Lynn Helmer, MD, FACP, MBA, FACPEPhysician Executives as Leaders
Lynn Helmer, MD, FACP, MBA, FACPE,’s career demonstrates the power of professional experience coupled with business education and entrepreneurship in improving the practice performance of dedicated professionals in healthcare and law. With her support and assistance, many physicians and attorneys have improved the quality of their day to day practice lives, the services that they deliver to patients or clients, and the profitability or their professional endeavors.
Her ability to provide this support comes from what she learned during her earlier career as both a practicing physician and a physician executive. She combines a strong background in clinical internal medicine with an advanced business degree and additional training and experience in the world of quality management. Her career to date includes more than 10 years of private practice, several years in an academic setting, combining teaching, practice and clinical research and several positions as a senior hospital executive. Currently she is the president of DRD Consulting, Inc, a consulting firm focused on executive leadership development, business growth and quality improvement. In its seven years of operations, under Lynn’s leadership, the firm exceeded all growth and volume predictions through a combination of effective marketing strategies, alliances and high quality delivery of services.
Lynn’s strengths in developing effective teams have led to measurable improvements of quality and business performance in varied venues. Her imagination and creativity have facilitated cost effective solutions to patient safety and quality of care challenges in the healthcare world. Her ability to facilitate strategic planning and team building have led to significant growth and ROI for her medical, healthcare, legal and financial services clients. One legal client has actually quintupled the number of employees and remained profitable during the recent recession.
During her tenure as a physician executive at 2 separate facilities, Lynn’s teams supported enhanced physician/administration relationships, improved the physician contracting and evaluation process, led the implementation of hospitalist programs, cost effective redesign of case management departments, leading to a decrease in LOS with improved physician acceptance and implemented a number of quality initiatives, including a partnership with the IT department to develop a safety database.
Lynn is a graduate of Rutgers Medical School, completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Hahnemann University and holds an Executive MBA degree from Drexel University. She maintains active certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine as well as the American Board of Quality and Utilization Review Physicians. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives.
Lynn served as an examiner for the NJ Governor’s Award in 2006 and was very pleased to serve as a member of the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Boards of Examiners. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Physician Executives from 2010-2014, serving as an officer for 2 of those years. Her volunteer activities include serving as a clinical volunteer at a free clinic for the underserved in NJ and as a board member of her synagogue.