About Us
Keeping Older Adults Hospital-Free
You’re here because you or someone you care about has dementia or a chronic illness. We understand the problem because we have loved ones who do too.
As we navigate healthcare with our aging parents, we realize that there are too many gaps and much room for improvement. We formed Embrace to provide consistent, excellent care for chronic illnesses, enabling you to stay healthy, out of the hospital and live safely and independently in your homes.
When older adults work regularly with their nurse practitioner, stay on their medications and and take healthy actions, they remain healthy, vital and the progress of the disease slows. That’s a win for all of us!
Embrace Team
Dave Dlesk
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Dave has been developing new products, services and businesses in healthcare for over 40 years. He has run large organizations at Baxter, Biogen and Terumo and led medical start-ups in virtual reality, addiction treatments, nanotech and biotech. He sees prevention as one of the greatest underutilized opportunities to significantly improve health.
Greg Sciarra, RPh
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder
Greg has 26 years of pharmacy experience within CVS and served in roles with increasing responsibility in operations, finance and acquisitions, leaving CVS as a corporate officer. He also has 3 years of value-based care experience as a senior executive from an at-risk Medicare primary care provider, and continues as an active advisor for Embrace.
Glenn Zemel, MD
Co-Founder, Advisor, Medical Liaison
Glenn is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and has an active clinical practice. Prior to becoming an MD, Glenn worked as a food scientist, where he became familiar with sophisticated techniques for understanding people’s preferences and psychology. He now brings this expertise into medicine to personalize healthcare for patients to improve outcomes, engagement and satisfaction of the patient and the physician.
Marty Agather
Co-Founder, VP Sales and Marketing
Marty has 30 years creating, marketing and selling software and on-line insurtech systems, recently as creator and SVP of TrustedChoice.com. His career in the insurance and risk management field provides unique perspective on why prevention is an effective risk mitigation and reduction strategy that should be more fully utilized by patients, providers and payors.
Diane Tumolo, ARNP
Nurse Practitioner
Diane has been a practicing Registered Nurse for over 20 years, and a Nurse Practitioner for the past 4 years. In those roles she has been responsible for direct patient care in a number of clinical settings. She is responsible for providing Personal Prevention Care to Embrace's suburban Philadelphia patients.
Jim Doscher
VP, Operations
Jim is a 30-year veteran of the semiconductor industry. For the last 15 years he led a variety of technology businesses at Analog Devices, across industrial, automotive, communications, consumer, and healthcare markets. In his last role at Analog, he led their healthcare strategy, growing the business 50% to $400M.
Chuck Hofmann, MD
Medical Director, ID & OR
Charles “Chuck” Hofmann, MD, MACP practiced primary care in a rural Oregon community for over 35 years. For the past 20 years, he has been involved in health delivery and payment system reform at both the state and federal levels.
Marina Shkayeva, PharmD
Geriatric Pharmacist
Marina received her Doctor of Pharmacy from University of Pittsburgh. She is a graduate of the post-graduate Drug Information and Nutrition Pharmacy Residency Program as well as being certified in Medication Therapy Management.
Embrace Advisors
Mike Hough
Telehealth Advisor
Mike is a seasoned healthcare executive and operator with a long track record of developing winning value delivery strategies. He grew Advance Medical into a leader in specialty telehealth care, before acquisition by Teladoc. He is on the leading edge of care delivery innovations as an entrepreneur and advisor.
Robert Schreiber, MD
Geriatric Advisor
After graduating from Hahnemann School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Rob has worked as a Geriatrician and held roles a Medical Director at numerous practices and organizations and has worked tirelessly as an innovator and advocate for older adults. His pioneering efforts in efforts in this area have been published in conjunction with the John A Hartford foundation, and incorporated in a number of Programs for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) programs which enable elders to remain living in their communities.
Debbie Howard
Caregiving Advisor
Debbie Howard is a former caregiver on a mission to change the way the world looks at caregiving through her books, podcasting, and social media. Utilizing her market research and strategy skills, she advises companies on how to create more caregiver-friendly ecosystems and workplaces with tangible supports for caregivers.
Want to Change Lives?
We do too and we’re looking for passionate professionals to join our CareForce.
Embrace Prevention Care is out to change the way older adult care is provided. As we navigated the senior care environment with our parents, we realized there are too many gaps and much room for improvement.
Our mission is to improve older adult care, not only for today’s older adults, but also for ourselves and our kids.
We offer competitive compensation, a healthy work environment, opportunities for career growth and equity.