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President and Chief Executive Officer

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David Entwistle is President and CEO of Stanford Health Care (SHC). He joined SHC in July 2016 with extensive executive experience at leading academic medical centers. Most recently he served as CEO of the University of Utah Hospital & Clinics (UUHC) for nine years. UUHC is the only academic medical center in the Intermountain West region, with 1,100 board-certified physicians who staff four university hospitals, 10 community clinics and several specialty centers. It is consistently ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals and in 2010 was No. 1 on the prestigious University HealthSystem Consortium’s Quality and Accountability scorecard. While serving at UUHC, Entwistle received the Modern Healthcare “Up and Comers Award,” for significant contributions in healthcare administration, management or policy. He previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin from 2002-2007; and as Vice President of Professional Services and Joint Venture Operations at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. As a recognized health care thought leader, Entwistle serves on the boards of the American Hospital Association, the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Vizient (formerly University Healthsystem Consortium). He is the past chair of the Utah Hospital Association and was appointed by the governor of Utah to the state’s Medicaid Task Force. He earned a bachelor's degree in Health Sciences from Brigham Young University and a Master’s in Health Services Administration from Arizona State University. He also was awarded a postgraduate administrative fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.