Enhancing alignment to deliver value and drive innovation
We help academic medical centers, schools of medicine, and faculty practice plans clearly articulate expectations, align strategies, and support each other across the tripartite mission.
Our solutions
- Funds Flow
- Faculty Practice Development
- Compensation Planning
- Governance, Education, & Research Strategy
Realizing strategic and financial alignment
As a foundational element of high-performing academic health systems, economic alignment represents more than an exchange of money between entities. By optimizing funds flow, academic medical centers (AMCs), schools of medicine, and faculty practice plans work together to clearly articulate their expectations, align their strategies, and support one another across the tripartite mission. More broadly, true alignment requires that management, governance, planning, and economic structures support and reinforce each other. We draw on our extensive academic health experience and partner with clients to develop tailored, actionable solutions that achieve their unique objectives while navigating the complex organizational dynamics across the academic ecosystem.
Related insights
Meet our Academic Alignment leaders
Michael Shenk
Michael Shenk is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation and co-leads the Academic Alignment practice. His experience spans over 15 years of healthcare strategic planning, management, and economic analysis.
Michael Tsia
Michael Tsia is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation and co-leads the Academic Alignment practice. He serves as a project manager and advisor to leading academic health centers, children's hospitals, and community health systems on numerous topics, including enterprise strategic and financial planning, physician and organizational alignment, and operations improvement.
Lisa Keane
Lisa Keane is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation. She is primarily focused on academic health system projects.
Steve Levin
Steve Levin is a Managing Partner in Strategic Transformation. He has over 35 years of experience as a management consultant and is a nationally recognized expert in a number of areas pertaining to academic medicine organization, governance, funds flow, and strategy.
Ethan Arnold
Ethan Arnold is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Chartis. For more than 25 years, Ethan has worked with healthcare providers and payers to improve their overall strategic position and operating performance.
Greg Maddrey
Greg Maddrey is a Director and President of Chartis. He brings more than 24 years of management consulting and healthcare executive experience to the firm.
Cindy Lee
Cindy Lee serves as the firm’s Chief Strategy Officer and co-leads the Strategic Transformation Line of Business. Cindy advises healthcare leaders in crafting their futures through scenario planning that considers how the healthcare environment is likely to evolve in the coming years. She also specializes in partnership formation, value-based care strategies, and alignment/funds flow.
Nick Herro
Nick Herro is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation. His experience includes advising healthcare providers, health plans, and investors in buy/sell-side transaction diligence, value-based care, and strategic planning.
Mark Bourdenko
Mark Bourdenko is a Partner in Strategic Transformation. At Chartis, Mark has served leading academic health systems, community health systems, children’s hospitals, payers, and private equity investors across a range of strategic planning initiatives.
Maureen Ward
Maureen Ward is a Partner in Clinical Transformation. Her career in healthcare spans over 25 years, 15 of which have been spent in management consulting.
