Stephen K. Klasko

Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., MBA, is president and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health. He has championed transformation of American health care as university president, dean of two medical colleges, and CEO of three academic health centers. Since 2014, Jefferson Health has grown from a three hospital urban academic medical center with annual revenues of $1.8 billion to an eleven hospital geographically dispersed regional academic medical center with eleven hospitals and annual revenues of $4.8 billion. Klasko is author of 2016’s We CAN Fix Healthcare in America, and editor in chief of Healthcare Transformation. He is an international speaker on changing the DNA of health care through physician leadership and his entrepreneurial spirit helped one university he led to be in the top ten in the world for obtaining U.S. patents. He serves on the corporate board and audit committee of Teleflex (TFX: NYSE), a multi-billion dollar health care solutions corporation. He also serves on the board of Lehigh University, the Emory University/Georgia Tech Innovation advisory board, and the Friedrich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.