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Dr. Barney Spivack Joins LifeCare as Medical Director

Dr. Barney Spivack joined LifeCare in July as Medical Director, responsible for offering guidance and medical expertise to LifeCare's product development and content teams, as well as assisting senior management with setting strategy for the company's Successful Aging^SM Services and work/life direct business. In addition, Dr. Spivack will be instrumental in helping LifeCare's senior team create new services that help client organizations better control healthcare expenses by improving employee health. He reports to Peter G. Burki, LifeCare's CEO.

Dr. Spivack's medical career spans more than 25 years, with a focus on the care of older adults, chronic disease, and long-term care. Prior to joining LifeCare, he was the Director of Medical Services at Waveny Care Network in New Canaan, Connecticut. Before that, he was Director of Geriatric Medicine at Norwalk and Stamford Hospitals. Dr. Spivack is a certified medical director and is board certified in internal medicine, rheumatology and geriatric medicine. In addition, he is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. He has worked to improve the quality of care for older adults and is a former member of the board of directors of the American Geriatrics Society, representing over 6,000 geriatricians and other professionals nationally. Dr. Spivack also is active in the American Medical Directors Association and is President of the Connecticut Geriatrics Society.

“For the past year, Dr. Spivack has served as a consultant to LifeCare and our relationship with him has been wonderfully productive—so much so that we're delighted to be adding him to our team full-time,” said Burki. “His background and his experience will be tremendous assets to us as we continue to build out our Successful Aging and work/life businesses. And our clients will have another great subject matter expert to rely on as they look for new ways to improve the health of their employees and members.”

Dr. Spivack graduated with honors in English from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He earned his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1978 and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honor medical society. He was trained in internal medicine at Bellevue-New York University Medical Center and did fellowship training at Brown University.