Conrad S. Emmerich is the Chief Procurement Officer of the newly combined Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health into Advocate Health, headquartered in Charlotte, NC. Prior to this, he was Chief Procurement Officer and Senior Vice President for Supply Chain Management, Laboratory and Imaging Services for Atrium Health. In addition, Emmerich also serves as the President and CEO of Atrium Health Supply Chain Alliance (AHSCA), a group purchasing organization. 

In these roles, Emmerich leads the Supply Chain functions supporting more than 1.400 teammates in 67 hospitals, managing over $10B in contracted spend across four southeastern and two midwestern states.  

Emmerich has over 20 years of leadership in healthcare supply chain. Prior to joining Atrium Health in November of 2020, he was the Senior Vice President of Business Services at Wake Forest Baptist Health, where he led Supply Chain, Pharmacy, Laboratory, and Imaging Services, along with Clinical Engineering, Food and Nutritional Services, and other functions supporting daily operations of the health system. He spent ten years at Wake Forest Baptist Health with progressively increasing roles of responsibility. He previously worked in the University of Florida supply chain, Advent Health supply chain, and with Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in the greater Chicago area.

Notably, Emmerich led the supply chain implementation of Oracle Cloud across the Atrium Health enter¬prise, the largest deployment of the ERP product at that time. He was recognized by Modern Healthcare as a top 25 Innovator in 2019. His implementation of RTLS at Wake Forest Baptist Health for asset tracking, temperature monitoring, patient throughput, and other workflow efficiencies continues to lead the industry. He also oversaw the country’s first unmanned aircraft (drone) delivery of a Covid-19 vaccine in August, 2021. In addition, the Journal of Healthcare Contracting recognized him as a Top 10 to watch in 2022.  

Emmerich reports to both Advocate Health’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and its President, Southeast Region.

Emmerich holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida. He is highly active in his community of Winston-Salem, NC, sitting on several local boards and supporting not-for-profit organizations.