Mitchell Morris, MD. is a distinguished physician executive with more than three decades of experience as a healthcare business leader, consultant, and technology innovator. Dr. Morris has focused his career on healthcare transformation, taking on leadership roles in outstanding organizations such as Optum, Deloitte, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Working at the forefront of innovation with providers, payers, life science firms, and governments both in the U.S. and in global settings, he has developed and implemented innovative technology solutions, and leveraged emerging business models to make the health system work more efficiently and humanely.

Previously, Dr. Morris led the two largest and most comprehensive healthcare advisory businesses in U.S. healthcare at Optum and Deloitte. At Optum, Morris was CEO of Optum Advisory Services and the Advisory Board Company which provides focused strategy, operations, and technology consulting for payers and providers. At Deloitte he led the largest Life Sciences and Healthcare professional services practice in the world, being responsible for developing and implementing the firm’s global healthcare growth strategies to grow the firm’s consulting, audit, tax, and financial advisory services capabilities. Prior to his consulting work Dr. Morris spent 16 years in a variety of executive and faculty positions at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, including Chief Information Officer; Senior Vice President for Healthcare Systems; and was a tenured professor of gynecologic oncology and health services research.

Dr. Morris graduated from the University of Michigan, with a B.S. with high distinction; the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, residency training at New York University, and fellowship training at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center.