Dr. Huang serves as chief physician executive for Providence and chief executive of the Providence Clinical Network, encompassing all of Providence’s ambulatory operations with over 10,000 physicians and advanced practice providers, 30,000 caregivers and 1,100 clinics. She is responsible for diagnostics, ExpressCare and urgent care centers, clinical institutes, graduate medical education, research, genomics, value-based care, virtual care, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, and the Institute for Human Caring. In her role as the organization’s top physician executive, she leads efforts to revitalize the practice of medicine for all physicians and advanced practice providers while driving clinical excellence and innovation across the Providence system. Her career has spanned clinical leadership, payer-provider strategy, AI innovation and academic medicine, with prior roles as chief medical officer for Providence’s South Division, CEO of California’s payer-provider Providence Health Network, and as chief value medical officer at the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group within Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health. Dr. Huang helped develop one of the first successful AI models in healthcare at Google, and is a published scientific author in journals including Nature. She is also a board-certified dermatologist. Dr. Huang will be joining Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health as its next president and CEO, beginning June 16, 2026.
