Larry Kaiser
With more than 20 years of leadership experience in a variety of healthcare institutions, Dr. Kaiser was most recently the President and CEO of the Temple University Health System, a $2.2 billion system, where he led a transformation over the past nine years. He was responsible for the acquisition of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, one of the original NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers, and spearheaded the development of several nationally recognized programs including the number one lung transplant program in the country. During his time at Temple he also served as the inaugural Lewis Katz Dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.
For the past two years, Dr. Kaiser has worked closely with the A&M team in a restructuring effort to better position Temple Health for future success.
Immediately prior to joining Temple, Dr. Kaiser served as President of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, the largest of the health-related institutions of the University of Texas, where he was responsible for six schools and a 950-member multi-specialty physician practice. Prior to that he spent 17-years at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the John Rhea Barton Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Penn Health System. Other positions he has held include faculty appointments at Washington University, St. Louis, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University.
Dr. Kaiser earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a medical degree from Tulane University. He completed a residency in general surgery, in addition to a fellowship in surgical oncology, at the University of California, Los Angeles. He pursued additional training in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Kaiser is board certified in both surgery and thoracic surgery and has served as a director of both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Kaiser has authored 17 books and more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and currently serves on the editorial board of four major surgical journals. In 2005 he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
