Our Firm

Our Story

Great institutions bring great people together. While at Johns Hopkins University from 2015 to 2018, I met with two colleagues from Spain with whom I developed a friendship and a strong professional relationship. We often discussed how health systems could benefit from streamlined operations and data analysis, or how entire countries could provide better health for their populations. To think of solutions, we would draw from our experience in North America, Europe, and Latin America.

We are physicians with strong clinical and research backgrounds. However, it was our diverse interests outside of clinical medicine that lead to the idea of using the breadth of our skill set to help health systems to engage in sustainable and efficient operations, with the ultimate goal of delivering superior care to their patient populations. And so we started Juniper Consulting with a focus on various industries within the life sciences.

—Samuel Sarmiento, Founder & President

T H E T E A M

Principals

Samuel Sarmiento, MD, MPH, MBA
Founder & President

Miguel Cainzos-Achirica, MD, MPH
Senior Consultant & Vice President

Usama Bilal, MD, MPH, PhD
Chief Consultant

Samuel is a physician with clinical experience in general surgery from Mayo Clinic. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in peripheral nerve surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. As a result, Samuel has experienced the needs of health care systems first hand. Innovation is the result of research, something Samuel has been keenly aware of. He has performed extensive biomedical research, winning awards and publishing in the top medical journals including BMJ.

In addition to his clinical and research experience, he obtained master’s degrees in public health and business (MPH & MBA) from Johns Hopkins University and gained relevant experience in design-thinking, market research, financial modeling and health economics. In late 2017, he founded Juniper Consulting.

Miguel is a cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist trained in Barcelona, Spain as well as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He has developed a number of leadership positions since the early stages of his career, and has received a number of competitive training and research grants.

Such experience has resulted in the publication of more than 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the top cardiology journals such as Circulation, JACC, and Annals of Internal Medicine. Miguel is also a reviewer for the top international cardiology journals, and is an invited lecturer of epidemiology at the International University of Catalonia School of Medicine. Before joining Juniper Consulting, Miguel served as clinical and cardiovascular epidemiology consultant in an international CRO.

Usama is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health in Philadelphia. He trained in Spain as an MD and MPH, and then went on to complete a PhD in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Usama conducts research on the macro-level determinants of health, with a special focus on urban areas. He is the recipient of large grants for research on improving urban health. His research has been published in the leading journals in the world, including the New England Journal of Medicine. He also has experience applying complex epidemiological methods and designing comprehensive data visualizations.

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Consultants

Eric Wan, MPH, MBA
Junior Consultant and Director of Marketing

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