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Perry Mandanis is as an award-winning educator, physician, and effective organizational consultant. He combines his understanding of human behavior and experiences in business operations to engender collaborative behaviors in work teams that achieve lasting bottom line results. As a practicing psychiatrist and executive coach, his inspiring presentations move his knowledge of individual and group dynamics, adult education, and solution-focused interventions from the couch to the boardroom.
Perry earned his BA degree from Wake Forest University and his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. After completing residencies in Pediatrics at MUSC, General Psychiatry at Brown University School of Medicine, and Child and Family Psychiatry at Brown, he pursued a career in hospital administration to become the Physician Executive of the Providence VA Medical Center. There he produced highly efficient health care delivery systems through the advancement of management technologies, quality inpatient and outpatient services, and adult learning and professional staff development programs. While with the federal government, he graduated from the Leadership VA program and served on the faculty of the Health Care Leadership Institute, coaching and training future career executives in healthcare.
He then moved into the private sector to become the Chief Operating Officer of GBA Health Network Systems, a privately held medical software development company, while continuing to serve on the InterQual Physician Advisory Board and the McKesson medical Product Advisory Board. He is the recipient of the Disabled American Veterans of Rhode Island Outstanding Physician of the Year award and the Brown University Psychiatry Award for Teaching Excellence. He remains active in his community of Providence, Rhode Island as a volunteer member of the Human Rights Board for Gateways to Change.
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