Mary Jo Gorman.

Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, is chief executive officer of Advanced ICU Care, a medical services company based in St. Louis, Mo., that provides remote critical care monitoring services. Previously, Gorman served as chief medical officer for IPC-The Hospitalist Company, the largest provider of hospitalist services in the United States. At IPC, Gorman developed programs and strategies to enhance clinical performance and patient care. She also designed and implemented company-wide business development activities and led physician recruitment, training and monitoring programs, as well as compliance and risk management programs and IPC's call center. Under her leadership, the physician staff grew to 400 hospitalists across the country. Gorman joined IPC as regional medical director in 1999, after the company merged with Inpatient Care Group, the hospitalist practice she founded. Formed in 1996, Inpatient Care Group was the first hospitalist practice in St. Louis, providing hospitalist services to primary care physicians and hospitals. Gorman also founded and serves as president of Critical Care Services, Inc., providing around-the-clock intensivist services in-house at two community hospitals. She has practiced as an intensivist and a hospitalist, and has held numerous leadership positions at DePaul Health Center in St. Louis, including chairperson of critical care medicine. Gorman earned an MBA from Washington University's Olin School of Business, her doctorate of medicine from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Ill, and a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology from St. Louis University.

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