Ron Barkley

Mr. Barkley is a healthcare business development and operations executive experienced in medical group practice, hospital/health system, managed care networks and healthcare corporate settings. Ron specializes in the consolidation and operational integration of comprehensive physician-hospital oncology service lines and cancer centers and in value-based care delivery transition and associated alternative payment models (APMs).

Ron has served as Executive Director for a prominent community oncology medical group practice affiliated with Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston. He successfully transacted the management and professional services alignment between Dana Farber and the practice that became the forerunner of today’s predominant model of oncologist-hospital alignment. Ron has also served as market executive for the organizational restructuring of the Chicago-area practices of the McKesson/US Oncology Network and as professional business advisor in oncology practice merger, acquisition, business diversification and oncologist-hospital affiliations and service line consolidations in numerous settings nationally. Ron currently serves as the managing principal of a coalition of community oncology.

Mr. Barkley holds a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration and a Law Degree with emphasis in healthcare transactional and regulatory law. He is a member of the State Bar of California; American Health Lawyer’s Association (AHLA) and the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) and is National Co-Chair of the Cancer Center Business Summit (CancerBusinessSummit.com), a thought leadership forum on matters of policy, technology, business strategy and business models in cancer care delivery.