 Stanley Pappelbaum, MD, MBAChief Executive Officer
Dr. Pappelbaum’s expertise as a physician, management consultant and healthcare executive spans almost four decades. As a newly minted pediatric cardiologist, he taught and practiced medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and at San Diego Rady Childrens Hospital where he was the founding chief of Pediatric Cardiology. He led the creation of a comprehensive Childrens Cardiac Center serving San Diego and Imperial Counties, California.
Subsequently he was awarded a Fellowship by the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a Masters degree in Management (health option) from MIT. He then became managing partner of Professional Health Consulting Group in Del Mar, California, a national company of physician executives who analyzed and managed change for complex healthcare systems throughout the United States.
Dr. Pappelbaum was then affiliated with ScrippsHealth in San Diego, California. ScrippsHealth is a five hospital not-for-profit system with 3,000 affiliated physicians where Dr. Pappelbaum served sequentially as Chief Transformational Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. He currently heads SP Consulting of La Jolla, California which advises both US and International healthcare organizations with an emphasis on large complex medical groups and biomedical research entities.
Dr. Pappelbaum is a past chair of the Medical Quality Subcommittee of the California Public Employees Retirement System (CALPERS). He is a past chair of both the National Committee on Child Health Financing and the National Council on Pediatric Practice of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He was a consultant member of the non-partisan National Leadership Commission on Healthcare in the 1980’s based in Washington, D.C. chaired by then Former Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter.
Presently, Dr. Pappelbaum serves on the Boards of several public and private healthcare companies. In addition he volunteers for 2 major not-for-profit entities in San Diego County, (Seacrest Retirement Villages; San Diego Center for Children) where he is chair and vice chair respectively.
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