Azmat Husain, MD
Philadelphia
Summary
Physician executive who has led departmental, hospital and system turnarounds. Known as a strong collaborator who focuses keenly on building relationships to support positive change management when needed. Diverse skill set in strategy development, clinical operations, physician contracting, recruitment, and revenue cycle operations.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Medical Officer & Co-Founder
Personic Healthcare
Philadelphia
01.2021 - Current
- Co-Founded one of region's largest COVID testing operations
- Evaluated and tested over 800,000 patients
- Oversaw growth to 30 facilities in 7 states
- Launched Behavioral Health division with 5 facilities providing transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for severe depression and anxiety
- Launched Advanced Wound care division with operations in 7 states focused on stem cell derived therapy for healing of advanced high complex wounds
Chief Executive Officer
St. Christopher's Pediatric Associates
Philadelphia
12.2019 - 02.2022
- Successful recruitment of over 30 subspecialty physicians
- Successful launch of Pediatric Behavioral Health department
- Collaboration with city, county and state officials to initiate nearly $10 million of annual grant funded activities
- Oversee research office that conducts clinical trials, bench research and all other forms of research
- Oversee academic affairs office that includes all GME related functions including residency and fellowship oversight
- Successfully renegotiated academic affiliation agreements with external institutions for rotating residents and medical students
- Successfully launched multiple subspecialty satellite locations
- Led successful restructuring of multiple physician group employment agreements as well as outsourced physician group contracts
- Led organization successfully through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and acquisition by Tower Health Medical group.
- Oversee 235 physicians, 700 employees and nearly $80 million in annual revenue
Chief Executive Officer, Physician Practice
American Academic Health System
Philadelphia
10.2018 - 12.2019
- Chief executive over physician practices serving St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and Hahnemann University Hospital
- Developed and implemented strategic vision for 42 clinical departments and 400 providers for both hospitals
- Negotiated with government and commercial insurance payers for enhanced services and new contracts
- Maintained operations and finances through bankruptcy proceedings and transition to new ownership
Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations
American Academic Health System
Philadelphia
03.2018 - 12.2019
- Oversaw all physician contracting, acquisitions, and program development
- Enhanced Emergency Department through process change which led to 70% reduction in wait times
- Enhanced Hospital throughput which led to 12% reduction in length of stay
- Enhanced hospital Case Mix Index by 15% by implementing robust clinical documentation support infrastructure
- Reduction in insurance denials by 22% by implementation of robust denials management infrastructure
- Restructured physician compensation structure to provide productivity and quality incentives
- Oversaw clinical business development for growth of key service lines
Chairman of Emergency Services
St. Mary's General Hospital
Passaic
07.2016 - 02.2018
- Led successful startup of physician contract by recruiting 75% new physician staff with only 6 week contract turnaround time
- Successfully improved operational metrics of Emergency Department
- Implemented EMS outreach program with ED physicians providing continuing education lectures at local fire houses
Regional Medical Director
CEP America
District Of Columbia
01.2017 - 02.2018
- Oversaw operations for CEP America's emergency department operations on from Georgia to New Jersey including 11 different hospitals
- Lead transitions with new startup contracts
- Oversaw quality of performance by physicians and physician assistants
- Train chairman's of each hospital on leadership and maintaining finances
- Ensure financial success of contracts and renegotiate with hospital administration when necessary
Chairman of Emergency Services
East Orange General Hospital
East Orange
08.2017 - 02.2018
- Oversaw implementation of new physician contract
- Work to recruit and train new staff of physicians and ancillary staff
- Implement Quality Improvement process
- Oversaw implementation of new electronic medical record for Emergency Department
- Helped develop hospital throughput committee to enhance collaboration and throughput in hospital
Chairman, Emergency Department
Howard University Hospital
