Craig Wright

Craig Wright is a consultant and an executive coach for health care transformation. His focus is on governance, clinical integration, consumerism and clinical leadership development. He is a co-founder and faculty member of the Physician Leadership Project as well as executive in residence at The Academy, a community of health system and industry partner executives devoted to improving health for all.

Dr. Wright has worked as a physician executive for more than 30 years. At The Portland Clinic, a physician-owned multispecialty group, he served as chief medical officer. He held multiple leadership roles at Providence Health & Services (now Providence), a multistate nonprofit health system, including senior vice president of physician services, Oregon region chief executive of physician and clinical services, Oregon region chief executive of ambulatory clinical services, Oregon region physician division chief executive and chief executive of Providence Medical Group in Portland, Oregon. He is currently Waterfall Community Health Center’s chief medical officer.

He serves as vice chair on the board of directors of Georgia’s Piedmont Healthcare and is a member of the advisory boards of Scribe-X, a medical scribe services company, and Synergia, a telebehavioral health service provider.

Dr. Wright earned a Bachelor of Science from Pacific Lutheran University and a medical degree from the University of Washington. He is a board-certified family physician.