John Warner, MD

Dr. John Warner is Chief Executive Officer of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Executive Vice President of the university, a role he assumed in April 2023. He leads an integrated academic health system spanning six hospitals, a growing network of outpatient centers, a nationally ranked College of Medicine, more than 45 research institutes, a faculty group practice, an accountable care organization, and a health plan - working across them to advance patient care, research, and education with patients and families at the center of decision-making.

An interventional cardiologist by training, Warner spent two decades at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he oversaw the planning and construction of the William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital and rose to Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and CEO of the UT Southwestern Health System. He served as national President of the American Heart Association from 2017 to 2018 and received its Gold Heart Award in 2022. Warner earned his MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, trained at UT Southwestern and Duke, and holds an MBA from the University of Tennessee.