Dennis Deruelle, MD, FHM is Executive Director of Hospital Medicine with American Physician Partners (APP) based in Nashville, TN.  Dr. Deruelle has more than 20 years of hospital medicine leadership experience, having served as the owner of a private hospital medicine practice and CEO/Founder of a boutique healthcare consulting company, Hospitalist Information Partners. He is co-founder of healthcare app MyDocReplay, a video platform designed to capture and share healthcare conversations across care teams and patients.  Dr. Deruelle served as National Director of Innovation and National Medical Director for IPC, The Hospitalist Company and as Vice President and National Medical Director of BPCI services for TeamHealth, where he led the company’s Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) efforts. 


Recognized as a national expert on The Affordable Care Act (ACA), Dr. Deruelle has been featured on specifically Fox News and a number of national television and radio talk shows, in newspapers and medical journals, and at national healthcare conferences. He also recently published his second book, “Your Healthcare Playbook: Winning the Game of Modern Medicine,” published by Savio Republic. In addition to his healthcare achievements, he is also a professional singer-songwriter. 


Dr. Deruelle received his Medical Degree at Albany Medical College in Albany, New York; served as an Internal Medicine Intern, an Internal Medicine Resident, an Infectious Disease Fellow, and Internal Medicine Chief Resident at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and completed a Fellowship Program for Hospital Leaders at the University of California at San Francisco. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine