Richard A. Sheff, MD, CMSL, Chairman and Executive Director

Richard A. Sheff, MD, CMSL, is chairman and executive director with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA. He brings more than 25 years of healthcare management and leadership experience to his work with physicians, hospitals, and healthcare systems across the country.

With his distinctive combination of medical, healthcare, and management acumen, Dr. Sheff develops tailored solutions to the unique needs of physicians and hospitals. He consults, authors, and presents on a wide range of healthcare management and leadership issues, including governance, physician-hospital alignment, medical staff leadership development, ED call, peer review, hospital performance improvement, disruptive physician management, conflict resolution, physician employment and contracting, health care systems, service line management, hospitalist program optimization, patient safety and error reduction, credentialing, strategic planning, regulatory compliance, and helping physicians rediscover the joy of medicine.

Prior to joining The Greeley Company, Dr. Sheff served as VPMA, president of an independent practice association, medical director of a physician-hospital organization, president of a corporation that owned and operated physician practices, and a group practice medical director. He has taught at Tufts University School of Medicine and served as chair of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Practice Research Committee.

Dr. Sheff is one of The Greeley Company’s leading national speakers and is the author or coauthor of many HCPro/Greeley books, including:

• Core Privileges for Physicians: A Practical Approach to Developing and Implementing Criteria-based Privileges, Fifth Edition (2010)
• The Greeley Guide to Physician Employment and Contracting (2010)
• The Top 40 Medical Staff Policies and Procedures, Fourth Edition (2010)
• Emergency Department On-Call Strategies: Solutions for Physician-Hospital Alignment, Second Edition (2009)
• The Greeley Guide to New Medical Staff Models: Solutions for Changing Physician-Hospital Relations (2008)

Dr. Sheff is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Brown University residency program in family medicine. He was an undergraduate at Cornell University and recipient of the Keasbey Scholarship for the study of politics and philosophy at Oxford University.