Roger A. Cochran, Ph.D., Partner Christopher E. Press, FACHE, Partner Susan McLaren, MPH, CHE, Senior Associate Catherine P. Slade, Senior Associate
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Christopher E. Press, FACHE Since his first healthcare job (dishwashing, 1972), Mr. Press has served community hospitals and faith-based healthcare systems in various executive positions, principally as chief marketing, strategy, and planning officer. He is sought as a practical, effective, fact-driven, fad-averse planner and strategist, and imaginative, innovative problem solver able to identify and address emerging market trends. He is adjunct Assistant Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, where he teaches Master of Public Health candidates. A frequent speaker and published author, he has served on the Editorial Board of Frontiers of Health Services Management, and the faculty of The Estes Park Institute and American College of Healthcare Executives Congress on Healthcare Administration. He has served on the board of directors the Metropolitan Atlanta YMCA–the nation’s sixth largest, and fastest-growing, Y, including the Y-2010 Long Range Planning Committee, chairing the 2001 & 2002 Partner With Youth Annual Campaign. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of: American Association of Blood Banks; Georgia Hospital Association, Association of University Programs of Health Administration, and; AcademyHealth. He is listed in Who’s Who in Healthcare and Medicine, and Who’s Who in America. Mr. Press has developed and implemented numerous successful strategic and product line plans and worked extensively with boards, board committees, physicians, medical staff, and executive management. His accomplishments include: interim executive officer service for a Midwestern healthcare system; several long range plans; medical staff development plans; reprogramming and reconstructing an emergency department subsequently featured in World Architecture magazine; creating one of the nation’s first hospitalist programs; repositioning an international medical specialties product portfolio, and; developing a successful suburban medical mall. He collaborated closely with KPMG on a variety of projects, including its 1998 path finding study, Consumerism in Healthcare. He introduced geodemography to health care in the early 80s, and accurately predicted in a 1984 book that DRGs would become an essential tool of hospital marketing and financial management. He earned an MBA summa cum laude in Finance and Marketing from the University of Cincinnati and a BBA summa cum laude in Economics from Ohio University, where he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma. He lives with his wife in Atlanta.
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