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Peter Slavin is the president of Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
Geisel Board of Overseers member Peter Slavin has been appointed chair-elect of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). He will succeed the board’s current chair, A. Lorris Betz, senior vice president emeritus of health sciences at the University of Utah, next year.
“The AAMC will be benefit greatly from Peter’s leadership and his tremendous insights and experience in academic medicine,” says Wiley “Chip” Souba, dean of Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine.
In addition to his role on Geisel’s Board of Overseers, Slavin has served as president of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the third-oldest hospital in the United States and largest employer in Boston, for more than a decade. Prior to this position, he was chairman and CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. He teaches internal medicine at MGH and health care management at Harvard Medical School.