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ACGME Director

David J. Fine, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
St. Luke's Episcopal Health System
Houston, Texas

David J. Fine serves as president and chief executive officer of St. Luke's Episcopal Health System. Dr. Fine has 35 years of experience as a healthcare executive, including more than 25 years as chief executive officer of university hospitals, multi-hospital systems, medical groups and managed care organizations.

Dr. Fine is active in civic and professional organizations. He is past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, was founding vice-chairman of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership and is presently a Regent of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa from The University of Southern Mississippi in 2007. Modern Healthcare named him one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" in 2004. Dr. Fine also earned the Birmingham Business Journal Health Care Executive of the Year 2003, Robert S. Hudgens Medal of the American College of Healthcare Executives, of which he is a Fellow, the Martin Luther King Special Humanitarian Award of the University of Cincinnati and the Champion of Public Health Award of Tulane University.