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Anne Klibanski
Born1951 (age 74–75)
EducationBarnard College (BA)
New York University (MD)
AwardsClinical Investigator Award (Endocrine Society)
Clinical Endocrinology Trust Medal (Society for Endocrinology)
Scientific career
FieldsEndocrinology
Neuroendocrinology
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham
Massachusetts General Hospital

Anne Klibanski (born 1951) is an American endocrinologist and Laurie Carrol Guthart Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.[1] Since 2019, she has been president and CEO of Mass General Brigham.[2] She became the first woman to lead Mass General Brigham, Massachusetts's largest private employer.[3][4]

Klibanski's compensation as CEO of Mass General Brigham has drawn criticism and press coverage regarding executive pay in nonprofit healthcare.[5][6][7] In June 2026, protests culminated in the largest nurses' strike in Massachusetts history.[8]

Early life and education

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Klibanski studied literature at Barnard College before earning a medical degree in 1975 from the Grossman School of Medicine at New York University.[9] She completed an internal medicine residency at New York University in 1978, and completed fellowships in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1981.[10]

Career

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Academic and research career

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Klibanski became chief of the Neuroendocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, studying hormones and neuroendocrinology with a focus on pituitary tumors.[11] Her clinical research has also examined the effects of hypothalamic and pituitary disorders on body composition and bone density, including bone loss associated with anorexia nervosa and growth hormone deficiency.[12] In 1997, Klibanski became the first woman from Mass General's Department of Medicine to become a professor of medicine at Harvard.[13][14]

She is the author of more than 350 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and has received the Endocrine Society Clinical Investigator Award and the Clinical Endocrinology Trust Medal from the Society for Endocrinology.[15] Klibanski has served on the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Board of Counselors and the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and is a past president of the Pituitary Society.[15] She established the Center for Faculty Development at Massachusetts General Hospital and mentored more than fifty women, for which she received the Endocrine Society's Outstanding Mentor Award.[14]

Leadership at Partners HealthCare and Mass General Brigham

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In 2012, she became Chief Academic Officer at Partners HealthCare System, overseeing roughly $1.7 billion in annual research funding across the system. She led an initiative reported to save $10 million annually in radiology programs and helped establish funding for a large biobank.[16] After being named interim president and chief executive officer in February 2019,[17] she was appointed president and CEO in June 2019, becoming the first woman to lead Massachusetts's largest private employer.[18][19]

Klibanski serves as Harvard's academic dean for Mass General Brigham and is an ex officio member of its board.[20] She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and on the board of the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership.[21] In January 2026, Klibanski was elected Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA).[22]

Controversies

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Executive compensation

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Klibanski's compensation as CEO of Mass General Brigham has repeatedly drawn press coverage and criticism as part of broader debate over executive pay in nonprofit healthcare.[5][6][7]

According to tax filings, Klibanski's total compensation exceeded $6 million in 2022, an 11.6 percent increase from 2021, at a time when compensation fell for several peer hospital CEOs in Massachusetts.[7] More than half of the total was a $3.37 million bonus, 41 percent above her base salary.[7] By contrast, the CEO of Beth Israel Lahey Health saw his pay fall 47 percent to $2.8 million in 2022, and the CEO of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute earned $2.33 million, down 41 percent.[7]

Reporting on filings released in August 2025 found that Klibanski received $8.4 million in total compensation, making her the highest-paid hospital executive in Massachusetts that year. MGB board chair Scott Sperling defended the package, citing what he called her "clear-eyed leadership" through disruptive federal policy actions affecting research funding and an inpatient capacity crisis.[5] The Committee of Interns and Residents, the union representing MGB's resident physicians and fellows, noted that her annual pay is 193 times that of the system's lowest-paid employee.[23]

Physician and hospital staff protests

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In March 2025, resident physicians and attending physicians picketed outside Massachusetts General Hospital over executive pay, citing understaffing that they said followed a round of administrative and clinical layoffs initiated by Klibanski.[23] Several doctors described difficulty getting patient-safety concerns addressed through internal reporting channels.[23] The same month, more than 300 physicians from across Massachusetts rallied outside Boston hospitals in support of state legislative proposals (S.899 and H.1398) that would cap healthcare executive compensation at 50 times the pay of a system's lowest-paid worker.[24]

2026 nursing strike

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Beginning in early 2026, Mass General Brigham moved to close the Weiner Center preoperative clinic and to consolidate Brigham and Women's Hospital's inpatient burn unit with Massachusetts General Hospital's program. Nurses represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association testified before the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) in January 2026 that the closure would leave the region unprepared for mass-casualty events requiring burn care, pointing to the hospital's role after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.[25] In February 2026, the DPH found the burn unit to be a "necessary" service, and a majority of nurses in the affected unit sent a letter to Klibanski and board chair Scott Sperling urging that the closure decision be reversed.[26] In March 2026, the DPH pressed MGB for further detail, finding that its initial closure plan had not adequately addressed staff competency and patient-safety concerns.[27]

These disputes coincided with stalled contract negotiations between MGB and the Massachusetts Nurses Association. On June 26, 2026, roughly 4,500 nurses and clinicians, including 4,000 registered nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital and 450 clinicians at MGB Home Care, issued strike notices, in what the union described as the largest planned strike of nurses and healthcare professionals in Massachusetts history.[8] In its strike announcement, the union cited the Weiner Center and burn unit closures alongside MGB's executive compensation, noting that the system's 14 highest-paid executives received a combined $35.9 million in fiscal year 2024, including $8.4 million for Klibanski.[8]

