Gary Salem, D.O.’84, FHM, is a hospitalist and founder and chief executive officer of Case Management Consultants LLC in Troy, MI, which provides hospitals, health systems and health care providers with technology-supported independent physicians as advisers to ensure regulatory compliance, maximize reimbursement, enhance revenue integrity, improve quality of patient care and improve efficiency of post-acute care discharge management to prevent readmission. Salem also is the vice president of medical affairs at McLaren Lapeer Regional Medical Center in Lapeer, MI, and an associate professor of medicine at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.