Charles Sorenson, MD, the urologic cancer surgeon who has been an executive at Intermountain Healthcare for 18 years and the institution’s CEO since early 2009, will retire the helm in Salt Lake City next October.
But the 64-year-old, who was ranked ninth by Modern Healthcare in its 2015 list of the 50 most influential physician executives, won’t ride out of U.S. healthcare and into the sunset. Instead he will become founding director of the Intermountain Healthcare Leadership Institute.
According to an Intermountain news release, this new entity will house Intermountain’s existing Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research and “provide specialized leadership training programs for physicians and other clinical and operational leaders who have, or are capable of assuming, broader administrative responsibilities locally, nationally, and internationally.”
The 22-hospital, 40,000-employee health system said it plans to conduct a national search for a new CEO.
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