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    Marc L. Boom, MD, FACHE

    President/CEO
    Houston Methodist

    Marc L. Boom, MD, FACHE, is president and CEO of Houston Methodist, a hospital system with more than 2,700 beds and over 34,000 employees. Its flagship, Houston Methodist Hospital, has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as an Honor Roll hospital nine times and the number-one hospital in Texas for 14 years in a row. The system also includes a world-renowned research institute, seven community hospitals and a continuing care hospital, two large physician organizations, and more than 50 graduate medical education programs. Houston Methodist is affiliated with several academic institutions, including Weill Cornell Medical College, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Texas A&M University and Rice University.


    Boom, who’s served as Houston Methodist president and CEO since 2012, 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 an MBA 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. 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 Houston School of Public Health. He previously was an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and an adjunct professor of management at Rice University.


    Boom is a member of numerous professional and community organizations. He is the 2025 chair-elect designate of the American Hospital Association. In 2026, he will become chair of the organization. In 2023, he served as chair of the board of the Greater Houston Partnership. He also serves on the United Way of Greater Houston Board of Trustees 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. 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, 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 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, Houston Chronicle and several others.


    Numerous organizations have recognized Boom for his work. He 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, ACHE—SouthEast Texas Chapter 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 ACHE. In 2012, Boom and his wife Julie Boom, MD, received the Good Samaritan Award from Interface-Samaritan Counseling Centers.


    Julie Boom is a pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital. Her special interests are in vaccine advocacy and research. Married for more than 30 years, the Booms have three children: Kathryn (29), John (24) and Janie (19). Boom enjoys travel, soccer, gardening and gourmet cooking.

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