About Dr. Manny.
Physician. Executive. Strategist. Designer of systems, services, and places.
I’ve spent my career at the intersection of medicine, business, and design, focused on one question: Why does healthcare so often fail to deliver what it promises?
As a clinically active physician and healthcare executive, I’ve seen the same pattern across organizations of every size. The problem is rarely a lack of ideas, effort, or investment. It is that strategy, operations, experience, workforce, technology, and the built environment are too often treated as separate decisions.
They are not. They are parts of the same system.
My work focuses on closing that gap, helping leaders connect decisions usually made in silos, clarify tradeoffs often left unnamed, and translate ambition into plans that can survive contact with reality.
That is the work I choose.
What makes my perspective different
I do not come to healthcare strategy from one discipline.
I see healthcare as a physician making real-time clinical decisions, as an executive accountable for performance, and as a strategist and designer focused on how systems, services, and places actually work.
That combination changes the questions I ask. It changes the tradeoffs I surface. And, it changes the solutions I’m willing to recommend.
I’m most interested in the places where strategy meets operations, where experience meets logistics, and where the built environment either supports, or undermines, what leaders say they want to achieve.
What that enables
This perspective helps leaders define the right problem before they start solving the wrong one.
It connects decisions fragmented across strategy, operations, experience, workforce, technology, and the built environment, and shows how each one shapes the others.
Most importantly, it helps organizations make decisions that are not just compelling on paper, but workable in reality: decisions that improve access, strengthen performance, and create systems that are more coherent, resilient, and responsive to the people who depend on them.
Selected credentials and experience
Board-certified emergency physician with ongoing clinical practice
Senior healthcare executive and advisor to health systems and industry partners
Experience across strategy, operations, patient experience, innovation, and campus planning
Advanced graduate training in medicine, business, and design
Speaker and contributor at regional and national forums on healthcare transformation
HCD10 awardee
Let’s Talk.
If you’re working on a healthcare problem that isn’t yielding to conventional approaches, let’s talk.