Dr. Chad Whelan, former president of Loyola University Medical Center, has assumed the post of CEO of Banner–University Medicine in Tucson.
Whelan will oversee Banner-University Medical Center Tucson, Banner-UMC South, dozens of clinics, the faculty practice plan of hospital physicians and more than 6,000 Banner Health employees in Southern Arizona.
Whelan, who started in his new post Wednesday, was also a professor at the Loyola’s Chicago Stritch School of Medicine at the Chicago-area school.
He has decades of experience in teaching physician residents and medical students. Whelan said one of the reasons he was drawn to the position was the partnership with the University of Arizona.
Banner-UMC Tucson’s interim CEO, Sarah Frost, has been named permanent CEO of Tucson’s two Banner Health hospitals and will report to Whelan.
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At Loyola University Medical Center, Whelan was responsible for the 550-bed hospital and 25 ambulatory clinic sites with 700 employed physicians and 4,500 employees.
He previously served as the hospital's senior vice president and chief medical office, and he also held leadership and clinical roles at Loyola University Health System and the University of Chicago Medicine.
Whelan earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed a residency at the University of Minnesota. He holds a master's degree in Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan.
Banner said Whelan will work closely with Dr. Irving Kron, executive dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, and he reports to Larry Goldberg, president of the statewide Banner – University Medicine Division.
