Rupal is a leader in the firm’s healthcare work in North America. She has extensive experience serving national, regional, and academic health systems across a broad range of strategic, operational, and organizational topics.
Rupal leads the North American healthcare work in transformational growth strategies. She has supported multiple health systems drive sustained growth in increasingly competitive environments through service-line strategy development, referral integrity management, go-to-market strategy, inorganic growth, and development of innovative approaches to revenue diversification. Rupal combines the development of nuanced strategies with the pragmatism required to implement and achieve results.
Outside her work related to growth, Rupal has led multiple, large-scale performance transformations for healthcare delivery systems, including workforce excellence, external-spend management, administrative-spend management, and clinical throughput.
Rupal sits on the Osler Advisory Board as well as the Partnership for Families board.
Published work
“Patients love telehealth—physicians are not so sure,” McKinsey & Company, February 2022
“Emerging stronger from the crisis: What’s next for regional providers?,” McKinsey & Company, October 2021
“Preparing for the next normal now: How health systems can adopt a growth transformation in the COVID-19 world,” McKinsey & Company, McKinsey & Company, August 2020
“Physician employment: The path forward in the COVID-19 era,” McKinsey & Company, McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“Physicians examine options in a post-COVID-19 era,” McKinsey & Company, McKinsey & Company, June 2020
“Provider scale strategies: A 2018 update on the evolving landscape,” McKinsey & Company, McKinsey & Company, May 2018
“Provider scale strategies: The evolving landscape,” McKinsey & Company, September 2016
“Provider scale strategies: The evolving landscape,” McKinsey & Company, September 2013
“The smarter scale equation,” McKinsey & Company, May 2013
Past Experience
Osler Medical Training Program, Johns Hopkins Hospital
House officer, internal medicine
Education
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
MD
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
MS, biostatistics
Columbia University
MA, quantitative finance
Wesleyan University
BA, biology