Experience

American Medical Association

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Jun 2011 - Present

  Chicago, Washington D.C., Menlo Park CEO of the American Medical Association, the nation’s oldest and most influential physician organization with offices in Chicago and Washington DC. As the physicians’ powerful ally in patient care, AMA is focused on elevating the physician voice to help remove obstacles that interfere with patient care, improve public health and drive the future of medicine through improved technology, training and education. The mission of the AMA is to promote the art and science of medicine and the… Show more CEO of the American Medical Association, the nation’s oldest and most influential physician organization with offices in Chicago and Washington DC. As the physicians’ powerful ally in patient care, AMA is focused on elevating the physician voice to help remove obstacles that interfere with patient care, improve public health and drive the future of medicine through improved technology, training and education. The mission of the AMA is to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health, and its House of Medicine represents physicians from every state and most specialty and sub-specialty medical societies. AMA has an annual operating budget of $480 million and more than 1,200 employees largely located in Chicago, Washington DC, and Menlo Park. Show less



Health2047

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairperson, Board of Directors (and a founder)

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California, United States For-profit venture creation company focused on entrepreneurial solutions to problems defined at the patient-physician interface. Multiple spinout companies launched.



Selected Lifetime Achievement/International Awards

• Honoree

  • 1985 - Present

  - Co-chair, VISAC (collaborative), National Academy of Medicine, 2015-present - D.Sc. (hon), University of Toledo, (and Commencement Address to College of Medicine), 2014 - Member, Leadership Consortium on Value and Science Driven Health Care, National Academy of Medicine, 2015-present - Board Member, Research!America, 2013-2022 - Elected, "Drexel 100" (Alumni Hall of Fame), Drexel University, 2013 - Member, Institute of Medicine Roundtable, 2012-2015 - Board member (Chair… Show more - Co-chair, VISAC (collaborative), National Academy of Medicine, 2015-present - D.Sc. (hon), University of Toledo, (and Commencement Address to College of Medicine), 2014 - Member, Leadership Consortium on Value and Science Driven Health Care, National Academy of Medicine, 2015-present - Board Member, Research!America, 2013-2022 - Elected, "Drexel 100" (Alumni Hall of Fame), Drexel University, 2013 - Member, Institute of Medicine Roundtable, 2012-2015 - Board member (Chair Comp Comm), MATTER (corporate incubator), 2015 - present - Named, 50 Most Influential Physician Executives, Modern Healthcare (multiple years) - Named, 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare, Modern Healthcare (multiple years) - Named, Who's Who in Chicago, Crain's Chicago Business (multiple years) - Recipient, D.H.L. degree (Hon), Juniata College, Delivery of Commencement Address, 2012 - Davenport Award (Lifetime Achievement in Physiological Research), Amer Physiol.Assoc, 2011. - Lifetime Career Research Mentoring Award, American Gastro. Association, 2011. - Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University, 2012-present. - Designee, "Distinguished Service Professor", University of Chicago, 2005-2009. - Astra-Zeneca International Prize for Distinguished Research in Digestive Disease, 2002. - Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Pathology 2000-2003. - Senior Fogarty International Scholar, Institute Pasteur, Paris, 1993. - MERIT Awardee, National Institute of Health, 1997-2007. - American Association of Physicians: Elected Member, 1997. - Member, then Chairperson, General Medicine A2 Study Section, NIH, 1993-1998. - International State-of-the-Art Lectureship, British Society of Gastroenterology, 1994. - Harvard University: Honorary Degree, M.A., 1993 - Physician-Scientist Award, Amer. Gastro. Assoc., 1991 - Warner- Lambert/Parke-Davis Award for Experimental Pathology, 1990 - Amer Soc for Clin. Invest (ASCI), Elected Member, 1988 Show less



Leavitt Partners

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Advisor

  • 2010 - 2011

  Leavitt Partners, founded by former Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, advises providers and private equity in the healthcare space relating to the emerging regulatory environment in which strategic plans will unfold and investments will be made.



University of Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• CEO, Medical Center; Dean, BSD and Pritzker School of Medicine; Thompson Disting. Service Professor

  • Jan 2002 - Nov 2009

  Led a $1.6 billion unit which included the medical school, biological sciences, and the hospitals and clinics. Worked with trustees to integrate the subcomponents of this unit, competed in 2006. The medical school ranking rose from 22nd to 13th during this period, a $1.5 billion capital renewal of biomedicine and health was financed and enacted, student selectivity rose from 43rd to 3rd nationally, 17 new Chairs and Institute Directors were placed, a 5-7% operating income was built while… Show more Led a $1.6 billion unit which included the medical school, biological sciences, and the hospitals and clinics. Worked with trustees to integrate the subcomponents of this unit, competed in 2006. The medical school ranking rose from 22nd to 13th during this period, a $1.5 billion capital renewal of biomedicine and health was financed and enacted, student selectivity rose from 43rd to 3rd nationally, 17 new Chairs and Institute Directors were placed, a 5-7% operating income was built while investment in research and education increased by >300%. Rating agencies increased the bond rating from A to AA- during this period and several unique national (HHMI-Janelia Farms; Ludwig Institute) and local partnerships (Northshore University Healthsystem, Mercy Hospital, South Side Federally Qualified Health Clinics) were formed. Show less



Emory University School of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Timmie Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • 1997 - 2002

  Chairman of Department which rose in ranking from ~40th nationally to top ten by 2003.



Harvard Medical School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor of Pathology, (Harvard Tenure Conferred in 1993)

  • 1980 - 1997

  Greater Boston Area Built the GI Pathology Unit at Brigham and Womens and served as Director of the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center.

• Resident (Pathology) then Research Fellow (Epithelial Cell Biology)

  • Jul 1975 - Jun 1980

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States