Ryan G. Nazar, Md, Cime, Emha, Clssbb Email & Phone Number

Tagline: “Your health. Your community. Your solutions. Your way.”One-Liner: For DIY patients seeking better health management via social media, Practical Healthcare offers a SAAS platform that blends networking, personalized newsfeeds, and crowd-sourced resources to harmonize health and daily life.Summary: Practical Healthcare is a groundbreaking SaaS platform that unites the functionalities of networking, personalized newsfeed, and empowerment, reminiscent of a cross between LinkedIn, Reddit, and Pinterest, with a medical twist. Leveraging a proprietary values-based matching algorithm, we connect users as humans first who share similar life experiences and as patients second with similar health conditions, thereby facilitating the crowdsourcing of personalized treatments and resources that bridge the divide between everyday life and health. Through the expansion of our robust patient network, we ensure sustainable growth by generating B2B revenue from advertising, data, and licensing and B2C revenue from premium network features.Traction: 246 unique users: 52 pay-for consultations & two paid pilots. Results: 44% disability reduction, 3x health confidence boost, 4x increase in return to work in any capacity, decreased stress, and improved sleep. Presenting results nationally & internationally later this year!Next Steps: Having established desirability, feasibility, and viability, we're currently in our Pre-Seed funding round to scale our product. We welcome discussions about investment opportunities.#PracticalHealthcare #PatientEmpowerment #HealthTechProud Graduate of the University of Louisville LaunchIt Bootcamp, Spring 2023.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Key Takeaways• Disability does not mean inability.• Breakthrough health behavior change occurs when the patient knows their values and assigns value to the change in the context of their whole health. • The patient requirements for breakthrough change include recognizing a driving need, human interaction, their core beliefs & non-medical factors being heard, deterministic reasoning, leverage of vital conditions, and personalized key resources. Key Accomplishments:• Dr. Nazar performed independent medical evaluations and is a regionally recognized expert on the American Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), focusing on head and spine injuries, the nervous system, orthopedic injuries, and COVID-19. • He developed and led national training programs for determining causation, maximum medical improvement (MMI), and whole-person impairment for concussion and COVID-19/Long COVID-19.• When declaring a patient’s condition to be at MMI, meaning they have reached the point at which further improvement is not possible within the healthcare system, Dr. Nazar continued to support his patients by developing a breakthrough thinking platform (Practical Healthcare). Practical Healthcare empowered these patients to achieve an 8% reduction in functional limitations and disabilities than the traditional healthcare system alone. This translated into more than 50% of patients being able to return to work by empowering their patients for patient-controlled breakthrough change.http://commonwealthime.com/

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Key Takeaways:• Nearly everyone has a health story to share.• Shared decision-making lies between a doctor’s order and a patient's choice, acting in the patient’s best interest.• Getting sick, whether with an acute, chronic, or terminal illness, forces people to take stock of who they are and how their health factors into their sense of self.• Telling a health story helps people, including healthcare providers, make sense of the illness, put it into context, and give actions meaning and value.Key Accomplishments:• “It’s as if Instagram and LinkedIn had a baby that grew up with Pinterest… and went to medical school. That would be eRounds.” eRounds empowers healthcare providers to share non-identified patient health stories through an image-sharing and clinical collaboration mobile platform.• Verified users include Vanderbilt University Medical School, The Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School, Duke University, Medtronic, Zimmer, and Covidien. • Physicians are empowered to share their most challenging cases with other experts and collaborate on the best surgical approach for the patient. Residents can learn and grow by reviewing cases posted by senior experts with a wealth of information. Experts can share their experiences to train and teach others. Medical device reps can share images and collaborate on how their devices can change a patient’s life.• Developed branched-learning (choose-your-own-adventure) education initiatives for surgical residents in collaboration with Johnson and Johnson.• Performed research on the role of shared decision-making in patient value-based outcomes.http://www.erounds.com/

