Dr. Klein brings a uniquely grounded perspective to enterprise technology leadership, drawing on 20 years as a board-certified emergency physician to inform his approach to IT strategy, change management and clinical workflow optimization across a health system encompassing 18 hospitals, more than 500 patient care locations, and a team of more than 1,000 IT professionals with a capital and operating budget exceeding $500 million annually. His clinical background spans service as president of an emergency medicine physician group and work as a physician for the Baltimore Orioles, where he instilled the crisis management, cross-functional teamwork and rapid problem-solving skills he now applies to enterprise-scale technology challenges. Prior to joining Hackensack Meridian Health in 2025, Dr. Klein served nearly a decade at the Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System, most recently as senior vice president and CIO, where he led more than 800 team members, implemented a single Epic clinical system across the entire organization, overhauled physical network infrastructure and guided the organization’s command response to a worldwide Kronos timekeeping system outage. At Hackensack Meridian Health, his areas of early focus include IT security, governance and a transformational shift to Workday impacting payroll, accounts payable and financial systems across 38,000 team members and 7,000 physicians, alongside AI-enabled initiatives such as a platform to enhance operating room efficiency, which is currently being scaled across the system. Hackensack University Medical Center has been named to U.S. News & World Report‘s national honor roll and ranked No. 1 in both the New York metro area and New Jersey.
