User:Reva27/Kent Bottles, M.D.

Kent Bottles (born in 1952 in Hollywood, California) is a physician executive keynote speaker, strategist and consultant on health care. A pathologist by training, Bottles has worked in a number of clinical & physician executive roles, including: President of a health care collaborative of hospitals, state government and health plans, Chief Medical Officer of a $2 billion health system, President & CEO of an educational and research consortium and President & Chief Knowledge Officer of a bio-tech genomic start-up.

Bottles speaks and writes about a variety of issues and topics in American health care, including: the doctor/patient relationship on the 21st century, health care transformation in an era of reform, evidence-based medicine, comparative effectiveness research, accountable care organizations, the role of social media, smartphones & robots in health care, physician engagement and happiness. He also leads board retreats and strategy sessions with hospitals & health care systems around the country.

Biography
At UCSF School of Medicine, Dr. Bottles was active in teaching medical students during their basic science years; in 1989 he received the $1500.00 prestigious Henry J. Kaiser Teaching Award for Basic Science; in 1990 he was awarded by the Class of 1990 a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for a Stimulating Lecture Series; in 1991 he received from the Class of 1991 a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for a Major Contribution to Teaching. He also directed the two year medical school course in pathology and was innovative by switching from multiple choice questions to essay questions.

While at UCSF in addition to medical student teaching, Dr. Bottles was active in uncovering the anatomic pathology of AIDS in the early years of the epidemic. In 1986 he advised the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Committee on a National Strategy for AIDS; in 1988 he organized and directed the UCSF Update on the Anatomic Pathology of AIDS, the first such CME course in the United States; in 1988 he was the first author on an Annals of Internal Medicine article on the use of fine needle aspiration biopsy of lymph nodes in AIDS patients (108: 42-45, 1988). He also established the Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy Service at San Francisco General Hospital, a valuable pathology-based clinical service that is still operating today in 2011.

In 1989 Dr. Bottles moved to Iowa City to accept a position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Professor of Pathology. During his eight years in Iowa, he held the following executive positions: Director of Cytology, Director of Anatomic Pathology, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Interim Head, and Executive Vice Chair of Pathology. In 1993 he was promoted to tenured Professor of Pathology.

Dr. Bottles continued his teaching of medical students, residents, and community pathologists, and he received the Resident Teacher of the Year Award in 1989. He also organized and directed the Iowa Cytology CME Course and the Iowa Anatomic Pathology CME course for several years.

At the College of Medicine, he was the founding medical director of UI Care and UI Select (an HMO for university faculty and dependents), Medical Director of Managed Care, Special Assistant to the UI Vice President for Managed Care, and Corporate Operations Officer for Ambulatory Care. He was the first faculty member to serve in the Clinical Enterprise and report jointly directly to the Dean of the College of Medicine and the CEO of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Physician Executive Leadership Roles
In 1999, Bottles became President & Chief Knowledge Officer of Genomics Collaborative, Inc., a Genomics Repository, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From 2002 – 2006, he served as President & CEO of Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center for Health Professions (MERC) in Michigan and then was hired as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Iowa Health System in 2006.

In 2008, he became President of a the Institute for Clinical System Improvement (ISCI), a collaborative comprised of health plans, hospitals, doctors, employers, state government & patients, in Minnesota.