Joel Shalowitz

Bio

Dr. Shalowitz combines many years in clinical practice and management with academic experience in both business and medical schools. As a board-certified internist he practiced medicine and was managing partner of a primary care medical group with six locations in the north and northwest Chicago. The group was the core of a several hundred physician IPA which successfully participated in dozens of full-professional risk, capitated contracts, including three Medicare products. He has also gaine...[Read full text] Dr. Shalowitz combines many years in clinical practice and management with academic experience in both business and medical schools. As a board-certified internist he practiced medicine and was managing partner of a primary care medical group with six locations in the north and northwest Chicago. The group was the core of a several hundred physician IPA which successfully participated in dozens of full-professional risk, capitated contracts, including three Medicare products. He has also gained experience as a hospital trustee and medical director of a home health agency.

Dr. Shalowitz was a professor and Director of the Health Industry Management Program at the Kellogg School of Management for 28 years, where he taught courses on the US and international healthcare systems and conducted executive education courses for healthcare organizations. In addition to his business school teaching, for 30 years Dr. Shalowitz taught the core health care systems course for Northwestern’s MPH degree program where he has been a professor of preventive medicine. Since 2006 he has also taught courses in Northwestern’s Master’s Program in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety.

He has extensive international healthcare experience, including three Fulbright awards. Dr. Shalowitz is currently an Affiliate Professor, Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy and was, until 2020, Senior Fellow at ETLA, the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.

Included in his many publications is his third book: The US Healthcare System: Origins, Organization and Opportunities(Jossey-Bass 2019). In conjunction with that book, he is also author of the daily healthcare blog: www.HealthcareInsights.MD. The second edition of his co-authored book Strategic Marketing for Healthcare Organizations was published in 2021.

Education:

• ScB: Brown University (1974)
• MD: Brown University (1977)
• MBA: Northwestern University/Kellogg School of Management (1982)

Postgraduate Training

• Resident: Evanston Hospital, Internal Medicine (1980)

Certification

• Board Certification: Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine