President/CEO
MD Anderson Cancer Center
A renowned cancer surgeon, researcher, professor and administrator, Dr. Peter WT Pisters, FACHE, established his career at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, serving over two decades in faculty and senior leadership positions. As a faculty member, Dr. Pisters focused his significant clinical and research expertise on helping patients with sarcomas and gastrointestinal cancers. His former administrative roles included overseeing multiple operations across the city as vice president for MD Anderson’s Houston-area locations.
Dr. Pisters left MD Anderson to serve as president and CEO of the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada’s largest academic medical center, before returning to MD Anderson to serve as president in December 2017.
Dr. Pisters earned his medical degree at Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario in Canada before completing his postgraduate work at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 2014, he received a master’s degree in health care management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. He also became a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives in 2014.
Dr. Pisters is on the board of directors for the Greater Houston Partnership and the CEO of Roundtable on Cancer. In 2021, he was named a Top CEO by Glassdoor, ranking third out of 100 leaders nationally as part of the Employees’ Choice Awards, and The Houston Business Journal named him one of Houston’s Most Admired CEOs. He was also honored as CEO Communicator of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America’s Houston Chapter in addition to being elected as a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is also part of the Telluride Science Depot Advisory Board. In 2024, Dr. Pisters was inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Physician Leadership and named one of the 2024 greatest leaders in healthcare by Becker’s Hospital Review.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
3:15pm – 4:15pm CT