How Matt Drives Value to the Funds,
Founders, and Investors
Dr. McGirt serves as a founder and analyst at Mammoth with particular expertise in medical devices, healthcare software analytics, and radiologic and pharmaceutical surgical adjuncts. Matt works with founders and portfolio company managers to optimize their value in the ever-evolving value-based healthcare market. For over a decade, Matt has consulted directly with government and commercial healthcare payers and Fortune 100 healthcare companies. He has helped private companies build a body of clinical evidence, achieve FDA approval, and connect founders to publicly held buyers. He has also worked with government (CMS) and commercial payers to devise value-based payment for products and services in healthcare. Matt brings these unique skill sets to Mammoth’s portfolio companies.
Matt is also known internationally in health economics in musculoskeletal care, value-based healthcare delivery models, and use of big data, predictive analytics, and integrated software solutions that drive the current healthcare reform era. Matt works with both private and public biotech companies to help develop surgical technologies and holds several patents himself. Matt has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and textbooks.
Matt graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University (BS) and completed medical school at Duke University and surgical residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.
In addition to his role at Mammoth, Dr. McGirt is a board-certified neurosurgeon practicing in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Awards & Recognition
Named to Becker’s Top 40 Surgeons to Know under 40
2015
Founding member of the world’s largest spine care outcomes collaboration (now American Spine Registry) that has created a data sharing network between 200 U.S. hospital systems
Awarded more than two dozen times by neurosurgery and orthopedic societies