Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., is Executive Director for the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (“the Center”), a part of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. He brings a distinguished 30 year career in health services research in the private sector and academic medicine. He is a health economist and policy expert, author, and much in demand speaker. In May, he facilitated a series of meetings for the White House Office of Health Reform involving collaborative efforts of the major trade organizations representing providers, payers, life science organizations and organized labor. The group's work was delivered to the White House June 1 and is an integral element of the health reform debate now underway.
The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions is an independent research organization focused on trend analysis and issues in the US and global health systems. Recent studies include a survey of 8000 consumers in the US and Canada, value-based purchasing in the US, the comparative effectiveness programs in Germany, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, trends in personalized therapeutics, retail medicine, the medical home, medical tourism and others. The Center's work is featured regularly in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, CNN and Fox News as well as trade and professional periodicals. He has provided expert testimony before US House and Senate committees, the HHS Office of Health Reform, the Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research and several state health reform oversight panels.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Dr. Keckley served in senior leadership roles in Vanderbilt University Medical Center's including oversight of domestic and international joint ventures, development of the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health and implementation of evidence-based practice guidelines for its acute and ambulatory operations. As Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine (VCEBM), he was principal investigator for sponsored research about applications of evidence-based medicine in pay for performance programs and mechanisms to increase consumer awareness and adherence to evidence-based treatment programs. He was also a faculty member in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and in the Owen Graduate School of Business.
Before joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Keckley served as Chairman of the Board of Interdent, a California dental practice management company; Chief Executive Officer of EBM Solutions, a developer of evidence-based guideline software founded by Vanderbilt, Duke, Emory and Washington University-St. Louis; Chief Executive Officer of Aveta (formerly the IPA Management subsidiary of PhyCor Inc.), and Principal of The Keckley Group, a strategic planning consulting practice that served 1,200 U.S. provider organizations and health plans.
Dr. Keckley is a member of the Health Executive Network, Healthcare Strategy Institute, Healthcare Leadership Council, Healthcare Advisory Panel to the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the Personalized Medicine Coalition. He is an Adjunct Faculty in Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Business and frequently guest lectures in leading schools of business, medicine and public health. He serves on the editorial boards of several health services research journals focused including Physician Practice Options, Journal of Quality and Safety and others. He has authored three books, several peer reviewed journal articles and more than 200 trade periodical monographs. He was the keynote presenter for the American College of Health Executives, American Medical Association House of Delegates, America's Health Insurance Plans, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, E Health Initiative, American Hospital Association, National Quality Forum and others. And in 2007, he appeared with Michael Moore in a CNN series about the “facts” in Mr. Moore's controversial documentary “Sicko”.
Dr. Keckley enjoys golf and running. He received a B.A. from Lipscomb University, his MA/PhD from Ohio State University, and completed a fellowship in economic policy at Oxford University.
Presentation/Facilitation Topics
- Future of Health Care
- Leadership & Strategy
- Quality Improvement
- Evidence-based Medicine
- Pay for Performance
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