Bruce W. Spurlock, MD
Board Member and Consultant
"We all teach, we all learn"
Dr. Spurlock works with physicians and health care executives to create state-of-the-art clinical management programs. Using his experiences as a leader in California quality initiatives and operational expertise in change management, performance improvement, physician relations, medical staff structure, ICU redesign, peer review, and patient safety, he helps organizations create results-oriented programs in a variety of domains. Additionally, Dr. Spurlock facilitates a dialogue among various healthcare stakeholders including purchasers, physicians, hospitals, health plans and policy leaders, to improve care delivery and business performance. Currently, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor with Stanford University. He is a nationally known speaker on health care topics ranging from future health care trends to redesigning specific operational units.
Prior to developing his national consulting practice, Dr. Spurlock was the executive vice president for the California Healthcare Association (CHA) where he served as CHA's expert in physician group relations, health policy for clinical and managed care issues, and quality and performance measurement. He also practiced internal medicine as a senior physician with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., for 10 years, where he led patient education, media and wellness programs and developed shared decision-making tools, clinical pathways and guidelines, RN advice center protocols and easy access ambulatory services. During his clinical career Dr. Spurlock was an Assistant Clinical Professor for the University of California, Davis and participated on the American Hospital Association's Quality Leadership Team. In 1997 he was appointed by California Governor Wilson to the Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force, is published in local, state and national journals and has served as a trustee on the California Medical Association's Board of Trustees. Dr. Spurlock received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California, Davis and completed his internal medicine residency, chief residency and general medicine fellowship at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Santa Clara, California.