Steven Safyer was named president and chief executive officer of 1,002-bed Montefiore Medical Center, New York, succeeding Spencer Foreman, a healthcare industry statesman who is retiring on Jan. 7, 2008, after nearly 22 years as its president.
Like Foreman, Safyer, 58, is a physician who has held increasingly senior leadership positions throughout his 25-year career at Montefiore, the university hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Since 1998, he has been senior vice president and chief medical officer and is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology and population health at Einstein. In 2006, he was named founding chairman of the Bronx Regional Health Information Organization, an independent, not-for-profit community-based organization formed to build a technology-based regional health information exchange.
Sayfer pledged “a more integrated, strategic alignment” with Einstein. He received his bachelor of science degree from Cornell University, his medical degree from Albert Einstein, and is board-certified in internal medicine. Safyer was selected after an eight-month national search. -- by Cinda Becker
