Paul B. Convery, MD, MMM 

Dr. Paul Convery is a clinical professor for Healthcare Leadership & Management in the Naveen Jindal School of Management of The University of Texas Dallas. He has over 20 years of physician leadership experience in multiple health care organizations. His experience and expertise include physician leadership development and coaching, health care organizational strategy, quality improvement, patient safety, clinical informatics, managed care, the organized medical staff, and medical group operations. 

He served as the senior vice president and chief medical officer for the Baylor Health Care System in Dallas from 2006 until 2013. From 1999 to 2006, he was executive vice president and chief medical officer for SSM Health Care – St. Louis. He also served as president of two hospitals in the St. Louis market for SSM. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the St. Louis Medical Group and president/medical director of Southwest Medical Center, both large multispecialty groups in St. Louis. Dr. Convery is a board-certified internist who practiced internal medicine for over 20 years. In 2008, Baylor Health Care System was awarded the NQF National Quality Healthcare Award. In 2002, SSM Health Care was the first health care winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. 

Dr. Convery served as the chair of the Provider Council and on the Leadership Network of the National Quality Forum. He also served on the board of directors of the Institute for Clinical Quality and Value, and on the Education and Research Foundation Board of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council. He has served on multiple hospital boards and health system boards, as well as other nonprofit boards. 

Dr. Convery has an undergraduate degree from St. Louis University; graduated from medical school at the University of Illinois; is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Physician Executives; and received a Master’s of Medical Management from Tulane University.