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Mr. Koles is one of the firm's leaders in the area of health system economics and strategy, heading the faculty at the annual series of chief executive officer meetings. Mr. Koles is a health care economist by training with a wide range of expertise in the provider industry. He has been a dominant figure in the evolution and communication of every major Advisory Board research initiative since 1994, leaving him conversant in the history and current status of all the significant reform initiatives: vertical integration and physician partnership models, managed care and payer contracting, horizontal integration and system economics of scale, quality-based competition and consumerism. Previous to his employment with the Advisory Board, he worked as a management consultant for both the Hay Group and Ernst & Young. | 