Google on “Invented disease management” and the entire first page of “hits” will be Al Lewis.

He was founder and first president of the Disease Management Association of America and is the only two-time winner of their “Most Influential Person” award. He has been designated #1 in both of Managed Healthcare Executive's quadrennial reports on the Leaders in the Disease Management Industry. The 9th Annual Report on the Disease Management and Wellness Industries calls him “the leading care management outcomes analyst in the country.”

Al Lewis is founder and President of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International, Inc. (DMPC—www.dismgmt.com) DMPC is by far the leading outcomes measurement evaluator and vendor procurement broker in the field of disease management. Almost every disease management program procured by DMPC has won awards for disease management excellence, including Blue Care Network’s four years in a row.

He also confers the only recognized certifications in two areas. The Consortium website, www.dismgmt.com lists the 200 people who have earned Critical Outcomes Report Analysis Certification and the 25 health plans and states that have received Savings Measurement Validity certification. He also provides “Auditor’s Letters” attesting to outcomes validity for award-winning programs.

His book, Disease Management and Wellness in the Post-Reform Era, was published in 2011 by Atlantic Information Services. A regular op-ed contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere, he has been a frequent healthcare expert guest on Montel Williams and other radio and TV shows.

His new economic policy book Why the Heck Aren’t We Already Doing This Stuff? has been critically praised by James Carville and Regina Herzlinger, among others, while his healthcare expertise has been publicly praised by Mitt Romney.

Al holds undergraduate (1978) and law (1982) degrees from Harvard University phi beta kappa and taught economics at Harvard, and currently teaches health policy at Brandeis.

But he still can’t get his kids to clean up their rooms.