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Shane Ross is the Senior Director of Client Services for MDstaffers, the 49th fastest-growing company in the United States. Shane partners with healthcare organizations nationwide to identify solutions that achieve optimal staffing and quality levels by identifying, screening, and presenting top-quality practitioners for permanent and locum tenens positions.
Shane is an experienced recruiter with more than 20 years of sales and recruitment experience including 13 years directly in physician and provider recruitment. Shane has led recruiting, sales, and operations teams for integrated health systems and consulting enterprises. Shane was a top producer and team leader at the nation’s largest physician/provider staffing company. He also spent six years working directly for a large integrated healthcare organization where he was the Director of Physician Recruitment, working with multiple hospitals, clinics systems and executive leaders. Shane is a healthcare leader who is known to partner with healthcare executives, internally and externally to create lasting results in an honest, ethical and trusted manner.
Connie Sweet serves as MDstaffers’ Vice President of Recruiting. A natural leader with passion for developing winning teams, Connie is responsible for the leadership and development of MDstaffers recruiting divisions. Connie is a seasoned industry professional with more than 30 years of experience in the staffing and recruitment industry, she leads by example with her straight-forward, purposeful approach. Connie makes it her priority to give every candidate and client the best experience possible by offering ethical, professional, and respectful service.
Connie joins the team from Key Personnel Placement, established in 1988 in Sacramento, California where she staffed across a multitude of industries. Having placed more than 12,000 people into new positions over her career, she has developed a keen ability to understand clients’ needs and candidates’ career ambitions.
Dr. Dan Field is the chief medical officer for MDstaffers, the 49th fastest-growing company in the United States.
Dr. Field is responsible for overseeing all clinical staff operations and quality assurance for MDstaffers. He provides clinical leadership to MDstaffers’ contract staff and assists in creating innovative staffing models to help healthcare facilities achieve optimal physician staffing levels while also upholding the highest quality standards in the ever-present physician shortage. Dr. Field is an emergency physician by training and has practiced emergency medicine for more than 30 years. Dr. Field is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and maintains an active clinical practice.
Dr. Field is an instructor at the California Northstate University College of Medicine after previously serving as clinical faculty at U.C. Davis for 25 years. Dr. Field serves the California Medical Board as an expert reviewer/consultant and provided medical expertise to the Sacramento County Sheriff SED/SWAT team as a Reserve Deputy Sheriff.
Dr. Field received his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco, completed an internship at Highland Hospital in Oakland and residency at University Hospital in Cincinnati. Dr. Field has an active California medical license. He has experience practicing in resource-rich, urban hospitals as well as under-served, rural, critical-access facilities. Dr. Field also has extensive experience in telemedicine and telehealth staffing.
Dr. Field has served as an expert witness for cases involving personal injury, criminal law, standard of care, and malpractice. He has also been a featured speaker, panelist, media physician, and talk show guest.
Tyler Covey is the chief executive officer of MDstaffers and leads company vision, innovation, and culture. He is committed to making MDstaffers the premier physician staffing source in the nation.
Tyler is a seasoned executive manager and leader with more than 20 years in the staffing, healthcare, and consulting industries. He is a former owner of a national healthcare staffing agency, which became one of the fastest-growing healthcare staffing companies in the nation.
Tyler has also managed or provided management and performance consulting services to hundreds of public and private entities around the nation. He has helped organizations improve and grow organically and through mergers and acquisitions – both as an owner/member of the executive management team and as an outside consultant and director – he can balance and generate ideas from many perspectives with practical and workable solutions. Tyler’s passion is in developing innovations that can help to improve efficiency and make people’s lives and work more comfortable and simple. During his career, Tyler has been frequently called upon as a speaker, trainer, board member, expert witness, and consultant. He enjoys sharing ideas with other prospective entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Ryan Larkin is chief operating officer of MDstaffers, the nation’s 49th fastest-growing company. He oversees and integrates all divisions, departments, and functions of the firm. Specifically, he is responsible for driving and managing growth and executing the business plan to deliver success—including full profit and loss responsibility.
Commonly regarded as, “a solution looking for a problem,” Ryan is recognized for applying critical analysis coupled with creative ingenuity to negotiate complex transactions for internal and external operations including acquisitions and staffing strategy development. His initiatives include embracing the effective use of technology, managing sustainable growth, and driving the firm to be flexible and adaptable to client needs.
Throughout his career, Ryan has provided performance-driven professional services to hundreds of healthcare organizations across the United States, ranging from small, single-specialty groups to multi-national, integrated healthcare enterprises. He also has significant experience in the telemedicine space, working with the world’s largest telehealth companies.
Before taking over as COO, Ryan served as MDstaffers’ vice president of service delivery where he focused on driving client development while simultaneously developing technology to improve operational efficiencies. Under Ryan’s leadership, MDstaffers experienced more than 5,600% three-year hypergrowth.
Ryan is well-known as a physician staffing expert, resulting in numerous expert witness, consulting, and guest speaker engagements involving physician contracting, compensation, and credentialing. Similarly, with a strong technology background, Ryan is frequently retained as a technology consultant for procurement and marketability projects.
Ryan’s reputation and thought leadership resulted in his inclusion in Staffing Industry Analysts’ “40 Under 40″—a list of the most influential leaders in the staffing industry, less than 40 years old.
