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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.

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...

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,”...

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...

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...

As a newly minted graduate in biology and environmental sciences in 1978, Howard P. Kern saw the healthcare industry as full of opportunity and...

Dr. Marc Harrison - a third-generation physician whose son is now in medical school - took the top job at Intermountain Healthcare in October...

When Tina Freese Decker was growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, chatting about the weather was serious business. Her meteorologist father had cofounded a...