the company's inception in July 2000, Dr. David E. Marcinko is a healthcare economist and financial planning evangelist from Loyola University in Baltimore, Temple University in Philadelphia, and the Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago. As a clinician, surgeon and past president of a privately held regional physician practice management corporation in the Midwest, he helped consolidate 95 solo medical practices, with $50 million in revenues as the company’s IPO roll-up attempt was aborted due to adverse market conditions, in 1999. A nationally recognized leader in the health and financial information services industry, he is a pioneer in utilizing technology to improve quality education while simultaneously reducing delivery costs. He was also managing partner of a successful ambulatory surgery center that was sold to a publicly traded company in 1998, and interim Chief Visionary Officer for a B2B telecommunication firm that failed in its bid for venture capital, but flourished in the private sector.

Dr. Marcinko holds general securities (Series # 7), uniform securities state law (Series # 63) and registered investment advisory representative (Series # 65) licenses from the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). He is also a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality© (CPHQ), as well as a life, disability, health, property-casualty, annuity and insurance professional for the State of Georgia. After a stint as visiting scholar for several graduate and business schools, Dr. Marcinko was recently appointed academic Provost of iMBA to lead the firm’s adult learning (heutagogy) initiatives. He is a member of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) and the International Health Economics Association (iHEA); a member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS); a member of the Microsoft Professional Accountant's Network (MPAN); registered member of the US Microsoft Partner's Program (MPP); member of the Microsoft Health User's Group (MS-HUG), and BioInformatics.org; Sun Executive Boardroom program member sponsored by CEO Scott McNealy; and member of SUNSHINE [Solutions for Healthcare Information, Networking and Education], an international community for healthcare IT innovation created by HIMSS and Sun Microsystems, Inc (NASD-SUNW). 

As Chief Executive Officer, Certified Medical Planner© and former Certified Financial Planner©, he lectures on healthcare economics, finance and related medical management topics throughout this country, and Europe, in an entertaining and witty fashion. Dr. Marcinko is available to colleagues, clients or the media at the Atlanta corporate office.

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