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You know something isn't working.

You're weighing a career move you can't talk about at work?
Clinical and product can't get along?
Your care model works in the pitch deck, but not in the real world?
Sound familiar?

I’m a physician turned product executive. I advise healthcare CEOs, operators, and investors — diagnose the real problem, then build the fix.

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Andrew Schutzbank, MD, MPH
Founder, Schutzworks
Employee #3, Iora Health → Amazon · CPO, Cricket Health → Fresenius · Harvard Med faculty, 10 yrs
Misha Nasrollahzadeh
"Andrew is my first call for the gnarly things. He tells it to you straight and gives you confidence in the plan ahead."
Misha Nasrollahzadeh — Founder & CEO, Joyce Health
About me

The same problems, wearing different costumes.

I'm a primary-care physician who became a product executive, building places worth getting care from my entire career. A thousand iterations later, the fixes work more often than they should. And if we can fix healthcare, we can fix the world.

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Fifteen years of writing on what's actually broken in healthcare, plus an AI advisor trained on all of it.

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Same brain, no calendar.
Schutzduck

Ask the Duck what you'd ask me — it's trained on the Schutzblog and more, and unlike me, it's awake at 2am when you're rewriting that email for the fourth time.

"The duck literally just doubled my rate for an engagement tomorrow! Hard truth therapy, but grateful!"
Consultant · Digital Health
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Schutzblog

The patterns under the chaos, and what to actually do about them. 

Featured post · 6 min
Resolving the Clinico-Product Divide
Why the two halves of your company talk past each other — and the fix nobody staffs for.
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Karthik Rao
"Andrew has been a wonderful thought partner in pressure testing clinical model strategy and building teams and process that lead to products people actually use! Just as important, he's a pleasure to work with and brings the right energy to every conversation."
Karthik Rao, MD — CMO, agilon health
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“The first call for the gnarly things.”

I'm an advisor to healthtech CEOs, operators, and investors. Sometimes it's one conversation. Sometimes it turns into ongoing advisory. Let's start with thirty minutes and see where it goes.

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Diagnose
56 OKRs for 62 people.
That's what I walked into as the new CPO. On day nine, I cut them to four. That quarter, the company hit its goals for the first time ever.
Fix
Physical to virtual in five weeks.
I spent a decade building a primary care model — clinical design, training, technology. When COVID hit, my team took the whole thing virtual, nationwide, in five weeks. The system we built to improve did exactly that.
Diagnose
Fourteen pitches, no framework.
A CEO I advise was drowning in vendor pitches for what was really a build-vs-buy decision. We built the decision framework first — and chose the right vendor in a week.
Be there
The call nobody else can take.
First-time firings. Co-founder breakups. Whether to shut down. The board meeting you're dreading. You call on short notice — and hang up with a plan.
Kivo Health
"I can call him with five minutes' notice, good news or bad, and hang up with a plan."
Victor Sadauskas, MD — CEO, Kivo Health
Alex Dresner
"Most advisors have a thing. Andrew's thing is that he doesn't need a thing. He sees the whole board and tells you what you're missing."
Alex Dresner — CEO, Imagen

Want Schutzduck for your whole company, in your Slack or Enterprise LLM of choice, trained on your data and kept confidential? Let’s talk

Andrew Hotchkiss
"Andrew's experience as a physician-builder and working at a plan is incredibly valuable to anyone looking to innovate in value-based care. Perhaps less known is Andrew's deep understanding of human psychology and incentives from the perspective of the patient, the buyer, the physician, and the entrepreneur. Working with someone like Andrew who has actually been in the trenches and leads with empathy is refreshing and motivating."
Andrew Hotchkiss — CEO, Sensorum Health
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Offsites, keynotes, panels, podcasts — you bring the room and the problem.

So, where should we begin?

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