Arizona Chapter

Bill Sobers, MBA, AIF

Chapter Co-Leader

Bill has spent his career serving as an advocate for business owners, institutions and healthcare professionals. He specializes in the complexities of qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, cash management, foundation and endowment management, and investment banking services. As an accredited institutional retirement advisor, Bill focuses on designing and implementing corporate retirement plans that improve the financial lives of employees and enhance an organization’s value. With a deep understanding for the mechanics behind the development and management of corporate retirement plans, Bill works closely with his institutional clients to design a disciplined approach and then implement and monitor their plans. He takes great pride in helping retirement plan participants relieve some of their work-related stress, offering one-on-one financial coaching sessions on a regular basis. Prior to joining UBS in 2006, Bill served as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch and as a manager for a nonprofit corporation.

John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP

Chapter Co-Leader

John Shufeldt has nearly three decades of experience leading high performing teams and being a thought leader and agent of change in the delivery of healthcare, entrepreneurism and leadership.

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, 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. In 2019 he completed a certificate program in Artificial Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

John 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 60 clinics in six states with revenue of nearly $100 million. 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 medical and mental health providers in 50 states to virtually treat patients on-demand and in the comfort of their home or place of work. At present, MeMD has nearly 5 million subscribers enrolled. John is the CEO of Tribal EM, an emergency department management and staffing company which works exclusively with Tribal facilities across the county.

John has authored 11 books on leadership, self-improvement, business, entrepreneurism and urgent care management and urgent care medicine.

Sudhen Desai, MD

Chapter Co-Leader

レンセラー工科大学と連携した6年間の理学士／博士課程を修了後、アルバニー医科大学で研究において優秀な成績を収め、アルファ・オメガ・アルファの栄誉で医学博士号を取得。医学部の後期には、NCI/NIHの臨床研究トレーニングプログラム（トランスレーショナル・リサーチャーの育成を目的とした臨床フェローシップ）に奨学生として参加した。その後、スタンフォード大学（一般外科）とUCSF（ビューサイト）で研修医を務め、ノースウェスタン大学で血管・インターベンショナル放射線学のフェローシップを受けた。インターベンショナルおよび診断放射線学を8年以上実践。複数のアーリーステージ・ライフサイエンス企業、ベンチャーキャピタル企業、ビジネススクールのコンサルタントを務める。インターベンショナル・ラジオロジー学会の複数の委員会に任命され、SIR年次総会で講演。医師起業家協会（SoPE）ヒューストン支部のリーダーとして、イノベーションとアイデア開発に関心を持つ医師たちの参加に努めるとともに、アイデアが日の目を見るのを支援する仕組みや見識を提供している。