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Children’s Wisconsin announces next president and CEO

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Maredithe Meyer

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Jun 24, 2024 6:03 pm

Gil Peri

Children’s Wisconsin has named Gil Peri as its next president and CEO, effective Aug. 12, the Wauwatosa-based health system announced Monday. Peri most recently served as president of Riley Children’s Health, a 485-bed children’s health system in Indianapolis that is part of Indiana University Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine. He succeeds Peggy

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Children's Wisconsin has named Gil Peri as its next president and CEO, effective Aug. 12, the Wauwatosa-based health system announced Monday. Peri most recently served as president of Riley Children’s Health, a 485-bed children’s health system in Indianapolis that is part of Indiana University Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine. He succeeds Peggy Troy, who is retiring after 15 years at the helm. Children’s announced in October that Troy will retire at the end of 2024. “It is a tremendous honor to have been named president and CEO of Children’s Wisconsin,” Peri said in a statement. “As one of the top pediatric health care systems in the country, Children’s Wisconsin is known for its excellent patient care, innovation, and compassionate teams dedicated to the physical and mental health and well-being of kids and their families. I look forward to working alongside the tremendously talented and dedicated Children’s Wisconsin team and partnering with individuals and organizations across the state who are committed to ensuring all kids have a chance to grow up healthy and happy.”

The announcement of Peri's appointment follows a national search that began in late 2023, drawing "many exceptionally accomplished and capable candidates from across the country," said Patrick Hammes, chair of the Children’s Wisconsin board of directors and the search committee. “Our board of directors is pleased that we have been able to select a leader who is ideally suited to the needs of the organization and our work on behalf of Wisconsin kids and families," said Hammes in a statement. "Gil has demonstrated alignment with our aspirational vision of making Wisconsin kids the healthiest in the nation and our strong internal culture that supports Children’s Wisconsin as a great place to work and receive care. His demonstrated ability to build key strategic partnerships with other mission-focused organizations to improve the health and well-being of kids will be invaluable. I am confident Gil is the right individual to lead Children’s Wisconsin, both now and well into the future.” Peri has 25 years of leadership experience in health care operations and strategy. Prior to his nearly three-year stint at Riley Children’s Health, which ended in February, he was president and chief operating officer at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford from 2017 to 2021, and senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver from 2014 to 2017. Before that, he served four years as vice president of strategic growth at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He earned his bachelor's, master's in public health and MBA from the University of South Florida.

“I am pleased to welcome Gil to Children’s Wisconsin,” said Troy, who first joined Children’s as a pediatric nurse in 1975. “His values, expertise, and strategic vision are perfectly aligned with our organization and where we are headed in the future. Gil has an unwavering commitment to improving whole-child health, and I am confident that he will serve our organization and our community with passion and integrity for years to come.”

With locations in Milwaukee and Neenah, Children’s Wisconsin provides primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, mental and behavioral health care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers.

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