Mr. Couris has served as president and CEO of Florida Health Sciences Center, the parent organization of Tampa General Hospital, since 2017, leading its transformation into a statewide academic health system that now includes seven hospitals and more than 150 care locations across Florida. The organization has more than $3.4 billion in revenue and approximately 15,000 team members and providers serving more than 6 million Floridians annually, and Mr. Couris oversees its academic partnership with the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine. Since 2017, he has led an expansion that increased the system’s market share by 20%, grew net revenue by 172% and expanded service lines from two to 22. He has championed innovation through partnerships with Palantir and GE Healthcare that produced AI-enabled care coordination and predictive analytics tools, which the organization credits with eliminating 20,000 excess hospital days, reducing emergency department diversion by 25% and generating more than $50 million in savings. Mr. Couris also helped establish TGH at Home, a nationally recognized hospital-at-home program developed with Shields Health Innovations, and spearheaded a $550 million master facility plan supporting the Tampa Medical & Research District. Under his leadership, employee engagement scores rose from the 40th percentile to the 92nd percentile nationally, and Tampa General was ranked the top hospital in the Tampa Bay region for the 11th consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report’s 2026-2027 “Best Hospitals” rankings.
