Cedars-Sinai Health System named Dr. Peter Slavin its next president and CEO, effective Oct. 1.
Slavin, who also will be president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, succeeds Thomas Priselac, who is retiring after 30 years as president and CEO at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the subsequent Cedars-Sinai Health System. Priselac spent 45 years overall at the system, according to a Tuesday news release.
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Slavin was president of Massachusetts General Hospital from 2003 to 2021 and taught at the hospital throughout his tenure. He first joined Boston-based Massachusetts General in 1984 to practice internal medicine and was named chief medical officer in 1994. Three years later, Slavin was tapped to lead Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis as president, before returning to Boston in 1999 to be chair and CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.
Slavin also was a healthcare policy professor at Harvard Medical School, for which Massachusetts General serves as a teaching hospital.
Since 2021, Slavin said he has served on the boards for telehealth company Amwell and health plans organization Point32Health, in addition to being an operating partner at private equity firm Advent International and advising several smaller healthcare technology companies. Slavin said he will scale back on these roles once he steps in to his new position at Cedars-Sinai.
Serving in an advisory capacity did not have the same draw as working with patients and clinicians at a medical center, Slavin said.
"I've been impressed from a distance watching [Cedars-Sinai] evolve," Slavin said. "I just want to keep it on the roll it's been on the last couple of decades under Tom's leadership."
Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has more than 40 locations, with roughly 4,500 physicians and nurses.
