MSU Chief Medical Officer Named To Becker Healthcare Top 100 List

March 3, 2020

Anthony Avellino, chief medical officer for MSU HealthTeam was recently named on Becker’s Healthcare 2020 "100 hospital and health system chief medical officers to know."

His profile cites: “Dr. Avellino stepped into his current position at Michigan State University in February 2018 and spent his first year rebuilding the system's entire quality infrastructure. He previously served as CEO of Peoria-based OSF HealthCare Illinois Neurological Institute, where he was responsible for more than 84 clinicians and 166 support staff across 23 care locations. In 2009, Dr. Avellino became the founding director of the UW Medicine Neurosciences Institute in Seattle before being named chief of neurological surgery at UW Medical Center, also in Seattle, in 2011.”

 Becker’s Healthcare 100 CMOs to know are selected by its editorial team. The list recognizes physician leaders who advance “clinician leadership development, patient safety initiatives, health IT and quality improvement”. The prestigious list recognizes established leaders who play a vital role to realize their organization’s strategic vision in tandem with patient needs.

Read the original 100 CMOs to know here.