President and Chief Clinical Officer
Rush University System for Health
Weston, Massachusetts, United States
A distinguished academic and clinical physician with a long track record of collaborative leadership, Dr. Higgins has held progressive leadership roles at Johns Hopkins, where he led the Department of Surgery as Surgeon-in-Chief and the William Stewart Halsted Professor of Surgery and as the President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Executive Vice President of Mass General Brigham as the Elizabeth G. and Gary J. Nabel Family Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Starting in April 2024, Dr. Higgins will take on a new role as President and Chief Academic Officer of RUSH University, and Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President at RUSH University System for Health. He serves as the senior leader ensuring connection and alignment of the clinical programs across the university and entity hospitals. He will also be responsible for the success of RUSH’s academic colleges with oversight of all aspects of the academic, student, administrative and external engagement activities of the University. As the leader of the academic enterprise, he oversees and manages research across RUSH.
Dr. Higgins obtained his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine, followed by a master’s degree in health services administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed a residency in general surgery at the University Hospitals of Pittsburgh and was a Winchester Scholar and fellow in cardiothoracic surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. He also served as a senior registrar in transplantation at the renowned Papworth Hospital in the U.K.
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