Michael Apkon, MD, PhD

Michael Apkon, MD, PhD, is president/CEO of Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children, Boston.

Dr. Apkon has extensive international management experience in both pediatric and adult-oriented healthcare, working with organizations and governments in the United Kingdom, Europe, China, Africa, the Middle East and North America. He has consulted widely on business development, capacity development and management systems, and quality and safety improvement. He is an expert in strategy, systems development and operations management, as well as the application of lean and high reliability organizational thinking to drive improvements in quality, safety, and efficiency.

Prior to coming to Tufts Medical Center, Dr. Apkon was the president/CEO at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, recognized as one of the world’s top children’s hospitals and Canada’s most research-intensive hospital. Dr. Apkon has also held senior executive and academic roles at top academic health science centers including senior vice president for medical affairs and the chief medical officer for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He also served Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Health System in senior executive roles such as vice president for performance management at the Yale New Haven Health System and vice president/executive director of Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. He has held faculty positions at the University of Toronto, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University’s School of Medicine and School of Management.