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    Marc Boom, MD, FACHE

    President/CEO
    Houston Methodist

    Dr. Marc L. Boom is president and CEO of Houston Methodist, a hospital system with more than 2,600 beds and over 32,000 employees. Its flagship, Houston Methodist Hospital, has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as an Honor Roll hospital eight times and the No. 1 hospital in Texas for 13 years in a row.

    Dr. Boom holds a bachelor’s degree in biology with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin, an MD with high honors from Baylor College of Medicine, and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and fellowships in geriatric medicine and general medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine and maintains a part-time clinical practice.

    He has held numerous leadership positions at Houston Methodist, including executive vice president of Houston Methodist Hospital. Dr. Boom is also an associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, an adjunct clinical professor at Texas A&M University School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor of management, policy and community health at UTHealth School of Public Health. He previously was an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and an adjunct professor of management at Rice University.

    Dr. Boom is a member of numerous professional and community organizations. In 2023, he served as chair of the board of the Greater Houston Partnership. He is on the American Hospital Association’s Board of Trustees. He also serves on the United Way of Greater Houston and Texan by Nature boards and the Houston Advisory Board of Directors of Amegy Bank. He chairs the Leadership Institute’s Millennium Group CEO Forum and leads national meetings of dozens of health system CEOs. He is also a member of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research Advisory Board at Rice University. Dr. Boom was chair of the Texas Hospital Association in 2021, previously serving on the organization’s board of trustees as chair-elect and past chair.

    In 2020, Dr. Boom emerged as a national leader in efforts to educate the public about COVID-19 and share the need for vaccines—leading the way as the first hospital system CEO in the country to mandate vaccines for employees and physicians. He served as a national thought leader, participating in more than 9,000 media placements, including the BBC, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and thousands more. His publications and op-eds have appeared in Harvard Business Review, New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, Journal of the American Medical Association, the Houston Chronicle and several others.

    Dr. Boom was named the recipient of the 2024 Stephen L. Klineberg Award, a prestigious recognition that Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research bestows annually on an individual who has made a lasting impact on greater Houston. In 2023, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Baylor College of Medicine and the Ralph D. Feigin, MD, Award for Excellence from The Immunization Partnership. In 2022, the Southeast Texas Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives presented him with the Organizational Leadership Award. He also received the 2021 Public Service Award from the Houston Chapter of the American Leadership Forum and the 2016 Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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