Bill Manns, President & CEO, Bronson Healthcare
“I grew up thinking I wanted to be a physician,” says Bill Manns, who worked in Michigan’s Wayne County morgue as a teenager to...
Tim Dentry, President & CEO, Northern Light Health
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,...
Marc Boom, MD, President & CEO, Houston Methodist
In the past Marc Boom, MD, often quoted Bill Gates on our tendency to overestimate the amount of change in the short term and...
Michelle Hood, Executive VP and COO, AHA
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...
Cathy Jacobson, President & CEO, Froedtert Health
Cathy Jacobson always returns to the kitchen. That’s where she began her healthcare career as a 16-year-old in a 70-bed community hospital—a long-ago casualty...
David Entwistle, President & CEO, Stanford Health Care
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,”...
Gene Woods, President and CEO, Atrium Health
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...
Sharon O’Keefe, President, UChicago Medical Center
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...
Howard Kern, President and CEO, Sentara Healthcare
As a newly minted graduate in biology and environmental sciences in 1978, Howard P. Kern saw the healthcare industry as full of opportunity and...
Mark Harrison, MD, President & CEO, Intermountain Healthcare
Dr. Marc Harrison - a third-generation physician whose son is now in medical school - took the top job at Intermountain Healthcare in October...