David S. Hefner has more than 40 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a health system CEO, a University vice president, and a healthcare consultant leading organizational transformations, system turn-arounds and performance improvement.
Mr. Hefner was appointed in July 2015 as the Vice President for Health Affairs for Wayne State University and retired in June 2019.
Before that David served as EVP for Clinical Affairs for Augusta University and Augusta University Health System from 2011-2014 (aka, Georgia Regents). As an innovative thought leader, Mr. Hefner was instrumental in navigating Georgia Regents Health System into a first-of-its-kind 15-year, $350M+ shared risk partnership with Royal Philips to improve outcomes while delivering cost-efficient care throughout the health system and across broad geographies. Both entities are now tightly collaborating on future-based multi-year strategic planning, design, workflow, decision-support and population health services.
Between 2002 and 2009, he served as the President of the University of Chicago Medical Center and the Chief Operating Officer of the Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
Mr. Hefner was also a senior advisor to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) on behalf of the academic health centers and teaching hospitals on a variety of health reform initiatives, particularly those related to academic medicine’s preparedness for success in the new emerging paradigm.1
As a consultant, Mr. Hefner was a Senior Partner with Computer Sciences Corporation’s Global Health Solutions and the Founder/CEO of Consulting Concepts, Inc. (now Context Consulting, Inc) and the co-creator of Mission-Based Management for Academic Medicine.
He also serves as Navigant Healthcare’s Managing Director of Academic Medicine and Higher Education practice. David’s extensive experience includes consulting to over 100+ academic medical centers, schools of medicine, and faculty practice plans, and many private health systems and physician organizations nationwide.
Mr. Hefner received his Master’s Degree in Health Administration from Brigham Young University and his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, competes regularly as a Top 10 Nationals Masters swimmer, and serves on several national, regional, and local boards.
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1 The AAMC is a not-for-profit association representing all 131 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 68 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and nearly 90 academic and scientific societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC represents 128,000 faculty members, 75,000 medical students, and 110,000 resident physicians.
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