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    John Couris, PHD

    President/CEO
    Florida Health Sciences Center

    John D. Couris is the President and CEO of the Florida Health Sciences Center (FHSC), which comprises an array of organizations, including Tampa General Hospital, one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit academic health systems, in partnership with the University of South Florida. Today, Tampa General’s footprint includes six hospitals and more than 150 care locations across Florida and employs nearly 14,000 team members and physicians.
    Couris is recognized as a national expert in health care as well as organizational leadership, workplace culture transformation and management, having successfully built companies nationwide by driving innovation, operational excellence, team member and stakeholder engagement and strategic collaboration.
    Couris often speaks and presents at conferences across the country and internationally on topics relating to leadership, organizational transformation and growth, regulatory impact, consumerism, innovation and design, and empowering and leading high-performing teams across both the health care space and a wide variety of sectors. Couris collaborates closely with and provides counsel to elected officials at all levels to help address issues impacting the health care industry in Tampa Bay, Florida and on a national scale.
    Couris serves as an expert source and contributor to multiple national publications, offering insights on topics ranging from his visionary approach to care coordination, to the importance of partnerships to advance innovation, to the principles of authentic leadership. His peer-reviewed case study, “Tampa General Hospital: Harnessing Authentic Leadership to Transform an Academic Health System,” is forthcoming in the journal Management in Healthcare (Spring 2024).

    Serving his community and industry as a leader and advocate, Couris is a member of several boards and has earned appointments to state and national councils. Couris holds a doctorate in business administration, management sciences from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business, where he is a Research Fellow. His dissertation examined the impact of the practice of authentic leadership on teams and organizations.

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