Steve Defossez is …
A Seasoned Physician Executive and Healthcare Consultant/Coach with extensive financial, strategic, managerial and governance experience, ready to help you solve your most vexing challenges.
Previous multi-term Medical Staff President at Beverly Hospital, where he led the physician engagement during the formation of Lahey Health, designed its shared governance model and was selected as a founding trustee of Lahey Health’s parent board.
An Expert on Combating Clinician Burnout, having founded and co-chaired the Joint Massachusetts Medical Society – Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association Task Force on Physician Burnout for the past two years.
Vice President, Clinical Integration at the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, where Steve interviews approximately 50 CEOs of Massachusetts’ most dynamic Physician Organizations, ACOs, PHOs, IPAs, Hospitals and Healthcare systems each year, listening to their challenges, innovations, needs and concerns: This grants Steve a unique perch from which to view healthcare reform in Massachusetts, make connections and share proven solutions.
A Practicing Physician:
- Neuroradiologist with expertise in Neuro and Musculoskeletal MRI
- 25 year’s experience in private practice
- Former long-term MRI Center Medical Director
- Former long-term Private Practice President; MRI Radiologists of the North Shore
A sought-after Public Speaker:
- Policy initiatives to combat the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Healthcare Economics and Payment Reform
- Clinician Wellness
- Combating the Opioid Crisis
- Physician Engagement
- MACRA: MIPS and Advanced Payment Models
- Physician Burnout
- Advanced Practice Practitioners
- Preventable Hospital Readmissions
- Quality improvement
Board Member of a variety of Healthcare, Education and Health Information Technology boards (Current and former)
Education:
- BA, Philosophy, Tufts University
- MD Tufts University Medical School
- Masters in Healthcare Leadership, Brown University
- Surgical Internship, Duke University Medical Center
- Radiology Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- MRI fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Clinical Fellow, Harvard University School of Medicine
