Charles Herman

Background

About Charles Herman

Equally adept in the board room as in the operating room, in quantitative financial modeling as in reconstructive surgery, Dr. Charles K. Herman is a seasoned healthcare investor, senior medical executive, Board-certified plastic surgeon, entrepreneur, and award-winning researcher and author. An active academician as well as clinical surgeon, he is the editor of four major medical textbooks, and on the faculty of a medical school. Well-versed in the business of healthcare, Dr. Herman has served in a senior medical executive role in Northeastern Pennsylvania's largest health system and has served as Chair of its Foundation Board and Secretary of its Management Board, has served as Chief Consulting Editor at one of the world's largest medical publishing companies, and has worked with several private equity and venture capital firms as well as hedge fund strategies, being involved in all phases of multiple biotechnology and medical device startups' life cycles, as well as in provider services and healthcare IT investments, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. Working with Rebuilding America’s Warriors and his health system, he founded one of the nation’s first philanthropic programs dedicated to reconstructive surgery for injured American soldiers. Dr. Herman’s facial reconstructive surgery of Sergeant Tim Juliano, who was injured while serving in Iraq, received international attention and was an hour-long feature on the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel’s popular show American Chopper. He graduated at the top of his class as a Palmer Scholar with an MBA with Honors at The Wharton School of Business.