Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine | Northwestern University

Dr. Shalowitz combines many years in clinical practice and management with academic experience in both business and medical schools.

As a board-certified internist he practiced medicine and was managing partner of a primary care medical group with six locations in the north and northwest Chicago. The group was the core of a several hundred physician IPA which successfully participated in dozens of full-professional risk, capitated contracts, including three Medicare products. He has also gained experience as a hospital trustee and medical director of a home health agency.

Dr. Shalowitz was a professor and Director of the Health Industry Management Program at the Kellogg School of Management for 28 years, where he taught courses on the US and international healthcare systems and conducted executive education courses for healthcare organizations. In addition to his business school teaching, for 30 years Dr. Shalowitz taught the core health care systems course for Northwestern’s MPH degree program where he has been a professor of preventive medicine. Since 2006 he has also taught courses in Northwestern’s Master’s Program in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety.

He has extensive international healthcare experience, including three Fulbright awards. Dr. Shalowitz is currently an Affiliate Professor, Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy and Senior Fellow at ETLA, the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.

In addition to many other publications, his third book was released in August, 2019: The US Healthcare System: Origins, Organization and Opportunities. In conjunction with that book, he is also author of the daily healthcare blog: www.HealthcareInsights.MD

Education:
Sc.B. Biology: Brown University
MD (with honors, Sigma Xi): Brown University
Residency in Internal Medicine: Northwestern University
MBA ( with honors, Beta Gamma Sigma): Northwestern University

Posted December 2019