As COMS co-founder, Dr. Riemenschneider is the company’s resident expert in clinical intelligence and application methodologies, resulting from more than 16 years of experience as a healthcare consultant to nursing homes, hospitals, medical schools, healthcare systems and physician groups.

As President and Senior Partner of STA Healthcare Services for the past ten years, Dr. Riemenschneider and his associates assisted hospitals and long-term care organizations through strategic planning, network development, operations reengineering, managed care contracting and organizational positioning for the evolving healthcare environment.

Dr. Riemenschneider was COO of the Western New York Health Sciences Consortium, an early model of an integrated delivery system.  More recently, he served as Vice Provost for Health Sciences and Hospitals for the SUNY Central Administration.  He is founder and Director of the Health Care EMBA at Baldwin Wallace College, as well as Professor of Management and Director of Graduate Business Programs.

Dr. Riemenschneider has published more than 100 scientific articles, book chapters and books in the past 30 years. He is a frequent speaker on healthcare reform, managed care, and organizational issues in healthcare; and has taught programs in physician leadership, healthcare management, managed care, integrated delivery systems, and clinical quality improvement throughout the United States.

He received his MD degree from SUNY Upstate Medical Center, his MS in Physiology from UCLA, and his MBA from Baldwin-Wallace College.  Board certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, and Medical Management, he has practiced Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology as a faculty member at the University of Utah, UC Davis, Case WRU and SUNY at Buffalo Schools of Medicine.