Gregory Makoul

BIO

Dr. Gregory Makoul is internationally recognized for expertise in physician-patient communication and shared decision making as well as a radical common sense, person-centered approach to health care innovation. He is Founder and CEO of PatientWisdom -- now part of NRC Health. Greg is also on the Faculty of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and is Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, as well as a consultant to major academic medical centers and advisor to truly patient-centered start-up companies. Greg devoted six years to care transformation as Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer / Chief Academic Officer at Saint Francis Care, an integrated delivery system based in Hartford, gaining real-world experience that complemented 15 years on the faculty at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He was recently named a Learning Health System Research Pioneer by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The tools he developed for teaching and assessing communication skills – as well as his award-winning series of videos for bringing patient perspectives into health care – are used worldwide. Greg earned a BA from Wesleyan University, PhD in Communication Studies from Northwestern University, and MS in Health Care Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.