Children’s National Hospital names Horacio Rozanski as board chair

Horacio Rozanski has been elected chairman of the Children’s Nationwide Board of Directors. Rozanski, who is the president and chief govt officer of Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., has been a member of the Children’s Nationwide board given that 2019 and most not long ago served as treasurer. He succeeds Jeff Zients, who was appointed by President Joe Biden to provide as coordinator of the COVID-19 Reaction and counselor to the President.

“We are so fortuitous to have a leader of Horacio’s caliber guiding Children’s Nationwide Clinic through an exceptionally challenging time for health and fitness programs around the place,” says Kurt Newman, M.D., president and CEO of Children’s Nationwide. “Horacio’s confirmed leadership and expertise in driving strategic transformations will provide this firm, and a lot more importantly, our patients and family members quite nicely. He will decide up suitable exactly where Jeff remaining off, and we are all grateful for Jeff’s services to Children’s Nationwide.”

Born and lifted in Argentina, Rozanski at first came to the United States to attend college or university. He holds a bachelor of organization administration from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and master of organization administration from the University of Chicago. He joined Booz Allen, a global know-how and consulting company, as a summer intern practically thirty years ago and served as chief personnel officer, chief strategy and talent officer, and president and chief running officer at the firm right before starting to be CEO in 2015.

“I am honored, humbled and enthusiastic to get the chair job,” Rozanski says. “Children’s Nationwide and its astounding workers have improved and saved innumerable life, leaving an indelible print on the hearts of tens of millions of family members in the D.C. location and outside of. I appear forward to performing with my colleagues on the board and the administration crew to continue this institution’s remarkable report of accomplishment.”

All over his career, Rozanski has built the progression of diversity, equity and inclusion a centerpiece of his leadership, and previous July, Booz Allen publicly fully commited to a 6-place Race and Social Equity Agenda. The Washington Company Journal (WBJ) honored him as a 2020 CEO of the Year by naming Rozanski the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Winner. In the WBJ profile, he says that he “has usually needed his employees to truly feel like they can be themselves at function, unobstructed and undiminished, capable to carry the entirety of their life, activities and expertise to the work.”

Rozanski is a member of the Care Board of Directors, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience, the Kennedy Centre Corporate Fund Board and the Aerospace Industries Association Finance Committee. In 2020, he was named a recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, which is given to men and women who epitomize own initiative, perseverance, leadership and commitment to excellence as nicely as imagine in the free of charge-organization program and the significance of better education and community services. Award recipients also have the eyesight and willpower to accomplish a greater foreseeable future.

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