Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Simple Blog: AI Coverts Bullet-Point C.V. into Prose Format

 Can GPT convert your bullet-point resume into a paragraph format?  Yes.  


OK, I wouldn't use it directly, but it can make a first pass.  I've just cut and pasted the AI product (top) and a text and bullets version of my C.V. (bottom).

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Bruce Quinn is a high-achieving physician executive with a remarkable career spanning diverse roles in the healthcare industry. As the Principal of Bruce Quinn Associates LLC, he has demonstrated exceptional performance, managing his own consulting company, which boasts a prestigious client roster including over 30 pre-public and publicly held corporate clients in the genomics, IVD, medtech, and biopharma sectors. Prior to this, Bruce served as the Senior Director and Reimbursement Practice Leader for FaegreBD Consulting, a global healthcare law and regulatory firm, and as a Senior Health Policy Specialist for Foley Hoag, a prominent national law firm.

Bruce Quinn's expertise lies in health markets, policy, and reimbursement strategy, particularly in the domain of U.S. genomics policy. Throughout his career, he has showcased an unparalleled capacity for innovative thinking, producing groundbreaking original thought capital in areas like the clinical utility of genomic tests. He has published over 30 scientific papers as an active physician-investigator and is highly regarded for his ability to craft novel market, industry, and return-on-investment strategies for corporate clients.

Notably, Bruce possesses a unique cross-markets perspective, having worked both for payers and in the industry. He has led strategic corporate consulting engagements for major national and regional health plans, providing invaluable insights into new business opportunities amid the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Bruce's contributions extend to the public sector as well; he served as the Medical Director for Medicare's largest state program, where he played a pivotal role in decision-making for coverage policies and innovative technologies.

Educationally, Bruce holds an impressive array of degrees, including an MD/PhD from Stanford University, an MBA with a focus on Health Services, Finance, and Strategy from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He is board-certified in pathology and boasts a wealth of experience as a clinician-scientist in various academic medical centers.

Bruce Quinn's track record of success is further substantiated by his involvement in numerous influential speaking engagements, conference panels, and presentations. He continues to make significant contributions to the field, authoring industry perspectives through his blog, "Discoveries in Health Policy," which attracts substantial readership.

With current medical licensure in California and a wealth of diverse skills including commercial multi-engine piloting, public speaking, and language proficiency, Bruce Quinn epitomizes a dynamic, accomplished, and highly capable leader in the healthcare industry.


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BRUCE QUINN MD/PHD, MBA
Principal, Bruce Quinn Associates LLC

