MedChat Episode 4 - Dana Jacoby

Welcome to the pod.

Dana Jacoby is a national thought leader across numerous healthcare specialties and is passionate about helping providers and investors learn about valuations, mergers, and acquisitions.

Dana has experience guiding her companies through multiple mergers and private equity transactions and consulting on billions of dollars of merger and acquisition deal flow, making her one of the most sought-after healthcare and business specialists in the country. 

Dana’s experience bridges large corporate healthcare companies and individual providers. This has included positions with General Electric Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson, as well as working in the pharmaceutical sector with the Allergan company, where she was tasked with launching and growing the drug Botox in Asia. Her work has included project development, market analysis, design implementation, and service delivery in hospitals and health systems in nearly every state in the United States and internationally in Asia, Europe, and Canada.

Ms. Jacoby is a trusted advisor to C-Suite Executives, Boards of Directors, and Physician Leaders. Her expertise is focused explicitly in in the areas of strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and investment banking, alternative payment models, financial management, operational efficiencies, service line development, and process improvement. She has spent thousands of hours improving medical practice pharmaceutical/device company strategy/planning, primarily focusing on product market development, medical practice management, provider compensation strategies, efficiency metrics, and process improvement.

Dana has also committed to a life practice of philanthropy. Her charity of choice is the international healthcare organization Project C.U.R.E. Founded over 30 years ago in a garage in the mountains of Colorado; Project C.U.R.E. has saved lives and eased suffering by delivering medical relief to people in over 130 countries. She invests her spare time as well as money by traveling to recipient hospitals in the developing world and personally helping to deliver medical supplies and equipment to the people who need it most.

Ms. Jacoby graduated from Louisiana State University, holds a Master of Management from Tulane University, and a Master of Health Systems from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She is a Wharton Fellow Inductee from Wharton University and the author of several books, numerous articles, and white papers. She is regularly a featured keynote speaker, panelist, and moderator.

Dana makes her home in Denver, Colorado. An avid runner, Ms. Jacoby is a Boston Marathon qualifier and has run 68 marathons, one in each of the States in the United States and on each of the continents except for Antarctica.