Chief Executive Officer
Beacon Sleep Solutions
Dissertation Title
“Surviving the Attraction-Selection Framework: Quantifying Background Factors Affecting Decision-Making Regarding Innovation Adoption in Physician Medical Practices”
Half-Page Bio
Joseph is a healthcare professional, patented inventor, published scientist, serial entrepreneur, proven business leader, and human rights activist. He was honored as one of Utah Business’ Forty Under 40 in 2023 and is board eligible as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Prior to his studies at Drexel University’s Executive Doctorate in Business Administration program in Pennsylvania he pursued a Master of Business Administration at Westminster University in Utah, received a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sport Science with a minor in Pediatric Clinical Research at the University of Utah, and received an Associate of Science from Utah’s Ensign College. He returned to the University of Utah in 2023 as a graduate student at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, taking the next steps in his career-pivot to become a physician-scientist with a goal of improving patient care outcomes directly as a clinician, as well as indirectly using evidence-based business and implementation science methodologies.
He is committed to service through giving back to his community. Outside of his church service, he volunteers on various non-profit Boards of Directors including the American Red Cross, as well as organizations like the Rotary Club International.
He has worked in healthcare administration, in academic research, in biotech, with patients in the clinical setting, as a nurse’s assistant, as an entrepreneur, on nonprofit boards of directors, and in fitness as a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach. His research interests include analyzing factors affecting both physician decision-making and medical innovation adoption, the role hospital operations have in affecting the quality of patient care, investigating minority access to healthcare, and the integration of lifestyle/epigenetic considerations into patient treatment plans. He also plans to continue developing medical devices to supplement patient medical care.
Joseph lived on the Westside of Salt Lake City for two decades before moving to Tooele, Utah in 2020. He married the love of his life, Krischa, in 2009 and they live with their seven children: Brianne, Madison, Dinah, Audrey, Adam, Declan, and Myles.