AATS Member Spotlight

This week's featured member is:

Larry Kaiser, MD

University of Pennsylvania

General Thoracic

Member Since: 1991

Biography:

Having practiced as an academic general thoracic surgeon for 35 years, Dr. Kaiser also served in leadership positions in academic medicine for over 20 years. Prior to joining consulting firm Alvarez and Marsal as a managing director in 2020, he served for almost nine years as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Temple University Health System, a $2.5B system, Senior Executive Vice-President for Health Affairs, and the inaugural Lewis Katz Dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

Before joining Temple University, Dr. Kaiser served as President of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, the largest of the six health-related institutions of the University of Texas. and held the Alkek-Williams Distinguished Chair.

He graduated AOA from the Tulane University School of Medicine in 1977 and completed his residency in general surgery as well as a fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles followed by residency in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the University of Toronto. He was appointed as attending thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Assistant Professor at Cornell and subsequently as Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis). At the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Kaiser held a variety of positions, including chief of general thoracic surgery, founder and director of the university’s lung transplantation program, the first in the Northeast, and co-director of the Thoracic Oncology Laboratory. In 2001 he was named the John Rhea Barton Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery as well as Surgeon in Chief for the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

He is the author or co-author of 20 books and more than 350 original papers, and he serves on multiple editorial boards including the Annals of Surgery and the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Kaiser has served as a director of both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and in 2005 was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine).

At Alvarez and Marsal Dr. Kaiser works at the intersection between academic medical centers and health systems with a special interest in strategy, physician practice management and performance improvement.

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