Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> May 4, 1998
GARY T. MCILROY, M.D. is CEO, Chairman of the Board and CO-founder of
Health Risk Management, Inc. (NASDAQ: HRMI). Founded in 1977,
Minneapolis-based Health Risk Management provides a broad range of
electronically-integrated health care, price and administrative
management services to self-insured employers, unions, governmental
entities, HMOs, PPOs, providers and insurance companies in 50 states and
Canada. Prior to and during the establishment of Health Risk Management,
Dr. McIlroy served in a consulting capacity as vice president of Damon
Corp., a national, commercial lab which had purchased Midwest Laboratory
Associates, a commercial lab he had founded and for which he served as
president. Earlier, Dr. McIlroy was president of Upper Mississippi
Pathologists, P.A., a group of professional pathologists managing
operations for hospital-owned labs. Dr. McIlroy began his career in
healthcare delivery as a pathologist with the Marshfield Clinic in
Wisconsin. Dr. McIlroy is a member of the American College of
Utilization Review Physicians, the American Medical Association, the
American Medical Care and Review Association, and the American
Association of Preferred Provider Organizations. Previous memberships
include the Minnesota Medical Association, American Society of
Microbiology, Minnesota Society of Clinical Pathologists, and the
American College of Nutrition. He is also a former affiliate member of
the California Society of Pathology. Dr. McIlroy has spoken before
numerous business coalitions, benefits, managers groups, and hospital
and managed healthcare associations on topics such as the direction of
the healthcare delivery industry, benefit plan design issues, PPO
structures and the indications for medical quality assessment. Certified
in anatomic and clinical pathology by the American Board of Pathology,
Dr. McIlroy is licensed to practice medicine in California, Minnesota
and Wisconsin. He holds a BS in Chemistry and an MD in Pathology from
the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. He
completed his internship at University Hospitals of the U.C.L.A. Center
for Health Sciences and his residency in pathology at the Mayo Graduate
School of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Profile
Health Risk Management, and bring us up to date. Over the next two to
three years what do you see as the key challenges and
