CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that Rob Schreiner, M.D., has joined its Huron Healthcare practice as a managing director. Dr. Schreiner will focus on helping hospitals and health systems with population health management, coordinated care across the continuum, and effective hospital-physician alignment.
“Redesigning care delivery is at the heart of health reform. To successfully manage populations while improving quality, safety and costs, hospitals and their aligned clinicians must fundamentally change the way care is delivered,” said Andy Ziskind, M.D., managing director and Clinical solutions leader, Huron Healthcare. “Rob has deep experience, both as a physician and a Kaiser Permanente leader. He brings a strong track record of creating integrated healthcare that results in more effective and efficient clinical outcomes.”
Dr. Schreiner, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist, brings more than 25 years of physician leadership and executive experience to Huron Healthcare’s Clinical solutions team. Most recently he served as executive medical director for Kaiser Permanente Georgia, where he held several executive and clinical management positions throughout his 20-year career there, including chief operating officer, associate medical director for hospital, specialty and ancillary care, and chief of medical-hospitalist services and pulmonary critical care services.
Dr. Schreiner earned a bachelor’s of science in chemistry and attended medical school at the University of Tennessee. He completed his residency at Vanderbilt University Medical School, where he served as chief resident and then went on to complete a fellowship for pulmonary and critical care at Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Schreiner is active in professional and civic groups, including serving as chairman of the Medical Association of Atlanta and secretary of the Medical Association of Georgia.
About Huron Healthcare
Huron Healthcare is the premier provider of performance improvement and clinical transformation solutions for hospitals and health systems. By partnering with clients, Huron delivers solutions that improve quality, increase revenue, reduce expenses, and enhance physician, patient, and employee satisfaction across the healthcare enterprise. Clients include leading national and regional integrated healthcare systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals and physician practices. Modern Healthcare ranked Huron Healthcare third on its 2013 list of the largest healthcare management consulting firms. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/healthcare or follow us on Twitter: @Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, transform the enterprise, reduce costs, leverage technology, process and review large amounts of complex data, address regulatory changes, recover from distress and stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise in finance, operations, strategy and technology to provide our clients with specialized analyses and customized advice and solutions that are tailored to address each client's particular challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable and measurable results. The Company provides consulting services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, leading academic institutions, Fortune 500 companies, governmental entities and law firms. Huron has worked with more than 425 health systems, hospitals, and academic medical centers; more than 400 corporate general counsel; and more than 350 universities and research institutions. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
