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BARRY PORTUGAL
Barry Portugal is president of Health Care Development Services, Inc., a
strategic business planning management consulting firm. Mr. Portugal has
undergraduate and graduate degrees in business administration from the
University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania respectively. He also
attended Northwestern Law School.
Prior to forming Health Care Development Services, Inc., in 1981, Mr. Portugal
held several senior management positions with firms in the health care
industry. During the thirteen years Mr. Portugal spent on the corporate side of
the industry, he served as sales manager, marketing manager, and corporate
officer in charge of marketing for Technicon Instruments Corporation; Telemed
Corporation, division of Becton-Dickinson; and Damon Corporation.
Mr. Portugal consults with hospitals, large multi-specialty group practices,
clinical laboratories, and pathology groups. His special area of interest is
strategic planning and business development of health care providers. In this
role, Mr. Portugal has designed business plans which have sucessfully achieved
goals desired by client organizations.
Mr. Portugal is a member of the American Hospital Association Society for
Hospital Planning; Clinical Laboratory Management Association, the American
Association for Clinical Chemistry, and the American Pathology Foundation; and
the Medical Group Management Association. Additionally, Mr. Portugal has had
written articles published in Clinical Laboratory Management Review,
Pathologist, and the Medical Group Management Association Journal. He has been
a featured speaker at American Hospital Association, Health Care Financial
Management Association, American College of Healthcare Executives, Clinical
Laboratory Management Association; and the American Pathology Foundation
meetings focusing on hospital laboratory strategic planning and business
development issues.
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