Robert J. Marder, MD, CMSL, Vice President

Robert J. Marder, MD, CMSL, is vice president with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA. He brings more than 25 years of healthcare leadership and management experience to his work with physicians, hospitals, and healthcare organizations across the country.

Dr. Marder’s many roles in senior hospital medical administration and operations management in academic and community hospital settings make him uniquely qualified to assist physicians and hospitals in developing solutions for complex medical staff and hospital performance issues. He consults, authors, and presents on a wide range of healthcare leadership issues, including effective and efficient peer review, physician performance measurement and improvement, hospital quality measurement systems and performance improvement, patient safety/error reduction, and utilization management.

Dr. Marder is one of The Greeley Company’s leading national speakers and is also the author or coauthor of many HCPro/Greeley books, including:

• The Top 40 Medical Staff Policies and Procedures, Fourth Edition (2010)
• Peer Review Best Practices: Case Studies and Lessons Learned (2008)
• Measuring Physician Competency: How to Collect, Assess, and Provide Performance Data, Second Edition (2007)
• Effective Peer Review: A Practical Guide to Contemporary Design, Second Edition (2007)
• Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation: Practical Approaches to Verifying Physician Competence (2006)

Prior to joining The Greeley Company, Dr. Marder served as assistant vice president for quality management at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center and vice president for medical affairs at Holy Cross Hospital. He also served as the national project director for indicator development and use at The Joint Commission from 1988 to 1991. Dr. Marder was assistant director of laboratories and director of clinical immunology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and associate clinical professor at Northwestern University Medical School.

Dr. Marder is a graduate of Rush Medical College and completed his residency training at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in pathology with a fellowship in microbiology/immunology. He is a board-certified pathologist.