Gregory J. Esper, MD, MBA, FAAN
Gregory J. Esper, MD, MBA, FAAN, is professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and is a general neurologist. He earned his medical degree at Vanderbilt University, completed neurology residency at Washington University St. Louis, and finished clinical neurophysiology fellowship and a clinical research fellowship in electrical impedance myography with Dr. Seward Rutkove at Harvard University's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He earned his MBA from Emory’s Goizueta Business School in 2009. Esper has been recognized in Emory’s Physician Group Practice as a Diamond Provider, earning 99-percentile patient satisfaction ratings.
Esper serves Emory Healthcare as chief clinical financial officer, an inaugural role that promotes value-based care, the integration of systemwide clinical workflows with fiscal responsibility, seamless care management, and value analysis/supply chain enhancements across the growing 11-hospital academic health system with over 490 clinical sites. Esper enjoys an appointment as affiliated professor of business administration at Emory University.
Esper currently serves the AAN and the AAN Institute as an at-large member of the Board of Directors and as a member of the Academic Committee. He is also a member of Vizient’s Risk Adjustment Committee. He has published and lectured on such topics as telemedicine, lean implementation in health care, health care reform, value-based care, medical economics, leadership, and talent management. He is passionate about health services research and envisions a nationally connected landscape for neurology-related discovery that defines the impact of health care reform on neurologists and how neurologists continue to add value to the US health system as health care evolves.
Esper is married to Dr. Christine Doss Esper, who herself is associate professor of neurology at Emory University and a movement disorders specialist. They have three children who enjoy soccer, flag football, and music. Esper is a violinist and a singer who enjoys opera, musical theater, and Byzantine chant.