# Daniel Tomei

> Fractional creative producer, director, and DP based in Chicago. Twenty years directing physicians, founders, and subject-matter experts in healthcare and beyond. Specializes in turning complex expertise into accessible video, photography, and AI-multiplied content — primarily for healthcare teams and expert-led brands.

Daniel works as a senior creative partner without the overhead of an agency or the limitations of a freelancer. Engagements range from one defined project to ongoing multi-year partnerships. The work has lived in operating rooms, on hospital campuses, on farms, in corporate offices, and inside global brands. Single point of contact, no account layers, no re-explaining the business every project.

## About
- [About Daniel Tomei](https://danieltomei.com/about/): Background, the "Translator" approach to bridging expertise and audience, what fractional means in practice, and how Daniel works with camera-shy experts and non-actors.
- [How We Work](https://danieltomei.com/how-we-work/): The two ways to engage — a defined project or an ongoing partnership — and what working together looks like end to end.
- [Connect](https://danieltomei.com/connect/): How to start a conversation about a project. Engagements are scoped in a proposal built around the work, not chosen off a price menu.

## Experience and credentials
- 20 years directing video and photography for healthcare, corporate, and expert-led brands
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certified
- 800+ physician headshots directed across specialties
- 3–4 year average client partnership duration
- Extensive experience filming in operating rooms, on hospital campuses, in private practices, on farms, in corporate offices, and on location worldwide. Comfortable inside HIPAA compliance, patient-consent protocols, and medical facility procedures.

## Selected clients and partnerships
- GSK — pharmaceutical client at $40B annual revenue
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) — multi-year partnership producing CME content, annual meeting coverage, physician interviews, PSAs, and patient stories
- Loyola Medicine and Saint Joseph Health Systems — 500+ physician headshots
- BlackDoctor.org — 140+ physician-led masterclass episodes across 18 video series for the nation's largest health platform for Black Americans
- WESCO International — Fortune 500 distribution
- JLL — commercial real estate, including content for the World Economic Forum in Davos
- Northwest Eye Physicians — 4-year annual photography partnership
- CFA Institute — financial education content
- Chicago White Sox — brand and promotional content
- Les Mills International — global fitness brand employer-branding photography
- Madison Industries — annual leadership-summit event coverage for an $8B industrial conglomerate
- Sodexo — multi-camera event coverage of the Cook for Change culinary competition

## Selected case studies
- [BlackDoctor.org Patient Education Masterclass Series](https://danieltomei.com/blackdoctor-org-patient-education-masterclass-series/): 140+ physician-led masterclass episodes for the nation's largest health platform for Black Americans. Cultural competency and clinical accuracy at scale.
- [Les Mills International — Global Fitness Brand Photography](https://danieltomei.com/les-mills-international-global-fitness-brand-photography/): Authentic employer-branding photography for a global fitness brand. Candid moments over staged corporate stock.
- [American Society of Plastic Surgeons — CME Production](https://danieltomei.com/american-society-of-plastic-surgeons-asps/): Multi-year partnership producing continuing medical education content and event coverage.
- [Madison Industries — Global Event Photography](https://danieltomei.com/madison-industries/): Annual leadership-summit event photography for an $8B industrial conglomerate.
- [Sodexo — Cook for Change Multi-Camera Event Coverage](https://danieltomei.com/sodexo-cook-for-change-chicago/): Multi-camera event coverage of a global culinary competition with simultaneous cooking stations.

## Portfolio
- [Case Studies](https://danieltomei.com/case-studies/): Full collection of in-depth project case studies.
- [Work](https://danieltomei.com/work/): Selected video, photography, and content work across industries.
- [Healthcare](https://danieltomei.com/healthcare/): Healthcare-focused projects — patient education, physician portraits, CME, and clinical-environment production.

## Who Daniel works with
- Healthcare teams: hospitals, clinics, medical associations, and physician-led practices producing patient education, brand video, and physician portraits at scale. Comfortable inside compliance, on hospital campuses, and with clinicians who do not think of themselves as performers.
- Experts and founders: consultants, educators, and operators building authority through expertise-led content, with AI workflows kept in a human-led loop.
- Corporate teams and associations: B2B companies, professional services, and member organizations needing senior creative judgment without agency overhead.

## Execution model
- Solo for efficiency — interviews, headshots, and operating-room work where a small footprint is the right call.
- Crew coordination when scale is needed — commercials, documentaries, multi-camera events, and larger productions, with Daniel as the single point of contact and quality lead throughout.
- Service area: Chicago-based, with nationwide travel by project and remote production coordination using local crews worldwide.

## Optional
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieltomei): Daniel's primary professional channel for ongoing work and behind-the-scenes content.
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@danieltomeifilms): Selected film and video work.