Richard Gitomer, MD, MBA
Dr. Gitomer is the Director of the Brigham Health Primary Care Center of Excellence (COE). In this role he oversees approximately 200 primary care providers within sixteen locations across the Brigham catchment area. Until COVID the COE was focusing on creating a value-based primary care platform within a large academic medical center.
Prior to the current role, Dr. Gitomer was the President and Chief Quality Officer of the Emory Healthcare Network (EHN). The EHN is a clinically integrated network owned by Emory Healthcare. At the time, it included five hospitals and 2,000 physicians of which 450 were in independent practice. In that role he provided clinical leadership in payer negotiations, worked with administrative partners to create the governance, management and operational infrastructure for the network, led the development of the high-risk care coordination program, and led the development of the data and analytics infrastructure for oversight of the clinical operations.
Prior to his involvement with the EHN Dr. Gitomer was the inaugural Chief Quality Officer at Emory University Hospital Midtown (EUHM). In this role he oversaw the development of the quality improvement infrastructure at EUHM and was on the senior leadership team developing the quality infrastructure for Emory Healthcare. During his tenure, EUHM rose from the 4th quintile to achieve top 10% performance in quality and safety across US academic medical centers.
Prior to these roles Dr. Gitomer served numerous leadership roles within Primary Care for The Emory Clinic with the last being Clinical Chief for Primary Care.