LUHS CEO & President to Retire
Anthony Barbato, M.D., president and CEO of the Loyola University Health System (LUHS), has announced his intention to retire after a 17-year tenure of leadership. “My Loyola years have been the most rewarding experiences in my professional life, but the time is right for transitioning the leadership of the medical center and health system,” he says.
After serving as dean of the Stritch School of Medicine, Barbato was appointed the University’s chief administrative officer for the medical center from 1989-95. He was named president and CEO of the medical center and health system in 1995 as it was reorganized as a separate subsidiary corporation of Loyola University Chicago. Since 1989, he also has held a senior academic position in the University as vice president for the health sciences.
During Barbato’s tenure, Loyola developed a broadly distributed network of ambulatory care satellites; opened the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center; constructed a new medical education facility, the John and Herta Cuneo Center, for the medical school; added the new 300,000 square-foot Loyola Outpatient Center on the Maywood campus; and broke ground for a 240,000 square-foot major hospital expansion, currently underway.
Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., LUC president, stated, “Dr. Barbato’s leadership of the health system and his role as health sciences vice president of the University have been nothing short of extraordinary. His promotion of the Jesuit ideals of academic excellence, service and availability has been unwavering.” Barbato will remain at LUHS until his successor has been identified. A search committee chaired by Dan Walsh, a member of the LUHS board of directors, has begun the search process.