Dr. Pearl is executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group and president and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. Together these organizations comprise more than 9,000 physicians and 35,000 staff members. Dr. Pearl is responsible for the health care that is delivered to more than 4.6 million Kaiser Permanente members in the states of California, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Dr. Pearl also serves as co-CEO of the National Permanente Executive Committee (NPEC) of The Permanente Federation. NPEC is the executive leadership team of The Permanente Federation, which supports the work of more than 18,600 physicians and 80,000 employees across the Permanente medical groups—providing high-quality care to more than 10.6 million Kaiser Permanente members. Kaiser Permanente is composed of the Permanente Medical Groups, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Board certified in plastic and reconstructive surgery, Dr. Pearl received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Stanford University and currently serves on the faculty there as a clinical professor of plastic surgery. He is also on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership, as well as lectures on the subject of health care technology.
Selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the most powerful physician leaders in the nation, Dr. Pearl has published more than 100 articles in various medical journals and has been a contributor to many books. He has made over 100 presentations at national meetings in the areas of both clinical medicine and medical economics.
In the past several years, he has been a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and Harvard School of Public Health. He is also chairman of the National Council of Accountable Physician Practices (which includes the largest medical groups from across the country such as Mayo Clinic, Geisinger and Intermountain Healthcare).
Dr. Pearl is a frequent lecturer on the opportunities to use 21st-century tools and technology to improve both the quality and cost of health care, while simultaneously making care more convenient and personalized. As a regular contributor to Forbes.com, Dr. Pearl publishes a blog on the nexus of health care and business and provides frequent updates through Twitter.
He is an advocate for the power of integrated, prepaid and technologically enabled health care delivery systems. He is also a strong believer that organizations like Kaiser Permanente, in which physicians collaborate rather than compete and in which a multispecialty medical group works in partnership with a not-for-profit health plan and hospital system, are able to provide superior quality of care over fragmented insurance-based systems.
