Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., president and chief executive officer of Mayo Clinic, leads
the world’s No. 1 ranked hospital. Powered by an 82,000-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 distinct focus on advancing patient-centered healthcare transformation for the
healthcare sector, Dr. Farrugia is a pioneering voice in moving healthcare from a linear
pipeline operating 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
the world’s most comprehensive repository of longitudinal de-identified clinical data
across four 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 over $7-billion investment to invent a
new integrated physical and digital healthcare experience. This transformation includes
bringing the first carbon ion therapy program in North America to Mayo Clinic, as well
as 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 380 academic articles.