CEO CFO speaker series – Q&A

Michael D. Connelly, JD. President and CEO of Mercy Health (Cincinnati). Mercy Health, a $6 billion nonprofit system previously known as Catholic Health Partners, has been led by Mr. Connelly since 1995. Under his leadership, Mercy Health’s community benefit commitments…

Christopher C. Colenda, MD. President and CEO of West Virginia United Health System Fairmont. Dr. Colenda joined WVU Health System as president and CEO in January 2014, but he was chancellor for health sciences at the university prior to his…

James Cole. President and CEO of Virginia Hospital Center (Arlington). Mr. Cole has been at the helm of Virginia Hospital Center for more than 20 years, and before becoming president and CEO in 1994 he was the hospital’s COO, among…

James R. Burkhart. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital. Mr. Burkhart became president and CEO of Tampa General in March 2013. Previously, he was president and CEO of another nonprofit teaching hospital, Shands Jacksonville (Fla.) Medical Center. Mr. Burkhart, a fellow in…

Kevin Brown. President and CEO of Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta). Piedmont Healthcare welcomed Mr. Brown as president and CEO in May 2013. Mr. Brown joined the Atlanta-based, five-hospital system from Swedish Health Services, the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in the greater…

Lynn Britton. President and CEO of Mercy (St. Louis). Mr. Britton has been president and CEO of Mercy since 2009, but his career within the 46-hospital health system began more than 18 years ago. During his time with the system,…

Akram Boutros, MD. President and CEO of The MetroHealth System (Cleveland). Dr. Boutros earned his medical degree from the State University of New York Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn and is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced…

Marna Borgstrom. President and CEO of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System. In addition to leading YNHHS, Ms. Borgstrom is also CEO of Yale-New Haven Hospital. Ms. Borgstrom has been with the organization since 1979 and has held various positions,…

David J. Bailey, MD. President and CEO of Nemours (Jacksonville, Fla.). Dr. Bailey has been at the helm of Nemours, an integrated children’s health system that includes two freestanding hospitals in the Delaware Valley and Florida and 45 clinics in…

Carl Armato. President and CEO of Novant Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.). Since Mr. Armato joined Novant Health in 1998 as vice president of finance and operations for the physician divisions, he has climbed the ladder, serving in various positions such as…