Theodore O. Will

Theodore O. Will, M.P.A.

Chief Executive Officer

Theodore O. Will serves as the Chief Executive Officer of IPRO, one of the largest health care evaluation organizations in the country. Mr. Will has been involved for more than 20 years in the management of health care evaluation operations and establishing quality improvement initiatives within the New York medical community.

Providing leadership in a number of national and state health care organizations, Mr. Will has served on the American Health Quality Association (AHQA) Board of Directors and is a member of the Chief Executive Officer Section of AHQA. He is a member of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, a Diplomate of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and serves on the ACHE Regents Advisory Council. Mr. Will was awarded the first Annual Healthcare Quality Improvement Distinguished Executive Leadership Award. The award, which is sponsored by the James Q. Cannon Memorial Endowment, was presented at the 1999 American Health Quality Association Annual Session.

Mr. Will is active in presenting to medical, business, and consumer organizations the importance of developing cooperative relationships among these groups in order to improve quality health care practices statewide. He was instrumental in creating the New York State Health Accountability Foundation, a public/private partnership dedicated to promoting transparency in the health care system. The Foundation publishes the New York State Health Care Report Card -- an interactive report on the peformance of the state's health insurers and hospitals, searchable by county -- and hosts a Web site at www.abouthealthquality.org.

Mr. Will received a Master's Degree of Public Administration, Health Policy, Planning and Administration from New York University.