We believe in
empowering others
all over the world to
lead healthy lives
One Person, one Doctor, one Community at a time.
The Mission
“The MDVIP Foundation supports and amplifies the philanthropic efforts of MDVIP affiliated physicians.”
The MDVIP Foundation is bringing people together to make better lifestyle choices. Our focus on prevention and education is inspiring communities globally – big and small – to think healthy, live healthy and be healthy.
Operating Principles
The MDVIP Foundation is committed to work guided by three operating principles.
Provide charitable and compassionate service to underserved communities.
MDVIP affiliates are dedicated and caring professionals with a passion for giving and are ready to help those most in need. Learn more about our international Doctors in Response program that provides medical care, supplies and resources to individuals and communities around the world.
Provide financial assistance in times of natural disasters and medical emergencies
Natural disasters impacted approximately 1 in 10 homes in 2021, according to CoreLogic.*
The MDVIP Foundation has provided swift relief to doctors, staff, and communities in areas affected by hurricanes, tornados, floods, and other disasters and medical emergencies.
Raise public awareness of the value of wellness and prevention in healthcare
Only 2% of medical students recently polled indicated an interest in practicing primary care.**
From primary care mentorship program to salad bars for children, the MDVIP Foundation is committed to raising awareness for diverse wellness and prevention initiatives.
Doctors in Response
Robert C. Dimski; MDVIP affiliated physician from Oklahoma providing mission work in the Nyakach Plateau, Western Kenya
Cheri H. LeBlanc; MDVIP affiliated physician from Louisiana providing mission work in the Cangrejal River Valley, in northern Honduras
Initiatives
Charitable and Compassionate Service
This program supports a coalition of MDVIP-affiliated physicians willing to provide medical aid to those in underserved areas, no matter where they are located. The MDVIP Foundation will organize and offer financial assistance to a network of volunteer physicians willing to travel to even the most remote areas offering much needed medical care that many have gone without.
Disaster Relief
The MDVIP Foundation has donated funds to doctors, staff, and communities in several states that have been affected directly by natural disasters and medical emergencies.
Awareness for Wellness and Prevention
The MDVIP Foundation is committed to raising awareness for programs that will improve wellness and prevention in diverse ways. From encouraging doctors to go into primary care to serving children at salad bars to supporting local physician-led community gardens, the Foundation is here to help make the world a healthier place.
The Board
The MDVIP Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2013 in Boca Raton, Florida. It is the charitable arm of MDVIP, LLC, a national network of primary care physicians who focus on personalized, preventive healthcare. Through our board and initiatives, we are able to tap into resources and people across the country who are passionate about educating and encouraging Americans to put their health and well-being first.
Bret Jorgensen
Chairman of the MDVIP Foundation
Bret Jorgensen is Chairman of the MDVIP Foundation and has over 30 years of innovative leadership experience in healthcare and a proven track record in fundraising, execution and value creation. He is Chairman and CEO of MDVIP, guiding the strategic direction of this national organization. Mr. Jorgensen is also a Board Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute. Prior to MDVIP, he held top executive positions at multiple successful healthcare services businesses and received the “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award in Healthcare. Mr. Jorgensen has held Board Director appointments for numerous public and private companies and served as a strategic advisor to several others, primarily in the healthcare and technology fields. He was a member of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director’s Cabinet and Big Brothers of San Diego Board and Presidents’ Council (he was former “Big” for 10 years). Mr. Jorgensen is Chairman Emeritus of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) of San Diego and has served in numerous YPO regional and international roles. He graduated cum laude in economics from Claremont McKenna College.
Michael Cromwell, CSBDO
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
Michael Cromwell is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation and the Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer of MDVIP. Prior to joining MDVIP in 2015, Mike spent time at Ascension Health Care Network, a hospital acquisition company, and Castlight Health, a digital health company. Mike started his career on Wall Street, spending five total combined years in investment banking (at Lehman Brothers and Barclays) and private equity (at Oak Hill Capital). From the beginning, his career has been solely focused on businesses and transactions in the healthcare industry.
Dr. Andrea Klemes
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
Dr. Andrea Klemes is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation. Dr. Klemes is the Chief Medical Officer of MDVIP and is board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology and a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology. She received her medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan, New York and an Endocrine and Metabolism Fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Dr. Klemes worked at Procter & Gamble in the areas of personal healthcare, women’s health and digestive wellness and served as North American Medical Director for bone health. She spent 10 years in private practice specializing in endocrinology and metabolism in Tallahassee, Florida. Dr. Klemes has held leadership roles with the American Medical Association, Florida Medical Association and as Medical Director of the Diabetes Center in Tallahassee and Panama City, Florida, as well as Chief of the Department of Medicine at Tallahassee Community Hospital. She has been a consultant and frequent lecturer and has completed broad clinical research in diabetes and osteoporosis and published extensively.