Health Markets, Policy, and Reimbursement Strategy Los Angeles and San Francisco www.brucequinn.com PERFORMANCE-DRIVEN PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE. Managing own consulting company full time as Bruce Quinn Associates LLC. Roster of over 30 pre-public and publicly held corporate clients in genomics, IVD, medtech, and biopharma industries. Previously Senior Director and in charge of reimbursement practice for a global healthcare law and regulatory firm, FaegreBD Consulting. Previously, Senior Health Policy Specialist for a national law firm, Foley Hoag, and prior to that, Medical Director for Medicare’s largest state program. Expert on U.S. genomics policy. CONTACT: Bruce@brucequinn.com , +1 323 839 8637 • Established record of innovative thinking – Creation of innovative original thought capital in areas such as clinical utility of genomic tests. Created novel market, industry, and return-on-investment strategies for corporate clients. Forged innovative coverage policies for new technology at Medicare; Published over 30 scientific papers as active physician-investigator. • Cross-markets view of health industry – Has worked for payers as well as industry. Led strategic corporate consulting engagements for major national and regional health plans, modeling new business opportunities in a rapidly changing healthcare arena. Led an innovative multi-hundred million dollar anti-fraud efforts in California (2004-2008). • Deep healthcare industry experience – Board-certified medical specialist (pathology) with MBA in Finance and Health Services. Clinician-Scientist at several major academic medical centers (UCLA, NYU, Northwestern). Medical Director for Medicare Part B’s largest state program. Current medical licensure in California.
EDUCATION
2001 MBA, Health Services, Finance, Strategy Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University 1989 MD/PhD Stanford University EXPERIENCE PRINCIPAL, BRUCE QUINN ASSOCIATES LLC (August 2016 to present) • Continue work as described below for my own consulting company. • Serving genomics, medtech, biopharma, clients nationally from offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. • Subcontractor to larger life sciences strategy consulting firms on a project basis. • See www.brucequinn.com PRINCIPAL, BRUCE QUINN ASSOCIATES LLC (August 2016 to present) Continue strategy consulting work as described below for my own consulting company, Bruce Quinn Associates LLC. Serving genomics, medtech, biopharma clients nationally from offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. • Strategic reimbursement consulting – relationships with payers; new HCPCS and CPT codes; advanced planning for multiple tactical scenarios • Assist companies in understanding, commenting on, and shaping federal health policies for the Medicare program • Plan and execute strategic white papers, business strategy plans, and commissioned research on federal health policy and innovation • Current topics in 2018 include genomic industry coding, valuation, and coverage; federal policy programs (with Faegre Baker Daniels, Washington) on public health issues such as opioid epidemic, sepsis and antibiotic management, digital health. • Frequently chair and help plan industry conference panels and presentations in health policy topics. • Author industry perspectives blog, “Discoveries in Health Policy,” receiving over 100,000 hits per year o www.discoveriesinhealthpolicy.com SENIOR DIRECTOR / SENIOR STRATEGY ADVISOR FaegreBD Consulting – 2015-July 2016: Full time employee as Senior Director FaegreBD Consulting - August 2016-present: Affiliated Strategy Advisor; multiple shared projects FaegreBD Consulting is the 40-person Washington policy group for Faegre Baker Daniels, a national 800-attorney law firm. Lead Reimbursement & Strategy Practice and manage consulting projects > $1M per year. I transitioned to FaegreBD Consulting to build and lead a strategy practice and benefit from the broader footprint of the firm across disease associations, payers, and other stakeholders. Challenge: Disease associations, companies, healthcare delivery systems, and payers all face an era of unprecedented rapid change, ranging from the technology level (digital health, genomics) to transformations of the delivery systems (accountable care organizations, and unforeseen speed of innovation in CMS payment models). FaegreBD Consulting has clients across all of the major stakeholder groups, giving us cross-stakeholder insights on the impacts and challenges of both policy and technologic innovation. • Advise leading molecular diagnostic firms on coverage & reimbursement issues for innovative diagnostics • Nationally recognized policy expert on Medicare regulatory and policy issues for product reimbursement • Develop and craft effective arguments for product coverage issues, utilizing experience in both strategy consulting and payer decision-making • Assist early-stage companies and investors understand the costs and benefits of alternative commercialization strategies • Selected Publications: o Discoveries in Health Policy blog (current hit rate 7500/month, 90,000/ year)  www.discoveriesinhealthpolicy.com o White Paper / Digital Health: The Impact on Genomics (February 2016) o White Paper / Digital Health: The Path to High Impact (February 2016) • Representative speaking engagements: o Washington Watch: Diagnostics, 21st Annual Executive War College, Pathology & Laboratory Management, New Orleans (April, 2016) o Digital Health: The Impact on Genomics, 12th Annual Oncology Economics Summit, La Jolla, CA (February 2016) o The Impact of FDA Regulation on Diagnostics in Oncology, 4th Annual Patient Centered Oncology Care Conference, Baltimore, MD (November 2015) o Understanding and Navigating Rapid Change for U.S. Diagnostics, 4th Biomarkers in Diagnostics Conference, Berlin (October 2015) o Investing in Diabetes Technology: 21st Century Technology and Early 20th Century Reimbursement, International Diabetes Technology Congress, Bethesda MD (October 2015) o Meeting the Challenges of Evidence and Reimbursement [Keynote], 2nd Annual PMC/BIO Solutions Summit, Washington DC (October 2015) o Impact of PAMA Regulations on IVDs, 7th Annual Generation Diagnostics Summit, Washington, DC (August 2015) SENIOR HEALTH POLICY SPECIALIST Foley Hoag LLP – 2008- 2015: Life Science/Government Services. Foley Hoag is a leading Washington- and Boston-based law firm with a large practice in healthcare policy and life sciences, ranging from patent law to health industry legislative change. Manage consulting projects > $1M per year. Challenge: The US health system presents both opportunities and great challenges to innovative companies because of its complexity and because of the fixed nature of legacy coding and reimbursement systems. Perform as a national leader in helping a broad range of companies navigate and solve business challenges to bring innovative products to market. Work collaboratively to forge effective communication channels and facilitate decision-making between business, federal agencies, and payor medical directors with differing assumptions, concepts, and backgrounds. • Advise leading molecular diagnostic firms on coverage & reimbursement issues for innovative diagnostics • Nationally recognized policy expert on Medicare regulatory and policy issues for product reimbursement • Develop and craft effective arguments for product coverage issues, utilizing experience in both strategy consulting and payor decision-making • Assist early-stage companies and investors understand the costs and benefits of alternative commercialization strategies

