Years active 1982–present Board member of Health eVillages | Term 2006–2012 | |
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Born July 1956 (age 60) Dunkirk, New York Education Wadhams Hall seminary
SUNY–Buffalo Occupation President & CEO of Tivity Health, Inc. Title Chairman of Ogunquit Board of Selectmen Residence Ogunquit, Maine, United States Books Life's Bulldozer Moments: How Adversity Leads to Success in Life and Business | ||
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Donato J. Tramuto (born 1956) is an American healthcare executive and global health activist. In 2008, he founded an online service for drug detailing and sampling, Physicians Interactive, which by 2015 had a membership of 3 million healthcare practitioners. He also founded a nonprofit program, Health eVillages, to provide curated medical information to clinicians in remote areas.
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- Emerging from innovator to integrator donato tramuto tedxnashville
- Donato tramuto 2016 owhic
- Early life and education
- Business career
- Philanthropy
- Political activities
- Books
- References
In 2013 he was elected to the board of healthcare firm Healthways Inc. as an outside director, after a proxy fight; two years later he was appointed president and CEO. He restructured the company and rebranded it as Tivity Health.
Tramuto was elected to the Town of Ogunquit Board of Selectmen in 2006 and served two terms as chairman.
Donato tramuto 2016 owhic
Early life and education
At age 7 a middle-ear infection left Tramuto unable to hear or speak clearly. Ten years later a surgical operation restored some but not all of his hearing and fluency.
Tramuto attended Wadhams Hall Seminary-College from 1975 to 1979, graduating with a B.A. degree in philosophy. He then studied healthcare marketing at the State University of New York–Buffalo for two years.
Business career
Tramuto taught for a semester at Gannon, a Roman Catholic diocesan university, before making a career change to pharmaceutical marketing at Marion Laboratories.
From 1982 to 1990 Tramuto worked at Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, becoming district manager. He then was hired by Caremark as its vice president for Disease Management Marketing and general manager of its Home Healthcare business unit. He spent four years advocating and directing the development of the company's first AIDS management program.
In 1998 Tramuto co-founded Protocare, Inc., a drug development firm with a healthcare-services consulting division. In 2002 he sold one part to Radiant Research and the other to Constella Health Strategies, which was integrated into UnitedHealth Group a year later.
In 2008 Tramuto left UnitedHealth Group and founded Physicians Interactive Holdings, which provided mobile and Web-based medical reference tools, electronic drug sampling, and interactive education to the healthcare industry. Venture capital was supplied by Perseus, a private equity firm. The company's proprietary technology could be used to transmit a patient's medical data to a physician through a handheld device. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, physicians there used it to communicate with medical experts in the U.S.
In 2013 Perseus sold the company to Merck, with Tramuto remaining in place as CEO.
In May 2013 Tramuto was elected to serve as an outside director of health-and-wellness company Healthways Inc.; its shareholders had voted to declassify its staggered board of directors after the New York State Common Retirement Fund claimed that the directors had entrenched themselves. He was appointed chairman a year later. In 2015 the company announced his appointment as president and CEO, passing over a corporate officer who had applied for the job.
In July 2016 Tramuto sold Healthways' unprofitable population-health business, along with its brand name, to allow the company to focus on its fitness and rehabilitation programs, under a new name ("Tivity Health").
Philanthropy
In 2011, Tramuto established a nonprofit, Health eVillages, to distribute handheld devices loaded with medical reference materials to healthcare workers in remote regions of the world. In 2014 the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights gave him an RFK Ripple of Hope award for his charitable work in the global healthcare field.
In 2016 Tramuto wrote a memoir about obstacles he had encountered in early life and traumatic events that had caused him to feel survivor guilt; he said that these experiences ("life's bulldozer moments") motivated him to succeed in business and do charitable work.
Political activities
Tramuto was elected to the Town of Ogunquit's Board of Selectmen in 2006 on a write-in campaign. He served two three-year terms. While chairman (2007–12), he represented the town to the governor of Maine on issues related to education and health. In 2010 the governor appointed him to the State of Maine Economic Growth Council, which develops and evaluates the state's long-term economic growth plan.