Dr. Michael White

Michael D. White, MD, currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Valleywise Health in Phoenix, Arizona. Valleywise Health (formerly Maricopa Integrated Health System) has a proud tradition of being both the community safety net health care system, with a mission and commitment to serving the underserved and Arizona’s only public teaching hospital. Valleywise Health consists of Valleywise Health Medical Center, Arizona’s only nationally verified Burn Center serving the entire Southwestern United States, the McDowell Healthcare Center, the largest provider of HIV primary care in Arizona, women’s and pediatric refugee health services, the Arizona Children’s Center, three behavioral health centers, and 12 FQHC sites throughout Maricopa County.  Dr. White joined Valleywise health in August 2019.

Dr. White previously held the role of Chief Academic Officer at CHI Health. In this role as Chief Academic, he served as a liaison between Creighton University and the CHI Health system.  Dr. White has held this role from 2015 to 2019.  He also served on the steering committee that lead the development of the new CHI Health Academic Health System. In 2018, Dr. White has also served as Interim Executive Medical Director at the CHI Health Heart Institute until his transition to Arizona.

Dr. White has also holds the role of Associate Dean for Technology and Educational Innovation at Creighton University School of Medicine since 2015.  He continually identifies opportunities to enhance the learning environment for healthcare clinicians of the future.  The School of Medicine opened over 125 years ago and has 5,200 alumni practicing medicine in all 50 states and 9 countries. Creighton University School of Medicine has two regional campuses: one in Omaha and one in Phoenix, Arizona at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. White is also an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology.  Dr. White joined the faculty of Creighton University School of Medicine in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014.  Dr. White was promoted to Associate Dean for Medical Education in 2013 and held that role until 2015. In this prior Associate Dean role, Dr. White oversaw the curriculum for all four years of undergraduate medical student education.

Dr. White is a practicing interventional cardiologist. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Creighton University. Dr. White received his medical degree from the Creighton University School of Medicine, where he also completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease. He completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. White recently earned his MBA degree from Creighton University in 2019.