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Dr. Max Diamond, since 2015 to date, serves as Medical Director at Regal Medical Group in Southern California, which is one of the Country's largest physician-led medical groups with over 3,000 Primary Care Physicians and 10,000 Specialists. Dr. Diamond and his team provide oversight of hospital inpatient care, skilled nursing care, and utilization management. A dynamic, multi-specialty organization, Regal provides its 1 million Senior, Commercial, and Medi-Cal members with the highest quality medical care in the community, including numerous wellness programs to stay healthy.

Prior to joining Regal Medical Group, Dr. Diamond served for nearly 9 years as Chief Medical Officer over North American Health Care, which operated 35 health care facilities with over 2,800 beds in 4 Western States. During his tenure, 97% (34 of 35) of the facilities received and maintained an unprecedented CMS 5-Star Rating for providing the best-in-class service and medical care. Dr. Diamond contributed to this truly unmatched success given that, during this same period, no other organization of simar size or service had achieved more than only 25% of their facilities at a CMS 5-Star Rating. 

Dr. Max Diamond, at the start of his career as a leading physician, helped found the then-groundbreaking hospitalist medicine movement, recognized today as a standard Board-Certified medical professional specialty. Beginning right out of training in 1994, Dr. Diamond assisted in the development of three pilot programs to prove the concept of hospitalist medicine for FHP, Kaiser Permanente, and Humana. Then in 1996, under the direction of Dr. Norman Jacobson of San Antonio, Texas, he launched one of the first on-site only staff, inpatient hospital care programs literally from the ground up in Florida serving Humana Healthcare. Dr. Diamond personally recruited, trained, mentored, and supervised 65 full-time hospital physicians. Today, as Regal Medical Director, Dr. Diamond supervises dozens of hospitalist physicians in his medical group to provide comprehensive member care from hospital-to-home.

Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Fellowship-Trained in Health Care Quality and Management, Dr. Diamond has over 25 years of practical and managerial health care experience. His dedication specifically to Hospice and End-of-Life Care has brought about an internal change of hospital culture that increases patient advocacy, decreases patient costs, and garners greater patient satisfaction. With extensive experience and interest in hospice/palliative care and medical legal issues, he has served as a medical defense expert on more than 40 cases.

Named as one of "America's Top Physicians" by the Consumer Research Council for more than 10 years of his career history, Dr. Diamond has also received the "Patient's Choice Award" and "The Compassionate Physician Award" from Vitals.com for multiple years. He completed his undergraduate degree and medical school at the University of California, Irvine; and, Residency training at USC Santa Barbara (Cottage Hospital).

Dr. Max Diamond has served as a military contractor, 554th Medical Group Emergency Physician, at Vandenberg AFB, CA, and Nellis AFB, NV with high-level security clearance. Over the years, he successfully participated in multiple Operation Red Flag exercises leading a team of medics and nurses through high-intensity, simulated combat situations on the ground and in the air in support of elite fighter pilots and crews from multiple nations. Under a grant from President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or “Lasers in Space,” Dr. Diamond conducted extensive research with military lasers at the Beckman Laser Institute and was published in Applied Optics for his brilliant work with 408-nanometer Excimer Lasers.

Always an overachiever, Dr. Diamond began computer programming in junior high school (well before the Internet existed) and learned to program in four different computer languages (Fortran, Fortran IV, Pascal, and C). In 1980, as a high school freshman, he was placed in charge of the computer sciences lab teaching all levels. Under direction of famed TV and Movie Director, Art Vitarelli, he appeared daily on classroom televisions throughout the School District as a news anchor and produced a 5-part documentary about the City of Costa Mesa and the development of South Coast Plaza entitled "The Segerstom Report." Dr. Diamond graduated high school a year early while also completing a year of college math and science.

Dr. Diamond is a nationally renowned trainer and lecturer for physicians and nurses.