Paul H. Keckley, PhD
Executive Director
Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
Washington, D.C.
Visiting Professor
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Health Management
Owen Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., is Executive Director for the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (“the Center”), a part of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. He brings a distinguished 30 year career in health services research in the private sector and academic medicine. He is a health economist and policy expert, author, and much in demand speaker.
The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions is an independent research organization focused on trend analysis and issues of the US health system. Through proprietary research, it explores practical, innovative solutions to health system problems that cut across traditional barriers and conventional wisdom. The Center’s current research agenda is focused on five areas of US health system reform and six global trends impacting delivery of health services. Recent studies addressed healthcare consumerism, value-based purchasing, comparative effectiveness and personalized therapeutics as well as its series around innovation—retail medicine, the medical home, medical tourism and others. The Center’s work is featured regularly in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, CNN and Fox News as well as trade and professional periodicals.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Dr. Keckley served in senior leadership roles in Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s including oversight of domestic and international joint ventures, development of the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health, implementation of evidence-based practice guidelines for acute and ambulatory operations, and others. As Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine (VCEBM), he was principal investigator for industry and government sponsored studies that focused on applications of evidence-based medicine in pay for performance and consumerism. He was Associate Professor in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Health Management at the Owen Graduate School of Business’ healthcare MBA and MD-MBA programs..
Before joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Keckley served as Chairman of the Board of Interdent, a California dental practice management company; Chief Executive Officer of EBM Solutions, a developer of evidence-based guideline software founded by Vanderbilt, Duke, Emory and Washington University-St. Louis; Chief Executive Officer of Aveta (formerly the IPA Management subsidiary of PhyCor Inc.), and Principal of The Keckley Group, a strategic planning consulting practice that served 1,200 U.S. provider organizations and health plans.
Dr. Keckley is a member of the Health Executive Network, Healthcare Strategy Institute, Healthcare Leadership Council, Healthcare Advisory Panel to the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the Personalized Medicine Coalition. He serves on the editorial boards of several health services research journals focused including Physician Practice Options, Journal of Quality and Safety and others. He has authored three books, several peer reviewed journal articles and more than 200 trade periodical monographs. He was the keynote presenter for the American College of Health Executives, American Medical Association House of Delegates, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, E Health Initiative, American Hospital Association, National Quality Forum and others and is frequently asked to testify to federal and state legislators about trends relevant to health system issues and options for solving problems. Among his more intriguing roles, he was featured by CNN in a series about the Michael Moore documentary “Sicko” critical of the health industry.
Dr. Keckley maintains academic relationships at Vanderbilt where he is an Adjunct Professor in its graduate schools of medicine and business, and has delivered guest lectures at Columbia University, Georgetown University, Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins among others.
Dr. Keckley enjoys golf and running. He received a B.A. from Lipscomb University, his MA/PhD from Ohio State University, and completed a fellowship in economic policy at Oxford University.