Robert Galvin
CEO, Equity Healthcare
Dr. Robert Galvin is the Chief Executive Officer of Equity Healthcare (EH), which oversees the management…
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Dr. Robert Galvin is the Chief Executive Officer of Equity Healthcare (EH), which oversees the management of healthcare for firms owned by private equity companies. The focus is on using purchasing power to create innovative ways to achieve higher value healthcare through improved population health, clinical quality, and delivery system reforms. Currently, EH encompasses over 30 companies with healthcare spending exceeding $1.5 billion annually.
Before joining Blackstone, Dr. Galvin was Executive Director of Health Services and Chief Medical Officer for General Electric (GE) for 15 years, where he was in charge of the design, financial, and clinical performance of GE’s health programs. He was also responsible for health policy strategies affecting employees. Dr. Galvin is a nationally recognized leader in the areas of market-based health policy and financing, quality measurement, and payment reform. His work has been widely published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs and he was a co-founder of the Leapfrog Group and founder of two other groups, Bridges to Excellence and Catalyzing Payment Reform, all innovative nonprofits that have helped drive the quality agenda.
Dr. Galvin is a member of the Institute of Medicine and sits on the IOM’s Board on Health Care Services. He is also on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum. Dr. Galvin is Professor Adjunct of Medicine and Health Policy at Yale. His work has received awards from the National Business Group on Health, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
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SAP COMPANY
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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MEMORIAL BREAKFAST, BOSTON, MLK SPEAKER
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FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
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WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
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Addressing Cost & Quality with Value Based Purchasing
Improving Health, Reforming Healthcare
Business & National Healthcare Reform
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