Dr. Ralph Lanza
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
Ralph A. Lanza, MD, FACP, is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation and an internal medicine doctor in Paoli, PA. Dr. Lanza is an MDVIP-affiliated physician and board certified with the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. He studied medicine at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry and performed his internal medicine residency at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has been recognized as a top doctor by the Philadelphia Magazine, Consumer's Research Council of Americas, Delaware Valley Consumers' Checkbook, Main Line Today Magazine, Castle Connolly and the U.S. News Media Group. He was elected to the American College of Physicians in 2007. He has also conducted multiple medical missions to Haiti and has served on multiple medical committees and initiatives. Outside of Dr. Lanza’s medical career, he is interested in sports, theater, music and sports memorabilia.
Dr. Robert Dimski
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
Robert C. Dimski, MD, is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation and a family medicine doctor in Midwest City, OK. Dr. Dimski is an MDVIP-affiliated physician and board certified with the American Board of Family Medicine. He graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center medical school in San Antonio and did his residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. He was named one of the Best Doctors in America in 2014 and is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
Dr. Scott Hammer
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
Scott A. Hammer, MD, FAAFP, is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation and a family medicine doctor Milford, DE. He is an MDVIP-affiliated physician and board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is also an Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Instructor, a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and a Swiftwater Rescue Technician. Dr. Hammer graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He has been recognized by Delaware Today Magazine and received the Planetree Physician Champion Award. He is the medical director for Compassionate Care Hospice and is a trustee of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Delaware. Dr. Hammer speaks English and Spanish.
Dr. Michele Leder
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
Michele Leder, MD, FACP, is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation and an internal medicine doctor in Pearl River, New York. She is an MDVIP-affiliated physician and board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is also a Bale Doneen Endorsed Provider. Dr. Leder graduated medical school from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York and did her residency at the Montefiore medical center. She served as a medical director of the Medical Arts Pavilion, Montefiore Medical Group and as an assistant professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is an assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Leder is an Attending Physician and member of the Medical Executive Committee at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center as well as an Attending Physician at Montefiore Nyack Hospital. Dr. Leder speaks Spanish and English.
Dr. Gay Purcell
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
Kulnarin Gay Purcell, MD, is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation and an internal medicine doctor in Independence, Missouri. She is an MDVIP-affiliated physician and board certified in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine. She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, where she attended medical school. She did her residency at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and was Chief Resident. She has received numerous awards from peers and the public for her medical work. Dr. Purcell also sits on the board for Girls on the Run of Greater Kansas City and the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault. Dr. Purcell speaks English and Thai and she has many hobbies and interests including trail running, yoga, reading, cooking, hiking and travel.
Dr. William Healy
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
William M. Healy, MD is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation and an internal medicine doctor Getzville, NY. He is an MDVIP-affiliated physician and board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has additional certifications in geriatrics from the American Board of Internal Medicine. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine. He received multiple awards in microbiology, anatomy and pharmacology from the State University of Buffalo. He has been recognized a top doctor by the National Survey of Western New York's Outstanding Physicians. He is the medical director for Aftercare Nursing Services and a clinical instructor of medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine. He is a voting medical staff member at Millard Fillmore Hospitals of Kaleida Health and a preceptor for the Nurse Practitioner Program at Daemen College, Amherst, New York.
Dr. Steve Rosenbaum
Director of the MDVIP Foundation
Steve Rosenbaum, MD, FACP, is a Director of the MDVIP Foundation and an internal medicine doctor in Houston, Texas. He is an MDVIP-affiliated physician and board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Rosenbaum is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, where he was previously a member of the Executive Faculty Committee. He is a past Section Chief of General Internal Medicine and a former member of the Clinic Practice Leadership Group at the Baylor Clinic. Dr. Rosenbaum graduated from medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, and did his internship and residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Internal Medicine, the Texas Medical Association and the Harris County Medical Society. He has also been published in the Journal of Respiratory Diseases.
Matt Grossman
Treasurer of the MDVIP Foundation
Matt Grossman is the Treasurer of the MDVIP Foundation and has over 10 years of financial management experience. Mr. Grossman is the Director of Finance and Controller at MDVIP with an extensive background in financial reporting, operations and management. He served as the Controller for Charter Schools USA, an Audit Manager for a public accounting firm and has held various positions at multiple financial institutions. Mr. Grossman received his Masters of Accounting from Florida Atlantic University and has been a Certified Public Accountant since 2010.
Privacy Policy
Last Update: 2/2/2022
MDVIP Foundation, Inc. (the "MDVIP Foundation") recognizes the importance of protecting the information you provide to us when visiting our site. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to set forth the practices we follow to respect the privacy of all visitors to this site.
By using this website, you agree to the terms of the MDVIP Foundation's Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with all the terms, please do not use our website. The MDVIP Foundation reserves the right to change, add, delete, or alter this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of this website following the posting of any changes to the Privacy Policy will mean that you accept those changes. Please refer to the date listed above to determine when the last changes were made.
The information that we may gather from or about you can fall into two categories; Personally Identifiable Information (ìPIIî) and Aggregate Information.
Personally Identifiable Information
We may request and collect personally identifiable information that you voluntarily choose to disclose to us. Examples of personally identifiable information include your name, physical address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card or any other information that can be used to uniquely identify you.
