President & CEO, Northwell Health | Health Care Optimist | Author of After the Roof Caved In: An Immigrant's Journey from Ireland to America. He's a health care optimist who proudly leads NY State’s largest integrated health care system and largest private employer. Inspired every day by his colleagues and the people they serve.

President & CEO, Northwell Health | Health Care Optimist | Author of After the Roof Caved In: An Immigrant's Journey from Ireland to America. He's a health care optimist who proudly leads NY State’s largest integrated health care system and largest private employer. Inspired every day by his colleagues and the people they serve.

Michael J. Dowling is president and chief executive officer of Northwell Health, which delivers world-class clinical care throughout the New York metropolitan area, pioneering research at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and a visionary approach to medical education highlighted by the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. Northwell Health is the largest integrated health care system in New York State with a total workforce of more than 66,000 employees — the state’s largest private employer. With 23 hospitals, 6,675 hospital and long-term care beds, 645 outpatient physician practices and a full complement of long-term care services, Northwell is one of the nation’s largest health systems, with $11 billion in annual revenue. Prior to becoming president and CEO in 2002, Mr. Dowling was the health system’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. Before joining Northwell Health in 1995, he was a senior vice president at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield.