Portrait of Peter L. Slavin, Speaker for CAR Vertex symposium

Dr. Peter L. Slavin

Symposium Speaker

Peter L. Slavin, MD became the President of Massachusetts General Hospital on January 1, 2003. From 1999-2002, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, which included over 1,700 physicians and employed nearly 1,000 of them.

From 1997 to 1999, Slavin served as President of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Before that, he did his training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1984 to 1987 and was Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer from 1994 to 1997.

Slavin graduated from Harvard College in 1979, Harvard Medical School in 1984, and Harvard Business School in 1990.

Slavin teaches health care management at Harvard Medical School where he is a Professor of Health Care Policy.

He serves on the Boards of Amwell (a publicly traded telemedicine company) and the University of Miami Health System. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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