James E. Orlikoff is president of Orlikoff & Associates Inc., a consulting firm specializing in healthcare governance, leadership, strategy, quality, patient safety and system development. He serves as the National Advisor on Governance and Leadership to the American Hospital Association and Health Forum.

  

Mr. Orlikoff has been involved in leadership, quality and strategy issues for more than 40 years. He has consulted with hospitals and systems in 12 countries, and has worked with hospital and system governing boards to strengthen their overall effectiveness and their oversight of strategy and quality. He has worked extensively on improving the relationships between boards, medical staff and management. He has written 15 books and more than 100 articles, and he has served on hospital, college and civic boards. He is currently the chair of the board of the St. Charles Health System, Bend, Ore. He also served as the vice chair of the Virginia Mason Health System Board in Seattle. His book, Board Work: Governing Health Care Organizations, won the ACHE James A. Hamilton Book of the Year award in 2000.

  

Mr. Orlikoff received his Master of Arts in social and organizational psychology from the University of Chicago, and his Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif.

 

Mr. Orlikoff serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars: