James R. Downing, MD. President and CEO of St. Jude’s Research Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.). Dr. Downing was appointed president and CEO of St. Jude’s in July 2014. Prior to this role, he served as deputy director, executive vice president and…
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Ronald DePinho, MD. President of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston). Prior to being appointed the fourth full-time president of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. DePinho spent 14 years at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where…
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Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, N.H., has laid off six workers and cut positions, a hospital spokeswoman said, according to a report from The Keene Sentinel.
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David J. Bailey, MD. President and CEO of Nemours Children’s Health System (Jacksonville, Fla.). Since 2006, Dr. Bailey has been president and CEO of Nemour’s, an integrated children’s health system, where he has aimed to sharpen the organization’s strategic focus…
Employees in organizations across all industries are demanding a new level of transparency from their bosses — more than some leaders may be comfortable with. However, that wasn't the case for Carolyn Everson, vice president of global marketing solutions at…
Five leading Democratic presidential candidates participated in the first Democratic debate Tuesday night, hosted by CNN and Facebook. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), former governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley, former U.S. Senator Jim Webb…
In the past, healthcare has been an adversarial arena for participants – including providers, payers, clinicians, administrators, technologists and, dare we say, patients. The economic engines behind our industry have wrongly incented volume- over value-based behavior, at a mounting cost…