Craig David Thorne MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, FACOEM

Craig Thorne, M.D. is a nationally recognized leader in integrated employee health, safety, and well-being programs. He has nearly 30 years of experience with on-site primary care and employer-sponsored clinics that offer high quality, coordinated illness, and injury care; optimize wellness engagement and disease management benefits that help bridge gaps between occupational health and primary care services for employees; and have a proven track record of positive value-on-investment. In 2016, his teams at Erickson Living were awarded the prestigious Corporate Health Achievement Award from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

He currently serves as the Chief Medical Director, Occupational and Business Health Services, at Yale New Haven Health System, and is responsible for overseeing Occupational Medicine and Wellness Services throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island. These clinics serve over 34,000 Yale New Haven Health System staff and over 300 companies with municipalities.

In this role, he serves as the chief managing physician and is primarily responsible for the quality of care, operational and fiscal oversight, standardization of clinical care and standard operating procedures, continuous quality improvement, training and education of the clinical staff, strategic partnerships, client relations, and business development.

As a health care administrator, as well as a practicing clinician, his core competencies and key interests include: 1) Functional/technical skills (in evidence-based health care, health plan development and monitoring, and quality oversight), 2) Innovation in onsite clinical service delivery (including prevention and wellness, telehealth delivery, and clinician incentives), 3) Adaptive leadership style that achieves corporate and program goals (including providing direct clinical care to serve working populations and to support his teams, and strong collaborative, relationship-based and team-building skills to function well in a matrix organization), 4) Operating skills (including monitoring and measurement of programs and services on the populations being served, and demonstrating the financial benefits to both the payers and consumers of health care); 5) Continuous quality management and improvement, and change management; and 6) Strong communication skills and relations at all levels.