# Toby Cosgrove
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Delos Marshall "Toby" Cosgrove (born 1940) is an American Vietnam War veteran and former heart surgeon. He served as the president and chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic from 2004 until 2017.
== Early life ==
toby cosgrove was born in 1940 in Watertown, New York and graduated from Williams College, where he majored in history.
Inside the Health Moonshot Impact Board: Esther Dyson & Roger Jansen Get Candid on Health Innovation
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Making a Choice for Patient Affordability
Toby Cosgrove, former CEO of Cleveland Clinic and Kyle Kiser, CEO of Arrive Health, discuss changes in healthcare, aiming to improve patient affordability. Rising drug costs and lack of cost transparency are significant barriers to treatment compliance. In 2022, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation a…
Former CEO of Cleveland Clinic Talks Leadership and the Economics of Hospital Innovation
A Masterclass with Healthcare Heavyweight Dr. Toby Cosgrove
Join StartUp Health for a Masterclass with a healthcare visionary: Dr. Toby Cosgrove, former CEO of the #2 ranked hospital in America, Cleveland Clinic, and a member of StartUp Health’s Board of Directors.
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Warren Buffett’s Cash, Medical Upcoding, & Trump’s NYC Influence 2/24/25
The Department of Justice’s investigation into United Healthcare’s billing practices has highlighted problematic practices across the American health care system, including upcoding. Former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic Dr. Toby Cosgrove explains common abuses in the system, their legacy, and potenti…
The Future of Medicine with One of the Greatest Healthcare Visionaries of Our Time with Dr. Toby Cosgrove
What if healthcare focused less on treating disease and more on creating health? In this powerful conversation, Brigid sits down with Dr. Toby Cosgrove, visionary former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, to unpack the bold decisions he made that changed healthcare—from banning smoking and removing McDon…
America’s Health Care: Affordability, AI, & Politics 11/21/25
Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums expire on December 31st, but Congress has yet to come to a bipartisan agreement on policy ahead of that deadline. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) explains his party’s strategy and the affordability crisis for many Americans. Former CEO of t…
Toby Cosgrove ’62 — From Vietnam to the Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Toby Cosgrove ’62 reflects on a remarkable life that took him from upstate New York to Williams, through medical school at UVA, into the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, and ultimately to the helm of the Cleveland Clinic. A renowned cardiovascular surgeon who performed more than 22,000 op…
The Million Pound Challenge Part 2 - The Program
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In Part 1 we started discussing the “Million Pound Challenge” created by Toby Cosgrove and Dr. Michael Roizen in which they are “challenging” an unknown number of people to co…
Everybody Is a Caregiver (ft. Toby Cosgrove)
Dr. Toby Cosgrove is the former President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, where he now serves as Executive Advisor. A cardiac surgeon and inventor, he is a member of the Cleveland Medical Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Business Hall of Fame, and has addressed the World Economic Forum at Davos and the …
The Front You Hold Alone
Episode 78: The Front You Hold Alone
The higher you climb, the fewer people will tell you the truth, and the fewer you feel you can tell. Your team cannot be your outlet. Your peers are half competitors. The people above you want to see you have it handled. Your circle of honest relationships shrin…
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