Gary Gottlieb, MD, is stepping down as president and CEO of Boston-based Partners HealthCare next year to lead Partners in Health, a nonprofit organization that provides medical care in impoverished counties.
Dr. Gottlieb has led 10-hospital Partners HealthCare since 2010. He will transition to his new role in July 2015.
Partners in Health, despite the similarity in name, is not affiliated with Partners HealthCare. The nonprofit was co-founded by Paul Farmer, MD, a medical anthropologist and professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
"I will lead a remarkable and courageous group of professionals with a steadfast commitment to providing health care to those at greatest need throughout the world by developing innovative models of delivery for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people," Dr. Gottlieb said in a statement to staff, as reported by Boston.com. "The importance of building great health care systems across the globe has been magnified by the tragedy of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, where inadequate medical services now imperil entire nations."