Member Spotlight: Matthew Appelle

Member Spotlight,

This month the Member Spotlight is on Matthew Appelle, Director, Capacity Management at Montefiore Medical Center. Learn more about Matthew below. Want to be a part of our PAC Member Spotlight? Fill out the form here.


How long have you been a member of the Patient Access Collaborative?:  4 Years           

What do you like about being a member?: Innovative approaches to similar problems.

How has your career benefited from being a member?: Advancing how we use data driven decisions to direct actionable change in access. 

What tips or advice would you give new members?: Be honest and be open.      

What do you love most about your job?: Solving problems that affect our employees and patients.

What meaningful project are you working on right now?: Expanding near term new patient access sites and specialties.

What career advice do you live by?: If you are not having fun, you are doing it wrong!

Where are you from? Where did you go to school?: New York

What are your hobbies?: Quoting rap songs, movies, Seinfeld, Sports...

Where is your favorite place you've travelled?: Bermuda during Delta surge for honeymoon

What's a fun fact that people probably don't know about you?: I am a Master Lego Builder

Who inspires you and why?: My team members who have a unique ability to reinvigorate me and think through problems differently.