FOH Executive Committee Member (2021-2023)
Dr. Stephen Klasko is a transformative leader and advocate for a revolution in our systems of healthcare and higher education. In 2020, he published “UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance” in which he and Silicon Valley’s Hemant Taneja describe a new future for healthcare focused on keeping people well.
As President of Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health, he has steered since 2013 one of the nation’s fastest growing academic health institutions based on his vision of reimagining health care and higher education. His 2017 merger of Thomas Jefferson University with Philadelphia University creates a pre-eminent professional university that includes top-20 programs in fashion and design coupled with the first design thinking curriculum in a medical school and the nation’s leading research on empathy.
His track record of success at creating and implementing programs that are shaping the future of health care earned him a place among Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018 and Ernst & Young’s Greater Philadelphia Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. He is also ranked #2 on Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Influential People in Healthcare. For 2018 to 2019, U.S. News & World Report ranked Thomas Jefferson University Hospital among the nation’s best in 10 specialties, and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital – Jefferson Health 13th Best Hospital in the nation for physical rehabilitation. In 2018, Jefferson was invited to join the World Economic Forum.
He is married to Colleen Wyse, a fashion leader and founder of The Philadelphia Trunk Show, and has three children: Lynne, David and Jill.
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