About 83bar
We are passionate about providing healthcare solutions to patients and committed to providing activated patients to our clients.
Our Purpose
We bridge the gap between patient awareness and patient action to drive positive healthcare outcomes.
We envision a world where patients are empowered with the knowledge and hope they need to pursue personalized healthcare solutions from innovative life science companies who aren’t satisfied with the status quo.

How we are different
Shortening The
Patient Journey
We shorten the patient journey from years to minutes using our Patient Activation Platform to Locate, Educate & Navigate patients for commercial, clinical trial, device, diagnostic & pharma clients.
DTC Healthcare
Marketing
We identified the need to engage directly with patients early on, anticipating the rise of direct-to-consumer healthcare marketing and the need to rapidly respond to patient demand.
Technology
Driven Results
Our technology platform allows us to respond rapidly (within minutes) and can be configured to meet almost any client requirement.
Patient Education Specialist
Contact Center
Our distributed Patient Education Specialist center is staffed with empathetic, experienced nurses and can be scaled quickly to meet demand.
Medical or Healthcare
Expertise
Our highly experienced team can rapidly deploy both commercial and clinical trial campaigns. This efficient process has a primary focus on cost-effective solutions to achieve maximum success.
We are Driven by
Speed
We believe speed is everything. From campaign set up to Patient Education Specialist response, every minute counts. These efficiencies deliver more cost-effective results and improved outcomes for patients.
Managing Partners

Bob Baurys
CEO & MANAGING PARTNER
Bob is the founder and CEO of 83bar with more than 30 years of consumer –focused healthcare experience and involvement in more than $1 billion dollars in direct to consumer health care transactions. Bob has a strong belief that educated and enabled health care consumers will permanently change the USA healthcare market for the better. Bob also serves as an advisor, investor and fundraiser with a particular focus on healthcare, technology and service sectors.

Sue Hrim
MANAGING PARTNER
Sue is a founder, managing partner and Vice President of Clinical Services at 83bar. A registered nurse for 35 years, Sue incorporates her depth of clinical, healthcare sales & marketing experience to develop consumer-focused services and programs for unmet healthcare needs, with particular focus on chronic condition management and direct-to-consumer telephonic clinical services.

Dan Maynard
MANAGING PARTNER
Dan is a founder and managing partner of 83bar and is responsible for operations, finance and technology at 83bar. With more than 30 years of healthcare technology-focused chief executive experience, Dan has managed more than a dozen merger, acquisition, recapitalization transactions and organizational integrations to scale businesses from formation to $100 million in sales. Dan also serves as a board director, executive coach, strategic advisor, investor and fundraiser with a particular focus on health care, technology and service sectors.
Leadership Team

Kate Hermans
CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER
.

Paul Egli
VP OF BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT

Mike Cernik
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY
OFFICER

Jerry Furness
VP OF CLIENT SERVICES
.

Alex Hilderbrand
VP OF PATIENT
ACTIVATION

Sara Shissler
DIRECTOR, CONTACT
CENTER
Management Team

Michael Zangrilli
PRODUCT MANAGER

Meredyth Glass
PATIENT EDUCATION SPECIALIST
PERFORMANCE MANAGER

Curt Schumacher
PRODUCT & DATA
MANAGEMENT

Karen Wallingford
PROJECT MANAGER &
CREATIVE SERVICES

Kim McDonnell
CAMPAIGN SITE
MANAGER

Thomas Swoboda
FINANCIAL ANALYST

Amanda Jarrett
SALES OPERATIONS
MANAGER