CHAD LEFTERIS
CEO/PRESIDENT
UCI HEALTH
WHY: Heads OC’s only academic medical center since 2020. Also heads the overall UCI Health system, which includes Orange’s UCI Medical Center, the area’s largest hospital, and more than a dozen outpatient research and specialty care centers throughout Orange County and portions of Riverside County.
IN THE NEWS: Opening 144-bed acute care and the nation’s first all-electric hospital in December. Part of UCI Health’s $1.3B campus medical campus.
NOTABLE: Generated $2.2B in revenue for the year ended September 2024, according to the Business Journal’s latest list.
QUOTABLE: “We are extraordinarily proud of this state-of-the-art facility and the visionaries who have worked tirelessly to bring it to fruition.”
