Chair, TowerBrook Healthcare Institute | Senior Advisor, TowerBrook | Strategic Advisor, General Catalyst | Founding CEO, HATCo | Former CEO, Intermountain Healthcare | Physician Executive
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Marc Harrison, M.D., is a global healthcare leader and physician executive focused on transforming how care is delivered, financed, and experienced. He is Chair of the TowerBrook Healthcare Institute and Senior Advisor to TowerBrook Capital Partners, and continues to serve as a Strategic Advisor to General Catalyst.
Previously, Dr. Harrison was the founding CEO of Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo), where he helped build a global network of health systems collaborating on digital transformation and led the acquisition of Summa Health as a model for scalable, systemwide change.
Dr. Harrison also served as President & CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, leading growth and innovation across the Mountain West, expanding access through telehealth and rural health strategies, and advancing value-based care, interoperability, and new forms of public-private collaboration.
Earlier in his career, he held senior executive roles at Cleveland Clinic, including founding CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Chief Medical Operations Officer, and Chief of International Business Development.
A pediatric critical care physician by training and 20 years of practice Dr. Harrison is a two-time cancer survivor, nine-time Ironman participant, and an All-American triathlete who represented the U.S. at the World Championships. He is the author of Possibility Unleashed, and a proud husband and father of three.
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Marc Harrison shared thisIn addition to being leaders in transforming healthcare, Eric Larsen Elad Walach and Tomislav Mihaljevic, M.D. are friends who I hold in the highest regard. They embody the ability to envision a better, healthier world - and have the courage to lean in to make change. I’m thrilled that the TowerBrook Healthcare Institute brought these three together for a conversation about leadership, innovation and partnerships. Give the link below a look/listen and get a glimpse of the future.Marc Harrison shared thisMy discussion with Tomislav Mihaljevic, M.D., CEO of Cleveland Clinic, and Elad Walach, co-founder and CEO of Aidoc, is live for our next episode of Incumbents and Insurgents—and it was a serious conversation, not a polite exchange of talking points, all the more so because it unfolded in front of a live audience. If you’ve listened to me before, you know I’ve been saying that no healthcare insurgent has graduated to the ranks of incumbent. So the question we keep coming back to is: can healthcare’s incumbents and insurgents actually work together? Tom and Elad make the case that they can—but only under specific conditions. And it matters that these are the two making the case: Cleveland Clinic is one of the most preeminent institutions in medicine anywhere in the world, and Aidoc is one of the most pioneering companies in clinical AI. Tom was blunt. Sprinkle AI on a poorly organized health system and you get a poorly organized health system with bad software. Cleveland Clinic has spent years standardizing processes, structuring data, and establishing partnerships, specifically to be ready for this moment. Most other health systems have not. Elad went further. 370,000 Americans die annually from diagnostic errors and another 430,000 are permanently disabled. But Aidoc has built something which I believe creates an inflection point in care delivery: a foundation model for medical imaging that finds everything, with a fraction of the error rate of anything before it. So why isn’t AI transforming care everywhere? The technology is ready. The clinical need is undeniable. Both Tom and Elad landed in the same place: this is a leadership problem, not a technology problem. Show me the leader and I will tell you how successful the implementation will be. Listen below. Link in comments.
