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After working in a number of physician executive roles over the past 25 years, Dr. Kent Bottles is an established physician executive keynote speaker, consultant and thought-leader in health care. His unique experience and active personal interest in health care transformation through reform AND technology enables him to continue to be a key influencer in the industry.Because of this unique background, Dr. Bottles can see the current challenges of health care transformation and payment reform (transition from fee for service to global payments) through the lens of the health plan, hospitals, physicians, employers, patients and government. Few other physician executives have the necessary background to be able to see the future from so many different perspectives. Dr. Bottles has held numerous physician executive positions including Professor and Chair of an academic pathology department, President and Chief Knowledge Officer of a bio-tech startup genomic company, President and CEO of an educational and research consortium, Chief Medical Officer of a $2 billion Midwestern health system, President of an Upper Midwest collaborative of health plans, hospitals, doctors, employers, state government, and patients, and founding chief medical officer of a Big Ten University Health Plan.