Thinh H. Tran, M.D., M.B.A., an accomplished hospital and health plan executive with a strong mix of clinical knowledge and operational skills, will be joining UHealth on June 1 as Chief Clinical Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
Tran comes to UHealth from Baptist Health South Florida, where he has been Chief Medical and Quality Officer since 2007. In that role, he founded Baptist’s Center for Performance Excellence, which assesses the impacts, opportunities and management requirements of transformational innovations. The result has been system-wide increases in quality and patient safety, accompanied by greater clinical and operational predictability that have had positive impacts throughout the organization.
Steven M. Altschuler, M.D., Senior Vice President for Health Affairs at UM and CEO of UHealth, says “Tran’s experience will make him a spectacular leader of our transformation of the patient experience.”
Tran also helped establish Baptist’s Graduate Medical Education program in collaboration with Florida International University. In addition, he is credited with elevating Baptist’s reputation, locally and nationally, through his management of wellness and prevention, research and grants, accreditation and continuing medical education.
Before working at Baptist, Tran held three positions in Houston: Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer at Methodist Hospital, Medical Director of Patient Management for Aetna’s Southwest Region, and Assistant Medical Director in the Department of Medical Management at MacGregor Medical Association.
His earlier experience included work as a hospitalist at Bakersfield Family Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, associate staff physician at St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, and urgent care staff physician at Health Partners in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Tran received a B.S. in genetics and cell biology from the University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences in 1987, then remained and earned his M.D. degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1992, and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics in 1995. He earned an M.B.A. degree from Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2014.
