Executive Summary:

A proven way to either supplement your income or transition out of a clinical career is to serve as a consultant. Consulting can be highly lucrative, most of the work can usually be done from a home office and overhead, start-up costs and risks are relatively small. This hands-on intensive workshop will show physicians how to start, build, and run a high paying consulting practice. Attendees will be guided to find their best consulting niches and be provided with strategies for getting started, and building, marketing and expanding their new consulting practice. Emphasis will be placed on the practical needs of the physician and his or her consulting practice. Physicians will be provided the tools, forms, and checklists to get their consulting practice off the ground.

Faculty: 

Steven Babitsky, Esq. is the President and founder of SEAK, Inc., a continuing education, training, consulting, and publishing firm. He is the co-author of the book Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians (www.seak.com) and has trained thousands of physicians over the past 26 years. Steve has served as a consultant for many years in the fields of marketing, business development, risk management, and negotiation. He is an expert on medical-legal consulting and has co-authored numerous books in this field and has worked one on one with numerous physicians to help them expand their consulting practices. He was a personal injury trial attorney for twenty years and is the former managing partner of the firm Kistin, Babitsky, Latimer & Beitman.

Jonathan Cargan, MD is President of Phoenix Ascendant Consulting in Norristown, PA. Dr. Cargan received his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his MD from Pennsylvania State University Medical Center. Dr. Cargan has had extensive experience as a consultant and freelance writer for major pharmaceutical and vaccine companies. He is a contract writer for a major Infectious Disease website. He has consulted to three separate billion dollar product franchises and has a current specialization in medical aspects of product promotion (phase IV) and strategic and competitive issues.

Kenneth H. Cohn, MD, MBA is a consultant in the area of physician-hospital relations. Dr. Cohn is an adjunct professor of management at New England College, CEO of HealthcareCollaboration.com, and a locum tenens general surgeon. Dr. Cohn received his BA from the University of Rochester, his MD from Columbia, and his MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth. Dr. Cohn is the author of Better Communication for Better Care: Mastering Physician-Administrator Collaboration and Collaborate for Success! Breakthrough Strategies for Engaging Physicians, Nurses, and Hospital Executives and the Editor of The Business of Healthcare and Improving Physician-Hospital Relations: A Field-Tested System.