People

David Campell, Founder

David Campell, MD, FACEP, is a practicing Board Certified Emergency Physician with over 20 years of clinical experience in this field. Dr. Campell has taught Emergency Medicine as an Assistant Professor on the full-time faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine, and as an Assistant Clinical Professor with the University of California San Francisco. He has been involved in the development of medical software applications since 1978 including projects for NASA and Microsoft.

Dr. Campell founded Exit-Writer in 1984 to pursue a solution to the cumbersome patient discharge process in the emergency department setting. While continuing to practice emergency medicine, he has developed, refined and marketed Exit-Writer over the years since its launch in 1990, making it an industry leader in patient discharge instructions.

Thomas Bayless, Chief Operating Officer

Thomas Bayless brings more than 30 years of executive operations, sales and marketing experience from companies including SBC, Pacific Bell and Westwave Communications. Before Exit-Writer he served as Vice President of Sales at software start-up Westwave Communications, where he led the company’s sales of its softswitch product.  Westwave was purchased by Alcatel. 

During his year career at SBC and Pacific Bell he held various leadership positions including Sales Vice President for the Internet Service Provider where he led a sales organization of 200+ sales professionals with annual revenues of more than 600 Million.  He also held executive positions in Marketing, Operations and Customer Service.

As Exit-Writer Chief Operating Officer,  he is responsible all Exit-Writer operations including Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Customer Service.  Exit-Writer is the industry leading provider of Patient Discharge Instructions.