Gianrico Farrugia, M.D.

Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., president and chief executive officer of Mayo Clinic, leads the world’s No. 1 ranked hospital. Powered by an 85,000-person global workforce, Mayo Clinic cares for people with serious and/or complex illnesses from all 50 U.S. states and across 141 countries annually. With a distinct focus on advancing patient-centered healthcare transformation for the entire sector, Dr. Farrugia is a pioneering voice in moving healthcare from a linear pipeline operating model to a platform-based model. Under his leadership, Mayo Clinic launched and scaled Mayo Clinic Platform, which brings together data partners, solution developers and healthcare providers to transform care through insights derived from the world’s most comprehensive repository of longitudinal, de-identified clinical data across four continents. To further enable transformation, Dr. Farrugia and his leadership team are rearchitecting Mayo Clinic’s physical, digital and data infrastructure to support the future of care. These efforts include Mayo Clinic’s over $9-billion investment to invent a new integrated healthcare experience and work to bring the first carbon ion therapy program in the Americas to Mayo Clinic, introduce over 450 AI algorithms into clinical care and create new facilities that act as integral, proactive members of the care team. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Dr. Farrugia served as CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida, led the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and co-founded the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. He is a member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees and Governors. Dr. Farrugia has been a Mayo Clinic physician for more than 35 years. He is jointly appointed in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. He is also a professor of medicine and physiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He completed his undergraduate training at St. Aloysius College and earned his medical degree from the University of Malta Medical School. Dr. Farrugia is the co-author of “Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation,” a book highlighting the need for change in the delivery of healthcare. He is co-chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s committee that published An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine, co-chair of the Patient Safety in the Era of AI initiative and steering group member of the Action Collaborative on Translating Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation (ACT-ESTI) partnership to advance a responsible biomedical innovation ecosystem. He is a past president of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and past co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Health and Healthcare Governors. An active translational scientist and NIH-funded researcher, he has published more than 390 academic articles.