Intermountain Healthcare names new chief executive officer

A. Marc Harrison, MD- CEO Intermountain Healthcare

A.Marc Harrison, MD has officially started as the new president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare. In this role, he succeeds Charles Sorenson, MD, who retired as president and CEO on October 15.

Harrison has spent much of his career in pediatric critical care and as a health system physician leader. He most recently held positions as chief of international business development for Cleveland Clinic, headquartered in Ohio, and CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, a multi-specialty hospital and part of Mubadala Healthcare's network of facilities.

At Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Harrison assembled a 3,500-member multinational workforce and oversaw all aspects of clinical and business operations for the new medical campus, which cared for patients from 31 countries in its first 10 months of operation.

Harrison's earlier roles included serving as chief medical operations officer for Cleveland Clinic, where he was responsible for a broad range of worldwide clinical operations, and as chairman of Pediatric Critical Care.

Like Healthcare Finance on Facebook

He earned an undergraduate degree at Haverford College and a medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School, then completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric critical care through the University of Utah School of Medicine, working at Intermountain's Primary Children's Hospital. His wife, Mary Carole Harrison, MD, was a resident and served as the chief resident in the same program. Harrison later received a master's of Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University and completed additional study in management at Harvard Business School.

Sorenson, while now retired as CEO, will continue with Intermountain as founding director of the Intermountain Healthcare Leadership Institute, which is expected to open in 2018. The Leadership Institute will offer leadership courses to senior-level healthcare physician leaders and administrators from around the world.

In a statement, Harrison said helping people live healthy lives "is a purpose that is dear to my heart."

Twitter: @JELagasse