Leadership

Jeffrey Canose, M.D. became president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano on March 1, 2009. Canose, who was previously senior vice president and chief operating officer of Texas Health Plano, succeeded Philip M. Wentworth, FACHE, who retired after 38 years in healthcare administration.

Canose is the first physician in Texas Health Resources' system of 13 hospitals to be named a hospital president.

Canose joined Texas Health Resources in January 2006 as senior vice president and COO at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and became the first COO at Texas Health Plano in June 2007. Prior to that, he served as vice president of clinical operations of CaroMont Health/Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C. from 1999 to 2006.

His professional experience also includes a decade of clinical practice and progressive executive leadership as a clinical department chair, academic program director of anesthesiology and administrator of perioperative services at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Canose received his medical degree from The Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1983. He completed an internship in general surgery at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Connecticut, followed by a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Connecticut Health Center. His subspecialty fellowship training in cardiac anesthesiology was at the University Health Center of Pittsburgh. In addition, Canose earned a master's degree in healthcare administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.