Mass General Brigham has promoted a veteran department chief to run Massachusetts General Hospital, the state’s most prestigious medical institution.
Dr. David F. M. Brown will be president of the hospital and executive vice president at the Mass General Brigham system beginning Sept. 8. He is chair of the department of emergency medicine at MGH, a role he has held since 2013.
Brown, 58, is a familiar name at MGH, where efforts to make the hospital work better as part of a unified health care system have run into resistance. As an insider, he may be better positioned to ease tensions.
Brown has worked at the hospital for 32 years, starting as an intern, and called himself an MGH “lifer.”
“MGH is in my DNA, and I have love, respect, and affection for it,” he said in an interview. “At the same time, I have a clear-eyed understanding and full-throated support of our MGB vision to become a fully integrated health care system in service of our patients.”
Brown will succeed Dr. Peter L. Slavin, who has led the hospital for 18 years and announced in April that he would step down, saying a new leader should work to integrate MGH with its parent company, Mass General Brigham.
Formerly known as Partners HealthCare, Mass General Brigham is the state’s biggest hospital system.
Dr. Anne Klibanski, chief executive of Mass General Brigham, said she selected Brown from a large and diverse field of candidates and called him the best person to lead MGH during this “critical point in the history and evolution of Mass General Brigham.”
“David has been in our system for a long time. He understands the culture. He understands what makes these institutions special,” Klibanski told the Globe. “But he also embraces the strategic vision of where we need to go in the future.”
Brown is a professor at Harvard Medical School and has been serving as interim president of Cooley Dickinson Health Care of Northampton, which is affiliated with MGH. He is a practicing physician who treats patients in MGH’s busy emergency department, including in the early days of the pandemic when the hospital was flooded with COVID patients.
Brown’s appointment comes days after Klibanski chose an outsider as the new leader for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Robert S.D. Higgins, who works as surgeon-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Higgins will join the Brigham in December.
Higgins and Brown will work with Klibanski and other top executives to set policies and launch initiatives across the Mass General Brigham system.
Priyanka Dayal McCluskey can be reached at priyanka.mccluskey@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @priyanka_dayal.
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