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In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Wendy Horton, PharmD, president & CEO of UVA Health University Medical Center is leading the health system and its communities into the future by partnering in the largest Habitat for Humanity project in the nation.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Mohan Suntha, MD, president & CEO, University of Maryland
Medical System is leading the academic health system to redefine Big Data in healthcare through the Institute for Health Computing.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Imran Andrabi, MD, president & CEO of Milwaukee-based Froedtert ThedaCare is leading a year-old merger of an urban academic medical system with a community-hospital-based system.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Joanne Conroy, MD, CEO & president, Dartmouth Health is leading the academic health system in rural health, from zip-code analysis of rural communities to pioneering the role of community health workers and supporting a parish nursing model.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Chris Howard, President & CEO, Sharp HealthCare is integrating AI into Sharp’s vision to profoundly enhance care delivery, workplace environment and community presence.

In this Executive Viewpoint, read how Rob Allen, president & CEO, Intermountain Health is designing the health system of the future around proactive care and not value-based care.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD, president & CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, is driving significant investments in digital and AI to lead the $13-billion globally integrated health system into the future.

In this CAIO Viewpoint, read how Dr. Nigam Shah of Stanford Health Care embodies the cross-functional leader who brings AI to healthcare while ensuring it is useful, fair and reliable.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Barclay Berdan, CEO of Texas Health Resources, has created one of the best workplaces in the industry while balancing mental health outreach to patients and employees within the rigor of a strong balance sheet.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how CEO Laura Kaiser and SSM Health are driving innovation across St. Louis-based SSM Health, a $9.3 billion Catholic, not-for-profit health system servicing communities across the Midwest.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Wright Lassiter is establishing what he calls “leadership presence” across CommonSpirit’s 140 hospitals, 1,500 care sites and 150,000 employees across 22 states—and how his grandfather’s wisdom about service predicted what’s needed most for the future of public health.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how CEO Joseph R. Impicciche and Ascension are creating great
experiences for 6.5 million patients as well as 140,000 associates at 2,600 sites of care across 19 states.

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how president & CEO Mike Slubowski strengthens the Catholic mission of Trinity Health despite the converging crises of cost, workforce and affordability across 25 states and 115,000 colleagues.

Marc Gorelick, MD, president & CEO, Children’s Minnesota discusses how a children’s health system addresses the workforce crisis, equity and patient & amp; family engagement.

Read our CEO Viewpoint interview with Marna Borgstrom, CEO, Yale New Haven Health, to hear the wisdom and insights from a distinguished 40-plus-year career at one of the nation’s leading academic health systems.

Read our CEO Viewpoint interview with Todd LaPorte, CEO of HonorHealth in Scottsdale, Ariz. to find out how a leader goes from a career immersed in finance to one whose mission is the “health and wellbeing of a community.”

Read our CEO Viewpoint interview with Andrea Walsh, President & CEO, HealthPartners, to learn how consumer-governed HealthPartners is making care and coverage simpler and more affordable.

Read our CEO Viewpoint interview with J.P. Gallagher, President & CEO, NorthShore University HealthSystem, to learn how NorthShore is “going the last mile” for consumers.

Rarely does a healthcare CEO spend her career at the same place she was born. Enter Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO of Virginia-based Carilion Clinic, who was born in Carilion’s flagship hospital, then called Memorial and Crippled Children’s Hospital in its distinction as the nation’s primary facility for children with polio.

As a former college wrestler, Tim Dentry exhorts people to “pin COVID-19 to the mat” and “avoid being pinned by the virus.” His folksiness, bred in northern Maryland’s horse country, comes in handy as president and CEO of Northern Light Health, a Brewer, Maine-based 10-hospital system serving the entire state.

In the past Marc Boom, MD, often quoted Bill Gates on our tendency to overestimate the amount of change in the short term and underestimate the amount of change over the long term. That was before the COVID pandemic flipped that axiom on its head, driving health-system executives like Boom, president and CEO of Houston Methodist, to achieve overnight what in pre-COVID times would have taken years.

In love with the sciences since youth, Michelle Hood earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Purdue and began graduate school in neurophysiology. That’s when she realized her work life needed more human interaction. At a faculty advisor’s suggestion she pivoted and earned a master’s in healthcare administration. It was the right path.

