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Rick Stahl
Rick is a physician executive with twenty-five years of experience in identifying, selecting, and implementing promising information technology, devices, products, and services across the full spectrum of health care. He has served for more than seven years as a venture partner in a New Haven based early-stage venture fund and has participated as a limited partner and angel investor in funding startups for 17 years.
Rick held a twenty-year progression of executive roles within Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), including positions as Vice President from 2006 through 2014. During this interval, he had P&L responsibility for 30 of Yale New Haven Hospital’s non-profit and subsidiary for profit ambulatory areas, including urgent care centers and primary care clinics to freestanding surgical, endoscopy, radiology, and radiation therapy centers. Prior to that time, he led the flagship hospital’s Perioperative Services Department and was responsible for all on campus inpatient and outpatient operating rooms and the pre-and post-operative support areas, including staff, capital equipment, supply chain, facilities, and revenue management.
Rick was appointed Professor in the Department of Medical Sciences and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Relationships (SAD) of Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine in January, 2015. He served as SAD until September, 2022, when he became Special Advisor to the Dean for Strategic Relationships. His responsibilities at Quinnipiac University (QU) have included collaboration with numerous provider organizations’ C-suite leaders to establish and enhance the new medical school’s clinical relationships as well as those of QU’s Schools of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Rick is also an expert in performance management, having led the first academic medical center’s institutional Six Sigma project in collaboration with General Electric Healthcare while at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has worked with G.E.’s Global Research Center’s risk and value management team to design decisioning algorithms adopted by G.E. Healthcare to establish a new service line reducing avoidable operational chaos with advanced simulation techniques at provider client sites. Finally, he was an investigator in the NASA Commercial Space Center for Medical Informatics and Technology Applications at Yale.
Rick is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Healthcare Executives, and he is board certified in both General Surgery and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Rick obtained his bachelor’s degree in physics at Emory University, and he graduated with an M.D., from Vanderbilt and an M.B.A., from the University of New Haven. He completed his medical residencies in general surgery and plastic surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital and Emory University Hospitals, respectively. He served as Chief Resident in both residency training programs.
Rick resides in the greater New Haven, CT area with his two dogs and two cats.