Kinder Institute Luncheon 2024 | Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Tribute to Dr. Marc L. Boom
With Dr. Ruth N. López Turley

Presenting Sponsors: CenterPoint Energy, Bracewell LLP, HEB, Hines, Houston Methodist, Kinder Foundation and Laura and Tom Bacon

The Kinder Institute luncheon will take place as planned on Monday, May 20.

Dr. Mark. L. Boom, president and CEO of Houston Methodist, will receive the 2024 Stephen L. Klineberg Award for outstanding leadership in health care. Kinder Institute Director Dr. Ruth N. López Turley will present results from the 43rd Kinder Houston Regional Survey. The survey results will shed light on residents’ perceptions of the Houston of tomorrow.

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About the winner

Dr. Marc L. Boom, recipient of the 2024 Stephen L. Klineberg Award, is president and CEO of Houston Methodist.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Boom helped lead the Houston area’s vaccination rollout with a focus on equity, prioritizing areas of greatest need and most vulnerable populations to infection. Additionally, he was the first hospital system CEO in the country to implement a workforce vaccination mandate. Houston Methodist was also the first hospital in the United States to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma therapy, and one of the first to conduct clinical trials of the antiviral drug remdesivir.

Boom holds a BS in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin, an MD from Baylor College of Medicine, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and fellowships in geriatric and general medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

In addition to his part-time medical practice and role in hospital leadership, Boom is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and an assistant professor of management, policy and community health at the University of Texas School of Public Health. and he previously served as an assistant professor of management at Rice University.

Boom and his wife of over 25 years, Julie, have three children: Kathryn, John and Janie.

About the Stephen L. Klineberg Prize

Named in honor of Dr. Stephen L. Klineberg, founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, the Stephen L. Klineberg Prize recognizes individuals who have had a lasting impact on Greater Houston. The Klineberg Prize was awarded to Mayor Sylvester Turner (2023), Dr. Anne Chao (2022), Robert Eury (2021), Rev. William Lawson (2020), Jeff Hines (2019), Angela Blanchard (2018) and to Tom Bacon. (2017).