Alice Stollenwerk Petrulis, MD, FACP - Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Alice Petrulis serves as KePRO’s Chief Medical Officer, leading the medical
team to design and implement clinically driven population health management solutions
for public program and commercial clients. In the past year, Dr. Petrulis has been
invited to be a featured speaker at four national conferences to address the impact
that case management and disease management have had on care management, and offers
insight on how both will continue to influence the health care industry going forward.
In addition to her care management expertise, Dr. Petrulis is highly respected throughout
the national healthcare quality improvement arena. She recently served as the Co-Chair
of the National Quality Forum’s Ambulatory Practice Steering Committee, which reviews
quality measures that organizations like CMS and insurance companies use. She incorporates
quality improvement activities into KePRO’s integrated care management solutions,
ensuring that members are receiving evidence-based care to optimize their health
outcomes, while reducing client costs. She spoke at numerous national conferences
about quality improvement initiatives and the success of those efforts she led.
Dr. Petrulis became the KePRO’s Chief Medical Officer in December 2005. She oversees
all of the KePRO family of companies’ medical directors, and provides clinical leadership
relative for the company’s population health management and quality improvement
initiatives. She also assists and promotes business development and strategic planning
activities, and recruits physicians for our review panels and as medical directors.
Previously, she served as the Medical Director, Post-Acute Care Services of Ohio
KePRO, a KePRO company, for five years. She spearheaded the efforts to ensure the
medical integrity of Ohio KePRO’s provider and patient quality improvement interventions,
tools, and presentations. Dr. Petrulis also served in the organization’s lead medical
role for long-term care, home health care, and outpatient physician office projects,
including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ DOQ-IT initiative.
Dr. Petrulis is Board certified in internal medicine and nephrology, and licensed
in Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University (in
St. Louis, MO), and her medical degree from The Ohio State University. She is an
adjunct professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Dr. Petrulis has authored numerous articles and presentations, and has been published
in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of General Internal Medicine,
and the Journal of the American Medical Association, to name a few.