AHA

Thought Leaders

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Matthew J. Lambert III, MD, Senior Vice President of Kaufman Hall, has more than 40 years of healthcare experience working as a physician, healthcare executive, and board member. He is a member of Kaufman Hall’s Strategy practice, and is focused on assisting hospitals and health systems with integrated strategic and financial planning, service line planning/distribution across systems, and medical staff planning/physician alignment strategy.

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Jim Pizzo is a Managing Director of Kaufman Hall, responsible for directing the firm’s Physician Advisory Practice, an integral part of the Strategy Practice.

With more than 25 years of health care consulting experience, Mr. Pizzo has held leadership positions as a Partner with Accenture, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Ernst & Young LLP, and Ernst & Whinney. At each of the firms, he led the Physician Services and Finance and Planning Practices. Mr. Pizzo first assumed the role of Partner and Practice Leader in 1995.

The Physician Advisory Practice includes physician growth planning, hospital-physician integration strategy development and implementation, physician work-effort allocation, physician performance optimization, physician-related mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, and comprehensive planning for academic physician enterprises and physician affiliates.

Mr. Pizzo is an active speaker on current health care trends, frequently presenting on financial and physician issues and their impact on the health care field to groups including the AHA, the Medical Group Management Association, The Governance Institute and other associations.

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Scott Cullen is a Senior Vice President at Kaufman Hall, where he leads strategic and operational planning for the development of Clinically Integrated delivery networks, Accountable Care Organizations, and risk-based contracting. His experience has also included extensive technology planning and implementation work in the areas of Clinical Analytics, electronic medical records, and health information exchange in his years at Accenture.

Dr. Cullen practiced primary care and emergency medicine in the greater Boston area for 10 years before becoming a consultant, and developed electronic medical records technology still in use today. Dr. Cullen trained in Family Medicine at Brown University after receiving his doctorate from the University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine, and his B.A. from Wesleyan University.