50 Most Influential Physician Executives – 2015
Rank: 9
Charles Sorenson
President and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare
Dr. Charles Sorenson has been president and CEO of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare since 2008, where he oversees a network that includes 22 hospitals, more than 185 clinics and 1,100 physicians. A board-certified urologic surgeon, Sorenson has served as chairman of the committee on young surgeons for the American College of Surgeons, president of the Utah Urologic Society and as speaker of the House of Delegates of the Utah Medical Association. In addition to his administrative duties, Sorenson helped create the Intermountain Medical Group, an integrated practice of approximately 1,000 physicians employed by Intermountain. He also serves as an adjunct professor of surgery at the University of Utah's School of Medicine.