Symposium sponsored by:

Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies

Department of Health and Human Services

Infectious Diseases Society of America

Professional Biography
Kenneth D. Bloem has a health care background that spans thirty years and includes senior management leadership at three renowned academic health centers, experience as an international health administrator/epidemiologist, and appointments to a number of national, university and corporate boards.

Most recently, Mr. Bloem served as the Chief Executive Officer of Georgetown University Medical Center, which includes the Georgetown University Hospital (with 535 licensed beds), the Faculty Practice Group (comprised of approximately 430 employed physicians) the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Dahlgren Memorial Library, the Lombardi Cancer Center, the Institute of Health Care Research and Policy, and the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences. Total revenues for the Medical Center exceed $500 million.

Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer at Georgetown University Medical Center, Mr. Bloem served as a member of Georgetown University's Board of Directors and its Committee on Medical Center Affairs. Prior to his Georgetown appointment, Mr. Bloem was the Chief Executive Officer of The Advisory Board Company, a for-profit membership of 2,000 of the world's leading service organizations, including many of the major health systems, hospitals, retail banks, and commercial banks in North America.

From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Bloem was President and Chief Executive Officer of Stanford University Hospital. Prior to that he served four years as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the University of Chicago Hospitals. Before his tenure at Chicago, he was Associate Director of Boston University Medical Center from 1981 to 1985. During his years at Boston University, he concurrently held the positions of Associate Academic Vice-President for Health Affairs, Program Director of the Health Policy Institute, and Associate Director of the Medical Center. From 1976 to 1981, Mr. Bloem held several senior positions at the Lahey Clinic Foundation in Boston.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Bloem served as administrator/epidemiologist with the World Health Organization's smallpox eradication program in Bangladesh and in Central Africa. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi and in Zaire from 1968 to 1972.

Mr. Bloem has a master's degree in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard and the University of Chicago as well as a lecturer in the Department of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has served on the editorial board of Inquiry, a health policy journal, as well as on a number of national professional committees, including the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Implementing the Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund and the Executive Committee of the University Health System Consortium. He also served as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Howard University Hospital. Among the corporate boards on which Mr. Bloem has served is Allegiance, Inc. a $4.5 billion health products and consulting company. Mr. Bloem was a member of the Allegiance board from the company's inception to its recent acquisition by Cardinal, Inc.