Meet our ultra-talented team of health care marketing experts and medical marketing consultants

Meet the ultra-talented team of people we've assembled to help you achieve your goals For the past 20 years, Lonnie Hirsch and Stewart Gandolf have worked with hundreds of marketing people, serving the needs of thousands of healthcare organizations, including hospitals, manufacturers, associations and practices. Upon founding Healthcare Success Strategies, they handpicked the very best and most talented people to join them.

Today, we've grown to over 30 people (employees and independent contractors). Better still, due to our reputation and continued growth, we find that ultra-talented people nationwide reach out to us on a weekly basis. (We can't think of a better compliment!) Here are just a few of the talented people who are ready to work with you. (We've omitted many last names to protect our people from being barraged by cold calling salesmen. Click here.

Stewart Gandolf, MBA, Founding Partner –– Over the years Stewart has personally marketed and consulted for over 1,457 healthcare clients, ranging from private practices to multi-billion dollar corporations. Additionally, he has worked with a variety of America's leading companies, including Citicorp, J. Walter Thompson, Grubb & Ellis, Bally Total Fitness, Pacific Bell, Wells Fargo and Chase Manhattan. He is a frequent author and speaker on the topic of healthcare marketing. Today, Stewart also acts as HSS's primary Creative Director and Business Developer. His personal accomplishments are supported by a loving wife and two beautiful daughters. You may speak with Stewart directly by calling (800) 656-0907 ext. 3. Click here for full bio »           Click here to email Stewart »

Lonnie Hirsch, Founding Partner –– Lonnie has consulted for over 2,000 health care clients during his 20-year career. After rising to become President of the world's largest healthcare practice marketing company, Lonnie co-founded Healthcare Success Strategies with Stewart Gandolf. Lonnie writes for many healthcare publications, and also has spoken at hundreds of venues nationally. Lonnie has also dedicated himself to finding the highest-caliber professionals to fill our team of innovative "All Stars" ready to help your business thrive, and to create the organizational systems critical to our continual growth. His talented wife and 2 gifted children make all of Lonnie's hard work worthwhile. You may speak with Lonnie directly by calling (800) 656-0907 ext. 2. Click here for full bio »        Click here to email Lonnie »

Jamie, Account Manager - Jamie is one of the most innately talented people we've ever worked with. Jamie came to work at Healthcare Success Strategies because her entrepreneurial spirit molded seamlessly with the mentality of our talented community of professionals. After helping to form a start-up company from the ground up, Jamie realized that her talents lie in her ability to create and maintain meaningful business relationships - a talent that transcends business specialties. Her charisma and leadership abilities have helped to raise funds for several non-profit organizations and, to date, at least 2 previously unknown tech companies can attribute their visibility to Jamie's marketing efforts. Jamie is a believer of continual education and the pursuit of happiness which, for her, includes surfing and training horses.

Steve Smith - With over 25 years of marketing experience - nine years as the former Vice President of Marketing of a leading healthcare marketing company - Steve has consistently developed effective strategies and tactics to help fuel the growth of countless healthcare enterprises. During his career, Steve has written and/or created successful campaigns for nearly every marketing channel used in healthcare. Steve is on the marketing committee of the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) and is the marketing columnist for the RBMA Bulletin. Steve has contributed marketing articles to numerous healthcare publications, including Sleep Review, Physician’s Money Digest, Dentist’s Money Digest, Radiology Business Journal and more. Steve is the creator of “Ten Seconds to Great Customer Service™,” a training program used across the country. Steve is also an accomplished speaker, trainer and journalist: Since 1998, he has written a weekly column on family issues for the Daily Pilot, a Los Angeles Times community newspaper serving cities in Orange County, CA, and is a past contributor to the Los Angeles Times and many regional magazines.

Mike Harbaugh - With over 15 years experience in healthcare marketing and medical product development, Mike Harbaugh has has personally consulted with over 500 healthcare clients. He has spoken at numerous workshop events on the topic of healthcare marketing. An entrepreneur and strategic thinker, Mike also co-founded MedChoice Financial, a patient finance company. Mike has also held executive positions at three leading healthcare marketing advertising agencies.

Sandy, Director of Account Management and Agency Operations - True to the entrepreneurial spirit interlaced throughout all aspects of Healthcare Success Strategies, Sandy works directly with clients and also manages our team of Account Managers. She is also integral to creating systems and procedures for our rapidly expanding company. For the past 18 years, Sandy has worked for traditional advertising agencies, in corporate sales, and more recently in healthcare marketing. Her experience with Stewart and Lonnie spans over 6 years, beginning with a congruent vision of practice marketing - a personal and customized approach to practice growth through ethical marketing and training. With her love of adventure and compassion for nature, Sandy is devoted to her family, to her community and to the success of your practice.

