Cheryl L. Fee has over 25 years of experience in healthcare consulting, operations management, and anesthesiology. She has held leadership roles in private practices, academic medical centers, and hospitals. Currently, she is the principal of her own healthcare consulting firm, where she assists clients with issues like healthcare financing, staffing, regulations and compliance, and quality improvement. She aims to help facilities optimize practices, reduce costs, and improve productivity and patient outcomes.

1. Cheryl L. Fee, MD, MBA
904.536.2476  2654 L’Atrium Circle South, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082 
cheryfee@gmail.com
Profile
Health Services Consultant with extensive experience in optimizing practice management at point of service for private,
academic, and hospital practices. Expertise spans operations management, policy/procedure development, quality
control, staff training/ supervision, and medical writing. Provides valuable insights to facilitate decision-making related to
business strategy, regulations, compliance, billing, and patient management. Excels in identifying opportunities to reduce
costs and improve productivity, despite a difficult economic-political climate. Adept at building and guiding integrated,
high-performing teams. Open to travel.
Highlights
◊ Held leadership roles in every direct patient healthcare role throughout career, including overseeing OR activities.
◊ Established a healthcare consulting firm and managed day-to-day operations, business development, and client
relations.
◊ Drove efforts to obtain new medical business accounts for said consulting firm in regional and national markets with
multiple partners.
◊ Grew clinic revenues by enhancing a clinic marketing program.
◊ Boosted profits by revising billing procedures to reduce accounts receivable and outstanding credit accounts for
patients presenting for repeat surgeries.
◊ Introduced pre-op screening guidelines that increased OR efficiency. Proactively optimized OR inventory to prevent
drug and equipment shortages.
◊ Advocated for the use of ultrasound to reduce complications and OR delays associated with regional anesthesia,
interventional procedures, nerve blocks, and central line placement.
◊ Significantly enhanced gastric bypass patient experience by revising policies/procedures for pain management and
pre/post-op screening, consent, and counseling, which lessened delays, pain, and post-op complications.
◊ Reduced drug abuse and ‘doctor shopping’ by implementing medical management and drug screening policies, a
triplicate prescription form, a pharmacy communication system, mandatory drug screening, and narcotics contracts.
◊ Strengthened cross-departmental relationships as a champion of inter-disciplinary collaboration.
◊ Published in a medical text, and in the process of writing two publications that are close to completion.
Core Responsibilities
 Healthcare consulting: assisting with healthcare financing, staffing, healthcare space and healthcare IT, as well as
budgeting, staffing concerns, regulations and compliance and quality control.
 Directed anesthesia department functions for a gastric bypass program, supervised nurse anesthetists, and
participated on multiple hospital committees.
 Provided pre-op, intra-op, post-op, and obstetric patient management as well as regional anesthesia management.
Conducted perioperative patient evaluations. Provided coverage in ER, GI, and radiology as needed. Placed central
lines.
 Evaluated, treated, and managed acute and chronic pain. Oversaw medication management and regional nerve block
treatments.
Career Track
Principal, BEACHES HEALTHCARE CONSULTING, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL..................................................... 2016
MBA Student, FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Boca Raton, FL..........................................................2014 to 2015
Director of Anesthesia, BOUGAINVILLEA CLINIC, Tortola, British Virgin Islands ................................ 2010 to 2011
Staff Anesthesiologist, JACKSON NORTH MEDICAL CENTER, North Miami Beach, FL .................................. 2009
Staff Anesthesiologist, SEVEN RIVERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Crystal River, FL .................. 2006 to 2008
Director of Anesthesia, RUSSELL COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER, Lebanon, VA................................... 2003 to 2006
Medical Director, COASTAL PAIN CENTER, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL................................................. 1999 to 2003
Teaching Appointments
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL………………………………… 1995 to 1996
Staff Anesthesiologist, Hollywood Regional Hospital, Hollywood, FL……………………………………...1992 to 1995

2. Credentials
Master of Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Florida Atlantic University College of Business, Boca
Raton, FL
Doctor of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA (attended on a United States Air Force scholarship)
Anesthesiology Residency, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL  General Surgery Internship, Boston University,
Boston, MA
Biology, University of Minnesota and Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
Diplomate, American Academy of Pain Management  Board Certified, American Board of Anesthesiology
Medical License (retired), State of Florida  Medical License (inactive), State of Virginia
References
Lenny Calodney, MD zzdoc@tampabay.rr.com 352-422-2101
Steven Smith PhD ssmit318@fau.edu 646-721-2823
Alan Whiteman PhD awhitema@fau.edu 954-295-2855