Tom Charland

TOM CHARLAND is the founder and former CEO of Merchant Medicine, LLC, a leading healthcare research and management consulting firm that was acquired in 2020 by Urgent Care Partners to form UCP Merchant Medicine. Tom introduced the concept of ConvUrgentCare(R) (pronounced convergent care), the mingling of operating tactics from convenient care (retail clinics), urgent care, work site clinics, primary care, and telemedicine. He started the annual Merchant Medicine Strategy Symposium, a...See more

TOM CHARLAND is the founder and former CEO of Merchant Medicine, LLC, a leading healthcare research and management consulting firm that was acquired in 2020 by Urgent Care Partners to form UCP Merchant Medicine. Tom introduced the concept of ConvUrgentCare(R) (pronounced convergent care), the mingling of operating tactics from convenient care (retail clinics), urgent care, work site clinics, primary care, and telemedicine. He started the annual Merchant Medicine Strategy Symposium, a conference that covers the on-demand medicine industry. He has been quoted on this subject in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Fox News, Bloomberg, and other media outlets. See less