Leadership

David Friend, M.D.

President and Chief Medical Officer
AseraCare Hospice

David Friend, M.D. is President and Chief Medical Officer of AseraCare Hospice. Most recently, Dr. Friend served as the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Palladium Group, the global leader in helping organizations in the areas of strategy, performance management, analytics and business intelligence.

Prior to joining the Palladium Group, Dr. Friend served as Managing Director of the Healthcare and Restructuring practice at Alvarez and Marsal, a global professional services firm that specializes in financial restructuring. Previously, he spent nine years at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading financial advisory, human resources consulting and actuarial firm, where was on the Board of Directors and held the positions of CEO and Global Director of Healthcare Consulting, CEO of the U.S. East Operating Division and Co-CEO of the U.S. Operating Division.

Dr. Friend currently serves on the Board of Health Integrated, a privately-held care management company, and has served on the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and its John Dempsey Teaching Hospital, as well as the Boards of the Schneider Institute of the Heller School at Brandeis University. He has also served as an advisor to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and as a Visiting Scientist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Innovation Center for Information Technology.

Dr. Friend earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brandeis University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.