About Stern Consulting

David M. C. Stern President E-mail

David Stern has broad and deep experience consulting to the healthcare industry. Prior to founding Stern Consulting, he spent six years advising hospitals at APM, then the country's largest healthcare management consulting firm. After APM's incorporation into CSC Healthcare, Mr. Stern helped run CSC's healthcare informatics subsidiary. He also spent two years as a managing director with the Crescent Group, a healthcare analysis and litigation support firm. Mr. Stern counts among his clients a wide range of healthcare practitioners and investors. His client list includes the nation’s largest pharmaceutical company; the nation’s largest investment bank; the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager; the nation’s second largest publicly-traded hospital chain; and numerous other hospital systems, healthcare companies and institutional investors. (Click here for a client list.) Previously, Mr. Stern served as marketing coordinator in the medical products department of Canon's European headquarters where he developed marketing strategy for a new healthcare information technology product. He also worked as an executive search consultant at Technics in Management Transfer in Japan. He has served as a guest lecturer in fields ranging from management and healthcare economics to journalism ethics, at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Middlebury College and Vanderbilt University. He also contributed to the textbook, Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Cases (Oster, 1995). He earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in economics from Yale College. Mr. Stern's extra-curricular pursuits include serving on the boards of directors of the Westchester Institute for Human Development and the Edgemont Community Council as well as the board of special advisors of Renovation in Music Education. He also serves as a volunteer firefighter. He enjoys canoeing the wilderness whitewater of Alaska and Canada. He lives with his wife and three children in suburban New York. [Top]

Brian Williams E-mail

Brian Williams has over 25 years of experience in healthcare decision support. He manages Stern Consulting's healthcare data base and analysis functions. Prior to joining Stern Consulting, he was Vice President of Net-Fast, Inc.—a web-based business intelligence firm using multi-dimensional databases to provide online analytic capabilities to hospitals and healthcare organizations. Mr. Williams designed and implemented client-specific solutions using combinations of proprietary and publicly available data.   Previously, Mr. Williams managed the analytic staff for the Decision Technology group of CSC Healthcare. In this capacity he supported the information requirements of individual hospitals as well as large, multi-institutional networks.   Mr. Williams also co-founded and served as vice president of Utilization Management Associates, Inc. At UMA, he worked with healthcare plans and hospitals in the U.S. and Canada to improve efficiency and eliminate barriers to appropriate use of healthcare resources.   Mr. Williams earned an MBA with concentration in healthcare management from Boston University and a BA in political science from Holy Cross College. [Top]