Joseph W. Plandowski
Joseph W. Plandowski has broad experience in operations, sales/marketing,
and acquisitions in the healthcare field. He has managed small and large laboratories,
commercial and hospital-owned, and is particularly adept at turning around
operations, managing the integration of mergers and acquisitions, increasing
the profitability of medical practices, and negotiating the sale or acquisition
of laboratories and pathology practices.
It was with biological and medical
products of Union Carbide that Plandowski began his career, initially in technical
design, then in sales and sales management. He progressed through product management
to director of sales/marketing, overseeing product sales, field engineering,
technical services, and reagents.
From Union Carbide, Plandowski joined SmithKline
Clinical Laboratories as general manager in Tampa responsible for growing its
Florida operations. Subsequently, he was given responsibility as vice president,
based in St. Louis, to grow the company's central and western United States
and Canadian operations. He started SmithKline’s Houston and San Francisco laboratories and acquired laboratories in Cleveland, Minneapolis, and Seattle. Upon successfully integrating BioScience Laboratories into SmithKline's Los Angeles laboratory, he was made head of operations of all SmithKline’s clinical laboratories in the United States and Canada.
Prior to becoming president/CEO and a member of the board of directors of
Genetrix, Plandowski was executive vice president of sales and marketing at
Allscrips Pharmaceuticals. Allscrips provided prepackaged pharmaceuticals to
physicians for dispensing directly to their patients. Genetrix specialized
in performing cytogenetic testing for prenatal and oncology clinicians at its
laboratories across the country.
When National Health Laboratories decided
to pursue an aggressive acquisitions program, Plandowski joined as vice president
of acquisitions. More than 50 laboratory acquisitions were closed in a two-year
period. With the merger of National Health Laboratories and Roche BioMedical
Laboratories to create Laboratory Corporation of America, he formed Lakewood
Consulting Group, an anatomic and clinical laboratory and pathology practice
management and consulting firm.
Plandowski holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s
in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He is a member of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association, the Association
for Pathology Informatics, the National Society of Histotechnology, the American
Society for Cytotechnology, the American
Pathology Foundation, and the American
Society of Cytopathology. He is a speaker at national meetings and is frequently
quoted in publications serving both the laboratory industry and pathology.
08/17/09 - DO NO HARM —Just Get The Facts
10/10/08 - "Pathologists don’t order tests" and Other Such Fairy Tales
07/16/08 - Geographic Variability of Medicare Fees
04/22/08 - Global CPT 88305 on Sale for $30?
01/15/08 - Pathologists and Pod Labs
11/15/07 - How Much More of a Financial Beating Can Pathologists Withstand?
10/09/07 - Insourcing AP Services by Physician Specialty Groups: Practice and Business Implications for Pathologists
10/09/07 - Competitive Bidding by CMS for Clinical Laboratory Testing
