Dr. Michael Anderson has served in a number of important health care and policy leadership roles:
PICU Medical Director, Chief Medical Officer, Children’s Hospital President, Professor of Pediatrics, and Senior Advisor for the Federal COVID response.

Dr. Anderson received his Bachelor’s degree from John Carroll University, his MD from Case Western Reserve, and his MBA in Health Care from Kent State University. He spent the majority of his career as a Pediatric Intensivist and Health Care Administrator at Case Western Reserve and UH/Rainbow Babies and Children’s in Cleveland, serving as Chief Medical Officer for the 15 hospital UH system from 2008 to 2016. Dr. Anderson served as the inaugural President of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals from 2016 to 2020, where he focused on program integration, leadership recruitment, and novel program development.

At the start of the pandemic, Dr Anderson was recruited to join Operation Warp Speed as a senior advisor at HHS/ASPR in Washington DC, focused on the distribution of COVID therapeutics and helping drive a pediatric-focused response agenda. Dr. Anderson’s advocacy career has been served primarily in assuring children have adequate focus and resources when disasters strike. As President George W. Bush’s appointee, he served as Vice-Chair of the National Commission on Children and Disasters. In 2014, Dr. Anderson was appointed by the Obama Administration to chair the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters at HHS. In addition, he has chaired an IOM task force on pediatric readiness and published on both critical care and disaster-related topics. Dr. Anderson has been a regular contributor on MSNBC, focused primarily on pediatric issues. Throughout his career, Dr Anderson has worked to catalyze leadership development in health care, primarily focused on physician leadership. In Cleveland, he formed the UH-CMC physician leadership academy and CMO fellowship and likewise started a similar program at Children’s National Hospital in 2022. Focused on physician leadership development, he joined the consulting firm WittKieffer as a Principal in the Academic Medicine.

Dr. Anderson has served on several nonprofit boards, including the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy at Case Western Reserve, the FBI Citizens Academy Foundation, Cuyahoga Health Alliance Program, MedWorks, the Children’s Museum of Cleveland, the Community Advisory Board for Cleveland State University’s Urban Health Program, the Joint Powers Authority Health Care Committee, and the American Heart Association Heart Ball. Dr. Anderson is dedicated to the ideals of Jesuit Education and has been honored by his alma mater, John Carroll University, with the Beaudry Senior Award, an Honorary Degree, the Alumni Medal and served as the Commencement Speaker in 2023. He has served on the Boards of John Carroll University, the Ignatian Solidarity Network and the Jesuit Friends and Alumni Network.