6 Health Care Resource Guide • 2016 – 2017
A
steady
hand
New Reliant CEO
navigates changing
healthcare landscape to
keep his medical group
profitable, collaborative
and efficient
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BY LAURA FINALDI
Worcester Business Journal Staff Writer
Tarek Elsawy's office in the Mercantile Center overlooks
downtown Worcester and is only a short walk away from
Reliant's operations in Saint Vincent Hospital.
Tarek Elsawy
Title: President & CEO
Company: Reliant Medical Group
Location: Worcester
Education: Graduated from Case Western Reserve
University School of Medicine; residency and
internship at the University of Virginia School of
Medicine; and research fellow at Johns Hopkins
University
Previous company: Cleveland Clinic in Ohio,
working on clinical transformation in inpatient and
outpatient care
Previous role: Cleveland Clinic's vice president of
regional medical operations and affairs – responsible
for 18 family health centers and held a leadership
role in eight hospitals, where he represented 12,000
employees and $2.9 billion in revenue
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