100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2021

Harrison leads an organization of 38,000 employees. Under his leadership, Intermountain launched Civica Rx, a not-for-profit generic drug manufacturer and distributor, and the Utah Alliance for the Determinants of Health, a community collaboration. Harrison previously served as CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, chief of international business development at Cleveland Clinic, and chief medical operations officer at Cleveland Clinic. He’s a pediatric critical-care physician with a Master’s of Medical Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Harrison speaks: “An excellent healthcare provider is one who puts the patient, who is the consumer, at the center of everything they do. They work equally hard to keep people well and out of the hospital as they do to care for them when they are sick or injured and need to be hospitalized.”