Dr. Paris received his BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in English Literature from Columbia University in 1967. He received his MD from Yale University in 1971 and his MPH in Health Administration from the Columbia University School of Public Health in 1974. He took his training in internal medicine at the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital between 1971 and 1974 and became Board Certified in Internal Medicine in 1974.

Between 1974 and 1977 he was Associate Commissioner of Health of New York City with broad authority for administering all major healthcare funding programs (including Medicaid). Between 1977 and 1979 he was
Vice President, Medical Affairs of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (a network of 11 academic
teaching hospitals).

Between 1981 and 1988, Dr. Paris was the Vice President for Medical Affairs and Clinical Support Services at a
370 bed teaching community hospital in the Northeast. Between 1988 and 1990 he was the CEO of a multi-state,
multi-specialty group practice which he founded and guided through its start-up phase.

Between 1990 and 2003, Dr. Paris was SVP, Medical Affairs for Tenet Healthcare, a NYSE listed company with 2003 revenues of approximately 14 billion dollars. At the time, Tenet owned approximately 2% of the nation’s acute-care hospitals. Dr. Paris had broad responsibility for matters involving medical staff relations, medical informatics, clinical program development and cost and quality control of healthcare services.

Dr. Paris currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Institute for Healthsystems Performance (a joint venture of the California Medical Association and the California Hospital Association). He has also served as a member of the National Advisory Council to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C, In addition he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Manhattan County Professional Standards Review Organization, on the Medical Ethics Committee of the New Jersey Hospital Association, on the Board of Directors of a 103,000 member HMO and on the founding advisory boards of several start-up medical service companies.