Who: Dr. Gary Gottlieb, 59
New role: CEO of Partners in Health, a not-for-profit that operates globally to address healthcare access where poverty is prevalent, including recent work in the West African nations fighting Ebola. Gottlieb will begin his new role in July 2015. He has been a PIH board member for eight years.
Previous position: Since 2010, he has been president and CEO of Partners HealthCare, the largest health system in Massachusetts with 12 hospitals. Previously, he was president of Brigham & Women's Hospital, a Partners facility, from 2002 to 2009.
Background: Gottlieb arrived in Boston in the late 1990s after nearly a decade in academic medicine and hospital administration in Pennsylvania. A psychiatry professor at Harvard University School of Medicine, he was named chairman of psychiatry and mental health for Partners in 1998 and held executive positions at Brigham & Women's and North Shore Medical Center before becoming Partners' CEO.
Partners' challenges: Gottlieb announced his departure from Partners Healthcare as it contends with controversy and pushback from other Massachusetts health systems over its planned hospital acquisitions in the state. “We are in a time of extreme change,” he told the Boston Globe. “That means transforming a lot of the work we do. There are people who will have problems with that.”
