Professional Resume

GARY R. HILL, Psy.D, LMFT, CSADC

Willow Hill Executive Center

550 Frontage Road, Suite 2810

Northfield, IL. 60093 

Telephone:  (847) 853-0542 - Fax:  (847) 853-1112

Email:  grhconsult@aol.com - Website: www.grhconsult.com

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS:

• Extensive clinical experience as a licensed clinical psychologist
• Extensive background in business and clinical operations and bottom-line responsibilities
• Extensive background in provider relations
• Excellent sales, marketing, and team building skills
• Perceptive ability to see the “big picture” in project management and quickly develop an action plan to achieve desired goals
• Maintaining focus and efficiency under stress and short time deadlines
• Excellent customer service skills
• Extensive experience as a lecturer and professional presenter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

CLINICAL PRIVATE PRACTICE – GRH Consulting, LLC – Current Position

• General clinical assessments and triage
• Adult/adolescent individual and family therapy
• Addictions
• Trauma recovery
• Marital Therapy
• Professional Workshops and Presentations

MANAGING PARTNER - SolutionsNorthshore

Intensive Outpatient Program for adolescents and young adults.

Treating:

 

• Anxiety and depression
• Substance use
• School refusal
• Acting out behaviors
• Failure to launch

THE FAMILY INSTITUTE AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL SERVICES - Evanston, IL - 3/03-1/09

• Clinical management and coordination of all clinical staff
• Risk management
• External marketing of clinical services
• Psychotherapy
• Training/consultation/teaching

NATIONAL DIRECTOR, NETWORK MANAGEMENT

UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH/UNITED HEALTHCARE, INC. - Chicago, IL: 5/99- 3/03

• Responsible for national development of provider networks for the Healthplan Division of UBH.  This includes overseeing the selection, training, credentialing, and contracting for over twenty-five thousand providers covering over eight million member lives
• Responsible for negotiating preferred arrangements with organized provider groups
• Liaison/troubleshooter between UBH employer, commercial, public sector accounts, and the provider networks that serve them
• Responsible for all network management functions and staff for the division

REGIONAL DIRECTOR, PROVIDER SERVICES

UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH/UNITED HEALTHCARE, INC. - Chicago, IL: 11/96-5/99

• Responsible for development of provider networks for a twelve-state region of UBH.  This includes overseeing the selection, training, credentialing, and contracting of all providers, for over three million covered lives
• Responsible for negotiating preferred arrangements with organized provider groups
• Responsible for all provider services functions and staff for the region

 

REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT,

UNITED BEHAVIORAL SYSTEMS/UNITED HEALTHCARE, INC. - Chicago, IL: 11/93-11/96

• Responsible for thirty million dollar annual budget and total covered lives of over one million
• Oversee the Regional Case Management Delivery Systems
• Responsible for coordination of business units such as claims, IS&T, Finance, Contracting, and Network Development
• Responsible for development and maintenance of Regional Provider Networks
• Coordinate Regional Sales/Marketing activities

 

REGIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MCC BEHAVIORAL CARE, INC. - Chicago, IL: 3/92-10/93

• General management of a six-state region for MCC
• Responsible for a ten million dollar annual budget and total covered lives of three hundred thirty thousand
• Coordinate Regional Sales/Marketing activities
• Interface with business units such as Finance, Claims, IS&T, Network Development
• Manage regional case management delivery systems

 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MCC BEHAVIORAL CARE, INC. - Chicago, IL: 8/90-3/92

• Responsible for the management of the Illinois operations for MCC
• Responsible for annual budget process
• Responsible for local public relations and sales activities
• Responsible for development and maintenance of a statewide provider network

 

PROGRAM DIRECTOR

AAP MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES - Skokie, IL: 4/88-8/90

• Clinical and business management of an outpatient chemical dependency program
• General management of an inpatient adolescent psychiatric program
• Responsible for sales/marketing activities

 

CONSULTANT AND WORKSHOP PRESENTER

• Consultant to the insurance, treatment, and managed care industries
• Develop and conduct professional workshops on clinical and managed care issues

 

EDUCATION:

ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY- Chicago, IL

Psy.D. Clinical Psychology

 

GANNON UNIVERSITY - Erie, PA - MS Counseling

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - Boulder, CO - BA Psychology

 

LICENSE/CERTIFICATION:

Northwestern University, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management - Evanston, IL

Kellogg Management Institute, Certification in General Management

Licensed Marital and Family Therapist (LMFT)

Certified Supervisor Addictions Counselor (CSADC)

Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) - Family Systems Advanced Externship Training Program, Chicago, IL - Certification

Licensed in Illinois as Clinical Psychologist

Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) - Family Systems Externship Training Program, Chicago, IL - Certification