Healthcare >> Analyst Interviews >> March 11, 2010
Anthony Vendetti is the Director of Research and Senior Health Care Analyst at Maxim Group LLC. Mr. Vendetti has been on Wall Street for more than 15 years and follows the medical device, health care information technology and services industries. Prior to joining Maxim Group, he was a Senior Health Care Analyst at Gruntal, UBS Securities and Ladenburg Thalmann. Mr. Vendetti also worked for three years in the health care industry at CIGNA, ultimately as a Senior Health Care Analyst in the managed care division. Mr. Vendetti has been a guest speaker on CNNfn and CNN MoneyLine, and a member of investment panels at various health care conferences nationwide. In addition, he has been quoted in numerous health care journals and financial publications, including BusinessWeek, Forbes, Investors Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal. He was ranked as the number three health care equipment and supplies analyst in the 2006 Forbes/StarMine survey, and took the number three spot in medical equipment stock picking in The Wall Street Journal's 2005 "Best On the Street" survey. Mr. Vendetti received his MBA in finance and accounting from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his B.S. in biology from Binghamton University. Profile
TWST: What is your perspective on the health care IT sector, given the state of the economy right now and the burgeoning health care program?
Mr. Vendetti: Unlike proposed health care reform, the