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Kyle B. Gibler

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Leads McKinsey’s work on improving health system clinical operations, with a focus on innovative care delivery models, digital enablement, and advanced analytics

Kyle is a core leader in McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice, serving major not-for-profit, for-profit, and government healthcare systems across the United States and Latin America. He helps organizations transform their clinical and operational performance, especially through the use of digital enablement, automation, and artificial intelligence.

A physician by background, Kyle coleads McKinsey’s clinical operations work in North America. In this role, he is helping shape the firm’s perspective on the care delivery model of the future. Kyle also leads McKinsey’s partnerships with a number of leading technology companies that focus on hospital automation and artificial intelligence.

Examples of his recent client work include the following:

  • leading a performance transformation for an academic health system, focusing on growth and cost performance to sustain the tripartite mission
  • directing a multistate transformation for a not-for-profit health system to redesign care models and drive clinical variability reduction
  • driving a medical group’s transformation within a large integrated health system to improve culture, quality, efficiency, and experience
  • facilitating a multiyear turnaround for a multiregional not-for-profit health system, focusing on labor, supplies, purchased services, and capital efficiency
  • leading a large-scale clinical transformation for an academic health system to reduce clinical variability and improve efficiency of care

PUBLISHED WORK

Survey: US hospital patient volumes move back toward 2019 levels,” McKinsey & Company, August 2021

Cutting through the COVID-19 surgical backlog,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

Physician employment: The path forward in the COVID-19 era,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020

How providers can best confront the reality of value-based care,” McKinsey & Company, April 2019

PAST EXPERIENCE

Harvard Medical School
Research analyst, Department of Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Research analyst, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders Services

EDUCATION

Duke University
MD

Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
MBA

Harvard University
AB, economics and health policy