Prof. Elizabeth Teisberg

Professor Elizabeth Teisberg, Ph.D., holds the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Distinguished University Chair in Value-Based Care at the Dell Medical School and the McCombs School of Business. Co-creator of the concept of value-based health care delivery, Teisberg wrote Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results with Michael E. Porter.

Professor Teisberg, an expert in transformational innovation and the implementation of high-value health care, keynotes and advises organizations internationally. In addition to her service on the leadership team at Dell Medical School, she is a senior associate at Harvard’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.

The Value Institute for Health and Care conducts research on transforming strategy, culture, measurement, and payment to enable high-value health care. From these insights, the Value Institute develops tools that help organizations, including Dell Medical School’s health care services, create and implement high value health care strategy. The Value Institute also works to transform health care through education, offering a Master of Science in Health Care Transformation degree, as well as executive education focused on the “how-to” of leading and implementing high-value health care.

Teisberg earned her Ph.D. in engineering at Stanford University. She has served on the faculties of Dartmouth’s School of Medicine, University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and Harvard Business School.