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28 eral Hospital in 2003. In addition to completing his training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General, he was as senior vice president and CMO from 1994 to 1997. He then served as president of St. Louis-based Barnes-Jewish Hospital for two years, but returned to Boston in 1999 to become chairman and CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Or- ganization, which included more than 1,700 physicians. Dr. Slavin is also a professor of healthcare policy at Boston-based Harvard Medical School, where he teaches internal medicine and healthcare management. Anthony D. Slonim, MD, DrPH. President and CEO of Renown Health (Reno, Nev.). Dr. Slonim has more than 15 years of executive healthcare leadership experience and is the nation's first quadruple board-certified physician — in internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine critical care and pediatric critical care. He took the helm at Re- nown Health in July 2014. Dr. Slonim's previous appointments include executive vice president and CMO of West Orange, N.J.-based Barnabas Health, CMO of Rockville, Md.-based Shady Grove Adventist Hospi- tal and vice president of medical affairs at Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Medical Center. In addition to leading Renown Health, Dr. Slonim holds faculty appointments at Newark-based University of Medicine and Den- tistry of New Jersey and Roanoke, Va.-based Jefferson College of Nurs- ing and Health. He is also a tenured professor of basic sciences, medi- cine and pediatrics at Roanoke-based Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Charles Sorenson, MD. President and CEO of Intermountain Health- care (Salt Lake City). Dr. Sorenson became president and CEO of In- termountain Healthcare in 2008, but he wasn't new to the system at the time. From 1998 until his current appointment, he served as Intermoun- tain's executive vice president and COO. In addition, he helped form the Intermountain Medical Group, an integrated physician practice of roughly 1,300 physicians and advanced practice clinicians, and was the founding chair of group's board from 1994 to 1998. Dr. Sorenson is a board-certified urologic surgeon who continues to practice and serves as an adjunct professor of surgery at Salt Lake City-based University of Utah. Mohan Suntha, MD. President and CEO of University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore). Dr. Suntha became president and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical Center effective Sept. 1. Prior to his appointment, he served as president and CEO of Towson-based University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center since 2012. rough the years, he has held numerous positions with the University of Mary- land Medical System, such as vice president for system program devel- opment. In addition to his CEO responsibilities, Dr. Suntha serves as vice chairman in the department of radiation oncology. In 2008, he was awarded the Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum professorship in radiation oncology. Kevin Tabb, MD. President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Med- ical Center (Boston). Dr. Tabb became CMO of Stanford (Calif.) Hos- pitals & Clinics in 2008 and held that position for three years before being named president and CEO of BIDMC, a teaching hospital of Bos- ton-based Harvard Medical School, in 2011. He joined Stanford Hospi- tals & Clinics in 2005 as chief quality and medical information officer. Dr. Tabb's other prior roles include president of clinical data services for GE Healthcare; director of disease management and clinical data services at MedicaLogic/Medscape, a health IT company; and a clinical informatics analyst at iKnowmed, an EHR vendor. Tony Tedeschi, MD. CEO of Weiss Memorial Hospital (Chicago) and CEO of Tenet Health Northeast Region, Chicago Market. Dr. Tedeschi has more than 20 years of operational and clinical leadership experience. He became CMO of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's Chicago Market in 2011. One year later, he was named CEO of Weiss Memorial Hospital. In January 2015, Dr. Tedeschi was appointed CEO of Tenet Healthcare's Chicago Market, in addition to his role as Weiss CEO. Prior to 2011, he served as COO of Chicago-based Cook County Health & Hospitals System. Dr. Tedeschi, a board-certified family practice physician, is also a clinical instructor at Chicago-based Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Craig B. ompson, MD. President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Ket- tering (New York City). In November 2010, Dr. ompson took over as president and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. For the 11 years prior to his appointment, he was affiliated with the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, where he served as director of the Abramson Cancer Center and associate vice president for cancer services at Phil- adelphia-based University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. omp- son has also been an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, as well as a professor of medicine and director of the Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research at the University of Chicago. A board-certified internist and medical oncol- ogist, Dr. ompson has founded three biotechnology companies and holds numerous patents related to immunotherapy and apoptosis. David Torchiana, MD. President and CEO of Partners HealthCare (Boston). Dr. Torchiana, a heart surgeon, was named president and CEO of Partners HealthCare in February 2015. Aer finishing resi- dencies in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, he joined Massachusetts General's depart- ment of surgery in 1989. Dr. Torchiana was named Massachusetts Gen- eral's chief of cardiac surgery in 1998, and in 2003, he took on the role of CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization in Boston. In addition to leading Partners, Dr. Torchiana is an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Nick Turkal, MD. President and CEO of Aurora Health Care (Mil- waukee). In 1987, Dr. Turkal joined Aurora Health Care, Wisconsin's largest private employer. roughout his more than 25 years with the system, he has held various positions, including senior vice president and CMO and president of Aurora's Metro Region. In 2006, he was appointed president and CEO of the system. He now oversees Aurora Health Care's more than 31,000 employees. Under his leadership, Aurora has focused on diversity efforts and launched e Better Together Fund, through which the health system and the Greater Milwaukee Founda- tion have provided $10 million to organizations that support primary care, behavioral health services and domestic violence prevention. Dr. Turkal is a member of the American Hospital Association Governing Council for Health Care Systems. John Warner, MD, Vice President and CEO of UT Southwestern Uni- versity Hospitals (Dallas). Dr. Warner was named vice president and CEO of UT Southwestern University Hospitals in February 2012. Previ- ously, he served as assistant vice president for hospital planning, where he was instrumental in the design and planning of UT Southwestern's new 460-bed William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. Dr. Warner, an interventional cardiologist, has also served as medical director of the Doris and Harry W. Bass, Jr. Clinical Center for Heart, Lung and Vas- cular Disease. In March, Dr. Warner was named senior executive officer of the joint operating company that oversees the three primary Dallas hospitals that comprise Southwestern Health Resources, a clinically in- tegrated health network formed by Arlington-based Texas Health Re- sources and UT Southwestern Medical Center. He will retain his posi- tion at UT Southwestern. James Weinstein, DO. President and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock (Lebanon, N.H.). In 2011, Dr. Weinstein took on the role of president and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a $2 billion system that includes New Hampshire's only academic medical center. Before his appoint- ment, he was president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and director of e Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which