Keith Dickey, PhD, AB
About
Keith Dickey joined Michigan Medicine in 2018 as Chief Strategy Officer, after serving as the interim Director for Strategic Planning and Business Development at Michigan Medicine since 2017. In his role he leads strategic planning, partnerships and affiliations and other business development initiatives for the health system and medical school.
Keith has more than 20 years of experience providing strategic and financial advisory services to the healthcare industry. He has advised a broad range of healthcare providers, including integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, provider-sponsored managed care organizations, senior care facilities, and clinical laboratories. Keith’s areas of expertise include enterprise and service line strategies, strategic capital planning, valuations and mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and clinical affiliations.
Prior to joining Michigan Medicine, Keith was a Director with The Chartis Group, a national healthcare management consulting firm, and co-leader for the firm’s partnerships and affiliations practice. Keith has also worked as a healthcare investment banker, first at Shattuck Hammond Partners from 1996 until 2006, where he served as Chief Knowledge Officer and later Principal. He also served as senior healthcare investment banker at Morgan Keegan & Company and Raymond James.
Keith holds a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and an A.B., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College. He was a Fulbright scholar to Greece in 1987.
Get to Know
What inspired you to pursue a career in this field?
I started my career in health care in the early 1990’s when health care reform was an area of intense interest, and I had an opportunity then to consult for a consortium of university health systems as they charted their strategic course in the early days of managed care. The opportunity to contribute to the missions served by these organizations and help them navigate complex trends within the industry attracted me then, and still does to this day.
Why Michigan Medicine? Which attributes of this organization persuaded you to join us?
I am a huge believer in the importance and value of academic medicine and Michigan Medicine’s tripartite mission of robust education, leading edge research and innovation, and the delivery of the highest quality and most complex clinical care. Having spent my career advising health care organizations regarding their most challenging strategic issues, I find myself attracted to complex organizations like Michigan Medicine. And among academic medical centers, I think Michigan Medicine’s fully integrated organizational structure, with the health system, faculty group practice and medical school all under one roof and fully part of the University, offers strengths like no other.
What advice would you give others who wish to serve in a similar leadership role?
Always start from the mission, and be really clear about articulating the guiding principles that inform key strategic decisions, and then stay true to those principles. Focus everyday on how to have more mission impact.
