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 of executive management experience in healthcare and in his current role as President and Chief...
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 system of 23 hospitals, 170 clinics, a medical group with 2,300 employed physicians and advanced-practice...
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 Freese-Notis Weather that continues to thrive today; she is now weathering the storms of change...
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 50-pound sacks of red wheat in the 110-degree Texas summers. Today, as president and CEO...
“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 Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, a $6 billion healthcare organization. “We must keep our eyes on...
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 clinics in 85 locations, 2,000 physicians and 25,000 employees. Before joining UCLA, Spisso ran University of Washington...
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, where she will be responsible for the strategic and operational aspects of Ascension’s healthcare division, with...
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 immigrants and met in a dancehall, just swap Chicago for Brooklyn. Growing up in a...
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 a suit seemingly overnight when she was appointed president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Allina Health,...
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. Well, that is, he had no clinical or management training in healthcare and never aspired...
