Effective in January 2020, Michael J. Dandorph becomes the new president and CEO of Wellforce, the health system comprising Tufts Medical Center, Circle Health, MelroseWakefield Healthcare, and the Home Health Foundation. Dandorph replaces Norm Deschene, who retired in December 2018. Since then, Michael Wagner, M.D. has served as interim CEO and will return to his position in January as Wellforce’s chief physician executive. Dandorph joins Wellforce from Rush University System for Health and Rush University Medical Center in the metropolitan Chicago area. Before his posts at Rush, Dandorph spent more than 17 years at the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine) as senior vice president of strategy and business development. Dandorph has a B.S. from William Paterson University of New Jersey and an MHA from Cornell University.