Gene Beed MD

CEO and President

    Gene Beed, M.D., is President of horses, zebras & unicorns inc., a consulting and communications company that specializes in managed care. Health care professionals know Gene best for his moderating of debates, dialogues and expert panels on numerous health care issues.  He also is an author, penning monographs and compendia for clients such as the NCQA. 

Dr. Beed was formerly Corporate Associate Vice President of Medical Informatics for FHP International Corporation.  During his seven-year tenure at FHP, Dr. Beed served in a variety of roles; from Utilization Management to Quality Improvement to CMO of staff model HMOs in Guam and California.  Before joining FHP, Dr. Beed, a Board Certified Pediatrician, established his own successful private practice in Victorville, California. 

    Dr. Beed was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised there.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, Summa Cum Laude, from Loyola University of Chicago, and an M.D. degree, with Honors, from the University of Illinois.  He received internship and residency training at Milwaukee Children's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Valley Children's Hospital in Fresno, California.  Dr. Beed was selected a Sayre McNeil and Dean’s Scholar in 1992 at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

     Gene Beed has spoken on three continents.  He has presented on topics ranging from the “Application of Utilization Guidelines” to British health care managers in London, England to “The Cost of Health Care in America” at the Shiga University Medical School in Otsu, Japan.

   Dr. Beed chaired the Utilization Subcommittee of the NCQA Report Card Project.  He is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Irvine Child Development Center, and the Children's Discovery Museum of Orange County.  He has served as an elected representative and treasurer for the Irvine Unified School District's Brywood School Site Council, and on Orange County's Measure M Citizen's Oversight Committee as a representative for the Fifth supervisory district. 

Dr. Beed is married to Dr. Margaret Beed, also a board certified pediatrician and currently Health Officer for San Bernardino County. They have three children, a German shepherd, and live in Irvine, California.