Wellforce, a health system formed by Tufts Medical Center and Circle Health in 2014, announced yesterday that it has named Michael J Dandorph as its new president and chief executive officer of the growing health system, effective January 2020.

In this role, Dandorph is to integrate around 15,000 Wellforce employees and clinicians in the common aim of integrating academic medicine and high-quality care across all health care members, physician groups and the communities they serve. He was selected for this executive position after an extensive national search.

Dandorph joins Wellforce after serving as president of Rush University System for Health and Rush University Medical Center. Before being named president at Rush, Dandorph spent three years as chief operating officer and executive vice president for clinical affairs. He also spent more than 17 years at the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine) where he led Penn's managed care efforts, created network affiliations and partnerships, and expanded clinical programs across the Philadelphia region as senior vice president of strategy and business development.