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Marc Harrison shared thisI’m proud to continue my work with the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy Capital Impact Council (CIC) as we release the new Health Value Evidence Quality (HV-EQ) Framework. There is a narrative that private capital can't be a force for good healthcare - I disagree with this generalization. I’ve seen it accelerate access, scale solutions, and bring real innovation to patients. But we have not always been disciplined about proving impact on health, outcomes, or on cost to serve. That's what I like about the Capital Impact Council's Health Value Return on Investment (HV-ROI) framework. It: • Pushes us to define and revisit a core health value strategy and question set; • Expects a forward-looking evidence strategy, not retrospective analysis; and, • Encourages collaboration across investors, portfolio companies, and assessment organizations to strengthen the quality of health value evidence. Thank you to my colleagues in this effort - Dr. Mark McClellan, Dr. Cheryl Pegus, Alex Albert, Amir Dan Rubin, Amy Belt Raimundo, Ben Robbins, Blake Goodner, Brian Morfitt, Craig Cimini, Gregory Grunberg, M.D., Lee Shapiro, Lisa Suennen, Navid Farzad, and Rob Coppedge. We’ll be discussing the framework publicly on March 6 from 12:00–1:30 pm ET. I hope you’ll join us. This work matters. #relentlessforwardprogress @https://duke.is/w/zf4yMarc Harrison shared thisThe new Health Value Evidence Quality (HV-EQ) Framework from our Capital Impact Council (CIC) outlines guidance to help assure private investments in health care deliver health value alongside financial returns: https://duke.is/HVEQ In particular, the framework identifies four stages of evidence quality and demonstrates how an intentional HV-EQ strategy can be incorporated at each stage of an investment’s life cycle. It also highlights 11 case examples from CIC members that illustrate the framework’s practical application in health care investments. Read the case examples here: https://lnkd.in/gW4urT9Y
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Marc Harrison shared thisRenee Wegrzyn and Glen Tullman thanks for our conversation at last week’s Lake Nona Impact Forum about Maverick leadership in service to next generation patient experience. Bold leadership, thoughtful application of technology (especially AI), novel partnerships and responsible deployment of capital are essential components of transforming healthcare. Each is necessary, but none are sufficient in isolation. Going forward, iterative change isn’t going to cut it. The future will belong to providers and payers that have the courage to remake themselves on behalf of patients and caregivers. #rfp #TowerBrookMarc Harrison shared thisThe Mavericks: Transforming the Patient Experience Healthcare navigation shouldn’t feel harder than managing your finances or booking travel online, yet for many patients, it still does. In this dynamic session, Marc Harrison, MD, Chair of the TowerBrook Healthcare Institute joined Glen Tullman, CEO of Transcarent, for a forward-looking conversation moderated by Renee Wegrzyn, PhD, Inaugural Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Director and Co-Founder of Transfyr. Together, they explored how Transcarent is redefining the patient experience through AI-driven digital solutions that simplify access to comprehensive, personalized care. #LakeNonaImpactForum #PatientExperience #DigitalHealth #HealthInnovation #AI #Leaders
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Marc Harrison shared thisI’m pleased to share that I’ve joined Regent Surgical’s Board of Directors as Chairman. My family and I have felt firsthand the difference in quality and experience when the right procedure is performed in an ambulatory setting rather than a hospital. Patients deserve care that is safe, reliable, affordable, and convenient. Achieving that requires moving the right cases into ambulatory settings, standardizing how we deliver care, and aligning incentives so payment follows outcomes and value. A central focus of TowerBrook is helping health systems transform, including making the shift in site of service while enhancing quality, safety, affordability, and convenience. Regent’s work expanding ambulatory capacity with strong clinical governance, in partnership with leading health systems, reflects that direction. I’m looking forward to partnering with Travis Messina and the rest of the team to make this real.Marc Harrison shared this📣 We are honored to announce Dr. Marc Harrison as Regent’s Board Chairman. Marc is a global healthcare leader and physician executive widely recognized for driving large-scale transformation across health systems, investors, and technology‑enabled care models. His experience leading health systems through mission‑critical, transformational initiatives will be invaluable to Regent as we continue our journey to become the leading ASC partner for health systems. The combination of his clinical expertise and leadership experience will meaningfully contribute to our efforts to position Regent as a differentiated, industry‑leading ASC management company. We are excited to welcome Marc and look forward to working together as we grow the company and strengthen Regent’s presence in the marketplace. Welcome to the team, Marc! #RegentSurgical #ASCLeadership
