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Patrice Harris and the Long Practice of Opening Doors
From a close-knit West Virginia childhood to the presidency of American medicine, Harris has built a career by moving between rooms - and holding the door for the people coming next.
Carol Palackdharry Has Spent a Career Working Between the Boxes
From an Ohio clinic to payer systems, nonprofit research and Curative, the Chicago physician executive has made a specialty of crossing boundaries that institutions prefer to keep tidy.
Anna Flattau Is Making Primary Care Big Enough to Stay Personal
Her career has been an experiment in a difficult form of growth: making care reach more people without letting the relationship at its center disappear.
Jennifer Byrne Took the Wrong Job - Then Spent 30 Years Fixing the Right Problem
She arrived with a new briefcase, dressed for pharmaceutical sales, and discovered she had been hired to coordinate clinical trials. The misunderstanding became a vocation - and eventually a company built to bring research into everyday care.
Kathy Wallace
Kathy Wallace is the CEO of LifeCare Hospital of Plano, part of LifeCare Hospitals of North Texas. A registered nurse with roughly 35 years in healthcare and about 18 of them at LifeCare, she rose through clinical and executive roles into the corner office. She is one of an all-female group of CEOs, all trained in critical care, who lead LifeCare's North Texas long-term acute care hospitals. Her focus is on early-intervention and mobilization protocols that shorten recovery times for the most fragile, critically ill patients while cutting readmissions.
Michael Harrington
Michael Harrington is the Chief Executive Officer, Practice Management at Vituity, the physician-owned, multispecialty partnership headquartered in Emeryville, California. An accountant by training, he has spent more than three decades inside healthcare operations and stepped into the CEO role in 2002 after years as Vituity's CFO.