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Key Takeaways:• What gets measured gets managed.• High-quality processes are not only Effective but also Accepted and Rigorous (EAR).• Storytelling stimulates parasympathetic recovery and human connection – stories heal!Key Accomplishments: • Implemented the Norton Provider Leadership Academy Green Belt Certification for Physicians and APPs. The resulting system impact of provider-driven quality projects included a 10% decreased readmissions for PCI patients; significant cost savings related to wasted supply items on physician preference cards; a 15% reduction in cardiac arrests in pediatric CVICU; a 90% capture rate for our meds-to-beds program; operationalization and revenue generation for a breast cancer sexual health program and a structural heart clinic; and implementation of a transitional care model to decrease leakage of pediatric to adult patients with T1DM.• Instituted a system-wide Total Joint Replacement Outpatient Program to increase same-day discharge for total joint replacement patients from 18% in 2019 to 75% in 2020, resulting in upwards of $ 2 million in cost savings and major capacity relief while controlling ED-Visits, readmissions, and patient satisfaction.• Developed physician preference card (PPC) dashboard and ongoing revision process to lower costs for unused items, wasted items, OR tack time, and PPC supply item utilization and accuracy.• Spearheaded the integration of clinical documentation reviewers to decrease spine service line-related PSIs, improving hospital-wide HAC-score and avoiding CMS 1% penalty, roughly 3.9 M.• As part of the ‘Norton Way to Wellbeing’ program, led the implementation of ‘Resiliency’ programming during COVID-19 to improve retention and reduce burnout of all employees across the system.

Key Takeaways:• Common sense matters to patients! If you had 100 people diagnosed with dehydration, you wouldn’t give water to only half of them and see what happens to the other half. If you asked 100 people to jump out of an airplane, you wouldn’t give a parachute to only half of them!• The patient is the expert on their problem, values, and goals.• Value creation for our patients boils down to simplicity and being heard. Key Accomplishments:• Provided transformational strategic direction for our health information technology and exchange products focusing on patient experience, quality outcomes, and patient safety through artificial intelligence, performance improvement, and stakeholder collaboration.• Led mutual accommodation effort for our patient engagement/value-based purchasing platform with evidence-based medicine and lean six sigma process improvement methodologies.• Improved large, multidisciplinary spine clinic patient satisfaction from 85% to 95%.• Reduced readmissions and no-show rates by 38% and 50%, respectively.• Reduced 80% of phone calls to office staff and after-hours answering service• Developed a patient-centered registry with hot-spotting and predictive analytics to respond to patient-reported outcome measures with preventative solutions.• Increased leverage of the health system with spine implant vendors to negotiate lower-cost implants translated directly into lower cost of care for patients.http://www.surgicallabs.com/http://rebound.launchrock.com/

Key Takeaways:• Obstacles are opportunities.• Keep solutions simple (i.e., don’t boil the ocean).• The process matters as much as the product.Key Accomplishments:• Align Cervical Collar – invented the first 3D-printed custom cervical orthotic based on a patient’s anthropometry to achieve better immobilization and comfort, but also ideal alignment for underlying spinal pathology to heal at a lower cost than standard cervical collars or without surgery. Finalist for Coulter Grant and development funded by DOD. Patented product and process brought to market.• Mayo Stand with Instrument Outlines – Reduced OR takt time (skin-to-skin) for the neurosurgery service line at Baptist Healthcare by 15% and improved operating room safety by 60% via surgeon meme process mapping and laser printed mayo stand covers with idea instrument layouts balancing surgeon preference and safety. • Brain & Spine School – created branched learning competency assessments for residency programs with a 100% board pass rate for users (n = 45) that developed into a growing neurosurgery education website (the Wikipedia of neurosurgery) and a mobile learning platform (Brain & Spine School on eRounds).• RSVL App - Released an app to empower confidence and efficiency for trauma healthcare providers in their decision-making regarding reversal (rvsl) of anticoagulants, anti-platelets, and bleeding disorders.

Executive Mha

Neurosurgery

Surgical Internship, Neurosurgery

Doctor Of Medicine - Md

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biochemistry, Psychology

Neuroscience

High School Diploma