Robert Pearl

Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. Named one of Modern Healthcare's 50 most influential physician leaders, he is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership and lectures on information technology and health-care policy. He is the author of the Washington Post bestseller Mistreated, hosts the popular podcast "Fixing Healthcare," publishes a newsletter with over 10,000 subscribers, and is a regular contributor to Forbes. He has been featured on CBS This Morning, CNBC, NPR, and in Time, USA Today, and Bloomberg News. He is a frequent keynote speaker at health-care and medical technology conferences.