Jon Burroughs

Dr. Jon Burroughs is embarking upon his sixth professional career, having been a professional pianist, mountain climbing guide/hiking guide author, emergency physician, healthcare administrator, healthcare administrative expert and consultant, and now a healthcare attorney.

He is a healthcare system expert and has participated in over 230 legal cases, written six healthcare administrative books (two of which were given James A. Hamilton national awards by the American College of Healthcare Executives), and serves on the national faculties of the American College of Healthcare Administration, the American Association for Physician Leadership, and the National Association Medical Staff Services. His goal is to help make healthcare a little safer.

President and CEO of The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc., Dr. Burroughs serves on the national faculty of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American Association for Physician Leadership, where he has been consistently rated as one of their top speakers and educators.

Dr. Burroughs is a former Senior Consultant and Director of Education Services for The Greeley Company where he was rated as one of their top healthcare consultants and educators over an eight year period. He is also a past medical staff president, past president of the New Hampshire chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and served as an emergency department medical director.

As a member of the governing board of Memorial Hospital in New Hampshire, he chaired the ethics, succession planning, and bylaws committees and sat on the joint conference, strategic planning, and medical executive committees. He previously served as a member of the clinical faculty of Dartmouth Medical School, where his research interests included introducing EMT defibrillation and automatic defibrillation into the field.

Dr. Burroughs' passion for the outdoors has led him to serve as a physician on mountaineering expeditions and he has reached the summits of over 5,000 peaks throughout the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe, Africa, and Russia, and he is the co-editor of the 26th edition of the White Mountain Guide and the first edition of the Southern New Hampshire Trail Guide.

Dr. Burroughs received his bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins University, his MD from Case Western Reserve University, and a healthcare MBA with honors at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a certified healthcare and physician executive and is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American Association for Physician Leadership.