21 Sep J.P. Gallagher, President & CEO, NorthShore University HealthSystem
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. ...
26 Jul Nancy Howell Agee, President and CEO, Carilion Clinic
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...
20 May Bill Manns, President & CEO, Bronson Healthcare
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="pagecontent"] “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 gain experience toward that goal. However, when he landed an internship through the University of Michigan’s Summer Enrichment Program—a program...
19 Feb 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, bred in northern Maryland's horse country, comes in handy as president and CEO of Northern Light Health, a Brewer, Maine-based 10-hospital...
16 Nov 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 underestimate the amount of change over the long term. That was before the COVID pandemic flipped that axiom on its head,...
03 Aug 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 when she realized her work life needed more human interaction. At a faculty advisor’s suggestion she pivoted and earned a master’s...
24 Jun Cathy Jacobson, President & CEO, Froedtert Health
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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 of consolidation—in her small hometown 90 minutes west of Chicago. That’s also where her mother, an RN, mentored her in the...
15 Apr 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,” he recalls, and registered for pre-law courses at Brigham Young University. However, several healthcare executives he met during a two-year mission...
13 Feb Gene Woods, President and CEO, Atrium Health
[caption id="attachment_34780" align="alignleft" width="300"] Eugene A. Woods, MBA, MHA, FACHE[/caption] 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 36 hospitals, over 900 care locations...
22 Jul 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 Chicago Medical Center, is no exception. She grew up in Bucktown, a Polish neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side where over 100 relatives...