Stanford (Calif.) Health Care CEO Amir Dan Rubin has announced his departure from the Bay Area academic health system to join insurance and health services giant UnitedHealth Group and its information-technology subsidiary, Optum.
Rubin, 46, will leave Stanford at the end of 2015 to join the Minneapolis-based company as an executive vice president. Stanford Health Care's board of directors has appointed a committee to search for his replacement, the system said Thursday.
Rubin became president and CEO of Stanford Health Care in January 2011. Under his leadership, the system acquired ValleyCare Health System, expanding its reach into the East Bay area, opened a cancer center in San Jose, Calif., and expanded its outpatient network, including several new on-site workplace clinics.
The system also broke ground on the new Stanford Hospital, which is expected to be open in 2018.
Before joining Stanford, Rubin was the chief operating officer at UCLA Health System. He joined UCLA in 2005, after serving as COO of Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital. Prior to that, he worked as a healthcare consultant in the Bay Area for several years.
“I wish to share my heartfelt appreciation for the honor of having served Stanford Health Care as President and CEO,” Rubin said in a statement. “It has been the privilege of a lifetime to work with such spectacular people dedicated to healing humanity through science and compassion, one patient at a time.”
