Dea Robinson, PhD, FACMPE, CPC has been in the executive healthcare for over 25 years. Her healthcare subject matter expertise includes practice organizational behavior, medical management operations, cultural assessment and alignment; and cultivating a sustainable health care workforce for the future. During her time of executive leadership, she led three private practice start-ups including numerous consulting projects in all medical specialties. Career highlights include national Director of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Consulting Services, Executive Director of a 16-year private hospitalist practice in Denver, Colorado, Vice President of Operations in Columbus, Ohio, and President and shareholder of Eight, Inc. a medical management consultancy start-up launched with seven physicians in Denver, Colorado.
Dr. Robinson received her PhD in Education with Organizational Learning, Performance and Change from Colorado State University in 2019; and her Master’s Degree in Communication at University of Colorado-Denver in 2004. Her recent doctoral dissertation topic was hospitalist burnout, engagement and the role of social support.
Currently, Dr. Robinson is Director of Hospital Medicine Programs for the Mountain (Colorado-Kansas-Utah) Region for CommonSpirit Health. She believes in actively mentoring the next generation(s) of medical executives and giving back to the profession of medical executives through speaking and support of others in the same endeavor.
Some of her publications, co-authorship and interviews include: MGMA October, 2019, Executive Session Interview: The C-Suite versus Burnout: Winning Strategies; The 5Rs of Cultural Humility published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Showing Strength: Reasons to Lead with Emotions. MGMA Executive View, 2014, From Nothing to Something----Defining Governance and Infrastructure in a Small Medical Practice, 2013, Cases in Healthcare Management, 2013 and Practicing Organizational Culture without a Leader and “Igniting Positive Change: The Imperative of Building a Caring Culture” Webinar co-presented with Patrick Kneeland, MD. Society of Hospital Medicine, June 25, 2016