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Drew Ungerman

Senior PartnerDallas

Leads McKinsey's Healthcare Practice globally and is a global leader of the McKinsey Health Institute

Drew leads McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice globally, advising boards and executive teams of many of the largest and leading health systems, insurers, and healthcare services companies on strategic growth, M&A, transformation, and restructuring. Drew is also a global leader of the McKinsey Health Institute, a non-profit generating entity within the firm. MHI was founded on the conviction that, over the next decade, humanity could add as much as 45 billion extra years to higher-quality life (six years per person on average).

Over the past three decades, Drew has driven transformations at many of the world’s largest public and non-profit healthcare enterprises and achieved step-change impact, preparing those organizations for long-term growth and outsized community benefit. He is a trusted counselor to CEOs and boards of many of the most prestigious health care organizations in the world and convenes several of the industry’s leading roundtables.

Prior to leading the global Healthcare Practice, he led McKinsey’s North America Healthcare Practice and chaired the firm's global development council for McKinsey’s nearly 40,000 colleagues.

Drew started his career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, focusing on M&A in healthcare.

Drew was elected presidential scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Published work

Virtual hospitals could offer respite to overwhelmed health systems,” McKinsey & Company, May 2023

The gathering storm: An opportunity to reorder the healthcare industry,” McKinsey & Company, September 2022

Overcoming the cost of healthcare transformation through partnerships,” McKinsey & Company, August 2022

Unlocking value in large-deal healthcare M&A: How to achieve transformation during integration,” McKinsey & Company, June 2021

What payers and providers can learn from successful cloud transformations in other industries,” McKinsey & Company, June 2021

“‘Making a big company feel small’: An interview with HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

Safeguarding the lifeblood of American healthcare: An interview with the CEO of AmerisourceBergen,” McKinsey & Company, August 2020

Delivering bold performance in an ever-changing healthcare landscape,” McKinsey & Company, August 2017

Past experience

Goldman Sachs & Co.
Financial analyst, M&A and asset management

Education

Stanford Graduate School of Business
MBA

Stanford University
BA, political science