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Ronald C. Rak, J.D., has served as President and CEO of Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, New Brunswick, N.J., since November 2007. As CEO of Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, Mr. Rak oversees all strategic planning and operations for the only health care system in New Jersey sponsored by a Roman Catholic bishop.

Mr. Rak was General Secretary for Administrative and Legal Services for the Diocese of Metuchen, N.J., from June 2002 to November 2007, during which time he reported directly to The Most Reverend Paul Gregory Bootkoski, the Bishop of Metuchen.

Prior to that appointment, Mr. Rak was a partner at Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., during which time he served as lead counsel in litigation and regulatory matters in federal and state courts for numerous clients including the New Jersey Commissioner of Insurance, the Resolution Trust Corporation, and several healthcare institutions.

Mr. Rak created Saint Peter’s Healthcare System in 2005 while serving as chairman of the Saint Peter’s University Hospital Board of Trustees and further refined it in 2007 upon his appointment as CEO.

As the president and CEO of Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, Mr. Rak has strengthened the healthcare system’s academic and clinical care partnership with Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, of which the hospital is a regional medical campus

Mr. Rak’s primary focus is to strengthen the Catholic identity of the healthcare system with particular emphasis on the major components of the system, including: Saint Peter’s University Hospital; The Children’s Hospital at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, and the Margaret McLaughlin McCarrick Care Center, a nursing home in Somerset, N.J.

As part of that vision, Rak founded and expanded the National Gianna Center for Women’s Health & Fertility at Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, a service he salvaged from St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Manhattan before that hospital closed in 2010. The Gianna takes a natural, leading-edge approach to women’s wellness and fertility.

Mr. Rak received his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1984 and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Seton Hall University in 1981. Among numerous awards and honors, he is Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great and Commander with Star of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.