Creating a Career Theme Around People
Michael Lascomb never aspired to become a recruiter. He holds a chemistry degree and was set on a career in the sciences. Relatively speaking, resonating into healthcare recruitment was an unexpected yet natural course of action. The realization that his biggest strengths existed not in conducting laboratory work, but rather in engaging with people and making strategic decisions was a turning point. Today, over eight years into healthcare (with six years focused on physician recruitment), Lascomb is a steady, grounded professional who prides himself in helping doctors discover the right place with a concierge, or in some instances, a hospitality-based approach to recruitment.
Michael Lascomb is currently working as the Senior Physician Recruiter for Sevaro Health, a tele-neurology organization that has been providing remote vascular neurology services to hospitals nationwide. He works from home in Media, Pennsylvania, along with his fiancée and two dogs. His job as a recruiter is challenging, but he has a strong foundation based on a life centered around family, sports, and service.
“I want candidates to feel as though they are the most important person in the room,” states Loscomb. “Because in this work, they are.”
Beginning with a Bat, Ending with a Contract
Before he influenced the physician recruitment/employment process for virtual care teams, Lascomb was a collegiate baseball player at Immaculata University. That approach towards playing on a team persists and guides him in how he operates today. He often speaks about recruitment as a process of setting up a winning lineup versus just putting someone in a seat, to which chemistry and trust are keys to success, just like in sports, too. His start in recruiting was in a traditional agency environment focused on placing physicians into brick-and-mortar spaces.
His next role in home healthcare provided him with additional context for how care is delivered in different venues. But it was transitioning into telehealth in 2019, starting with Array Behavioral Care, that allowed him to excel as a recruiter. He became the top recruiter at Array during a four-year cycle, and did so each year. This trajectory set up his current position at Sevaro, where he received the “Rockstar of the Year” honor in 2024.
Getting to Know the Human Behind the Resume
While the telehealth space is centered around technological advances, Lascomb’s role validates that relationships matter in recruiting, too. He prides himself on knowing more than a candidate’s resume and clinical skills. Listening, in his words, is just as much about hearing their personal and professional aspirations as anything else, and that is how he steers physicians into positions that are appropriate for who they are.
Michael Lascomb also wants candidates to feel like they are heard and valued. “A lot of recruiters can be transactional,” he offers. “I want to build relationships that last more than one placement.”
This approach has served him well in a field so demanding and evolving. In tele-neurology, the pool of candidates is very small. Vascular neurologists are in short supply all around the United States, and the demand continues to climb. It is a challenge that Lascomb approaches with sustained effort, resource knowledge, and empathy.
How Telehealth Changed the Game
The pandemic has transformed healthcare delivery, and telehealth still plays a key role even in the post-emergency situation. For patients with strokes or other acute time-dependent neurologic complaints, getting access to specialists in tele-neurology is immediate rather than geographical.
Recruitment can be both rewarding and challenging. The recruiter’s understanding requires knowledge not only of medical licensing and credentialing but being familiar of the flexibility required to thrive in a remote and technology-dependent environment.
At Sevaro, Lascomb helps build teams of physicians who are able to deal with potentially stressful situations even while decentralized. These teams must represent clinically excellent experts and be comfortable with working independently, and remain accountable.
Given the incredible stakes involved, Lascomb and his Sevaro colleagues are carefully sensitive to fit, culture, and skillset. His job responsibilities vary day to day. Some days are spent either sourcing or interviewing, while other days are spent doing contract negotiations or strategic planning.
Lessons From the Field
Lascomb thinks of recruiting as a combination of business, human resources, and mentoring a clinician. Along the way, he discovered the personal engagement associated with recruiting is not predicated on volume rather alignment.
“It’s never about whether a physician can do their job,” he explained.“It’s really whether this job supports their desired lifestyle.”
Keeping up with trends in the healthcare and recruiting spaces is part of the work, too. Lascomb reports regularly attending industry conferences, networking events, and following conversations on LinkedIn to have a better understanding of what providers want and how healthcare systems are changing.
The information he gains helps him better support candidates and hiring teams in those decisions. His ability to pivot has certainly helped. As telehealth continues to develop and grow, Lascomb is firmly focused on keeping people at the heart of it.
Recruiting With Integrity and Purpose
Recruitment in telehealth is a complex space that demands diligence, and there are no shortcuts. Healthcare delivery is continually shifting, state licensure can be challenging, competition for specialists is fierce, and people like Lascomb need to be trustworthy and resourceful.
Lascomb doesn’t shy away from the complexities of recruitment. He operates on a set of values. His recruitment philosophy is rooted in transparency and integrity, and he takes care in every interaction.
Within telehealth, Lascomb’s employer, Sevaro Health, is among the few companies to market “full-service” recruitment, working to support candidate satisfaction and long-term placement. And, with Lascomb’s leadership, the team has continued to grow in size and impact.
Lascomb is doing more than hiring physicians; he is developing systems of care that lead to patient-centered outcomes.
What’s Next
While Lascomb is clearly metrics and performance driven, he is a productive recruiter who is used to being at the top of the roster in his company; it is the personal wins that he values most. Watching a physician flourish in a role that he helped them secure. Seeing a hospital shorten its stroke response time. Getting a message from a satisfied candidate months later. These are the wins that he relies on to keep going.
Lascomb is focused on refining his approach, helping to grow Sevaro, and mentoring junior recruiters who are new to the industry. He is also eager to help support access to neurologic care in communities that are underserved.
“We still have a long way to go,” he said. “But we are making a difference every day.”
From Baseball Fields to Telehealth Clinics
Michael Lascomb started out studying chemistry and playing baseball, but more than that, his path into healthcare recruitment is a reminder that careers rarely occur in a straight line. Through consistency, empathy, and a people-first intent, he has emerged as a trusted person in a high-pressure, high-stakes industry.
At a time when clinicians and patients are connecting digitally everywhere, people like Lascomb act as a link between the human experience and clinical excellence. His story underscores the power of knowing not just how to hire, but why it matters.
