Full Name
David Osborn
Title
SVP, Strategic Accounts and Sales
Organization
HealthTrust Performance Group
Speaker Bio
David leads HealthTrust’s Account Management team as it supports HealthTrust’s acute-care Members, representing over 1700 hospitals across the country. In this role, David focuses on helping HealthTrust Members achieve maximum savings and value from HealthTrust’s contracts, as well as its solutions in supply chain operations, clinical performance, and workforce and labor management. David also leads the sales team focused on expanding membership in HealthTrust’s Group Purchasing Organization. Prior to his current role, David served as Senior Vice President for Advisory Services for HealthTrust.

David has over 35 years of experience working with healthcare clients in the areas of business strategy, operations, innovation and technology, spending much of his career providing advisory services to healthcare companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He served as Partner and Managing Director at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and KPMG Consulting where he was the national leader for several different practice areas including business strategy, e-Business solutions, and change management. David has served as executive advisor to CEOs and other senior leaders of several large healthcare enterprises, including hospital systems and national health insurance organizations. David served on the faculty of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he founded and directed the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health, and led the Leadership Institute for the Association of Academic Health Centers.

David holds a Bachelor’s of Science from Harding University, and a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Tennessee. He has served as a frequent speaker at national and international healthcare conferences and industry gatherings, including ACHE, AHA, AAHC, AHRMM, HIMMS, Goldman Sachs Global Healthcare Conference, International Healthcare Forum, and other healthcare and medical association meetings. For several years he appeared regularly on television and radio programs of BBC America to discuss healthcare policy and reform, and has authored numerous published articles and white papers on various healthcare topics.

David serves on the Advisory Boards for the American Heart Association and the Mercy Children’s Clinic, and is the past Board Chair for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee. He is actively involved with the Nashville Wine Auction, combining his love of wine with raising money for cancer-related charities. He has played in bands since he was 16, and performs semi-regularly with a band at a honkytonk on lower Broadway in downtown Nashville and across the country at charity events.
David Osborn