G. Alan Kurose

Al Kurose, MD, MBA, FACP is President and CEO of Coastal Medical, a primary care driven Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Coastal Medical provides care to 120,000 patients in 20 medical offices across Rhode Island, and is at the forefront of healthcare delivery system transformation and payment reform, both locally and nationally. Dr. Kurose has served as President and CEO of Coastal Medical since 2008, and has been a driving force behind Coastal Medical’s transition to accountable care. He serves on the boards of directors at the Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island as well as the Rhode Island Foundation. He is a member of the Policy Committee for the National Association of ACO’s (NAACOS) and the Healthcare Executive Advisory Council for UnitedHealth Group and has served as faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Population Management Executive Development Program. Dr. Kurose is a graduate of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and completed the Brown University Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Rhode Island Hospital in 1991. He was one of the founders of Coastal Medical in 1995, and practiced primary care internal medicine in a community-based office for 20 years. He is a graduate of the Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice at Brown University.