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Dr. George Bo-Linn was elected a member of the CHP board of trustees in 2001. Dr. Bo-Linn brings to the CHP board more than 20 years of experience as a clinician, researcher and senior healthcare executive. He currently serves as corporate senior vice president and chief medical officer for Catholic Healthcare West. In this executive management role, Dr. Bo-Linn is responsible for care management, medical informatics, patient satisfaction, physician satisfaction and physician leadership development. Dr. Bo-Linn joined Catholic Healthcare West in 1998 as vice president of integration services. He was promoted to his current position in 1999.
Before joining CHW, Dr. Bo-Linn served as chief medical officer of Unity Health System, St. Louis, Mo. Other previous positions include medical director for the Sisters of Mercy Health System-St. Louis, Mo. and board member of the Mercy Medical Group, St. John’s Mercy Health System, where he helped form an integrated healthcare delivery system joining the medical center and a primary care physician organization. He also previously served as chief of the division of gastroenterology in the department of internal medicine and physician leader of the strategic planning unit for community services at St. John’s Mercy Health System.
He established a solo gastroenterology practice in St. Louis in 1984 after having held the positions of director of research and medical director of the gastrointestinal physiology laboratory at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He continued in private practice until 1997.
Board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology, Dr. Bo-Linn earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Dr. Bo-Linn pursued a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Texas and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He received a master’s degree in healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota in 1997 and has addressed both national and international forums on healthcare issues. Recently, Dr. Bo-Linn served as the only U.S. member of the Select Review Panel commissioned by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority on the Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). | 