The strike began on July 8, 2026, with picketing nurses and supporters gathered outside Brigham and Women's Hospital; Mass General Brigham said the hospital remained "open and fully operational" and activated contingency staffing plans.[28] Although the Massachusetts Nurses Association had authorized only a 24-hour walkout, MGB extended the work stoppage by locking out the roughly 4,000 union nurses for several additional days while bringing in approximately 1,300 replacement nurses.[29] Nurses returned to work on July 13, 2026, without a new contract in place, in what was reported as the largest nursing strike in Massachusetts history.[30][31]

Books

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  • Prolactin Disorders: From Basic Science to Clinical Management (Springer Publishing, 2019) ISBN 9783030118358
  • Neuroendocrine Consequences of Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescents (Chapter 14) of Pediatric Neuroendocrinology (Karger, 2009) ISBN 978-3-8055-9303-8

References

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  1. ↑ "Anne Klibanski, MD". World Medical Innovation Forum. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Anne Klibanski, President and Chief Executive Officer | Mass General Brigham". www.massgeneralbrigham.org. Mass General Brigham. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  3. ↑ "MIT and Mass General Brigham launch joint seed program to accelerate innovations in health". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT News. June 27, 2025. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  4. ↑ Goldberg, Carey (June 26, 2019). "Dr. Anne Klibanski Is First Woman To Lead Partners HealthCare". WBUR. Retrieved April 9, 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 Bartlett, Jessica (August 15, 2025). "Mass. hospitals pushed executive pay to new heights in 2023. Here's how much CEOs made. - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Hart, Isabel (August 15, 2025). "Hospital CEO pay in Mass. soars, despite financial pressures across healthcare". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Lee, Thomas (August 16, 2024). "2022 was a down year for hospital CEO pay — except for Mass General Brigham - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  8. 1 2 3 "Largest Nurse and Healthcare Professional Strike in Massachusetts History Scheduled for July 8 as 4,500 MNA Nurses and Clinicians Plan Walk Out at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MGB Home Care" (Press release). PR Newswire. June 26, 2026. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Partners HealthCare Names Klibanski President and CEO". www.massgeneralbrigham.org. June 25, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Dr. Anne Klibanski, MD – Boston, MA | Endocrinology on Doximity". Doximity. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  11. ↑ Bailey-Wells, Peter (June 26, 2019). "Five things to know about Dr. Anne Klibanski, Partners' new CEO - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. The Boston Globe. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Anne Klibanski, Chief, Director, Professor". eMedEvents. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  13. ↑ Kumar, Pooja (November 7, 2022). "Beyond the numbers: Creating a more diverse future for health". McKinsey & Company. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  14. 1 2 "ANNE KLIBANSKI, MD ? ENDOCRINE SOCIETY OUTSTANDING MENTOR AWARD". MGH NEPTCC-Bulletin. Massachusetts General Hospital. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  15. 1 2 "Anne Klibanski, Chief, Director, Professor". eMedEvents. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  16. ↑ "2019 Top 25 Women Leaders Dr. Anne Klibanski". Modern Healthcare. February 21, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  17. ↑ "Partners Names Klibanski As Interim President/CEO". WBUR. February 19, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2026.
  18. ↑ Goldberg, Carey (June 26, 2019). "Dr. Anne Klibanski Is First Woman To Lead Partners HealthCare". WBUR. Retrieved April 9, 2026.
  19. ↑ "Partners names Dr. Anne Klibanski as its new CEO". The Boston Globe. June 25, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2026.
  20. ↑ "Anne Klibanski | Harvard Medical School". hms.harvard.edu. Harvard Medical School. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
  21. ↑ "Anne Klibanski Biography".
  22. ↑ "MGB's Klibanski Elected Chair of MHA's Board". Mhalink.org. February 2, 2026. Retrieved April 2, 2026.
  23. 1 2 3 "Mass General Brigham doctors and residents protest high CEO pay". The Boston Globe. March 20, 2025. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  24. ↑ "'CEOs do not save lives': Mass. docs rally for state action to cap CEO salaries". HealthLeaders Media. March 21, 2025. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  25. ↑ "'A very bad plan': Brigham nurses testify against burn unit closure, merger with Mass. General Hospital". The Boston Globe. January 21, 2026. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  26. ↑ "MNA: DPH Finds Brigham and Women's Hospital Burn Unit 'Necessary' as Nurses Send Letter Urging MGB Leaders to Halt the Planned Closure" (Press release). Massachusetts Nurses Association. February 17, 2026. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  27. ↑ "MNA: DPH Presses MGB for Answers on Burn Unit Closure Plan, Echoing Nurses' Concerns About Safety and Capacity at Brigham and Women's Hospital" (Press release). PR Newswire. March 23, 2026. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  28. ↑ "Mass General Brigham nurses expect they won't be allowed back to work until next week". The Boston Globe. July 8, 2026. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  29. ↑ Parseghian, Aaron (July 10, 2026). "Brigham and Women's Hospital nurses locked out after ending one-day strike in Boston". CBS News Boston. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  30. ↑ "Brigham and Women's nurses return to work, ending largest nursing strike in Mass. history". GBH News. July 13, 2026. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  31. ↑ "Brigham nurses return to work after strike and lockout, with no deal in sight". The Boston Globe. July 13, 2026. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
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