Doug Sharpe
Vice President, Lab Capital Sales
Doug has been in the healthcare industry for over 25 years. He started with Qmed as a manufacture representative selling cardiac, vascular and pulmonary devices. In 1993, he co-founded Diamed, Inc. Over the next 17 years, he helped build Diamed into a leading distributor of medical equipment, lab equipment and supplies in the Midwest. In 2010, he sold his company to Medline. For the first five years, Doug was a divisional manager handling the Midwest territory. In 2016, he was promoted to his current position. Doug has a team of thirteen lab specialists that help support Medline’s 500 plus acute and non-acute sales representatives on Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA) waived, moderately and highly complex products. Doug and his team have set up small to large scale labs with capital equipment, consulting and billing services across the U.S.
Topics of expertise:
- Physician office operations
- Bringing lab services in house
- PCR testing