When David Entwistle was young he dreamed of becoming a famous lawyer. “I took three years of high-school Latin preparing to be an attorney,” he recalls, and registered for pre-law […]

Eugene A. Woods, MBA, MHA, FACHE, is president and chief executive officer of Atrium Health, one of the most comprehensive and highly integrated not-for-profit healthcare systems in the nation. With […]

Chicago is famous for the propensity of its native sons and daughters to remain Chicagolanders their entire lives. Sharon O’Keefe, president of the University of Chicago Medical Center, is no exception. She […]

As a newly minted graduate in biology and environmental sciences in 1978, Howard P. Kern saw the healthcare industry as full of opportunity and substantial growth potential. After 39 years […]

Dr. Marc Harrison – a third-generation physician whose son is now in medical school – took the top job at Intermountain Healthcare in October 2016. Intermountain is a Utah-based not-for-profit […]

When Tina Freese Decker was growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, chatting about the weather was serious business. Her meteorologist father had cofounded a radio weather service in 1973 called […]

When Terry Shaw was 14, he was already cleaning grocery stores and warehouses and driving a forklift for a health-food distributor in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He still recalls carrying […]

“I have one goal,” says Wright L. Lassiter, III: “Reduce the gap between today and what’s possible.” It’s a lifelong mantra he’s using more than ever as President and CEO of […]

Johnese Spisso is president of UCLA Health, CEO of UCLA Hospital System and associate vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences. In this role, she oversees four hospitals, more than 160 […]

It’s a cliché to say someone followed a long journey to where they are today, but that’s literally the case with Patricia “Pat” Maryland, soon-to-be president and CEO of Ascension Healthcare, […]

When Dennis Murphy took his mother to the movie “Brooklyn” she said it was like watching her life on screen. Like the movie’s protagonists, his mother and father were Irish […]

Sometimes, regardless of training and experience, a rare person appears with “chief executive” written in her heart. Penny Wheeler, MD, fits the description. She swapped her physician’s lab coat for […]

As healthcare undergoes a transformation to a value-based, accountable care model, John Porter may be blessed with just the right background to lead a major health system: He has none. […]

You could say Laura Forese, MD, has been preparing for a leadership role at NewYork-Presbyterian all her life. She grew up just outside New York City, spent two adolescent years in […]

Robert J. Henkel, FACHE, is the President and CEO of Ascension Health. He also serves as an Executive Vice President of Ascension Health’s parent organization, Ascension. Before being named President and […]

Talk about baptism of fire. Within a month of Barclay Berdan becoming CEO of Texas Health Resources in September 2014, the Arlington-based health system was rocked by the Ebola situation, […]

I t’s hard to believe Michael Shabot, MD, had no early interest in medicine. But maybe it just had to get in line. “I kind of drifted into medical school […]

Perhaps it’s not surprising that Christine Cassel, MD, pioneered the program called Choosing Wisely. Earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of Chicago seems like a good foundation […]

Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH, became Dean of the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, on September 7, 2013. The unique […]

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that aims to promote a high-performing healthcare system. Dr. Blumenthal is formerly the Samuel O. Thier Professor […]

Dr. Karen DeSalvo is a physician whose 20-year career has focused on improving access to affordable, high quality care for all people, especially vulnerable populations. She has pursued this goal […]

All of us have been shaped with visible and invisible hands,” says Laura Kaiser, who as executive vice president and COO of Intermountain Healthcare, can draw on her own experience […]

When Brian Connolly was only 34 he became the first layperson on the board of the Daughters of Charity. It was 1985 and he’d just been appointed CEO of Providence […]

His wife of 37 years, Mary, doesn’t remember it, but Tom Sadvary first met her in an ambulance in Pittsburgh, he a paramedic, she an ICU nurse. “She was so […]

The classic American Dream, globally diversified today, involves European immigrants crossing the Atlantic on a freighter, working hard and sacrificing in America so their children can succeed. Say hello to […]

I f an individual could be an epicenter, Paul Tang, MD, would be that person for healthcare in the United States. His day job is appropriately located in Northern California, […]

Perhaps it’s not surprising that Christine Cassel, MD, pioneered the program called Choosing Wisely. Earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of Chicago seems like a good foundation […]

When Ernie Sadau was a teenager lying in a Fort Worth hospital bed he wrote a note on the dietary-tray response card that he’d like to talk to the hospital […]

It’s not surprising Don Wegmiller was elected to the Healthcare Hall of Fame this year. The honor crowns an already brilliant career that enters into yet another phase with seemingly […]

Pennsylvania seems to produce top healthcare executives like it does quarterbacks and Tom Zenty is no exception to that tradition. Zenty, 57, is president and CEO of University Hospitals, the […]