Our Team
Our Professional Services Team
Founded by behavioral health pioneer, Douglas Adamek, PhD, the professional services team at Physician Wellness Services includes physician peer coaches as well as licensed master’s- and doctorate-level mental and behavioral health professionals.
We also have specialists in areas such as anger management, substance abuse and personality disorders — as well as family and relationship issues. All are experienced in coaching and counseling physicians.
Our Medical Director
Alan Rosenstein, M.D., M.B.A.
Dr. Alan Rosenstein is the Medical Director for Physician Wellness Services. Prior to joining Physician Wellness Services, Rosenstein had spent more than a decade researching the problem of disruptive physicians, advocating for industry standards and developing intervention strategies for addressing the problem.
In 2006, Rosenstein co-authored a landmark study of disruptive physician behavior that helped spur the healthcare industry to action. Two years later, the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) issued a Sentinel Alert on Disruptive Physicians that became effective January 1, 2009. Healthcare organizations are now required to publish a defined code of conduct and have a specific process in place for addressing disruptive physician behavior. Dr. Rosenstein believes that Physician Wellness Services provides the only nationally available, end-to-end solution available today to help hospitals and medical groups to effectively address the issue of disruptive physicians.
He has been widely published in scholarly journals and his work has been cited in the major media. He has delivered numerous lectures and seminar presentations and has been consulted nationally and internationally on a wide variety of healthcare issues including:
- Cost-effective care
- Disruptive physicians
- Hospital report cards
- Information management & decision support
- Integrated healthcare delivery systems
- Nurse-physician relationships
- Outcomes analysis
- Performance improvement
- Performance profiling
- Physician education
- Physician leadership
- Return on investment
- Resource and case management
- Quality improvement
Dr. Rosenstein is also Vice President and Medical Director for VHA West Coast, Pleasanton, CA. He is the former Vice President of Clinical Informatics for McKesson-HBOC, former Medical Director of Decision Support for HBSI and the former Director of Medical Resource Management, Manager of Outcome Measurement and Chairman of Utilization Review at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. He has also served as Regional Medical Director for BPS Health Care in Northern California and as Medical Director for a hospital sponsored I.P.A. and M.S.O. He continues his clinical practice in Internal Medicine on a part-time basis in the San Francisco bay area.
Dr. Rosenstein graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He completed his internship at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, CA and three years of residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. He earned his M.B.A. in Health Services Management at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA.