About Us - Executive Team
Victor Lazzaro, Jr., Chief Executive Officer
Victor Lazzaro is the Chief Executive Officer of BridgeHealth Medical. With over 25 years of senior management experience in the health and managed care fields, he has held positions responsible for marketing, finance, administration and healthcare delivery.
Previously, Mr. Lazzaro was president and CEO of United Healthcare Corporation - Mountain States (UHC). Prior to his position at UHC, Mr. Lazzaro was regional vice president of Health Plans Operations, Gulf South for Prudential Insurance Company of America. At Prudential, he also had CEO responsibility for healthcare management in the Houston Health Plan, Arkansas, Southeast Texas and Louisiana, where his responsibilities included oversight of 30 primary specialty care clinics. Prior to entering healthcare, Mr. Lazzaro was International Controller of a Black & Decker Subsidiary.
Mr. Lazzaro is also the Managing Director of Volante Capital and an active board member of a number of community and business organizations and previously served on the advisory board of MediExpress, a UHC affiliate, in Kuala Lumpur. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado at Denver, MBA in Health Administration program. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lazzaro has been interviewed by PBS Nightly Business Report, PBS American Health Journal, Fox Business Channel’s Happy Hour with Rebecca Diamond, HR Executive, USA Today, Business Week and Modern Healthcare, among others. He has also authored articles on the subject of medical travel for California Broker, CDHC Solutions, The Self Insurer, Business Insurance, Employee Benefit Plan Review and National Underwriter Life and Health, and served as a speaker at the Self Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) and U.S., European, and Middle Eastern Medical Travel and Insurance Conferences.
Terry White, President
Mr. White has over 25 years of leadership experience in the healthcare industry. During his career he has served as CEO of hospitals and multi-hospital systems in Hawaii, Colorado and Maryland. White has also been a healthcare consultant, Board member and turnaround specialist. He is a cofounder of Centura Health, Colorado's largest healthcare system, with revenues of over $1 billion annually. He is an active member of the executive team of Signum US Healthcare, developing CyberKnife and radiation oncology treatment centers throughout China.
Mr. White also has provided leadership in a number of healthcare businesses including healthcare information technology, healthcare staffing, financial services and outpatient cancer treatment centers. Additionally, he has consulted a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit businesses including hospital operational turnaround assignments. Hospitals under his leadership have received national recognition for quality and service.
Mr. White has a Master of Healthcare Administration from Loma Linda University in California and is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is active in a variety of community and church organizations and has served on community and healthcare industry boards. Mr. White is a frequent speaker at workshops and seminars.
Dr. Andrew Dombro, Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Dombro serves as Chief Medical Officer at BridgeHealth Medical, Inc., overseeing the development and review of all clinical issues and strategies, including patient safety, quality of care, patient education, and scope of services.
Dr. Dombro has been a broadly experienced clinician, educator, administrator, and leader in the medical community for more than twenty years. He has practiced primarily as a hospitalist, or specialist in hospital-based medicine, but also has practice and management experience in both Emergency and Occupational Medicine. His most recent clinical/faculty appointment was as Instructor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, CO in the Division of Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine Section. During his time at UCHSC, Dr. Dombro also served as Physician Liaison for the Department of Medical Informatics, working directly with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of Medical Informatics, as well as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Sports Medicine.
Currently, he also serves as the Medical Director of a company which is nationally recognized as the leader in healthcare regulatory compliance and clinical documentation improvement (CDI). Working with hospitals and healthcare organizations regarding these complex issues, he is responsible for strategic planning and the development and presentation of educational materials to groups of physicians as well as key members of hospital and corporate leadership.
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley, he attended the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He completed residency training at the University of Louisville Hospitals and became board-certified in Internal Medicine.
Dr. Dombro is also an experienced and accomplished public speaker and medical author.
Gordon Larson, Senior Vice President of Sales
Mr. Larson is BridgeHealth Medical's Senior Vice President - Sales, leading the introduction of BridgeHealth's World-Class Provider Network to Plan Sponsors throughout the US, delivering claims savings to insurance companies, third party administrators, and self insured companies. With over 20 years of senior management experience in commercial insurance and healthcare, he has held positions responsible for sales, marketing, and underwriting operations.
Mr. Larson was Senior Vice President - Corporate Development and Chief Knowledge Officer at CNA Insurance Company in Chicago IL, directly managing cross marketing initiatives for the $18 Billion organization. Mr. Larson also has held management positions with Great American Insurance Company, USF&G Insurance, and McKee Benefits prior to his most recent position with Healthplace America where he led the introduction of a specialty network to the insurance company market.
Mr. Larson is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also holds BA/MS Degrees in Economics from Northern Illinois University.
Chip Burgett, Vice President of Provider Relations
Mr. Burgett leads the BridgeHealth Medical, Inc. provider relations unit which includes responsibility for both contracting and value management. His unique experience in managed care network development and management includes: custom networks for large employers; provider-sponsored managed care organizations; and traditional insurance carrier networks.
Most recently, Mr. Burgett was managing director in charge of network development for Healthplace America, a specialty network company. Prior to Healthplace, he spent ten years as chief executive for a large provider organization in Wisconsin. His healthcare experience includes work in the insurance industry, medical products manufacturing and consulting.
Mr. Burgett is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Ami Rakshit, PhD, Vice President of R&D and Systems Engineering
Dr. Amitabha Rakshit has been a key consultant and entrepreneur in the area of healthcare services. Since the late 1980s, he has been focused on Healthcare Cost Reduction and Consumer Driven Healthcare. He has worked with various medico-economic and medico-legal projects during this period and has specialized in "Patient-Empowerment" as a strategic solution to reduce the excessive use of surgery. He was one of the earliest pioneers of Demand Management and the several commercial Patient Empowerment/ Shared Decision Making modules which he has designed and produced, were some of the industry's benchmarks in the mid to late nineties.
Dr. Rakshit's experience was not limited to the design and development only. He also developed significant perspectives in the various practical, hands-on logistical issues of deploying demand management programs within the context of existing patient flows. Later, through partnerships with Integrated Therapeutics Group, an early Disease Management subsidiary of Schering-Plough, a major pharmaceutical company, as well as Health Decisions, an early Demand Management company with major call center operations based in Denver, Colo, Dr. Rakshit gained valuable experience in many of the key operational aspects of Disease Management.
In the mid-1980s, Ami was charged with guiding a major Fortune 100 company into healthcare business as a part of its corporate diversification effort. There, he was credited with conceiving and initiating the first US national project in 1986 to create a three-dimensional digital anatomical database from human cadavers in collaboration with Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. This project was eventually completed with public funding, under the auspices of the National Library of Medicine; it is known as the "Visible Man."
During 1994-5, Dr. Rakshit was asked by and offered his expert views to the US Congress (through the Office of the late Sen. Jesse Helms) on the beneficial role of patient empowerment as a cost savings strategy for considerations by the US policy makers with regards to the then-continuing debate over the "Patient's bill of rights".
Dr. Rakshit has authored several US and international patents in healthcare.