Suresh Gunasekaran named new CEO of UI Hospitals & Clinics

Suresh Gunasekaran, MBA, currently the chief operations officer for the University of Texas Southwestern Health System in Dallas, Texas, has been selected to become the new associate vice president of University of Iowa Health Care and chief executive officer of UI Hospitals & Clinics, pending approval by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa.

UI Hospitals & Clinics ranked among nation's best

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics has again been named one of America’s “Best Hospitals” and the top hospital in Iowa, according to 2018-19 rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.

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