Ken Ackerman's Email & Phone

Ken Ackerman - Mr. Ackerman brings a distinguished career in health care administration as chairman of Integrated Healthcare Strategies. It encompasses management of hospital-based multi-specialty medical group practices and acute care facilities as well as executive level involvement in the nation's largest rural health care system, Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, where he served as president of Geisinger Medical Center. More recently, he served as president of Integrated Healthcare Strategies and prior to that appointment he was vice president of McManis Associates, Inc., prominent national consultants to the health care industry based in Washington D.C. Integrated Healthcare Strategies is the largest firm in the United States that offers professional services focused exclusively on executive compensation in the health care industry. Our client base encompasses the full spectrum of health care organizations. It includes more than 1,200 major health care providers; nearly 1,800 hospitals and over 500 physician groups, including: the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the country; academic medical centers; children's hospitals; large integrated provider networks and systems; and national and state health care associations. Mr. Ackerman is an acknowledged expert on executive compensation plans and issues involving governance of integrated delivery systems and medical group practices. His work also includes leadership continuity planning and leadership transition planning. Mr. Ackerman brings extensive experience on working with boards to improve governance performance. A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) as well as the American College of Medical Practice Executives (ACMPE), Mr. Ackerman is also a past president of the Medical Group Management Association and a past chair of its strategic planning and government relations committees. Mr. Ackerman has served on numerous Boards in health care, banking, and the insurance industry, including the Board of the National Committee for Quality Health Care in Washington, D.C. and the US Preventive Medicine National Board of Advisors. He currently serves on the Health Insights Board of Directors and as vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Millers Insurance Company Board in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Mr. Ackerman has served the health care industry in many ways. He served for seven years as a member of HHS's National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and as a director of the Healthcare Research and Development Institute. His numerous professional honors and awards include ACHE's 1975 Outstanding Young Health Care Executive of the Year, the Harry J. Harwick Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to health care, the Edward B. Stevens Article of the Year award from the ACMPE, Duke University's National Award of Merit, and the American Medical Group Association's Administrator of the Year award. He is the author of numerous articles and co-authored two books on integrated health care. Most recently Mr. Ackerman has published a chapter on Governance of Executive Compensation in the book Governance for Health Care Providers: The Call to Leadership? to be published this fall. He is listed in Who's Who in America. Mr. Ackerman holds a bachelors degree from Denison University. He received his master's degree in health care administration from the University of Michigan.