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About Maria Todd

"Maria inspires a corporate culture that is creative, practical, accountable, solutions-oriented and fosters sustaining and disruptive innovation, and she looks for a similar ilk in the clients she accepts as a consultant and the team that surrounds her."

Maria Todd is an award-winning speaker, corporate trainer, and the author of 9 best-selling professional reference books for health administrators and medical tourism industry professionals. She is a highly sought after domain expert and speaker at hospitals, universities, government strategy sessions, and international industry conferences, worldwide.  Maria enjoys speaking to organizations and senior management and government agencies on topics surrounding healthcare business operations, reimbursement, medical staff leadership, service line strategy, and market growth blended with the commitment to meet the vision of the organization.

She generously shares her hands-on practical experience in healthcare management and health travel (medical tourism) in her recently released medical tourism titles, The Handbook of Medical Tourism Program Development, and the Medical Tourism Facilitator's Handbook (2012, Productivity Press, New York).  Her other books on managed care contracting and physician employment contracting, both now in 2nd edition, have enjoyed high acclaim, and her book on integrated health delivery systems has been the organizational and operational "bible" for many IPAs, PHOs, MSOs, and ACOs.

These books, together with her expertise is in the realm of leadership development, strategic planning, financial turn-around projects, marketing, and small business development set her apart from every other trainer, speaker and consultant in the healthcare industry when it comes to the intersection of managed care, health travel, medical tourism, and expatriate group health benefit design.  Her "See one, Do one, Teach Many" philosophy is world renowned.