Eric K Wei, MD, MBA

Dr. Eric Wei serves as Chief Executive Officer for NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, the oldest hospital in the United States dating back to 1736. He also serves as Senior Vice President for NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest municipal safety-net health system, serving over 1.3 million New Yorkers every year. He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. He is a practicing Emergency Medicine physician who has rotated through all 11 Emergency Departments in the system. Dr. Wei serves as faculty for the NYC H+H Clinical Leadership Fellowship, the Greater New York Hospital Association/United Hospital Fund Clinical Quality Fellowship Program, and Ariadne Labs. He is also on the Advisory Committees for the CQFP and the UHF Health Equity Fellowship. He has been a champion for healthcare worker wellbeing and founded the Helping Healers Heal (H3) Program, starting in LAC+USC Medical Center before spreading it throughout the safety-net systems in Los Angeles and New York City. H3 has since been spread to over 40 countries and over 100,000 healthcare workers across the globe have been trained through Project Hope. Dr. Wei has given over 300 keynote and invited talks nationally and internationally and has published over 25 peer-reviewed manuscripts including in high impact journals such as JAMA, JAMA-Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. His research interests include health equity, healthcare quality improvement, patient safety, hospital operations, lean six sigma, emergency management, and high value care. He was named in Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives and in the Becker’s Hospital Review Top 50 Patient Safety Experts. Dr. Wei has been featured in the New York Times, PBS News Hour, NBC Nightly News, CBS Nightly News, Good Morning America, Associated Press, Crain’s New York Business, Modern Healthcare, Becker’s Hospital Review, Bloomberg, Medscape, 1010WINS and Spectrum NY1.

Dr. Wei previously served as System Chief Quality Officer, Interim Chief Executive Officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, Harlem, and Lincoln, and Fellowship Director for the NYC H+H Clinical Leadership Fellowship. He also previously served on the Board of MetroPlus Health and as an Adjunct Professor through the NYU School of Global Public Health. Prior to coming to New York, he was the Interim Chief Quality Officer and Associate Medical Director for Quality, Safety, and Risk for LAC+USC Medical Center.

Dr. Wei completed his Bachelors of Science in molecular, cell and developmental biology at University of California, Los Angeles and the joint MD/MBA program at University of California, Irvine. He completed his emergency medicine residency and the healthcare administration scholars program at University of Michigan where he also served as chief resident.