John Shufeldt

John Shufeldt has nearly 3 decades of experience leading high performing teams and being a thought leader and agent of change in the delivery of on-demand and hospital based medical care. John received his BA from Drake University in 1982 and his MD from the University of Health Sciences/ The Chicago Medical School in 1986. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in 1989 where he spent his final year as Chief Resident. John received his MBA in 1995, and his Juris Doctorate in 2005, both from Arizona State University. He is admitted to the State Bar in Arizona, the Federal District Court, and Supreme Court of the United States. His certifications include Fellow, American Board of Emergency Medicine, Fellow, College of Legal Medicine, and American College of Emergency Physicians. In 2015, he completed his Six Sigma Black Belt from the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He founded NextCare Inc. in 1993 as well as numerous other health and non-health care businesses over the course of his career. He served as NextCare’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board until 2010. Under John’s leadership, NextCare grew from a single clinic to fifty-eight clinics in six states. He is the business manager and one of the founding partners of Empower Emergency Physicians and continues to practice emergency medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. In 2010, John left NextCare and founded MeMD, LLC. At present, MeMD is used by more than 300 providers in 50 states to virtually treat patients’ on-demand and without them having to leave their residence or place of work. At the present time, MeMD has 1.5 million subscribers enrolled. He served as the Chair of Utilization Review and as the Vice Chairperson for the Arizona Care Network which is the largest ACO in Arizona. He is currently the Interim Chief Medical Officer at San Carlos Apache Healthcare Center where he oversees all aspect of the delivery of medical care. John has authored and co-authored books on Children’s Emergencies and Contract Issues for Emergency Medicine Physicians. He and Dr. Lee Resnick co-edited a book titled, Urgent Care Medicine. Additionally, John edited and published a book titled, Urgent Care Management and a book titled Urgent Care Procedures is forthcoming. In addition, he has authored and published Ingredients of Outliers: A Recipe for Self Leadership, Ingredients of Young Outliers, Achieving Your Most Amazing Future, Ingredients of Women Outliers, Outliers in Medicine. Outliers in Law, Outliers in Education and Leadership YOU and continues to work on the Outliers series. He lectures on a variety of subject matters to graduate medical, business and law students. He was the Health Law Editor and on the Advisory Board for the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine and was the Editor in Chief of Urgent Care Alert and ED Legal Bulletin. He currently is the featured guest on the Medical Management podcast for UC Rapp. He was an adjunct professor at the Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business where he taught Health Law and Ethics to MBA and Health Sector Management students and is an adjunct professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law where he teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution and a seminar on Health Law Entrepreneurism. He is the past-President of the Board of the Men’s Anti-violence Network, is a Founding Member of Urgent Care Association Foundation Board, and serves on the Drake University Board of Trustees, the Board of Colleen’s Dream and the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law Alumni Board. John serves as the Medical Director for the Phoenix Police “SWAT” Special Assignment Unit. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot Rating and is type rated in a variety of multi-engine fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

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