Ed is a senior partner in McKinsey’s Bay Area office. He leads the firm’s service to regional health systems, academic medical centers, and children’s hospitals.
Ed has spent more than 25 years working with the management teams of leading public- and private-sector healthcare organizations, mainly focused on health system and physician/medical group strategy as well as cost and operations transformations. He coleads the group serving freestanding children’s hospitals and health organizations in the US as well as academic medical centers and their affiliated schools of medicine. He plays a central role in health-system transformations, focusing on clinical operations, lean efficiency improvement, and total cost management.
Ed has served numerous children’s hospitals, and regional and academic health systems on enterprise and local market strategy and approach to scale/M&A, including board governance issues. He has served some of the top 20 academic medical centers on relationship issues between health system and school of medicine, including alignment of strategy, funds flows, and financial planning. He also has served numerous medical groups (some investor-owned) on growth strategy and approach to risk-based reimbursement and its optimization.
Ed received his BS in biological sciences from Stanford University and his MD from the University of California San Diego. He was an internal medicine resident and infectious disease fellow at the University of California San Francisco from 1997-2001.
He was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda during his medical school training (1994-1995).