CEO, Physician, Director, Strategist, Technologist, Investor, and Author. Dr. Friend currently serves as a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company. For over 30 years, have provided Strategic, Management, Clinical, Tactical and Financial insights and acumen across a wide range of health care enterprises around the globe. Served as Chairman, CEO, COO, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Board Director and Advisor for a variety of Fortune 500 Companies, Health Systems, Academic Medical Centers, Physician Groups, Insurance Companies, Financial Institutions, Life Sciences, Private Equity, Law Firms, Technology and Post-Acute Care Organizations. His work has resulted in the creation of Billions of Dollars in Shareholder Value.
In the past he has collaborated with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Former FDA Commissioner and Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google Health. He has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. He has lectured at Columbia Business School, Harvard Law School, and the UCLA School of Medicine He is the Author of ‘Healthcare .Com, RX for Reform’ based on his research as a Visiting Scientist at Mass General Brigham which pioneered concepts including Virtual Health Care and Value-Based Purchasing. Previous professional affiliations include Marcum, BDO, Golden Living, Aseracare, Palladium Group, Alvarez and Marsal, WTW, Mass General Brigham, Fallon Community Health, The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, The Wharton School’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), and Robertson Stephens.