Gerry Stanley, M.D., P-CEO

Gerry Stanley, M.D., is an accomplished third-generation family doctor, speaker, author, and catalyst for change in the workers compensation industry. With a passion for health-care transformation, Dr. Stanley has spoken and presented extensively on the topic of health-care IT, population health management, self-insured health plan management, and medical consumerism and direct to employer network enablement.

As the Global Chief Medical Officer of Evernorth and Express Scripts, his belief that a collaborative approach and strong foundational understanding of health-care delivery, health systems, insurance brokers/consultants, and self-insured employers is critical to scale health plans and achieve the quadruple AIM of health care.

Most recently, Dr. Stanley served as the Chief Medical Officer of Harvard MedTech, an innovative virtual reality therapy company and prior to that he was the Chief Medical Officer for the Employer and Consumer division of Cerner, where he was able to put into play his unique ability to identify market specific opportunities for development, stabilization, and growth. While at Cerner, he also had the responsibility for Cerner’s national system on on-site and near-site health centers/pharmacies/occupational centers serving self-insured employers, care coordination teams, a national team of corporate wellness strategists, an analytics division, a third-party administrator (TPA), and the self-insured and direct-to-employer insurance strategies for Cerner clients.

Dr. Stanley received his undergraduate degree from Creighton University. He then attended the Creighton University School of Medicine where he served as class president for three years and graduated with clinical honors and received the university’s highest honor, the Spirit of Creighton Award. Upon graduation he completed his residency at the Northern Colorado Family Medicine Program with a focus on rural and surgical family medicine where he served as the chief resident. He practiced medicine for over 10 years in a variety of practice settings with group/hospital leadership positions before attending the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and graduated from the Physician CEO program.