PMD Institute Fall Summit

Kayur Patel, MD, FACP, FACPE, FACHE, FACEP

Chief Medical Officer
Proactive MD

Dr. Kayur Patel, is a Practicing Emergency Department Physician. He is trained and boarded in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine.  Dr. Patel is also a highly experienced physician executive. He has over twenty years of practical experience in Healthcare management.

This includes serving as the;

1. Former Chief Medical Officer of a 278-bed Community Hospital in Terre Haute
2. Former Director to Health Care Excel, An Quality Improvement Organization for Indiana
3. Currently he also serves as consultant to KEPRO, the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)

Dr. Patel is a frequent speaker on the subject of quality in healthcare.  His focus has been on improving methodology in care delivery to ensure Right Care at the Right Time at the Right Price.

Philip Eskew, DO, JD, MBA

Vice President, Clinical Development and General Counsel
Proactive MD

Dr. Eskew is the VP of Clinical Development and General Counsel for Proactive MD. He is also the Founder & CEO of DPC Frontier, a legal, regulatory, and growth resource for Direct Primary Care Practices. He also serves as a Site Medical Director for Corizon Health. He routinely researches all regulatory aspects surrounding direct primary care and is also volunteering his time as the General Counsel of the DPC Coalition.

Saria Saccocio, MD, MHA

President
Proactive MD

In her role as Company President, Dr. Saccocio leads Proactive MD’s Medical Affairs and Operations teams. She comes to us from Prisma Health, where she served for four years, most recently as Ambulatory Chief Medical Officer. Her impressive career includes a wide variety of medical leadership roles across the Southeast, from running her own primary care practice to serving as the Chief Medical Officer at Bon Secours St. Francis Health System. She received her MD with honors from the University of Florida, completed her residency at the University of Miami, and earned her MHA at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Most importantly, Dr. Saccocio shares our passion for enhancing the quality and accessibility of healthcare for the medically underserved and has volunteered her time and expertise at the Greenville Free Clinic for six years. When not working in a clinical or medical leadership capacity, Dr. Saccocio enjoys spending time with her husband Seth and teenage children Carter and Ella Rose, as well as hiking, reading, and traveling.

William Bestermann, MD

Senior Clinical Advisor
Congruity Health

William H. Bestermann Jr., MD is a board-certified internist who practiced preventive cardiology for 20 years.  He has been heavily involved with health care reform and quality improvement during that same period.  He wrote the first article on a systematic approach to the metabolic syndrome.  He led an advanced cardiometabolic medical home that managed high risk diabetic and hypertensive patients for a Fortune 100 company in Tennessee.  

He was a Senior Clinical Advisor for the Quality Blue Primary Care program at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana.  That initiative saved $27 pmpm net at the 1 year mark while reducing hospitalizations, length of stay, and specialty referrals.  

He is currently a senior clinical advisor for Congruity Health, and he consults with healthcare organizations to help them produce optimal medical therapy for cardiovascular and related conditions.  You can see more of his content here.

Deniece Krebs, CHC

COVID-19 Project Manager, VirtualClinic.MD
DNA Detective, The Code Of YOU!

For nearly three decades Deniece has focused her attention and initiatives on empowering and developing individuals. This passion goes back to one of her first jobs while in college when she was involved in training new employees. Once she embarked on her entrepreneurial path, she provided leadership development to her corporate clients; and most recently to individual Epigenetic Human Performance Coaching to empower individuals in their own health journey by discovering and understanding their unique genetic and epigenetic code – The Code Of YOU!

When faced with the current Pandemic, she continued her push for being as healthy as possible to fight this foreign invader just like every other. This journey led her to take on the opportunity as “COVID-19 Project Manager” for a national company, Virtual Clinic, where she now uses her lifetime of skills to support and educate Clinicians in various COVID tests while also developing a full turn-key end-to-end solution for the ever-changing COVID testing mandates in schools and workplaces.

Deniece’s foundational belief is from a local respected businessman who said “Tell me all the reasons we CAN” as well as the core belief that information empowers and empowerment leads to health.

Louis Strauss, MD

Hospitalist
Apogee Physicians

Dr. Strauss is a father of 2 living in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane School of Medicine and did his residency in family medicine at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia.

He has held faculty appointments as an assistant clinical professor of Family Medicine at Tufts SOM, Medical University of South Carolina, and University of South Carolina.

He was the founding Medical director of two urgent care centers for Baystate Health in western Massachusetts, and more recently was core faculty at the McLeod Family Medicine residency program and founding program director for the McLeod Rural Family Medicine Program.

He currently works as a Hospitalist for Apogee Physicians and also serves as a medical reviewer for the South Carolina Board of Medicine. When not doing clinical work he can often be found working in his garden or hanging out in coffee shops in Uptown New Orleans.