Tulane Alumni Among Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare

Michael Butler, MD, MHA '90 and Andrea Price, MHA '84 were honored by Modern Healthcare magazine in its second biennial listing of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare.  The magazine issued a call for nominations, requiring nominees to meet five leadership criteria, including the ability or power to effect change in the healthcare industry and serving as a role model or mentor to other minority healthcare executives.

Michael Butler is chief executive officer of Louisiana State University’s Health Care Services Division. In addition to working several shifts in the emergency department as a physician, Butler oversees seven public state hospitals, nearly 300 clinics, more than 9,000 employees, and a budget of more than $800 million. He directed the state public health system’s chronic disease management initiative, focusing on asthma, congestive heart failure, cancer screening, diabetes, and HIV.

As executive vice president and chief operating officer of the 560-bed Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, Andrea Price holds an executive position overseeing a system that includes two acute care hospitals and a specialty hospital. In addition to recruiting a chief executive officer and developing a turnaround plan for Ionia County Memorial Hospital, Price designed and implemented a coaching and mentoring program to refine the leadership skills of those in upper management.

May 19, 2008