Marc A. Bard, MD

Dr. Marc Bard is a board-certified internist who has been serving as a strategy and leadership consultant for over 25 years. He works with leading academic medical centers, faculty practices, medical groups, community hospitals, and individual healthcare executives, focusing on physician integration and clinical program strategies as well as performance improvement. He is a nationally regarded expert on physician leadership effectiveness, change management, and organizational design.

Before founding The Bard Group in 1997, Dr. Bard enjoyed a distinguished career as a clinician and physician executive. He practiced internal medicine for eighteen years at Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP), and served as Chief of Internal Medicine and Director of Medical Staff Development. While at HCHP, he facilitated mergers with MultiGroup and Pilgrim Health Care, initiated and developed the physician recruiting process and systems, and established HCHP’s first clinical performance dashboard.

Among Dr. Bard’s recent clients are Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Carolinas Healthcare System, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Bellevue Hospital Center, Mayo Health System, Kaiser Permanente, Trinity Health, BayCare HealthCare System, and Inova Healthcare System.