Richard Priore, ScD, FACHE, is president/CEO, Excelsior HealthCare Group, St. Paul, Minn. Excelsior is an outcomes-driven healthcare management consulting firm specializing in the assessment, execution and speed of measurable results in improving organizational performance. Dr. Priore is also a Distinguished Service Professor at St. Paul's University of St. Thomas, also in St. Paul, teaching graduate economics and management courses. He has served as the CEO for several investor-owned hospitals and as a hospital turnaround expert and managing director for the Hunter Group.

Dr. Priore serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminars:

• Breakthrough Physician Alignment: Creating a Win-Win for Optimizing Organizational Performance
• Integrating Quality and Cost in a Pay-for-Value Era 
• Direct Contracting with Employer Groups: What Healthcare Leaders Should Know
• Making the Business Case for Quality