Thom Walsh Author

Thom Walsh, PhD, is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

of Cardinal Point Healthcare Solutions, an Adjunct Lecturer at

the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice,

and a Visiting Associate Professor of Community Medicine at

the Oxley College of Health Sciences at the University of

Tulsa. He holds an MS degree in Physical Therapy, an MS in

Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and a PhD in Health Policy.

Known as an excellent teacher and mentor, he draws on

extensive clinical, research, and consulting experience to help

people and organizations to navigate a rapidly changing

healthcare environment. His clinical career spanned private

practice and academic settings, including the development

and launch of a multidisciplinary spine center at the

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. His writings on

patient-reported outcome measures, healthcare costs and

utilization, shared decision-making, motivational interviewing,

and ethical leadership have appeared in numerous publications,

including the BMJ, JAMA, Spine, The Journal of Healthcare

Management, Forbes, The New America Foundation, and

The Atlantic. His first book, Navigating to Value in Healthcare,

was released in 2017. Dr. Walsh also enjoys hiking,

running, reading, and writing. He volunteers with a mountain

search and rescue unit and Team Rubicon, a disaster relief and

humanitarian aid organization.