Transforming the Search
for the Leaders Who Transform Healthcare
We know what great leaders can do, and we’re passionate about providing the best executive candidates to our clients. Our people and access to invaluable data are a potent formula for success, ultimately building successful careers, contributing to better healthcare, and engendering inclusion.
Our Focus is Clinical
The Curative Executive Search team has over 100 years of experience recruiting medical professionals. We understand the needs of healthcare enterprises and their candidates for employment. And as the recruiting arm of Doximity, the largest community of healthcare professionals in the world, we are right where most clinicians are. You could say they are our life’s blood.
Clinician Executives
Make Hospitals Healthier
Physicians understand the business of healthcare from the bottom up. From hands on knowledge of the complexity of care to critical decision-making skills, they have the experience necessary to help deliver efficient, high-quality patient care. Whether CEO, CMO or CNO, a hospital executive candidate’s clinical background improves placement outcomes.
We Know Academia
The right academic physician leader can define their department, attracting top faculty, funding, and recognition. Curative Executive Search draws upon years of experience recruiting in academia and the data and intelligence of Doximity to identify a diverse selection of candidates that share your vision. We’ll shorten the span of a typical search and provide an exceptional candidate experience, all while respecting the traditions and values of academic medicine.
Our differences
make us stronger
We strive to reflect your diverse culture
Although minorities represent 31% of hospital patients, only 14% of hospital board seats, 12% of executive leadership positions, and 17% of management positions in hospitals are held by them. We are dedicated to partnering with clients to change these numbers to help make hospitals reflect their communities. By combining the yin and yang of our smart tech with a human fusion approach, we deliver results with mindful compliance. We know what the future looks like for successful, diverse organizations and how to get you there.
We’re bigger on the inside
You’ll get the attention you deserve from the “A team” because there is no B team. A single contact makes for white glove service for both our institutional clients and candidates. Our boutique size means there are fewer barriers – we can recruit from more institutions. Being smaller also means we’re more focused, flexible and able to work with you for an enhanced recruitment experience. And though we’re lean, with the power of Doximity and Curative behind us, we’re big enough to deliver the goods.
Arthur S. Cooper –
Executive Consultant
As Executive Consultant, Arthur brings decades of leadership and recruitment experience to the team. Prior to his role as an Executive Consultant, Arthur was President of Curative Executive Search.
John R. Mehall, MD, MBA –
Chief Medical Officer
John has held many executive positions as a physician including national roles, so he is uniquely qualified as a recruiter of clinical leaders. “Defined roles, identified barriers, and clear expectations are fundamental to creating long-term partnerships.” There is a great need for physicians with leadership, business, and financial competency and access to Doximity’s network of clinicians will be indispensable in finding them.
Roberta Alessi, MHA, FACHE –
Partner
Roberta Alessi comes to Curative with decades of leadership experience in premier pediatric academic medical centers much spent in operations, program development, building internal and external relations, and leadership recruiting. “I can relate with hospital executives because I was in their shoes. I believe in the Curative innovated culture and leveraging technology to find the best candidates that meet the needs of an organization.”
Dan Jennings –
Senior VP & Managing Partner
Dan Jennings is an industry leader with over 15 years of experience. Dan explains, “I learned early in my career while helping communities find doctors that what I do is important and it’s important to give all I can to my clients and candidates.” He goes on to say, “In an industry that hasn’t changed significantly in decades, Curative Executive Search is making a difference, using technology to re-engineer the executive search process.”
Jeff Katon –
Senior VP & Managing Partner
Jeff Katon’s practice is focused on senior and executive leadership for all his healthcare clients. “As a former collegiate athlete and the son of a military officer, I grew up with a strong work ethic, a team mentality, and the willingness to put in the extra time needed to finish the job.” Jeff goes on to say, “clients know they will be working with the leaders with whom they executed the search at Curative Executive Search.” He and other team members provide a high-touch service to more easily and quickly find exactly the right candidate for the job.
