January 30, 2024- Kreg Koford joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2018 as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Hospital Operations. After being responsible for $2.2 billion of non-labor spend at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, he was tasked with bringing a bold vision and developing new opportunities in existing relationships to transform how the cancer center buys, distributes, and uses resources.
Founded in 1884 and located in the heart of New York City, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s (MSK) mission is to end cancer for life. That focuses its strategy and its three pillars of education, clinical care, and research to create the best possible outcome for the patient, according to Koford.
He’s been building out teams, processes, and technology over the past five years, and COVID-19 hit just after onboarding his leadership team in 2019. “We’ve been on a journey with a pandemic right in the middle of it,” he said.
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