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Marc Harrison shared thisOver the last couple weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to do “dawn patrol” climb/ski outings with two of our adult kids Martin Harrison and Settie Harrison. Conversations lit by head lamps are magic - deep, real, and magic. Independently, Settie and Martin each asked a version of “Why join TowerBrook at this point in your career?” Their question was important and the answers are straightforward: 1. Healthcare is already too expensive for families, employers, and taxpayers, and it’s only getting harder. For instance, nearly 50% of cancer patients end up in debt. By some account, medical debt is the most common cause of personal bankruptcy in the US. 2. Incumbents aren’t changing fast enough, even as clinical science, data, and AI move quickly. The gap between desire to make change and the ability to execute again is widening. 3. Macro realities, especially workforce and economic, continue to tighten the organizations our communities rely on. I joined TowerBrook because I wanted to help address these problems, just from a different angle - and to do the work with sincere, humble, and talented people. At the TowerBrook Healthcare Institute, I’m excited to work with the TowerBrook team, our companies' leadership teams, and health system partners to build and deploy mission-driven sustainable, solutions that meet the needs of the patients and providers. We must: · Accelerate the diffusion of best practices and technologies across the ecosystem to reduce cost to serve. · Help prepare and support the next generation of health system leaders to address these challenges responsibly and transparently. · Demonstrate that the right partnerships can materially improve affordability, access, and sustainability for health systems. One of the reasons I love a good dawn patrol is the sunrise you experience after the climb. Healthcare isn’t any different. The challenges are real, and so is the opportunity to meet them. Thanks, Martin and Settie. #relentlessforwardprogress Ian Sacks, Eric Larsen, David Elop, Evan Goldman, Shannon Barton, Stan Dupuy, Sophie Yan, Connor Towne
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Marc Harrison shared thisMore than 20 years ago, I began my leadership career at Cleveland Clinic as Chairman of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. My first bio - somewhat unconventionally - said, “Marc uses business principles to lead improvement in patient safety, quality, and outcomes.” Over time and with experience, I’ve added access, equity, and affordability as equally important imperatives. I’m excited to share that I’m joining TowerBrook as a Senior Advisor and the inaugural Chair of the TowerBrook Healthcare Institute (THI), which was launched in 2024. THI exists to convene the leading healthcare and technology CEOs who are working to advance the health of humanity and influence a meaningful percentage of GDP. We will focus on healthcare’s greatest needs: improving population health, reducing cost to serve, and sustaining the services communities rely upon. I’ve been impressed by the TowerBrook team and am proud to join them. Their integrity and focus on building high-quality, mission-driven healthcare businesses is singular. I’m looking forward to partnering with Ian Sacks, Eric Larsen, David Elop, Evan Goldman, Shannon Barton, Stan Dupuy, Sophie Yan, Connor Towne, and the entire healthcare team and firm to advance our collective goals. Looking forward to what’s ahead. RFP - Relentless Forward Progress
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Marc Harrison shared thisAs a multiple myeloma patient and volunteer with #BloodCancerUnited’s Public Policy Committee, I am deeply concerned by the Administration’s recent opinion that undercuts states’ ability to prevent patients’ medical debt from negatively affecting their credit scores, The picture was taken in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in 2019 just after my wife shaved my head post ablative chemotherapy. Our smiles are ones of determination. I would have done just about anything- including going into debt- to fulfill my responsibilities as a father and husband. Studies have shown that medical debt is a poor predictor of creditworthiness. No one should be punished for having cancer! The links below will take you to a relevant article and BCU’s statement regarding recent events. https://lnkd.in/gApzgQJp https://lnkd.in/g9p8h-bX Please share your thoughts and experiences
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Marc Harrison shared thisI’m honored and excited to share that I’ve been nominated as a candidate for General Director on the USA Triathlon Board! For more than 40 years, triathlon has been part of my life—racing everything from local sprints to Ironman, national, and world championships. The sport has given me lifelong friendships, resilience, and joy. Now, I’d love the opportunity to give back by helping USA Triathlon grow, support age-group athletes, and elevate our champions in pursuit of gold medals. 📩 Ballots will be emailed soon to all licensed USA Triathlon members. ✅ If you’re a member, I’d be grateful for your vote. 🤝 If you know friends who are triathletes, please share this with them and encourage them to support my candidacy. You can read more about the candidates here: https://lnkd.in/gaMhXXS8 #USAT #Triathlon #Multisport #Community #relentlessforwardprogress
