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Our History

PassportMD, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida. Our company was founded by a physician with the singular purpose of creating a better way for time-strapped people to manage the healthcare of themselves and their family members. Our goal is “Independent family wellness™.” PassportMD was launched in 2004 and immediately received recognition by the media, including the prestigious “Most Innovative Travel Product” as selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Porthole Cruise Magazine. PassportMD has earned this award in both 2005 and 2006. Since its launch, PassportMD is now recommended by physicians, pharmacists, and has been recommended in AARP Magazine, Town and Country Travel, PC Today, AMA News, Simply the Best Magazine, Endless Vacation Magazine, and The El Nuevo Herald. PassportMD has grown to become the premier consumer directed healthcare portal helping people keep track of all elements of their family's health and wellness including information, personal health records, doctor communication, pharmacy and expenses.

Founding Principles

Our founder, a physician, believes in the importance of family and personal “health and wellness” achieved through independence and empowerment. As a result, he founded PassportMD, Inc to create a consumer-directed healthcare portal that empowers healthcare consumers with tools that create “Independent family wellness.” Healthcare empowerment, as defined by Dr. Steven Hacker, our founder, is the ability to manage all aspects of healthcare, i.e. financial, informational, and medical, with independence.

Our Mission Statement

Create “Independent family wellness” tools that help save time, money and save lives.

Steven M Hacker, MD

CEO & Founder
Steven Hacker has extensive experience as both a physician and entrepreneur. Accepted to medical school at the age of 20, he brings over twenty years of medical education and practical experience to all of his health-related businesses. In 1996, he co-founded Skinstore.com. Although no longer actively involved, Skinstore.com is a 2006 recipient of Inc. 500 fastest-growing companies in the U.S. Additionally, he has founded several other companies over the last 15 years including Dermdex, Inc., a b2b marketplace, Advanced Dermatologic Care & Cancer Center, and a remote mobile telepathology company. Most recently, in 2004, Dr. Hacker founded and remains the active CEO of PassportMD. PassportMD.com is a leading innovative, consumer-directed healthcare technology company. Dr. Hacker has also served as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, emerging technology companies and healthcare companies and has published over twenty peer-reviewed scientific and medical articles. Over the years, Dr. Hacker has been recognized by his peers with several, awards including Best Physician Entrepreneur, as well as receiving frequent citations as one of the best physicians and dermatologists in the U.S. and Florida.

Mitch Bernatsky

President
Mr. Bernatsky has over twenty years of sales management, finance and operations experience. Mr. Bernatsky joined PassportMD in 2006 after spending over twenty-five years in the telecommunications industry.  Prior to joining PassportMD, Mr. Bernatsky held several positions within GTE Wireless, Alltel Wireless and Knology Broadband.  Mr. Bernatsky's role with GTE Wireless resulted in customer growth of over 140%. Later, as a Vice-President at Alltel Wireless, Mr. Bernatsky was responsible for managing Alltel’s largest property with over two hundred and seventy-five employees, over $200 million in annual sales, and under his management sales increased by over 30% annually.

Mr. Bernatsky joined Knology Broadband, an entrepreneurial company based in West Point, Georgia. Here, Mr. Bernatsky was responsible for the financial performance, operations, marketing and sales at Knology Pinellas.

A graduate of the University of Florida with a B.S. in Marketing, Mr. Bernatsky has been on the board of the Sales and Marketing Executives of Tampa Bay, is a graduate of Leadership Tampa and is a member of the CEO Council.

Rob Doll

VP, Business Development
Mr. Doll brings over 15 years of professional and consumer healthcare sales and marketing experience in a multitude of medical fields from biotechnology to pathology services and dialysis. He has been successful in leading large established organizations as well as startup ventures.

Mr. Doll has held senior positions in publicly held companies, such as AmeriPath, Gambro, and Cryo-Cell, Int., where he took a leading role in strategic partnership development and acquisition integration as well as sales growth. He led AmeriPath through enormous growth from $12M in revenues to more than $200M and an IPO. Most recently he served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Sales and Service for Cryo-Cell, Int. and oversaw all aspects of sales and marketing, including sales and client support, new product development and corporate marketing partnerships and international business development.

His entrepreneurial experience is highlighted by the success of two start-up ventures where he held the positions of Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Chief Operating Officer. He was one of the first employees hired at NovaVision, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer and led the organization through three rounds of funding with a total of over $30M raised. In this role he developed an internal operational structure and cultivated key partnerships in addition to the successful launch of the company’s products and devices at major institutions such as Johns Hopkins and Columbia University. Mr. Doll holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Tampa.

Jeremy Pound

Chief Technology Strategist
Jeremy Pound has been designing and developing products for the Internet since the dawn of the web browser. His dual backgrounds in marketing and software engineering have enabled him to introduce new technologies and strategies to companies ranging from venture-funded startups to Fortune 500 companies. A perennial student of consumer insight, Jeremy is best known for finding unique ways to engage customers with technology, and leverage that engagement into product preference. His entrepreneurial experience is not limited to advising, as he has founded and is still involved in two internet-related companies. Residing in Boca Raton, FL, Jeremy is an active member of the Palm Beach Business Development Board whose purpose is to attract and retain emerging companies in Palm Beach County.

The PassportMD Team... An inspired bunch...

None of this would be possible without the dedication and commitment of the entire PassportMD team. PassportMD is a group of dedicated, committed and enthusiastic professionals that are all working towards a singular purpose: create a better way for consumers to manage healthcare… Thanks go out to everyone, a mere mention is not enough, but what the heck..we'll mention them anyways...

The Team: Steve, Mitch, Rob, Jeremy, Leslie, Bill, Lisa, Ralph, Jason, Kaue, Susan, Jared, Rick, Sarah, Michelle

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Advertising Policy

PassportMD does not place any advertising on our site. PassportMD.com may provide links to third-party web sites. PassportMD.com also may select certain sites as priority responses to search terms you enter. PassportMD.com does not recommend and does not endorse the content on any third-party websites. PassportMD.com is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites, sites framed within the PassportMD.com Site, third-party sites provided as search results, or third-party advertisements, and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites.

Financial Disclosure

With PassportMD, you may sign up on our monthly plan or annual plan. We make money by selling memberships on our monthly or annual plan, selling premium memberships, selling our PHR Concierge service, products through our store, by providing custom private label websites using the PassportMD technology, through our customer's use of our MyRemindeRx service and our customers utilizing our PassportMDRxCard. The fact that certain products and services are sold through our store is not an endorsement of those products or services and does not influence the editorial content on our site. In our storefront, we have a Wallet size CD-ROM and a Key Chain USB where customers may order to store their health information. This information is easily uploaded to either of these devices. PassportMD does not sell any drugs. We offer a drug discount card that helps consumers to purchase their FDA approved medications at a discount from 57,000 pharmacies nationwide. We are not a pharmacy nor do we endorse or recommend any medication.