Christine T., Director of Client Training and Account Manager - Christine has personally trained hundreds of healthcare practice staffs nationwide, and also acts as one of our Account Managers (client liaisons). Like many of our people, we've worked with her for years. Clients and staffs LOVE working with Christine. When she conducts her trainings, she is expert at rallying the troops behind the practice's marketing plan, plus teaching them the tools they will need to successfully convert phone inquiries to first visits to patients to loyal customers.

Michelle, Account Manager - Michelle was referred to us by one of our team members and works out of her Virginia Beach office. Michelle brings a traditional advertising agency background to us and she loves our results-based focus. In addition to her healthcare expertise, she has a strong travel background, including Kingsmill Resort and Real Estate, Kiawah Island Resort, Park Central, NY City, Chesapeake Tourism Office and Kingston Plantation. She enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 sons, a day with friends at the beach and the search for the perfect sushi.

Charles, Media Guru and Account Manager Charles has over 25 years of experience in media planning, buying and research with specific expertise in national, regional and local direct response broadcast strategies and analysis. He previously was media director of Christopher Thomas Associates. Charlie oversees and manages all media plans and budgets for various clients including SpaFinder, regionally based health care institutions and health care products.  Charlie has extensive experience in television, newspapers, magazines, cooperative mailings, Internet marketing, outdoor and other media. During his career, he was instrumental in the successful multi-million-dollar media launch of the popular diet supplement, Metabolife. He has also served as a marketing consultant with AT&T, Playboy Enterprises and Tribune Entertainment, helping to develop revenue-generating strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 companies and media outlets.Charles is an experienced negotiator, strategist and Account Manager utilizing years of media, marketing, sales, management skills and long term industry relationships which help support the marketing efforts of all his clients. Charles attended Upsala College in New Jersey and has a degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting.

George Hardman, Video Producer – Since 1990, George has worked in video and film production. He started his career with commercial production in the art department then advanced into all facets of video production. He takes an "old school" approach to film & video production while applying the most up-to-date technology. His concept is based on quality professional craftsmanship, with a fully trained crew, offering digital broadcast-quality multimedia video and High Definition. George is on the cutting edge of technology with streaming video to the internet and building advanced DVD productions. George has traveled to 60 countries and has produced numerous corporate videos, commercials and 3 adventure documentaries,. He is the winner of numerous awards including a 2009 Communicator award. To put it simply, “I have a true passion for story telling. Using todays technology lets me be more creative than ever before."

Karen, Account Manager - Having 20 of years marketing experience, Karen's background is primarily direct response, database management and printing. Her sole mission in business has been to profitably sell through results-driven marketing. Lonnie and Stewart worked with Karen early in her career, and we were very pleased to recruit her to work with us again at Healthcare Success Strategies. In addition to working with hundreds of doctors, Karen has worked on many national client accounts including Countrywide Home Loans, General Mills, Pepsi-Cola, Heinz, Ore-Ida, Lawry's, RJR Nabisco, Sears/Discover, Nestle, NordicTrack, Slick 50, Radio Shack, 3M, Pleasant Holidays, Ralph's, Vons, Lion King, Kroger, Winn-Dixie, Publix and Albertson's. We love Karen's extraordinary attention to detail, along with her excellent account management skills.

Chase, Art Director, Web Designer and SEO Expert - Chase is one of our primary Internet marketing specialists, and works with our clients and our own corporate marketing. He designs websites and implements search engine optimization strategies. Additionally, Chase designs ads and print collateral for our clients. Like so many of our "All Stars," we've worked with Chase for years. In addition to working with hundreds of healthcare clients, Chase has a strong background in real estate and tourism.

Marisa, Art Director and Web Specialist - In the midst of traveling and studying art and photography in Florence, Italy, Marisa obtained a Bachelor's Degree in graphic design from Chapman University. Over the past 10 years, Marisa has elevated her creative talent to clearly illustrate your practice's vision. As both a freelance artist and as an Art Director for the country's largest healthcare marketing firm, she has gained invaluable marketing knowledge that she can offer your practice today. In her spare time (and she does have some) Marisa volunteers for the ALS Association, a nonprofit organization to further research and assist those with Lou Gehrig's disease.

Steve, Art Director and Web Specialist - Steve is a seasoned professional with a modern design sensibility. While his portfolio consists of award winning work, his first priority is to produce results for clients - marketable results that translate into increased revenues. Time and again he has proven his ability to integrate his expertise with a practice. He centers his attention on a client's needs, goals, budgetary considerations, and aims to identify with the client's company philosophy and mission, and then translates that into an excellent finished product. Steve's experience with art direction on hundreds of campaigns, in a variety of healthcare modalities, gives him unique insight on how to creatively represent healthcare practices. In addition to healthcare, Steve has worked with past clients such as American Express, Home Depot, ITT Sheraton and Paul Brown Hawaii.

