Richard Micheal Lauve MD, MBA, FACPE, CPE

Richard Lauve is a nationally recognized speaker, facilitator, and consultant for health systems. His engagements range from half-day seminars to multi-year system transformations. Dr. Lauve completed an Internal Medicine Residency in 1979, practiced for five years in a solo Internal Medicine practice in rural Utah, initially in the National Health Service Corps, and left that practice to accept the challenge of being the Chief Medical Officer for the first chemical-weapons-destruction facility in the world with the U.S. Army.
Returning to New Orleans in 1989 Dr. Lauve attended business school and received his MBA in 1992; served as the Medical Director for the Faculty Practice at LSU New Orleans; taught ethics and medical management to medical students and residents from his position as Assistant to the Chair of Medicine; was the Medical Director of a 120 bed multi-unit “hospital within the hospital” at Charity in New Orleans; provided consulting services to a wide range of healthcare organizations and professionals; and was Board Certified in Internal Medicine in 1990.