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KFF’s Chief Executive to Retire

NYT > Business > Media · Reed Abelson · last updated

Drew Altman, who transformed KFF from a little-known family foundation to a major source of U.S. health policy research, will step down at the end of the year.

Drew Altman, the founding president and chief executive of KFF, who helped shape the organization into one of the nation’s most influential nonprofit health policy sources, told his staff on Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the year.

Dr. Altman, 75, has worked at KFF since 1990. It was formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation.

He will be replaced by two senior KFF executives, Larry Levitt, 63, who will serve as chief executive, and Mollyann Brodie, 59, who will serve as president.

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