William K. Cors, MD, MMM, CMSL, Vice President, Medical Staff Services

Dr. Cors is an experienced physician executive with a background that includes fifteen years of clinical practice and over twelve years of executive hospital/health system management experience and experience as a healthcare consultant. He currently serves as the vice president for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in Marblehead, Massachusetts. 

Dr. Cors has extensive experience in all facets of medical staff affairs, operations and development. His primary area of expertise is in working with physicians and hospitals to develop and implement strategic medical staff development planning. This includes integration of new medical staff models into organizations to help insure both physician and hospital success. Other areas of expertise include leading change, improving physician-hospital relations; credentialing, privileging and peer review; clinical resource management; improvement of quality of care and patient safety; public accountability preparedness; and management of medical staff conflicts, change and disruptive behavior. In addition, he has wide experience in medical staff documents and regulatory accreditation.

Dr. Cors holds an AB degree from the College of the Holy Cross, a MD from New Jersey College of Medicine and a Masters of Medical Management (MMM) from Tulane University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives (FACPE). Dr. Cors is Board Certified in both Neurology and Medical Management. In addition, he has achieved recognition as a Certified Medical Staff Leader (CMSL).

In addition to working with medical staffs, hospitals and Boards across the country, Dr. Cors has authored and co-authored numerous publications. In Medical Staff Briefing, these include a 12 part series on improving physician-hospital relations which ran in 2007;  a 12 part series on medical staff strategic development planning in 2008 and a muli-part series on the new competencies of change management leadership running in 2009. He was the lead author for the 2007 publication, Medical Staff Leaders' Practical Guide, Sixth Edition. He also was co-author of the 2008 book, The Greeley Guide to New Medical Staff Models.