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Marc Harrison shared thisGive this refreshingly candid podcast a listen. More of the same won’t get us where we need to go.Marc Harrison shared thisToday I’m launching Incumbents and Insurgents in Healthcare, a new podcast where the world’s AI pioneers meet the leaders steering America’s largest health systems, payers, life sciences companies, and even government institutions. We open with two extraordinary voices: Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra and Chairman of OpenAI, and Eugene A. Woods, CEO of Advocate Health - one of the nation’s largest and most innovative health systems, with operations across six states. Together, they bring unmatched insight into AI’s exponential advances, the realities of transforming massive organizations at speed, and the responsibility to urgently prepare and empower their workforces for what’s next - prudently, safely, and with integrity. As President of TowerBrook Healthcare Institute, I’ll explore how incumbents and insurgents (and sometimes it won’t be clear who’s who) can join forces to democratize access, radically improve outcomes, bend the cost curve, and deliver the healthcare we deserve. Our mission: advance the health of humanity while reducing healthcare’s share of GDP. Alongside this podcast, we’ll continue to publish proprietary content, share perspectives, and convene the executives who can truly influence the future of healthcare in the US and abroad. Listen to the first episode (link in the comments) – plus a short preview with my TowerBrook partner Ian Sacks, outlining our aspiration for this series – and join the conversation. Healthcare is at the epicenter of this technology – the most consequential the world has ever seen. The question is no longer if AI will reshape it, but how we get this right — in the years and decades to come. #AIinHealthcare #HealthTech
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Marc Harrison liked thisMarc Harrison liked thisI am honored to be included on Boston Magazine's 2026 list of the 150 Most Influential Bostonians. It's a privilege to be in the company of so many dedicated leaders working to shape the future of our Commonwealth. Congratulations to everyone who was recognized! https://lnkd.in/e6cn46DJ
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Marc Harrison reacted on thisMarc Harrison reacted on thisMy wife Shira Kupperman Boehler is on the Today Show at 9:12am ET this morning talking about her new book Once Scan Saves My Life — out today. The title isn’t a metaphor. A single low-dose CT scan caught her lung cancer at stage 1. Shira has never smoked and runs six miles a day. We were lucky—if we had waited for symptoms she would have a 10 percent chance of survival. More women die of lung cancer than breast, ovarian, and colon cancer combined. Almost none are being screened. Please buy and review One Scan Saved My Life. If you love someone, please buy a book for them and ask them to scan. So proud of her. 💙
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Marc Harrison liked thisMarc Harrison liked thisThis past Tuesday night I had the honor of speaking at the Kennedy Center alongside my friends Dr. Oz and Dr. Kim Sandler. We had a great conversation about the benefits of early detection, self-advocacy, and how taking care of your body can help you recover from diseases like lung cancer. I am so grateful to be surrounded by leaders who listen to my story and commit to discussing change. Special thanks to Philips and Maverix Medical for sponsoring the event. The continued conversations throughout the evening have given me so much hope about the progress that is about to be made in lung cancer research, detection, and prevention. Jeff DiLullo Ken Peters Carla Jung
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Marc Harrison liked thisMarc Harrison liked thisCongratulations to Linda McHugh, our executive vice president and chief experience and people officer, named a CHRO to Know by Becker's Healthcare! While leading our experience, hospitality and people programs, Linda has supported and reinforced a standardized model, implemented a multiyear cross-network engagement strategy and advocated for all-over health programs, among many other projects and achievements, leading to reduced turnover, increased internal promotions and numerous workforce and culture accolades. The entire HMH family is fortunate to have Linda's vision leading the way. Truly well deserved! Read the full list: https://lnkd.in/gyRbPdBQ #chro #chiefpeopleofficer #healthcare
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Marc Harrison liked thisMarc Harrison liked thisEarlier today at the American Hospital Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, I had the privilege of moderating a fireside chat. It was an honor to be joined by Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Dan Brillman, Director of Medicaid and CHIP and Deputy Administrator. We spent time reflecting on Dr. Oz’s first year leading CMS, including the responsibility that comes with serving more than 150 million Americans. Dan shared his journey into public service and how his experience across care delivery and technology continue to shape his work. What stood out throughout the conversation was a clear focus on improving the experience for patients, providers, and the communities we serve. We talked about the need to strengthen accountability across the system and the opportunity to better leverage technology, including AI, to simplify processes and improve coordination. There was also a strong emphasis on accelerating value-based care models in ways that truly improve outcomes while addressing affordability, alongside the continued importance of combating waste. Grateful for the opportunity to be part of this conversation and for the leadership both Dr. Oz and Dan bring to these important issues.
