Curriculum Vitae

Judy Bee
Medical Practice Management Consultant
Practice Performance Group
8070 La Jolla Shores Drive #518
La Jolla CA 92037
858/459-7878
858/459-6144 Fax

Judy Bee entered consulting in l977 after 8 years in the medical and dental field in clinic administration. With a firm understanding of operations, she initially focused on automating health care offices to provide the customary data processing applications as well as adding internal marketing and practice development functions. The consulting practice expanded to include all operations with an emphasis in cost effective staffing, patient flow, and marketing.

Since entering the field Ms. Bee has worked in a consulting capacity throughout the nation with hundreds of practices all over the US. Her client reference list numbers more than 700 physicians in 37 states of the US since 1979. She has presented more than 1,000 workshops, seminars and speaking engagements in the United States and Australia, sponsored by more than forty state, county and specialty medical and dental society organizations as well as the California CPA Foundation for Education and Research. She is an editorial consultant for Medical Economics Magazine and Patient Care Magazine. Ms. Bee is the has collaborated with on more than 400 articles on medical practice management as publisher of UnCommon Sense®, a leading subscription newsletter of management strategy and tactics for physicians.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1977 - 1979
Independent medical and dental practice management consulting

1979 - 1988
Medical Practice Management Consultant
Conomikes Associates, Inc.
Los Angeles, California

1988 - present
President and Management Consultant
Practice Performance Group
La Jolla, California

1992 - present
Publisher, UnCommon Sense®

TEACHING -- paid faculty

State Medical Societies

Arizona Medical Association
California Medical Association
Colorado Medical Association
Kentucky Medical Association
Louisiana Medical Association
Medical Society of the District of Columbia
Medical Society of the State of New York
Michigan State Medical Society
Missouri State Medical Association
Ohio State Medical Association
Oklahoma State Medical Association
Oregon Medical Association
Pennsylvania Medical Association
Texas Medical Association
Washington State Medical Association

National and Regional Medical and Specialty Societies

American Academy of Dermatology
American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery
American Animal Hospital Association
American Association of Ophthalmology
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
American College of Surgeons
American Council of Otolaryngology
American Dental Association
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
American Society of Ophthalmic Administrators
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
American Society of Retinal Specialists
Western Orthopedic Association
Southern Medical Association

Hospital and Inservice Training Sponsors

Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Hoag Presbyterian Hospital
House Ear Institute
Pacifica Hospital, Huntington Beach, CA
Palomar Pomerado Hospital
Practice One Computers User Conference
St Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Whittier Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Family Practice Residency Program, Whittier, CA

PUBLICATIONS

Administrative Ophthalmology / Administrative Eyecare, Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Administrators

• Poles Apart: Negotiating Fair Contract Provisions with New Associates (with Jeff Denning) Summer 1992
• Stopping the HMO Leak (with Jeff Denning) Summer 1993
• Increasing Practice Efficiency (with Jeff Denning) Spring 1993
• What is Your Mission (with Jeff Denning) Winter 1994

Advances in Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Mosby

• Marketing in the Age of Managed Care (Book Chapter with Jeff Denning) Volume 8 Fall, 1994

Australian Practice Management Magazine

• Stay Rational About Discounts (with Jeff Denning) June, 2000

Contemporary OB/GYN

• Starting Up or Starting Over? (with Barbara Weiss) July, 2004

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: State of the Art Reviews, Vol. 13, No. 1, February 1999

• Effective Staff Recruitment and Compensation (with Jeff Denning)

Journal of the Australian Association of Practice Managers, Ltd.

• Everything Counts (with Jeff Denning) September 1993
• Five Reasons Why Employees Don't Work (with Jeff Denning) December 1993
• Computers Gone Sour: Some Recurring Nightmares in Medical Offices (with Jeff Denning) March 1994
• Get New Employees off on the Right Foot (with Jeff Denning) June 1994
• What's Your Mission? (with Jeff Denning) September 1994
• Speed the Patient Intake Function (with Jeff Denning) December 1994
• Never Say. . ., (with Jeff Denning) March 1995
• Make Decisions & Write Them Down (with Jeff Denning) September 1995
• The Rules of Thumb (with Jeff Denning) September, 2000
  OBG Economics
• Nine Things You Should Never Say to a Patient June 4, 2004

Medical Economics Magazine

• 9 Things You Should Never Say to A Patient June 4, 2004
• Managing Petty Cash is No Petty Matter August 6, 2004
• 8 Great Tips to Make Your Practice More Productive November 5, 2004
• Keeping Tabs on Cash Flow December 2, 2005
• 10 More Ways to Work Smarter June 17, 2005 (with Geoffrey T. Anders, Keith Borglum, Michael D. Brown and David C. Scroggins) compiled by Kathleen McKee, Senior Editor

Medical Economics OBG Edition

• Squeeze More from Your Practice July 2002

INTERVIEWS

The Medical Economics Audio Digest, Vol. 2, Issue 5 May, 1999

• Hiring and Keeping a Happy Office Staff

The Medical Economics Audio Digest, Vol. 4, Issue 12 December, 2001

• Managing the Telephone

Medical Economics Magazine Podcast

• Improving Specialist Referrals

VIDEOS

American Education Institute, Inc

• Treating Patients Right
• Practice Management Metrics
• Taming the Telephone
• Physician Productivity Best Practices
• Financial Control for Physicians
• The Big Secret: Keeping Smaller Practices Successful
• Human Resources Basic Training

Oregon Medical Association

• Treating Patients Right Video Training