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Robert B. Harrington, a co-founder of Cambridge Management Group, Incorporated, has a particular strength in engaging physicians to be accountable to each other and their health care community. He has had a prominent role in most CMG projects, including those involving clinical priority setting, physician-institution relationships, strategic planning, and group practice/physician organization development. He has been a featured speaker at VHA, the Health Care Roundtable, Kennedy School, and the Cerner Annual Conference. Before founding CMG, Mr. Harrington was a director of APM, Incorporated, a national health care management consulting firm, a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Care One Group, Incorporated, developer and manager of primary care medical offices in the Boston area, and an administrator at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School. Kenneth H. Cohn, M.D., joined the CMG consulting staff in 1999 and has worked closely with physicians on leading major change management initiatives and developing and implementing business plans. A board-certified surgeon, he continues to practice medicine covering surgical practices in New Hampshire and Vermont, allowing him to stay abreast of issues facing practicing physicians. He has been a speaker at the Healthcare Roundtable and has published management articles in The Physician Executive, Contemporary Surgery, and the American Journal of Surgery. He was Assistant Professor of Surgery at SUNY Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn before becoming Associate Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Chief of Surgical Oncology at the VA Hospital at White River Junction, Vermont and has served as a consultant with Health Advances, assisting six firms to commercialize new products. He graduated from the University of Rochester, the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Ken is the author of the newly published book Better Communication for Better Care: Mastering Physician-Administrator Collaboration . Andrew H. Nighswander joined CMG in 1998 with more than 30 years experience in both the public and private sectors of health care. Prior to joining CMG, he served as vice president for corporate strategies at Lahey Hitchcock Clinic, a 900-member multi-specialty group practice. Mr. Nighswander has devoted a number of years to consulting, both as an independent consultant assisting Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, commercial insurance companies, hospitals, physician groups and other health-related organizations, and, for fourteen years, at Arthur D. Little, Incorporated, where he was director of the health care financing practice. He has also held high-ranking public policy positions as assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, associate commissioner of the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals, and commissioner of the Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University School of Law. James L.

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