Dave Fitzgerald is a visionary and strategic chief executive with proven skills building and scaling healthcare organizations through solid decision-making in all functional areas of physician companies. Create durable platforms that foster physician enablement and enhance the patient experience with a focus on patient outcomes. Dave defines and executes on strategy by recruiting and developing an elite senior leadership team and by creating a collaborative environment—all aligned with a shared purpose to inspire and achieve key objectives. He can drive accountability through KPIs resulting in superior economic results, growth, optimization of resources and efficient and effective processes.

Dave has held multiple C-suite roles in his career. Most recently as a Principal at Burst Advisors where he is an advisor focused on independent physician strategy, growth, strategic partnerships, group and ASC market share, orthopedic payment bundling, medical device purchasing bundling, and market consolidation. He works with private equity firms to develop and execute their specialty physician platform initiatives. During 2019, led the operations for USMD Health System and WellMed to rebuild specialty services, expand cancer treatment operations and restore growth to their surgical hospitals. He also oversaw operations for the $2B DFW market in Medicare Advantage (Value Based Care) with over 100k lives and the only 5-star plan in DFW.


Dave was also the CEO at Frontier Derm Partners where he lead multi-state physician platform of 100+ dermatology providers in over 40 locations. He built strategy to focus on clinical quality in tandem with efficient and accountable operations. He drove vision of rapid and controlled change and developed dual branding strategy for regional areas. Dave also strengthened and enhanced ACGME Accredited Dermatology Residency Program to enhance provider experience and augment recruitment opportunity. Dave has lead teams through reorganization of field operations to scale for growth and efficiency and developed provider scorecard to provide transparent metrics for professional development and efficiency.

Dave earned a Bachelor or Science in Accounting from Brigham Young University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Utah.

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