Dr. Marc Bard, Chief Innovation Officer in Navigant's Healthcare practice, is a nationally regarded expert on physician leadership effectiveness, change management, and organizational design. Dr. Bard is a Board-certified internist who now serves as a strategy and leadership consultant. He consults with leading academic medical centers, faculty practices, medical groups, community hospitals, and individual healthcare executives, focusing on physician integration and clinical program strategies as well as performance improvement. Dr. Bard is the co-author of the recently published white paper, Accountable Organizations and Payment Reform: Setting a Course for Success, and co-author of the new book, Accountable Care Organizations, Your Guide to Strategy, Design, and Implementation.
With a distinguished career as a clinician and physician executive, Dr. Bard practiced internal medicine for eighteen years at Harvard Community Health Plan, and served as Chief of Internal Medicine and Director of Medical Staff Development. Dr. Bard oversaw its transition from one of the first and best staff-model HMOs through controversial mergers with MultiGroup and Pilgrim Health Care that eventually transformed it into Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the #1 ranked healthcare plan in the US as reported by U.S. News and World Report. His role in integrating HCHP's employed-physician model with MultiGroup's and Pilgrim's very different structures gave Dr. Bard unique insight on the relationships between physicians and the organizations. In 1997, he founded The Bard Group, LLC, consulting with hospitals, health systems, medical practice groups, and academic health centers to implement organizational change-creating new physician organizations and relationships that allow for effective operational, clinical, and financial improvement.