About Dr. Kevin Ciresi

For more than three decades, Dr. Kevin Ciresi has lived at the intersection of medicine, operations, and leadership. Trained as a surgeon and seasoned as a healthcare executive, he has spent his career asking a simple question with complex implications:

If we know what good care looks like, why do our systems so often get in the way of delivering it?

That question has guided his work in ambulatory surgery centers, multispecialty clinics, and emerging models of integrative and destination-based care. Today, he partners with organizations that want to answer it honestly and build something more substantial on the other side.

A career built inside the system

Dr. Ciresi’s perspective was shaped in the operating room and in high-volume clinical environments where every decision has downstream effects on patients, teams, and resources. Over the years, he has:

Led surgical teams in complex, multidisciplinary settings

Helped build and refine ASC and clinic operations, from scheduling and governance to throughput and quality

Sat at the table where strategy, finance, and clinical reality have to negotiate with each other

That combination of experience gives him an unusually granular view of how healthcare actually runs. He understands why a seemingly minor policy change can derail a clinic schedule, how a governance gap can create operational drift, and how misaligned incentives slowly erode both morale and margins.

From individual procedures to system-level change

While his early career was centered on individual patients and procedures, Dr. Ciresi’s work now focuses on the structures that surround them:

ASC Operations & Multispecialty Performance
Helping centers design operating models that make days more predictable, safer, and more sustainable for teams and leadership alike.

Integrative Medicine & Wellness Programs
Supporting organizations that blend conventional care with evidence-based integrative approaches, ensuring that programs are coherent, clinically responsible, and operationally sound.

Medical Tourism & Global Wellness
Advising on cross-border and destination-based care, including longevity and Blue Zone–inspired initiatives that bring together clinical excellence, lifestyle, and environment.

Across all of these domains, his work is anchored in systems thinking: clarify the intent, see the current state without illusion, and redesign the structure so that good outcomes are the default, not the exception.

How Dr. Ciresi works with organizations

Clients do not come to Dr. Ciresi for off-the-shelf frameworks. They come because they want a partner who has lived the realities they are trying to manage.

His engagements are typically built around four principles:

Listen first, at every level
He spends time with executives and front-line staff, mapping how patients, information, and decisions actually move through the organization.

Make the system visible
Using that input, he helps leadership see the complete operating picture—where friction hides, where governance is unclear, and where teams are working harder than the structure deserves.

Prioritize a small number of meaningful changes
Rather than overwhelming organizations with a long wish list, he focuses on the handful of levers, processes, roles, metrics, and incentives that will truly shift the trajectory.

Stay practical
Recommendations are grounded in operational reality. They are designed to be implemented by existing teams, within real constraints, not in an idealized vacuum.

Depending on the engagement, this can mean purely advisory work or stepping in as a fractional operations leader to help shepherd the new model into daily practice. The outcome is not just a better slide deck; it is a cleaner, more disciplined way of working that patients can feel and staff can sustain.

Writing, teaching, and thought leadership

In addition to his advisory work, Dr. Ciresi writes regularly on ASC performance, healthcare operations, integrative medicine, and the future of wellness and medical tourism. His articles and commentary explore:

How governance and operational design influence safety, burnout, and quality

The evolving relationship between traditional healthcare systems and integrative or destination-based models

What longevity research and Blue Zone patterns can teach us about structuring care environments, not just individual treatments

Through these essays and speaking engagements, he aims to give healthcare leaders a more honest, system-level lens on the problems they are trying to solve and practical ways to begin addressing them.

A forward-looking partner

Every organization Dr. Ciresi works with is facing its own version of the same challenge: pressure to do more, with better outcomes, under tighter constraints. His role is to bring experience, clarity, and a steady hand to that reality.

Whether you are leading an ambulatory surgery center, a multispecialty practice, an integrative clinic, or a wellness or medical tourism initiative, his focus is the same: help you see your system clearly, design a better way for it to run, and support you as you make that new model real.

If you are ready to take an unflinching look at how your organization operates and to build a structure that truly matches the level of care you want to deliver, Dr. Ciresi would welcome the conversation.