Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., is the Executive Director for the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions ("the Center"), a part of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.  In the role, Dr. Keckley provides strategic guidance on the development of Center research and thought leadership.  Dr. Keckley brings to the Center 30 years of experience in academic medicine and the private sector.  He is regarded as a primary expert in health care economics, health policy, and trend analysis.

Prior to joining the Center, Dr. Keckley served in several key roles at Vanderbilt University.  He was the Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine (VCEBM), Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Health Management at the Owen Graduate School of Business.

While at VCEBM, he conducted research evaluating how to increase consumer adherence to evidence-based treatment directives and how health insurers incorporate evidence into their coverage policies.  Dr. Keckley was responsible for overseeing many clinical outsourcing ventures involving care team training, clinical information technology, data management and evidence-based pathway construction and integration.  He also was engaged in joint ventures involving outsourcing of care management services including specialty hospitals in the United Kingdom, development of primary care delivery systems in Botswana, partnerships with two Fortune 100 companies pursuing innovative approaches to chronic care management, and others that are in early-stage development.

Dr. Keckley supported efforts by the Vanderbilt Medical Group to develop, integrate and measure adherance to evidence-based pathways and order sets.  He also was instrumental in spearheading Vanderbilt's entry into integrative health, with the opening of the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health in November 2006.

Before joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Keckley served as Chairman of the Board of Interdent, a California dental practice management company; Chief Executive Officer of EBM Solutions, a developer of evidence-based guideline software; Chief Executive Officer of Aveta (formerly the IPA Management subsidiary of PhyCor Inc.), and Principal of The Keckley Group, a strategic planning consulting practice that served 1,200 U.S. provider organizations and health plans.

Dr. Keckley is an active member of several societies and editorial boards, and has authored numerous articles and three books.  He has been profiled by ABC's 20/20, CBS's 60 Minutes, Fox News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and has been featured as a keynote speaker at several national industry meetings.  Dr. Keckley has also testified for state Medicaid Review Committees in Utah and Tennessee about the potential impact of evidence-based standards on benefits for enrollees.

Dr. Keckley received a B.A. from Lipscomb University, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State University, and completed a fellowship in economic policy at Oxford University.