He has been a president, a dean, a CEO, an obstetrician, and now pursues his vision for the creative re-construction of American health care by bridging traditional academic centers with entrepreneurs and innovators. His passion is to use technology to close the gaps of health disparities and offer everyone the promise of health assurance.
At the same time, Dr. Klasko is a lifelong DJ, a disc jockey who believes that the message in the music can give us the courage to tackle a broken, fragmented, unfriendly, expensive and inequitable health care system.
As president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health from 2013-2021, he led one of the nation’s fastest growing academic health institutions based on his vision of re-imagining health care and higher education.
