Ronald Alan Greeno MD, MHM, FCCP

Ronald Alan Greeno, MD, FCCP, MHM, is a veteran physician executive with 25 years of experience in hospitalist physician services and has spent much of that time focusing on healthcare delivery redesign. He now concentrates on federal healthcare policy and on advising early and mid-stage healthcare companies to succeed in our rapidly changing healthcare environment. Dr. Greeno was the founder of Cogent Healthcare and served as its Chief Medical Officer for the first 17 years of the company’s history, eventually becoming the company’s first EVP of Strategy and Innovation. After helping Cogent manage its merger with Sound Physicians, Dr. Greeno joined IPC as its first-ever Chief Strategy Officer. Following the acquisition of IPC by TeamHealth, he became the Senior Advisor for Medical Affairs for TeamHealth. He currently serves as President of Sitka Medical Associates.

As a founder and long-standing Chief Medical Officer of Cogent, Dr. Greeno created the hospitalist program management model used by Cogent. He is considered a pioneer in Hospital Medicine, which has become the fastest-growing field in the history of American medicine. He is a founding member of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), which now has over 22,000 members. He served on the Board of Directors and is a Past President of the Society. He has recently been named the Senior Advisor for Government Relations for SHM.

In 2003, he received the SHM Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine. SHM has also awarded him a Master in Hospital Medicine, making Dr. Greeno one of only a hand full of individuals to ever receive this distinction. Three times Modern Healthcare has named Dr. Greeno to its list of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives" the first hospitalist physician ever to make this prestigious list.

Dr. Greeno is a nationally recognized expert on hospitalist programs and their clinical and administrative management and speaks and writes regularly on the subject. He has authored over thirty articles and book chapters on Hospital Medicine programs for national publications.

He has received board certification in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine.