Implantable Medical Devices and Healthcare Affordability (ePub)

Mark received an MBA in Marketing from Cleveland State University, and a BS in Human Resource Management from Bowling Green State University. He is also Green Belt certified in Six-Sigma and sits on the boards of managers for three privately held companies.

Michael Georgulis Jr. is a healthcare supply chain executive with more than 37 years of experience within the healthcare industry. Mr. Georgulis currently serves as board member and industry adviser to Southwest Healthcare Holdings. He has a strong background in negotiating supply, service, and capital agreements for healthcare institutions, budget management, team leadership, and establishing healthcare partnerships. He has also been cited in the Wall Street Journal.

Michael has held supply chain executive, and leadership positions in multiple health systems, Premier Health Alliance and Health Trust Purchasing Group (two group purchasing organizations), and United Healthcare Global, owned by the commercial payer organization. In addition, he spent 12 years as a Medical Service Corps officer in the United States Air Force attaining the rank of Captain. His experience includes both national, and international accomplishments working within privately owned, publicly held, government-owned, and faith-based health systems outside of his military experience.

Michael has managed category contract portfolios as large as $20 billion, with most category contracts ranging from $100 million to $500 million. His accomplishments include multiple implementations of enterprise systems, specifically the Materials Management Information System modules to include item masters and charge masters. Experience includes leading aggregated strategic sourcing processes, developing negotiation strategies, and writing agreements for health systems and GPO use for as many as 2,800 hospitals in many categories over multi-year periods, creating aggregated savings in the categories in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Additionally, Michael has successfully managed, engineered, and designed a strategic sourcing function, staffed the team, and created processes and tools for a for-profit start-up healthcare company (SharedClarity) that functioned extremely well for seven years before it was acquired. At UnitedHealthcare, Michael built the strategic sourcing process, designed the tools, and staffed a team for United Healthcare Global which owned more than 50 hospitals in Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Portugal, and Peru.

Michael is a graduate of Indiana University, from where he holds a BS in Public and Environmental Affairs with a concentration in hospital administration. He also holds an MPA from the University of Kentucky with a major in hospitals. Additionally, he is an honorably discharged U.S. Air Force Viet Nam era veteran having served one
tour in Southeast Asia.