President and CEO
Parkland Health
Frederick P. Cerise, MD, MPH has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland Health since 2014. He began his career teaching and practicing Internal Medicine as a clinical faculty member with the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. Subsequent roles included the CEO of Earl K. Long Medical Center and Medical Director of the LSU Health System. He served as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and then as Vice President for Health Affairs and Medical Education of the LSU System prior to his role at Parkland.
Dr. Cerise holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Notre Dame and earned his Medical Degree at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and earned a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University School of Public Health.
He is the chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation Board of Trustees and serves on the board of KFF. He previously served as a commissioner on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and on the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission.
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