Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 20, 2007|Volume 35, Number 26

Cleve Killingsworth

Insurance reform advocate and
alumnus is honored with fellowship

The Yale School of Medicine's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health will pay tribute to one of its alumni on Thursday, April 26, when it awards the 2007 John D. Thompson Distinguished Visiting Fellow award to Cleve Killingsworth, president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and an advocate of health insurance reform.

The fellowship, which was inaugurated in 2001, brings an outstanding health administration practitioner to campus each year. It is supported by the John Devereaux Thompson Academic Development Fund.

The 6 p.m. dinner in Killingsworth's honor will be held at The Graduate Club, 155 Elm St., and will begin with cocktails at 5:30 p.m. The cost for students is $10 and $45 for alumni, faculty and their guests.

Killingsworth, who graduated from Yale's Master in Public Health program in 1976, "is a nationally recognized leader in health care management as well as a thoughtful advocate for intelligent reform within the health care system," says Elizabeth Bradley, professor of public health and director of the Health Management Program at Yale. "During his 30 years in the health care industry, Killingsworth has earned a reputation as an innovative manager, dynamic teacher and insightful analyst."

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is one of the largest, independent, not-for-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in the country. Today Killingsworth leads the company's efforts to elevate the quality of services and care delivered to about three million members as he simultaneously works collaboratively with a variety of health care stakeholders to reform and improve the health care delivery system.

Killingsworth has had a long career in health care management, both in practice and in teaching. He formerly served as president and chief executive officer of Health Alliance Plan in Detroit, one of Michigan's largest managed care companies; senior vice president of insurance and managed care for Henry Ford Health System; and president of Kaiser Permanente's Central East Division. He has taught at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in health services administration at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and as a lecturer in Yale's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

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