Aggregate Information
We may request additional information about you that may or may not be traced specifically back to you. Examples of aggregate information include how many times our site is visited, geographic location, age or gender.
The MDVIP Foundation may collect and use Personally Identifiable Information in one or more of the following ways:
- To contact you by phone or other means including communication regarding any changes to our policies or procedures, information on new programs or events that may interest you, and to process customer service functions
- To e-mail you information about any new programs or events
- To process your credit card or other specified form of payment when you make a financial contribution online
- To publish blog comments and enable forum participation
- To its parent, subsidiary and other related companies, trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners who will use the information for the purposes outlined herein as necessary to provide the services and for the specific purposes for which the information was collected
- At the request of law enforcement or governmental agencies or in response to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, to establish, protect or exercise the MDVIP Foundationís legal or other rights, to defend against a legal claim or as otherwise allowed by law
- To protect the rights, property or safety of the MDVIP Foundation, its employees, or any other person
- To investigate or prevent a violation by User of any contractual or other relationship with the MDVIP Foundation or where we have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of our users or the public or the perpetration of any illegal or harmful activity
- To investors, advertisers and potential partners in connection with or in contemplation of a sale of its assets or business or a merger, consolidation or other reorganization of its business
The MDVIP Foundation may collect and use Aggregate Information in one or more of the following ways:
- To enable us to generate data about the site traffic
- To make improvements to the website and services
- To collect demographic characteristics of our target market
- To customize user experience such as by showing you advertisements that are most relevant to your demographic characteristics, recommending events that may interest you, etc.
- To share certain demographic and profile data with our agents, contractors, or affiliates
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. Personal information is stored in a secured manner and always sent via a secure internet channel. When you enter sensitive information such as a credit card number, we use secure socket layer technology (SSL) to encrypt the transmission of that information. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and the MDVIP Foundation cannot guarantee that the information submitted to, maintained on or transmitted from its systems will be completely secure. The MDVIP Foundation is not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the site by any users or third parties.
IP Addresses
The MDVIP Foundation maintains internal logs for Internal Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer each time you access the Internet. Your IP address does not contain personally identifiable information. We collect IP addresses in order to conduct system administration, report aggregate information, conduct site analysis, and to detect improper use of the site.
Third Party Disclosure
We do not disclose information about you to nonaffiliated third parties, except as permitted by law. For example we are permitted by law to share information about you to agents, contractors, or affiliates of ours, who help us operate the website, conduct our business or help us complete a service you requested, such as processing your credit card payment. All such partners are bound to keep your information confidential. In certain circumstances we may share information about you if we believe in good faith that state or federal law requires us to do so such as to comply with an inquiry from law enforcement officials, when ordered by a court or by other compulsory legal process. We may also share your information to investigate or prevent suspected illegal activities such as fraud.
Links to other Websites
Our website may contain links to non-MDVIP Foundation websites. Links to other websites are provided to you for information and convenience only and does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the MDVIP Foundation. The external sites are not under the control of the MDVIP Foundation and we cannot guarantee the privacy or safety of information you provide to those sites. To ensure protection of your privacy, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any websites you visit.
Cookies
We use "cookies" to collect information on how our website is used. Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred to your browser or local device for record keeping purposes.
E-mails
We use e-mail forms to allow our customers to ask questions about our services or programs. While we make every attempt to protect the personal information that you share with us, it is important to note that an e-mail message is unsecured. Should you choose to send your information via e-mail, you do so at your own risk. We recommend that if your communication is extremely sensitive you may want to send it by postal mail.
If you choose to correspond to us via e-mail, we reserve the right to retain the content of your email messages as well as your e-mail address or other PII, and our responses.
Personal Information Provided as Part of User Content
If you include personally identifiable information as part of any content that you provide to us via public postings to the site, including any bulletin boards, forum posts, etc., such information may be made available to any parties using the site. The MDVIP Foundation does not edit or otherwise remove such information from content uploaded to any bulletin boards, forum posts, etc. before it is posted on the site. If you do not wish to have your personally identifiable information made available in this manner, you must remove any such information from the content before posting. Your contact information (which may include, without limitation, a username and email address) may be included with any content that you post via the site. The MDVIP Foundation is not liable for any damages caused or incurred due to personally identifiable information made available in the foregoing manner.
Forums
We may provide online forums for users who visit our site. However, any postings will not be protected or confidential.
Surveys
We may from time to time survey visitors on our site. The information collected from these surveys is used in aggregate form to help us improve our site.
Opt Out
If you do not wish to receive marketing offers, you may request that we remove your name from our internal email, direct mail, or internal telemarketing lists. You can call 1-866-948-6357 to make your opt-out request.
Changing or Deleting Information
If you wish to change or deactivate your personally identifiable information obtained on our site you may call us at 1-866-948-6357.
Governing Law
This policy and use of our site or services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida. If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from the other provisions and shall not affect the validity of the other provisions.
Questions or Comments
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Website, or your interaction with this Website, contact:
Quality Improvement Department
MDVIP Foundation, Inc.
4950 Communication Ave., Suite 100
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Email: contact@mdvipfoundation.org
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