Grounded in 50 years of academic healthcare experience, we have a proven track record of connecting the dots across mission areas, rapidly establishing credibility, and building consensus with stakeholders because we understand the different factors that affect them. 

ECG works with all types of academic health systems (AHSs), from fully integrated, single-CEO models to community-based medical schools that manage multiple clinical affiliations to independent academic medical centers (AMC) and everything in between. 

We work daily with university and health system boards and presidents, health system executive teams, academic leadership (provosts, deans, and department chairs), and hybrid physician enterprises that include academic and nonacademic physicians. We have the courage to advise our clients, which comes from our experience and successful engagements which have become meaningful repeatable clients.  

Our multi-disciplinary team includes consultants who specialize in each AMC mission area—education (UME, GME, and CME), research, and clinical care—and are nationally recognized for their strategic, financial, operational, regulatory, and accreditation-related expertise. 

Our academic medical centers services include:

• Strategic partnerships and affiliations
• AHS organizational design
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Funds flow
• Academic/community practice alignment
• Research strategy and planning
• GME
• Faculty compensation plan design
• Health science center/medical school performance improvement
• Medical school strategy and planning
• FGP structure and operations