President & CEO, Mayo Clinic

Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., president and chief executive officer of Mayo Clinic, leads the world’s No. 1 ranked hospital. Powered by an 80,000-person global workforce, Mayo Clinic cares for 1.3 million people each year with serious and/or complex illnesses from all 50 U.S. states and across 130 countries.

With a singular focus on the need for patient-centered healthcare transformation, Dr. Farrugia is a leading voice in moving healthcare from a linear pipeline operational model to a platform-based model. Under his leadership, Mayo Clinic launched and scaled Mayo Clinic Platform, which brings together data partners, solution developers and healthcare providers to transform care through insights derived from over 25 petabytes of deidentified clinical data across multiple continents. To further enable transformation, Dr. Farrugia and his leadership team are rearchitecting Mayo Clinic’s physical and digital infrastructure to support the future of care. These efforts include Mayo Clinic’s $7-billion investment to reinvent the physical healthcare experience, bringing the first carbon ion therapy program in North America and advanced biomanufacturing capabilities to all Mayo Clinic destination medical center sites, among other advances.

Prior to his appointment as CEO, Dr. Farrugia served as CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida, led the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and co-founded the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. He is a member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees and Governors. Dr. Farrugia has been a Mayo Clinic physician for more than 35 years. He is jointly appointed in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. He is also a professor of medicine and physiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He completed his undergraduate training at St. Aloysius College and earned his medical degree from the University of Malta Medical School.

Dr. Farrugia is the co-author of “Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation,” a book highlighting the need for change in the delivery of healthcare. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s steering committee to create a Health Care Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct, past president of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society, and past co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Health and Healthcare Governors. An active translational scientist and NIH-funded researcher, he has published more than 370 academic articles.