IHF Member Dialogue on Reimagining Leadership

Mr Patrick Runnels

Patrick Runnels is a nationally recognized physician leader and psychiatrist whose career has focused on guiding transformation within healthcare systems large and small to maximize value while improving access and outcomes for the most vulnerable and complex patients. He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for the Veale Healthcare Transformation Institute and holds the Ann S. and Anthony J. Asher Chair in Community Health at University Hospitals Health Systems in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to that he served as Chief Medical Officer of Population Health, during which time University Hospitals ranked among the most successful Accountable Care Organizations in the country, generating nearly $200 million dollars in shared savings. He is currently Co-Principal Investigator for a John Templeton Foundation grant to study and disseminate frameworks for transformational leadership in healthcare.

Dr Runnels is a Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Missouri, Columbia, completing General Psychiatry Residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University. He also completed his Executive MBA at Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management.

Prof. Anupam Sibal

Prof. Anupam Sibal (MD, FIMSA, FIAP, FRCP (Glasg), FRCP (Lon), FRCPCH, FAAP) is the Group Medical Director of Apollo Hospitals Group, India’s largest healthcare provider with 75 hospitals and 300 clinics.

Prof Sibal established the division of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology in 1997 at Apollo Hospital, Delhi. He helped set up the first successful pediatric liver transplant program in India at Apollo Delhi in 1998. The Apollo Hospitals have performed more than 5000 liver transplants, of which 645 are pediatric.

Prof. Sibal served as the President of Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO) from 2020 – 2022. The organization aims is to bring together 1.4 million physicians of Indian origin in the world on one professional platform from 57 countries.

Prof Sibal is on the Editorial Board of 3 Journals and has 171 publications. He has edited a Textbook of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
His book on parenting, “Is Your Child Ready to face the World?” is a national best seller. He comments regularly in the print and electronic media on healthcare, pediatrics, leadership and parenting.