Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Dr. David Jacofsky is an internationally recognized orthopedic surgeon, healthcare innovator, and physician-executive. He is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo). Under his leadership, HOPCo has grown to serve partners across the US and multiple countries overseas, delivering fully integrated and diverse management services, value-based care, and digital solutions through aligned partnerships with health systems, device manufacturers, payors, and physician practices.  

Dr. Jacofsky has pioneered the development and operationalization of musculoskeletal population health and value-based care models, orthopedic service line transformation, and data-driven, evidence-based care redesign. His leadership has resulted in scalable platforms that drive improved outcomes, lower costs, and sustainable growth for HOPCo’s partners across the healthcare ecosystem. 

Dr. Jacofsky has been extensively involved with academic medicine and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic and a fellowship in orthopedic oncology and complex adult reconstruction at Johns Hopkins University.  He is an inventor listed on over 25 patents, published over 100 peer reviewed publications, and has authored over 25 book chapters and three orthopedic textbooks.   He was a division chief at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota when he left to launch HOPCo in 2005.   

His work has been recognized with numerous accolades, including Most Admired Leader from Phoenix Business Journal, Healthcare Executive of the Year from Arizona Business Magazine, and Healthcare Innovator of the Year from Arizona Big Media, each repeated in multiple years. At the Mayo Clinic, he was awarded the Joe Janes Humanitarian Award and the Mayo Scholar Award. 

The companies that he has led have focused on both technology innovation and aligning stakeholders in the healthcare space.  Dr. Jacofsky believes that integration of complex data sources across markets, and aligning patients, payors, providers, and health systems, adds true value to the healthcare ecosystem, while transforming market dynamics from volume-based to \value-based care strategies.  HOPCo and its affiliates improve clinical outcomes for patients while improving financial and operational performance for stakeholder partners and shareholders alike.