Greg Carlson, PhD, is manager of Global Health Services at Kimberly-Clark Corporation and serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of South Carolina and Georgia State University. For ten years, he was chief executive officer of a 500-bed freestanding healthcare system with more than 2,500 employees. Dr. Carlson has more than 25 years of experience as a hospital administrator, and his interests are focused on healthcare quality, physician relationships and practice models, organizational culture, and strategic planning.