2023 Summit Speakers

Michael Dandorph

President and CEO, Tufts Medicine

Mike Dandorph is President and CEO of Tufts Medicine, a leading integrated health system bringing together the best of academic and community healthcare to deliver exceptional, connected and accessible care experiences to consumers across Massachusetts. Tufts Medicine is comprised of Tufts Medical Center, Lowell General Hospital, MelroseWakefield Hospital, Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford, an expansive home care network and a large integrated physician network. The system has more than 15,000 dedicated care team members providing more than 1.5 million patient experiences per year, and is the principal teaching affiliate for Tufts University School of Medicine.

Mike’s career spans three decades of service to academic health systems. He is highly regarded for executing broad transformational change that incorporates innovative partnerships, high performance teams, and a relentless focus on consumer-centric patient care.

Joining Tufts Medicine in January of 2020, Mike has guided the $2.5 billion health system through a series of transformative endeavors including a comprehensive administrative and clinical integration process, an extensive board restructuring, a major brand overhaul, a highly participative mission/vision/values development process, and the establishment of significant partnerships in pediatric, behavioral health, and ambulatory surgical services.

Mike also expanded the health system’s relationship with Tufts University to further align and amplify the impact of their integrated education and research portfolio. Under his leadership, Tufts Medicine embarked on a major digital transformation effort, becoming the first health system in the country to deploy its entire digital health ecosystem in the cloud beginning with the migration of over 20 disparate electronic medical record systems to a single EPIC health platform.

Before joining Tufts Medicine, Mike led Rush University System for Health through a period of exponential growth and quality improvement, culminating in Rush University Medical Center being ranked on the U.S. News & World Report 2020-2021 best hospitals honor roll and first in the nation among 95 academic medical centers for quality performance by Vizient’s University Health Consortium.

Prior to his tenure at Rush, Mike served in several leadership roles at Penn Medicine including 10 years as Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer for the health system. He led many growth and clinical integration initiatives including several hospital acquisitions, joint venture partnerships and clinical affiliations, and service line expansion and integration efforts.

Mike received his master’s degree from the Sloan Program in Health Administration at Cornell University and has held leadership positions on numerous boards throughout his career.