Biosketch:
Robert S. Galvin, M.D., is Director of Global Health Care for General
Electric Company. Dr. Galvin is in charge of the design and performance
of GE's health programs, which total more than $2 billion annually, as
well as GE's medical services, which encompass more than 1 million visits
in more than 20 countries. In addition, he is part of GE's health-care
business development team, a designer of products and services for the
health-care industry.
Dr. Galvin focuses
on issues of market-based health policy and financing with a special interest
in quality management and improvement. He has been a leader in attempting
to apply "six sigma," a quality-improvement program, to health
care and developing a business case for quality. He was a member of the
Strategic Framework Board of the National Quality Forum and sits on the
boards of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the Washington
Business Group on Health as well as on the Advisory Board of the Council
of Health Care Economics. He is a founding member of the Leapfrog Group,
a coalition of health-care benefit providers that works to improve patient
safety.
Dr. Galvin is an
associate professor adjunct at Yale University and is a fellow of the
American College of Physicians. He attended the University of Pennsylvania
for both his undergraduate and medical degrees. He received an MBA in
health-care management from Boston University in 1995.
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