Richard K. Tompkins, M.D.
President

Dick Tompkins has over 25 years of experience in health care management, academic medicine and consulting. He has been consulting since 1988 and has worked as a strategic advisor and management consultant to hospitals and multi-hospital systems, HMOs, physician group practices, IPAs, PHOs, MSOs, other consulting firms, venture capital firms, and start-up health care companies.

In the past, Dick has also served as:

• President and CEO of the Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation, a subsidiary of the Johns Hopkins Health System that managed and owned a multi-specialty group practice with eighteen delivery sites in Maryland;

• President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Medical Center (PMC), an integrated delivery system in Seattle, Washington;

• a founder and Chairman of the Board of Pacific Health Plans, a Seattle HMO;

• Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Cornerstone Physicians Corporation, a national physician practice management company that is now a subsidiary of FPA Medical Management, where he was responsible for all areas of operation, including practice management, information systems, quality and utilization management, and managed care marketing, contracting, and contract management;

• Director/CEO of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Seattle, where he managed its successful conversion to PMC, a non-profit community corporation;

• Director of Informed Access Systems, a demand management company based in Boulder, Colorado, and now part of Access Health; and

• Vice President for Clinical Affairs of the Health Data Institute, a subsidiary of Baxter International focused on medical cost management.

Dick has been a member of the faculties of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Washington School of Medicine and School of Public Health and Dartmouth Medical School. He has published in the areas of medical decision-making, cost-benefit analysis, medical care cost control, and molecular genetics, and has served on numerous national advisory committees. He has been a member of the Health and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians.

Dick earned his M.D. at the University of Colorado and pursued post-graduate studies at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine.