Hospitals
10 healthcare executives
These ten healthcare executives currently serve as CEOs, presidents, chief operating officers or executive vice presidents of health systems and healthcare companies. Readers can learn how healthcare leaders run multi-hospital systems, manage operations and quality, and plan growth and integration.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anne Klibanski, M.D.
LinkedInExperience: President and CEO · Mass General Brigham
President and CEO of Mass General Brigham since 2019, and former Chief Academic Officer, Academic Dean there (2012–2019). Her profile describes Mass General Brigham as a Boston-based integrated healthcare system that includes Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. She has also been Laurie Carrol Guthart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School since 2009.
Bryan Croft
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital · Cedars-Sinai
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital at Cedars-Sinai since 2023. He was Senior Vice President of Operations (2017–2023) and Vice President of Operations (2010–2017) at Cedars-Sinai, and Vice President of Operations at Houston Methodist (2005–2010).
Erik Wexler
LinkedInExperience: President and CEO · Providence
President and CEO of Providence since 2025, and his listing also shows a President & COO role at Providence dating from 2016. His profile says he is responsible for a seven-state family of organizations that delivers care through 51 hospitals, 1,000 clinics and a global operations center in Hyderabad.
Jeffrey Flaks
LinkedInExperience: President & Chief Executive Officer, Hartford HealthCare · Hartford HealthCare
President & Chief Executive Officer, Hartford HealthCare since 2019; his profile describes Hartford HealthCare as an $8-billion health system. His other listed roles there are President & Chief Operating Officer, Hartford HealthCare (2016–2019), Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Hartford HealthCare (2013–2016) and President & Chief Executive Officer, Hartford Hospital (2011–2013).
Johnese Spisso
LinkedInExperience: President, UCLA Health & CEO, UCLA Hospital System · UCLA Health
President, UCLA Health & CEO, UCLA Hospital System since 2016; her profile describes UCLA Health as a nonprofit organization. She was Chief Health System Officer and Vice President, Medical Affairs, UW at UW Medicine (2007–2016) and Chief Operating Officer, Harborview Medical Center at UW Medicine (2000–2007).
Kasey Paulus
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer · WellSpan Health
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at WellSpan Health since 2024. Her profile describes her as a former chief nursing executive and a health system operator focused on operations, access and throughput, and quality and safety, who leads integrated systems through high reliability and disciplined execution. She was VP Patient Care Services, Chief Nursing Officer at WellSpan Health (2021–2023).
Kelly Corbi
LinkedInExperience: EVP & System Chief Operating Officer · Kaleida Health
EVP & System Chief Operating Officer at Kaleida Health since 2024. She was President, Tufts Medicine MelroseWakefield & Lawrence Memorial Hospital EVP, Tufts Medicine (2022–2024), System Chief Operating Officer at SolutionHealth (2019–2021) and Chief Integration Officer & Senior Vice President, LifeBridge Health (2017–2019). Her profile describes experience leading healthcare systems, growth strategies, operational efficiency and system integration.
Marc D. Miller
LinkedInExperience: President and Chief Executive Officer · UHS
President and Chief Executive Officer of UHS (Universal Health Services) since 2021, and President of UHS since 2009. His listing also shows Facility Level Executive Leadership at UHS (1995–2008), and his profile describes the company's mission as providing superior quality healthcare.
Suresh Gunasekaran
LinkedInExperience: President & Chief Executive Officer · UCSF Health
President & Chief Executive Officer of UCSF Health since 2022. His profile describes UCSF Health as a health system that includes UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics and the UCSF Faculty Practice. He was CEO-University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Associate Vice President-University of Iowa Health Care (2018–2022) and Chief Operations Officer, Health System at UT Southwestern Medical Center (2015–2018).
Warner Thomas
LinkedInExperience: Chief Executive Officer · Sutter Health
Chief Executive Officer of Sutter Health since 2022. His profile describes Sutter Health as one of the country's largest not-for-profit health systems, where he leads a team of 65,000 employees and 14,000 aligned physicians and clinicians. He was President and CEO of Ochsner Health System (1998–2022).
Choose the right perspective
Match the executive's current role to your question: CEOs and presidents for system strategy, governance and partnerships, and chief operating officers for hospital operations, access and throughput. Consider whether an academic medical center or a community system is closer to your own setting.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you set priorities across hospitals with very different financial and clinical positions?
- 02What operating changes have done the most to improve patient access and throughput in your system?
- 03How do you approach integrating a newly affiliated hospital or physician group?
About this directory
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