Bowdoin Places Dr. John Halamka as New President of Platforms at Mayo Clinic
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Posted by Bowdoin on March 5, 2025
Originally published on Hunt Scanlon Media on December 6th, 2019.
WALTHAM, Mass., December 6, 2019 – The Bowdoin Group, a Boston-based executive search firm, has placed John Halamka as the new president of Mayo Clinic Platform, which is committed to elevating Mayo Clinic to a global leadership position within digital healthcare. He will start in his new role on Jan. 1.
“Dr. Halamka has a proven track record of success in innovation and value creation,” said Gianrico Farrugia, president and CEO of Mayo Clinic. “His extensive experience and network will help power the Mayo Clinic Platform forward to benefit our patients and to support Mayo Clinic’s path for the future.”
Most recently, Dr. Halamka was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts. As the leader for innovation at Beth Israel Lahey Health, Dr. Halamka oversaw digital health relationships with industry, academia and government worldwide. Previously, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 20 years. He also was the international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School. He remains chairman of New England Healthcare Exchange Network Inc. and is a practicing emergency medicine physician.
Dr. Halamka has written a dozen books about technology-related issues, hundreds of articles and thousands of posts on the Geekdoctor blog. He completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University, where he received a degree in medical microbiology and a degree in public policy with a focus on technology issues. He received his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, and simultaneously pursued graduate work in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on technology issues in medicine.
“It’s an exciting time to join Mayo Clinic and work with new colleagues to enhance what we can offer to patients worldwide,” Dr. Halamka said. “The Mayo Clinic Platform provides us the opportunity to shape health care in a new and dynamic way.”
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