Simona, Art Director - A talented Art Director with years of experience, Simona helps to create unique and compelling design campaigns for Healthcare Success Strategies. For almost a decade, Simona has worked in association with Lonnie and Stewart and has served over 800 clients in the healthcare field alone. In addition to her expertise in healthcare marketing, she has also worked as a Senior Art Director for a major casino as well as an Internet search engine company. Simona began her career with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis in design, and fell in love with art upon frequenting museums as a child.

Cassie, Art Director - We found Cassie on a referral from one of our favorite writers. (We've been thankful ever since.) Cassie brings us terrific print design and is a true team player. Prior to working with us, Cassie worked for many healthcare clients and other clients, including Inamed, Advanced Medical Optics, Thoratec, Zeiss, MedImmune, Sonata, GenProbe, St. Joseph's Hospital, Bristol Park Medical, Genentech, ViroLogic, Biosite, Bridge Medical, Vytra Healthcare, Lindora, Innovation Sports and Ingram Micro. Today, Cassie lives somewhere fabulous (but really hard-to-find) in the Southwest with her husband and son.

Scott, Art Director - Scott brings us 17 years experience and is our "secret weapon" for large format art design, including trade shows and outdoor advertising. Large format is a separate subspecialty within the art world, and we are pleased to work with him on appropriate projects. He has worked with many big name companies including Alpine BioMed, Amirsys, Toshiba, Espon, Clarion, Yamaha Snowmobiles, DS Waters, and Infocus.

Anne, Senior Writer - Anne has more than 17 years of experience writing search engine-optimized Web content and marketing collateral for Fortune 500 corporations, private practices, professional services firms, government organizations and small businesses. Clients include leading organizations such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, American Express, Transamerica, Tenet Health Systems and Nextel. She specializes in the medical, dental, legal, financial services and technology fields. Additionally, Anne's ghostwritten and feature articles have appeared in consumer, trade and custom published magazines including: Entrepreneur's Business Start-Ups, Daily Variety, Working Woman, National Underwriter, Canadian Underwriter, Investment Advisor, Business Continuity, Metro Quarterly, Environmental Protection, and the Small Business Tax News.

Christine M., Senior Writer - Christine is yet another writer who has worked on healthcare practice marketing for years. She has a very intellectual approach to writing, and asks all the right questions up front necessary to deliver stellar results for our clients.

Holly, Senior Writer - At the risk of being redundant, Holly has worked with us since the late 1990s on hundreds of private healthcare practice campaigns. Holly is particularly thoughtful in her approach to writing, and comes up with excellent, clear and motivating copy. Holly is also an accomplished author, having begun her career writing for Entrepreneur Magazine. She also "ghost writes" books. In her spare time, Holly plays poker and roots for the LA Dodgers.

Meredith, Senior Writer - Like almost all of our writers, we've worked with Meredith for many years. We love her both for her writing and can-do spirit. Always honing her craft, Meredith is also one of our most prolific writers. In fact, Meredith has written more campaigns for doctors than nearly anyone on the planet. A few years ago Meredith moved to the Midwest with her husband, but thanks to email, faxes and a lot of phone calls, we are able to keep her as busy as she wants to be.

Allison, Senior Writer - Like most of our writers (we aren't making this up), Allison has worked with us for many years on hundreds of campaigns. She is terrific at taking clients' input and turning it into magic - and gets it right the first time. We especially like to give her projects that require both creative and analytical sensibility. When Allison isn't writing, she takes care of a very busy family.

Mike, Really Senior Direct Response Writer - Mike and Stewart started their careers together over 20 years ago (1986), and they have remained friends and worked together often ever since. Throughout his career, Mike has specialized in direct response writing (meaning writing that sells). Mike has written over 1,000 campaigns, both B2B and B2C. In addition to working with our corporate and doctor clients, Mike has worked for United Airlines and many of America's largest financial institutions.

Sam, Managing Editor - Sam is a highly experienced writer, editor, entrepreneur and healthcare practice marketer. We've known Sam for many years, and are thrilled that he works with us on much of our published content, including our e-newsletter and the various feature articles we write.

Julia, Administrator and "Queen Bee" - Julia was Healthcare Success Strategies' first employee. She will adamantly tell you that Lonnie and Stewart are THE definitive experts on healthcare practice marketing. (The fact that she is married to Lonnie doesn't bias her one bit!) A true team player, Julia helps out wherever needed. Not only is she the authority of internal procedures for HSS, Julia is also a published author, documentary producer and even (when we ask nicely) one of our proofreaders.

Rick, Print Broker - When our clients need printing, we typically rely on Rick. Rick is expert at both quality control and managing complicated print jobs. Because we do so much volume through Rick, we have "leverage" with the printers we work with, and also are able to negotiate competitive rates on behalf of our clients.

Cheryl, Bookkeeper Extraordinaire - Cheryl is in charge of everything financial with our company (bookkeeping, planning, cash flow, collections, billing, etc.). She also is the liaison with our CPA and other advisors.