Craig E. Samitt.

Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA, is president and chief executive officer for Dean Health System (DHS), in Madison, Wis. Previously, he was chief operating officer at Fallon Clinic in Worcester, Mass. Samitt has 16 years of clinical and health care management experience. At Fallon Clinic he has been responsible for all clinical and business operations. DHS has almost 500 physicians, 60 locations and over 3,000 employees. Prior to joining Fallon Clinic in 2002, Samitt served as senior vice president for marketing, sales and customer service at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a health insurance company in Wellesley, Mass. In earlier years, while at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Brookline, Mass., he served in a number of capacities including senior executive of their largest ambulatory care center, corporate director of the internal medicine department and chief of internal medicine. He earned an undergraduate degree in biology at Tufts University. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Samitt earned his MBA from the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia.

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