EVERETT — Providence Swedish North Puget Sound has welcomed a new chief medical officer, the company announced Tuesday.
Dr. Sanjiv Tewari will oversee more than 1,500 physicians and clinicians at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Swedish Edmonds and Swedish Mill Creek.
Tewari is a pulmonary intensivist and has more than 20 years of hospital leadership experience, according to a press release from Providence. He most recently served as the chief medical officer for HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton, Florida. There, he built several new programs and services and expanded the graduate medical education and clinical research programs.
“He also brings a track record of clinical excellence, financial performance, physician engagement and cultural transformation, making him the ideal physician leader to advance physician and advance practice clinician (APC) engagement, development, strategy, and operational optimization across the care continuum,” Providence spokesperson Erika Hermanson wrote in the release.
Tewari is originally from Edmondton, Alberta and received a doctor of medicine with first class standing from the University of Alberta. He completed his internal medicine residency in Akron, Ohio and held a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. He also earned a master of studies in law from the University of Akron.
Jenna Peterson: 425-339-3486; jenna.peterson@heraldnet.com; X: @jennarpetersonn.
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