A Conversation with Mayo Clinic President and Chief Executive Officer John Noseworthy, M.D.

John Noseworthy, M.D., president and chief executive officer of the Mayo Clinic, sat down with Boston Scientific Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Mahoney at the April 26 meeting of the Boston College Chief Executives Club. In this question-and-answer session, Dr. Noseworthy described the Mayo Clinic as the first integrated group practice of medicine, where all decisions go back to the patient. "Any question that comes up at the Mayo Clinic, either on the administrative side or in the practice, we find if we put the patient at the center of the room and say 'what's best for this patient?', we always get the answer more quickly." Dr. Noseworthy also discussed the cost of health care, innovations in care delivery, cancer treatments, the mandate to cure Alzheimer’s, and how the industry alone can't solve all our nation's health problems. The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest not-for-profit academic health systems in the U.S., with $11.9 billion in annual revenues and 63,000 employees.