Theo Koury, MD, is President of Vituity. Across his 25-year leadership career, Dr. Koury has focused on empowering front-line clinicians to improve care by prioritizing patient outcomes and maximizing quality and efficiency. In addition to his executive duties, he is a practicing emergency physician at John Muir Medical Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As President of Vituity since 2017, Dr. Koury oversees the company’s financial and infrastructure strategies essential to fulfill the enterprise’s mission of empowering healthcare providers to deliver exceptional care across more than 500 service locations nationwide.
Dr. Koury holds a bachelor's degree in biology from University of Southern California and a medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School and is an American College of Emergency Physicians Fellow. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine, where he served as Chief Resident, elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and received the John P. McDade Award for Research in Emergency Medical Care.
Care Innovation
At Vituity, Dr. Koury leads the conceptualization and development of cost-effective solutions that improve care quality and access. Highlights include:
- Transforming outpatient medicine services to be more consumer driven, delivering high value to patients and integrating care delivery throughout the community.
- Developing and integrating novel models of care delivery that solve for the challenges facing health systems and hospitals.
- Collaborating with national health system partners to move care from the inpatient setting to the home, resulting in improved clinical outcomes and provider and patient satisfaction.
Advancing Healthcare Policy
A fearless advocate for policy reform, Dr. Koury also oversees Vituity’s advocacy strategy at the local, state, and national level. Accomplishments include:
- Leading the enterprise to join the Moving Health Home coalition as a founding member in 2021. This group of forward-thinking healthcare organizations works to improve access and equity by establishing the home as a clinical site of care.
- Overseeing initiatives to identify opportunities to alleviate medical debt for patients. In 2021, more than 46,000 patients had their outstanding debt abolished, representing more than $25 million.