Hospital Medicine and APP Optimization

Hospital-based physicians and APPs are navigating growing challenges like burnout, staffing shortages, and throughput and efficiency pressures. Optimizing your Hospital Medicine service is key to enhancing clinical, financial, and operational performance. To build and sustain a high-performing hospitalist platform, hospital, physician, and APP leaders must unite around a shared vision, empower frontline caregivers, elevate the patient voice, and embrace innovation amid evolving operational and financial demands.

We partner with organizations to create alignment around the future-state vision and goals for Hospital Medicine. Our comprehensive assessments blend quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate current operations against leading industry practices. We bring our deep experience and industry perspective to help clients design, test, and implement new models of care.

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Meet our Hospital Medicine and APP Optimization leaders

Aman Sabharwal, MD

Managing Partner and Leader, Clinical Transformation

Aman Sabharwal, MD, co-leads the Clinical Transformation line of business.  Aman has over 20 years of healthcare experience and is a board-certified internal medicine hospitalist.

Tomas Villanueva, DO

Senior Partner

Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM, is a Senior Partner in Clinical Transformation at Chartis. He is a practicing, dual- boarded internist with over 25 years of experience in both clinical and operational leadership.

Mark Krivopal, MD

Senior Partner

Mark Krivopal, MD, is a Senior Partner in Financial Transformation and leads the Financial Performance Improvement practice. He brings 25 years of healthcare experience in academic medical centers, complex IDNs, independent community hospitals, and a healthcare information technology start-up.

Christian Dankers, MD

Partner and Associate Chief Medical and Quality Officer

Christian Dankers, MD, serves as the firm’s Associate Chief Medical and Quality Officer and is a Partner in Clinical Transformation. Christian is focused on the expansion of clinical quality and high reliability care, bringing together capabilities in medical staff optimization, quality, patient safety, and clinical operations.

Melissa Li-Ng, MD

Partner

Melissa Li-Ng, MD, MBA, FACP is a Partner in Clinical Transformation. She has spent nearly two decades as a practicing endocrinologist and the last 12 years serving as a healthcare executive focused on strategy, clinical operations, and performance improvement.

Roger Ray, MD

Chief Physician Executive

Roger Ray, MD, serves as the firm's Chief Physician Executive and co-leads the High Performing Medical Group practice. He has over 30 years of experience in healthcare, having served in a variety of leadership positions at major medical centers and health systems throughout the eastern United States.

Pam Damsky

Managing Partner and Leader, Clinical Transformation

Pam Damsky co-leads the Clinical Transformation Line of Business. Pam has over 35 years of healthcare experience in organizational strategy, alignment, clinical transformation, and performance improvement to help organizations succeed today while preparing for new and future environments.

James Karpook

Partner

James Karpook is a Partner in Clinical Transformation. James has over 30 years of experience providing a wide range of advisory services to executive and physician leadership of hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and provider organizations.