Management
Richard Bankowitz
Enterprise-Wide Chief Medical Officer
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In his role as chief medical officer, Richard Bankowitz, MD, MBA, FACP, works at an enterprise level to engage physicians, provide thought leadership, and ensure that Premier continues to deliver value to its clinician constituency.
Dr. Bankowitz previously served as vice president and medical director for Premier Healthcare Informatics.
A board-certified internist and a medical informaticist, Dr. Bankowitz has devoted his career to improving healthcare quality at the national level by promoting rigorous, data-driven approaches to quality improvement and by engaging senior clinicians and healthcare leaders. Dr. Bankowitz was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the top 25 clinical informaticists in the U.S. in 2010 and 2011.
He began his career at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine as an assistant professor of medicine and medical informatics.
Prior to joining Premier, Dr. Bankowitz was medical director at CareScience, where he was responsible for strategy, product delivery, consulting, sales and advocacy efforts. He also has previously served as the corporate information architect of the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), where he was responsible for the strategic direction of the organization's executive reporting tools and comparative data.
In his 12-year tenure with UHC, Dr. Bankowitz also held positions as senior director of clinical informatics, director of clinical information management and director of clinical evaluative sciences.
Dr. Bankowitz is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and was a National Library of Medicine graduate trainee in medical informatics. He also is senior scholar with the Center for Healthcare Policy at Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Bankowitz is a graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He has a B.S. degree from Union College in Schenectady, NY.