Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> February 2, 2002

David Dovenberg – Universal Hospital Services Inc

DAVID E. DOVENBERG is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Universal Hospital Services, inc., and has served in both of these positions since the 1998 recapitalization of the company. He joined the company in 1988 as Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining UHS, he had been with The Prudential Insurance Company of America since 1969. From 1979 to 1988, Mr. Dovenberg was a regional Vice President in the area of corporate investments in private placements for Prudential Capital Corporation. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Minnesota and is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Lund International Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded manufacturer of appearance accessories for light trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans. Profile
TWST: Can we start out with a history and overview of UHS?

Mr. Dovenberg: Universal Hospital Services was actually founded in 1939.

But the UHS we've become today started with a leveraged