Healthcare at Kellogg's Perspectives on the Business of Healthcare welcomed Dr. Michael Ries, Former Medical Director, Adult Acute Care and eICU, Advocate HealthCare on Wednesday, November 18, 2024. The event was moderated by Craig Garthwaite, Director, Healthcare at Kellogg and Professor of Strategy, Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services Management. 

Please click HERE for a replay of their dynamic conversation. 

Michael Ries, MD, MBA, is the Immediate Past Medical Director of Adult Critical Care, Tele-Critical Care, and Patient Command Center for Advocate – Midwest and Co-Chair of the System Sepsis Committee who now serves as a consultant in these crucial areas in healthcare. Dr. Ries is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, and American College of Physicians. Dr. Ries received his A.B. degree at Cornell University and his MD degree at Chicago Medical School (AOA Honorary). In 2002, he completed his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. Dr. Ries has authored numerous articles and book chapters on Tele-Critical and Acute Care and its impact on the quality and cost of health care delivery and has lectured extensively on the topic including at national Critical Care conferences. Dr. Ries has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching including the prestigious Mark Lepper Society of Teachers award. He is a reviewer for Critical Care Medicine, Chest, Journal of Critical Care, Applied Clinical Informatics, and Health Affairs and has been a presentation mentor for HIMSS. He oversaw clinical and financial outcomes, integration, and process improvement initiatives for Advocate Midwest’s 34 ICU’s located at 26 hospitals and its Tele-Critical and Acute Care program. The Advocate Tele-Critical Care program is one of the oldest in the country having launched in 2003.

PERSPECTIVES ON THE BUSINESS OF HEALTHCARE speaker series brings senior management of healthcare companies to Kellogg to discuss insights on important industry topics. The series supports the strategy of supplementing general curriculum with industry specific programing and complements the faculty led Healthcare 101 primer series in the Fall quarter, the Business of Healthcare Conference in the Winter quarter and the MacEachern Symposium and the Healthcare Entrepreneurship Forum in the Spring quarter.