Of the 125 physician leaders on Becker's Hospital Review's 2013 list of Physician Leaders of Hospitals and Health Systems, 8 of them are from children's hospitals.
Steve Allen, MD. CEO of Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, Ohio). Dr. Allen, who is board certified in anesthesiology and critical care medicine, was named CEO of Nationwide Children's Hospital in July 2006. He previously served as a physician, scientist, teacher and executive at Texas Medical Center in Houston.
Steven M. Altschuler, MD. CEO of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Since 2000, Dr. Altschuler has led The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as CEO. Previously, he served as physician-in-chief, held the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Endowed Chair in Pediatrics at CHOP and served as professor and chair of the pediatrics department at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Altschuler became a member of CHOP's medical staff in 1985.
David J. Bailey, MD. President and CEO of Nemours (Jacksonville, Fla.). Dr. Bailey became president and CEO of Nemours, a children's health system, in 2006 after holding various leadership positions throughout the system since 1997. His Nemours career began at the Nemours Children's Clinic in Orlando, Fla., and led him to serve as the system's first COO in 2003. Before joining Nemours, he established the division of pediatric gastroenterology at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando. Dr. Bailey also served in the Army Medical Corps in various positions.
Thomas Hansen, MD. CEO of Seattle Children's. Dr. Hansen has been CEO of Seattle Children's since October 2005 and is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Previously, he served as chairman and CEO of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
M. Narendra Kini, MD. President and CEO of Miami Children's Hospital. Dr. Kini, who is board certified in pediatric emergency medicine, became president and CEO of Miami Children's Hospital in 2008. He previously served as executive vice president of clinical operations improvement at Trinity Health in Novi, Mich., for four years.
James Mandell, MD. CEO of Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Mandell, a urologist, is CEO of Boston Children's Hospital. He is a member of the board of trustees and a senior associate in urology at the hospital. Dr. Mandell is also a professor of surgery (urology) at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Kurt Newman, MD. President and CEO of Children's National Medical Center (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Newman became president and CEO of Children's National Medical Center after serving in several roles at the hospital. After joining the organization in 1984, he served as surgeon-in-chief and senior vice president of the Joseph E. Robert Jr. Center for Surgical Care and vice president of the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation.
Jeffrey Sperring, MD. President and CEO of Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health (Indianapolis). Dr. Sperring, a board-certified pediatrician, is president and CEO of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. He served as an officer in the United States Navy Medical Corps from 1995 to 2001.