Nathan Kaufman is Managing Director and founder of Kaufman Strategic Advisors, LLC, an established San Diego-based consulting company. He has almost 40 years of experience and is a nationally renowned expert in the areas of peak performing hospitals and physician groups, hospital strategy, physician compensation, integrated delivery systems, managed care, joint ventures, dispute resolution and virtual medicine and has been called upon as an expert witness in healthcare arbitration cases. Throughout his career, he has held executive positions in a wide range of healthcare companies, including President and Chief Operating Officer of an imaging center company. He currently serves on various advisory and editorial boards; Executive in Residence and HSI Advisory Board at Georgia Tech Health Systems Institute.

Mr. Kaufman is a noted consultant, lecturer and author on topics related to strategies achieving peak performance, managed care, clinical integration, population health, hospital-physician transactions, and joint ventures. He regularly speaks on these topics and others for numerous health system organizations and healthcare associations throughout the country. Mr. Kaufman was a lead faculty member for the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), for which he has developed the following courses: The Art and Science of Competitive Strategy; Advanced Managed Care and Integration Strategies; Restructuring Integration: Essential Strategies for the New Millennium; and Lessons Learned: Innovative Strategies for Achieving Competitive Advantage. In addition, he holds executive education retreats and presented at over 95 major conferences and hospital associations last year as keynote speaker, such as the American Hospital Association. Mr. Kaufman wrote the chapters on physician-hospital engagement and clinical integration for the 2011 and 2012 issues of the ACHE publication Futurescan as well as numerous articles published by Trustee Magazine.

Mr. Kaufman has a MS in Health Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BA in Psychology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.