Christine Dalton is a Director with the Healthcare Provider practice and co-leads the Physician Strategy area. She has 12 years of healthcare strategy and consulting experience within a variety of healthcare organizations. Her primary focus is on health system and service line strategy, affiliations and strategic partnerships, physician strategy, women's services and pediatric services. She returned to NCI in 2003 after a two-year term as the Director for Strategic Planning at a Chicago-area community hospital.