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Charles M. Kilo, MD, MPH, FACP

Dr. Kilo is the CEO of the not-for-profit Trust for Healthcare Excellence and the CEO of GreenField Health – an innovative primary care group and a consulting organization focused on healthcare performance improvement and transformation. The Trust for Healthcare Excellence's mission is to promote the collective efforts and conditions necessary for health and healthcare excellence. They provide a range of products and services to assist others in that work.

Chuck is a Senior Faculty of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement where he was previously Vice President. In that capacity, he started and ran the international Idealized Design of Clinical Office Practices initiative which helped to trigger a national focus on ambulatory care redesign in the late 1990s. Chuck works regularly with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American College of Physicians (ACP), and others on issues pertinent to health care quality and medical practice performance improvement. He is on the Board of Directors for Kryptiq Corporation a leading provider of healthcare connectivity and workflow software. He is also on the board of The Foundation for Medical Excellence.

Dr. Kilo works with major medical groups and health systems across the US on topics such as health care quality and safety, health system design, health care information technology, and medical practice performance improvement. Along with Dr. Mark Leavitt, Chairman of the Certification Commission on Health Information Technology, Dr. Kilo authored the book Medical Practice Transformation with Information Technology published in 2005 by the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS).

He is a practicing general internist with subspecialty training in infectious diseases. He attended Washington University School of Medicine where he also completed his internal medicine training. He subsequently completed an infectious diseases fellowship and Master of Public Health at Harvard University.