• Selected Health Policy Publications: o Hornberger J, Li Q, & Quinn B (2015) Cost effectiveness of combinatorial pharmaocgenetic testing for treatment resistant major depressive patients. Amer J Managed Care, in press. o Frueh F & Quinn B (2014) Molecular Diagnostics clinical utility: A six part framework. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 14:777-86. o Quinn B (2013) Diabetes technology, innovation, and the US health insurance system. J Diabetes Sci Technol 7:403-7. o Quinn B, Giffin R, & Tunis S. (2012) Reimbursement. Genomic and Personalized Medicine, 2nd edition, two volumes, pp 457-463. HF Willard & GS Ginsburg, eds. o Quinn B (2010) Personalized diagnostics: the struggle for position. Personalized Medicine 7:263-273. o Quinn B (2010) Payers and the assessment of clinical utility for companion diagnostics. Clin Pharmacol Ther 88:751-4. o Industry White Papers (see http://tinyurl.com/Quinn-FoleyHoag-2014):  Quinn B (2013) 2013-2014: Evolving challenges for value-priced LDTs.  Quinn B (2013) Is Medicare zero for three? Diagnostics policy proposals for CY2014  Quinn B (2012) The tempest continues: Fee Schedules in Collision, Medicare and Genomic Tests.  Quinn B (2011) Tempest in the melting pot: Genomics Reimbursement in 2012.  Quinn B (2011) Genes, Coding, and Bold Action: Palmetto GBA designs a Medicare genomics evaluation program. o Representative speaking engagements:  Quinn B (2014) Ensuring access to innovative diabetes technologies. Diabetes Technology Innovation Summit, Stanford University.  Quinn B (2013) Healthcare reform and personalized medicine, DECHEMA, Frankfurt.  Quinn B (2012) Medicare coverage strategies. At: AdvaMed, annual reimbursement conference for medical device industry.  Quinn B (2011) The Utility and Adoption of Clinical Genomics: Foundations of Assessments. At: Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, “Facilitating Development and Utilization of Genome-based Diagnostic Technologies. MEDICARE MEDICAL DIRECTOR State of California, Medicare Part B NHIC, subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). NHIC, a subsidiary of the global IT firm EDS, is the Medicare Part B contractor for 5 states. Served as the Medical Director for the California Medicare Part B program, which processes some 5 million claims per month – roughly $7B per year in healthcare coverage. Medicare Part B covers most non-hospital (non-Part A) Medicare services. 2004-2008. Challenge: Serve as lead executive for Medical Review. Develop innovative strategies to maximum program integrity and efficiency, providing smooth service for appropriate medical care while targeting inappropriate fee-for-service care for educational and administrative actions. Serve as public face of Medicare Part B for over 60,000 California providers. Review and authorize approval of innovative technologies for Medicare coverage. Co-director of national Clinical Workgroup on Laboratory Medicine. Rapidly mastered the highly complex Medicare Part B regulatory system. • Led coverage decision for all Medicare beneficiaries for a groundbreaking novel breast cancer diagnostic (2006), including development of innovative frameworks for complex coverage decisions. Developed a national reputation for thorough understanding of the Medicare system and best practices for representing Medicare policy cost-effectively while communicating openly and productively with industry. • Led strategic assessment of Medicare fraud and waste and led implementation of a package of comprehensive policy changes which lowered fraud and abuse by $500M (2004/2006). Year-on-year spending growth shifted from +12% to -6%, versus national averages of +9%. CORPORATE STRATEGY CONSULTING Accenture – Strategy and Business Architecture Service, Health & Life Sciences Operating Unit. Accenture is a leading international diversified consulting firm with some 80,000 employees and over $12B annual revenue. 