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Marc Harrison liked thisMarc Harrison liked thisWe’re proud to announce that Drs. Rebecca Ahrens‑Nicklas and Kiran Musunuru have been named to the TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. The list recognizes the impact, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. This honor underscores the CHOP and Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System team’s pioneering achievement: a first‑of‑its‑kind, customized CRISPR therapy that successfully treated an infant, KJ, born with life‑threatening CPS1 deficiency. The treatment delivered profound, measurable results — KJ is now walking, speaking and thriving. Their work marks a transformative moment for precision genetic medicine, offering hope to patients and families affected by rare, devastating disorders and setting a new standard for what targeted gene therapies can accomplish. Learn more: http://ms.spr.ly/6040QC47i.
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Marc Harrison liked thisMarc Harrison liked thisWe are excited to announce Craig Richardville MBA, CHCIO, CDH-E, will be appointed senior vice president and chief digital and information officer for the UF Health clinical enterprise, effective May 1. Richardville will serve as the senior executive responsible for enterprise digital strategy, information technology, data and analytics, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity across UF Health. Learn more about his role: https://lnkd.in/enquKbmK
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Marc Harrison liked thisMarc Harrison liked thisI’m honored to be recognized by Crain's Cleveland Business as a Notable Leader in Health Care, alongside peers and friends like Dr. Lauren O'Byrne of Spry Healthcare, LLC and Bill Finn of Reserve Care. I founded Nexus Bedside in order to preserve our healthcare system and the most important people in them, our nurses. Today, we are fundamentally transforming the inpatient care model earning trust with patients and nurses alike and delivering real results. Grateful for Cleveland’s support, excited to keep driving change together! #HealthcareLeadership #NexusBedside
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Marc Harrison reacted on thisMarc Harrison reacted on thisMy discussion with Tomislav Mihaljevic, M.D., CEO of Cleveland Clinic, and Elad Walach, co-founder and CEO of Aidoc, is live for our next episode of Incumbents and Insurgents—and it was a serious conversation, not a polite exchange of talking points, all the more so because it unfolded in front of a live audience. If you’ve listened to me before, you know I’ve been saying that no healthcare insurgent has graduated to the ranks of incumbent. So the question we keep coming back to is: can healthcare’s incumbents and insurgents actually work together? Tom and Elad make the case that they can—but only under specific conditions. And it matters that these are the two making the case: Cleveland Clinic is one of the most preeminent institutions in medicine anywhere in the world, and Aidoc is one of the most pioneering companies in clinical AI. Tom was blunt. Sprinkle AI on a poorly organized health system and you get a poorly organized health system with bad software. Cleveland Clinic has spent years standardizing processes, structuring data, and establishing partnerships, specifically to be ready for this moment. Most other health systems have not. Elad went further. 370,000 Americans die annually from diagnostic errors and another 430,000 are permanently disabled. But Aidoc has built something which I believe creates an inflection point in care delivery: a foundation model for medical imaging that finds everything, with a fraction of the error rate of anything before it. So why isn’t AI transforming care everywhere? The technology is ready. The clinical need is undeniable. Both Tom and Elad landed in the same place: this is a leadership problem, not a technology problem. Show me the leader and I will tell you how successful the implementation will be. Listen below. Link in comments.
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