Richard Bankowitz, MD, MBA, FACP, is the Vice President and Medical Director for Healthcare Informatics at Premier. A board-certified internist and a medical informaticist, Dr Bankowitz has devoted his career to improving healthcare quality at the national level by promoting rigorous, data-driven approaches to quality improvement and by engaging senior clinicians and healthcare leaders. Prior to joining Premier, Dr. Bankowitz was Medical Director at CareScience where he was responsible for strategy, product delivery, consulting, sales, and advocacy efforts. Dr. Bankowitz has served as the Corporate Information Architect of the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) where he was responsible for the strategic direction of the organization's executive reporting tools and comparative data. In his 12 year tenure with UHC, Dr. Bankowitz also held positions as Senior Director of Clinical Informatics, Director of Clinical Information Management and Director of Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Dr. Bankowitz is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and was a National Library of Medicine graduate trainee in medical informatics. He is also Senior Scholar with the Center for Healthcare Policy at Thomas Jefferson University. He began his career at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Informatics. Dr. Bankowitz is a graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.