2001-2004. Challenge: Design and promote performance-creating change for major business units of large corporate clients – most over $5B in revenue. Understand internal operations, drivers of financial metrics, barriers to change, and forge migration paths to new business models which meet a changing marketplace. Representative engagements included: • Led a five-year strategy and market analysis for new business opportunities for a national network of health plans. Frameworks created new approaches for the client’s assessment of healthcare funding trends, market-growth studies, and projected business opportunities. Deliverables circulated nationally among corporate leaders. • Helped create, for one of the largest US health plans, a detailed analysis of best-of-breed approaches to medical management (including pharmaceutical management, chronic disease management, predictive modeling, utilization management). Deliverables including novel approaches to integrating medical management systems with valuations for ROI management. • For a leading international pharma, led team creating national and international policy & procedure design and database analysis & design for a global reorganization of Medical Affairs, including policy areas of physician payments, compliance, and disclosure policies. PHYSICIAN-SCIENTIST Northwestern University School of Medicine – Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Sciences. 1997-2001 (Assistant Professor). Left in 2001 to accept executive position with an international consulting firm in division of healthcare & life sciences. Challenge: Serve as medical specialist and clinician-educator for one of the leading Midwestern academic medical centers. Recruited to create a pathology research center with the founding of a new NIH Alzheimer Research Center at Northwestern. Achieve independent NIH research funding. Completed Kellogg MBA concurrently. • Achieved #1 of 16 rating in collaborative NIH grant renewal • Authored and directed 2 NIH and 8 total research grants (1997-2001) supervised 30 national and international tissue research projects, targeting strategic academic and pharmaceutical collaborators • Biotechnology consultant for firm achieving $95M IPO New York University School of Medicine – Depts. of Pathology & Psychiatry; Alzheimer Disease Center. 1994-1997 (Assistant Professor). Clinician for both Bellevue Hospital, New York City’s largest public hospital, and Tisch Hospital of NYU. Left in 1997 to accept a position of greater responsibility at Northwestern. • Hired to engineer turn-around of inter-institutional Alzheimer Center pathology research program in time for successful $7M federal grant renewal • Determined novel cell type in brain relevant to Alzheimer’s disease • Created and published several novel chemical cell visualization technologies EARLIER POSITIONS UCLA Center for Health Sciences – Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory of NeuroImaging. 1990-1994 (Hospital medical specialty training; Resident and Fellow, Pathology; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neurology). • Created commercial course on Brain Aging for a national education institute – course was presented to some 6000 annual participants (1994-2001), generating over $2M revenue • Discovered novel fluorescent compound, established inter-departmental collaborations for its structural identification and synthesis, multiple publications, pursued commercial applications. • Developed new techniques for whole-brain mapping for UCLA’s Laboratory for NeuroImaging, serving as platform for $800K NIH grant. ADDITIONAL DATA • Current medical licensure in California. Prior licensure in New York, Illinois. • Board certified medical specialist (Current; Anatomic Pathology/Neuropathology, 1995). • Specialty Training: UCLA Medical Center, 1990-1994. • Post-PhD research in Neurosciences: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1989-1990. • 30 academic publications through 2003. • Personal: Commercial multi-engine pilot’s license. Extensive public speaking experience. Conversational German and Spanish; reading French and Italian. Professional contact information: Office 202 312 7009 bruce.quinn@faegrebdc.com Personal contact information: Home: 649 South Mansfield Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 Cell 323 839 8637 bruce@brucequinn.com

Updated 3/2016