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 in St. Louis, and finished a 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 was recently recognized in Emory’s Physician Group Practice as a Diamond Provider, earning 99-percentile patient satisfaction ratings.

Esper serves Emory Healthcare as associate chief medical officer, a role that promotes systemwide standardization in clinical workflows across the growing 11-hospital academic health system with over 220 outpatient sites. He is the vice president of Lean Promotion, in which he leads Emory’s systemwide initiative for lean transformation. He is the medical director for Emory’s Connected Care systemwide telehealth program. He also serves as vice chairman of clinical affairs for the Emory Department of Neurology. Esper enjoys an appointment as affiliated professor of business administration at Emory University and is a member of Goizueta Business School’s corporate advisory board.

Esper currently serves the American Academy of Neurology as the chair of the Health Services Research Subcommittee, as a member of the Medical Economics and Practice Committee, and as a member of the Academic Committee. He is a member of Vizient’s Risk Adjustment Committee and Neuroscience Quality and Accountability Steering Committee. He recently served as a member of the American Association of Medical College’s COVID-19 Clinical Guidance Repository Working Group. He publishes and lectures 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 sports, music, and TikTok. Esper is a violinist and singer who enjoys opera, musical theater, and Byzantine chant.