Peter Pisters
President at UT MD Anderson
- Role
- President at UT MD Anderson
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Peter Pisters
A renowned cancer surgeon, researcher, professor and administrator, Peter WT Pisters, M.D, M.H.C.M, established his career at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, 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 UT MD Anderson’s Houston-area locations.Dr. Pisters left UT MD Anderson to serve as president and CEO of the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada’s largest academic medical center, before returning to UT MD Anderson to serve as president in December 2017. Dr. Pisters is on the Board of Directors for the Greater Houston Partnership and the CEO Roundtable on Cancer. He was recently named a Top CEO by Glassdoor and ranked third nationally out of 100 leaders on the Employees’ Choice Awards for the Top CEOs in 2021. 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 2022, he received the Luminary Award from Texas Healthcare and Biosciences Institute for his work supporting the growth of the life and bioscience industry in Texas.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 administration at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Experience
President
Dec 2017 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Education
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Master's degree, Healthcare Management
2012 — 2014
Western University
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine
1981 — 1985
Skills
- Emr
- Clinical Trials
- Lifesciences
- Medicine
- Microsoft Office
- Healthcare Management
- Cancer
- Nonprofits
- Hospitals
- Healthcare
- Surgery
- Public Health
- Oncology
- Informatics
- Clinical Research
- Healthcare Information Technology
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