DC
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Led successful startup of new physician contract by recruiting 50% new physician staff
- Increased patient volume through enhanced operational efficiency
- Decreased waiting room times by over 80% and enhanced throughput by nearly 60% in first 90 days
- Successfully implemented first hospital throughput committee
- Led and developed curriculum for city wide EMS training program for all 241 advanced life support providers in District of Columbia
- Initiated currently ongoing efforts for development of psychiatric emergency department
Assistant Medical Director
St. Agnes Hospital
Baltimore
01.2013 - 01.2016
- Developed and implemented in-house scribe program
- Successfully recruited over 50 scribes, many of whom were prior physicians
- Led population health initiative to coordinate care for medically complex chronic patients who were frequent visitors of emergency department
- Worked with regional health IT exchange to coordinate care plans between Baltimore City emergency departments
- Increased collections per physician visit by approximately 6%
- Provided education to nurses and Physician Assistants by conducting "mock codes" and delivering lectures
Resident Physician, Emergency Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia
01.2010 - 01.2013
- Implemented first resident quality improvement committee to give residents specific feedback on cases referred for evaluation
Education
M.D. -
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD2010
Bachelor of Science - Biology
University Of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD2006
Publications
Au, Arthur; Paziana, Karolina; Husain, Azmat; Hale, Christopher; Ku, Bon; Fields, J Matthew. Potential improvement in maternal mortality with point-of-care ultrasound in a resource limited region of Sierra Leone. Presented at the International Conference of Emergency Medicine, Antalya Turkey. Oct 2012.
Chaudhary, H. Paziana, K. Rotte, M. Husain, A. Sule, H. Fields, J. Ku, B. Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. Nasser, R. Punjab Emergency Services, Lahore, Pakistan. A Description of a public-private partnership Emergency Medical Services in Lahore, Pakistan. Presented at the International Conference of Emergency Medicine, Antalya Turkey. Oct 2012.
Paziana, K. Husain, A. Fields, J. Rotte, M, Sule, H. Imran, R. Ku, B.Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Baghdad University College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine. Surveying Iraqi Medical Student Perceptions of Emergency Medicine to Aid Implementation of Formalized Taining Programs. Presented at the Yale University Institute of Global Health Annual Conference April 2013.
Michael D. Witting, Amal Mattu, Robert Rogers, Christian Halvorson. "Simultaneous T-Wave Inversions in the Anteroseptal and Inferior Leads: A Sign of Pulmonary Embolism" Proceedings of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Conference (SAEM 2009), New Orleans. May 2009. *Received acknowledgement on poster for research that led to publication
Azmat Husain, Tia Gao, and David White. "Paramedic Operations Specification as a Launching Point for Mass Casualty Incident-Targeted Engineering Design". Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
Tammara Massey, Tia Gao, Daniel Bernstein, Azmat Husain, David Crawford, David White, Leo Selavo and Majid Sarrafzadeh. "Pervasive Triage: Towards Ubiquitous, Real-time Monitoring of Vital Signs for Pre-hospital Applications" UbiHealth 2006.
Tia Gao, Azmat Husain, Alex Alm, David Crawford and David White. "Vital Signs Monitoring and Patient Tracking Over a Wireless Network" Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Tech Digest. Fall 2006
Timeline
Chief Medical Officer & Co-Founder
Personic Healthcare
01.2021 - Current
Chief Executive Officer
St. Christopher's Pediatric Associates
12.2019 - 02.2022
Chief Executive Officer, Physician Practice
American Academic Health System
10.2018 - 12.2019
Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations
American Academic Health System
03.2018 - 12.2019
Chairman of Emergency Services
East Orange General Hospital
08.2017 - 02.2018
Regional Medical Director
CEP America
01.2017 - 02.2018
Chairman of Emergency Services
St. Mary's General Hospital
07.2016 - 02.2018
Chairman, Emergency Department
Howard University Hospital
01.2016 - 01.2017
Assistant Medical Director
St. Agnes Hospital
01.2013 - 01.2016
Resident Physician, Emergency Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
01.2010 - 01.2013
M.D. -
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Bachelor of Science - Biology
University Of Maryland Baltimore County
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