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 France, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with a degree...
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 CEO of Ascension Health, he served as the organization’s President, Healthcare Operations and Chief Operating Officer....
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, taking center stage in what became minute-to-minute on-the-job-training in how a world-class health system should...
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 after I kept looking for challenging things to do like architecture, computer science and law,”...
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 for such an ultimate pursuit. In between she earned a medical degree from the University...
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 school has ranked among the top in the nation, and is the country’s only federal...
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 of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners...
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 through direct patient care, medical education, policy and administrative roles and as a researcher. As...
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 as a guide. Kaiser, 53, was born in St. Louis and followed what seems like...
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 Hospital, a Daughters of Charity hospital in Southfield, Mich. Today he is president and CEO...
