Robert C. Garrett

Robert C. Garrett is the CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest health network with 18 hospitals, 500 patient care locations, 36,000 team members and 7,000 physicians. The network has played a major role in the COVID-19 pandemic, including treating 85,000 patients and administering 800,000 vaccines and developing major breakthroughs including the state’s first rapid COVID test, developing nearly a dozen clinical trials for COVID therapies, including convalescent plasma therapy. The network also created a rapid COVID variant test to more effectively treat patients and better track the virus.