Cain Brothers House Calls Podcast: The Future of Clinical Trials: Decentralized, Diversified, Efficient and Fast

David Johnson is the CEO of 4sight Health, an advisory company working at the intersection of healthcare strategy, economics, innovation. Johnson is a healthcare thought leader, keynote speaker, and strategic advisor to organizations busting the status-quo to reform our healthcare system. He is the author of Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare, and his second book, The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All (McGraw-Hill 2019). As a speaker, Dave plays the role of rebel, challenger, industry historian, investor and company evaluator to push audiences forward. (Watch bio video.) Johnson applies his 25+ years of investment banking in healthcare to identify ways the healthcare industry must change to deliver better care. He received a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, an English degree from Colgate University, and served in the African Peace Corp service. Join over 10k+ healthcare executives who read our weekly insights and commentary on www.4sighthealth.com.

Dave wakes up every morning trying to fix America’s broken healthcare system. Prior to founding 4sight Health in 2014, Dave had a long and successful career in healthcare investment banking. He is a graduate of Colgate University and earned a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. Employing his knowledge and experience in health policy, economics, statistics, behavioral finance, disruptive innovation, organizational change and complexity theory, Dave writes and speaks on pro-market healthcare reform. His first book Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare, and his second book, The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All (McGraw-Hill 2019), are available for purchase on www.4sighthealth.com. Get his new book with Paul Kusserow, “The Coming Healthcare Revolution: 10 Forces that Will Cure America’s Healthcare Crisis” now.

John Kerins is a Director in Cain Brother’s Corporate M&A Advisory practice. Mr. Kerins joined Cain Brothers in 2015 with 10+ years of experience in a variety of merger and acquisition, capital raising, and strategic advisory transactions. Mr. Kerins’ notable transactions since joining Cain Brothers include the minority recapitalization of RedCard by Parthenon Capital Partners, the sale of iCardiac Technologies to ERT, the recapitalization of Steward Health Care System with Medical Properties Trust, the sale of Onlife to Guidewell, Morgan Stanley Capital Partners’ acquisition of Clarity, advising Premier Healthcare Exchange and Pay-Plus Solutions on their merger with Stratose, and BioScrip’s PIPE offering to Coliseum Capital Management. Prior to joining Cain Brothers, Mr. Kerins was a Vice President at Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC, where he focused on mergers, acquisitions, and fairness opinions across a variety of sectors. Mr. Kerins’ prior experience also includes working for McMaster-Carr Supply Company, a privately held distributor, in a variety of management capacities, including operations and sales management. Mr. Kerins earned a BA in Political Science from Kenyon College and an MBA from Fordham University.