Robert Galvin, MD, is Director of Global Healthcare for General Electric (GE). He oversees the design and performance of GE's health programs, which total over $ 3.0 billion annually, and is responsible for GE's medical services, encompassing over 220 medical clinics in more than 20 countries. Dr. Galvin completed his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also received his MD degree at U. Penn and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. He received an MBA in health care management from Boston University School of Management in 1995. In his current role, Dr. Galvin has focused on issues of market-based health policy and financing, with a special interest in quality measurement and improvement. He has been a leader in pushing for public release of performance information and reform of the payment system. He is a founder of both The Leapfrog Group and Bridges to Excellence. He was a member of the Strategic Framework Board of the National Quality Forum and currently sits on the board of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the CDC Director’s Advisory group on Emergency preparedness. He has served on several Institute of Medicine Committees and is currently a Commissioner on the Commonwealth Fund’s program on a High Performance Health System. Dr. Galvin’s work has received awards from the National Health Care Purchasing Institute, The National Business Group on Health and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and his work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. He is Professor Adjunct of Medicine and Health Policy at Yale where he leads a seminar in the private sector at the School of Medicine and the MBA program at the School of Management.