Donald Friedman, MS –
Partner
Donald is a master at using his experience to help medical organizations find the right person for their staff. “In an industry that has been stuck in the mud for decades, Curative’s advantage is clear, we have a singular focus on being the best at doing one thing, physician executive search. Our exclusive relationship with Doximity is a groundbreaking game changer.”
Tiffany Travis -
Partner – Strategic Development
Tiffany Travis brings over 15 years of experience in healthcare staffing and now consults Curative Executive Search in Strategic Development working closely with Partners and Strategic Sourcers.
Paul Santos -
Partner
With over 20 years of healthcare staffing, business development, and leadership experience, Paul has lived by the philosophy of always putting his client’s needs first. “Developing transparent client communication and rapport while never trying to put a square peg in a round hole is critical.”
Alex Garner –
Strategic Sourcer
Strategic Sourcer Alex Garner’s ability to improvise, adapt, and overcome barriers has been instrumental in his success. He quotes Muhammed Ali, “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.’ Alex applies this sentiment to each executive search to achieve success and improve along the way.
Vince Zizzo –
Partner
Vince is passionate about finding just the right physician executive to match the needs of his clients. “Having dedicated my professional life to clinical physician recruitment it only seems natural to now focus on the healthcare leadership talent that clearly lies in the physicians themselves. Our team has dedicated itself to physician executive search and our unique access to the Doximity network takes us to the next level.”
Allison Meshnick, MBA, SHRM-CP –
Partner
Allison Meshnick is a Partner in our Executive Search team. She brings with her nearly a decade of HR and Recruiting experience including Physician, Academic and Executive search. Allison observes “As human resources are becoming more and more critical to the success of healthcare organizations, it is more important now than ever to have a partner who helps you deal with your organization’s unique challenges and opportunities.”
Ryan Gehrke, MA -
Partner
Ryan Gehrke believes in Bob Burg’s philosophy that "The single greatest 'people skill' is a highly developed and authentic interest in the other person." Ryan goes on to say, “I firmly believe that Curative Executive Search is coupling cutting-edge technology with bona fide interpersonal connections – truly differentiating us from the competition.”
Maheen Saleem -
Strategic Sourcer
Maheen Saleem joins Curative Executive Search as a foundational member of the Strategic Sourcing team. Her spirit and drive for achievement allow her to persevere. “Success doesn’t just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit, and ingenuity” - Ogwo David Emenike.
Steve Hammartsrom, MHA -
Partner
Steve comes to Curative with over a decade of hospital C-Suite experience and another decade working as a healthcare consultant. Much of that consulting time was spent assisting hospitals to work with recruitment firms in identifying physician candidates and crafting offers. "I can identify with the hospital client because I was that client. I know what is needed, the potential pitfalls, and how to structure deals. I bring that unique experience and perspective to each search."
We’ve got executive healthcare staffing down to a [data] science
We have access to Doximity, the largest medical network ever created that includes the majority of US physicians – more than three times the AMA’s membership.
Curative Executive Search can call on Doximity’s living, breathing network of physician executives that is growing consistently and refreshed constantly.
The PACER Experience
PACERs (Practice and Community Evaluation Report) provide a 360° view of candidates practices and communities including integration with education, real estate and lifestyle websites while capturing actionable feedback from candidates. PACERs are a vital candidate experience tool used to save you time and money by lowering interview costs and gaining candidate insight.
Smart Job Posts
No need to hound candidates.
Algorithms automatically identify and show jobs to the most relevant candidates when they are most likely to be interested in a career change. They then have the power to express interest in a position or request the next listing.
Customer Testimonials
Talking the walk
“Curative was able to assist our hospital with several leadership needs. They were able to save us time and energy by identifying exceptional candidates that fit our parameters and were true fits for these positions. This was a time of transition at our hospital, so Curative delivered by addressing these needs very quickly.”
— Chad R. Hickerson
“In my prior role at a large Midwest academic medical enterprise, we found Doximity to be highly effective at leveraging our recruitment efforts. Fidelis Partners has a track record of extraordinary engagement with its clients or ‘partners’ along with its outcomes based business model. The marriage between the two, now Curative, is a true game changer in my mind and separates and differentiates Curative from others in the space.”
— Eric Linson, MBA, MS
