Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer
Gary Siegelman, MD, MSc, CPE, is the Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Bayhealth. His work at Bayhealth has been focused over several years on building improved clinical services and physician resources to serve the community as well as adding the first medical resident training programs in Bayhealth’s history. A practicing internist near Chicago for the first decade of his career, Dr. Siegelman came to Bayhealth as its Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer in 2007.Some of his primary responsibilities include overseeing all the Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education (GME) programs at Bayhealth, which enhance the caliber of our organization, and train future physicians for our community. As Designated Institutional Official for GME, Dr. Siegelman helped spearhead the start of these programs in 2018. Bayhealth now has four residencies and two fellowship programs with roughly 100 total trainees. The primary care residencies alone provide over 25,000 patient visits per year. Dr. Siegelman has also guided partnerships with Drexel Medical School and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine to serve as a core clinical campus for their medical students. Several residents from the first graduating classes in June 2024 have remained in the community as Bayhealth physicians, something that is expected to continue and grow in the coming years. GME has also helped bring clinical research to our organization and community, which helps contribute to advances in clinical care.
Dr. Siegelman has also focused on building the scope and caliber of Bayhealth Medical Group in coordination with other leaders. This includes adding multiple new office locations to improve patient access, and recruiting over 100 new and highly skilled physicians and advanced practice physicians over the last three years. These physicians include numerous primary care physicians as well as specialists in cardiology, gastroenterology, trauma, surgical oncology, pelvic floor urology, and several other areas. Many of these physicians have trained at nationally recognized programs and brought skills not previously available in Delaware. Dr. Siegelman is committed to supporting both Bayhealth Medical Group and other physicians in the community to continually provide improved access and patient experience in our area.
In addition to his responsibilities leading the medical staff and GME efforts, Dr. Siegelman has led or supported a number of other important Bayhealth efforts, including the start of our Population Health program in 2012, Bayhealth’s entry into a statewide Accountable Care Organization, and the addition of talented population health staff to help reduce the impact of chronic illness on thousands of our patients. Dr. Siegelman helped spearhead a project leading to a $4.9 million, four-year grant from CMS to help train over one thousand physician practices and improve their quality outcomes across Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. He has served also on multiple statewide Boards, including the Highmark Medicare Advantage Governance Board, the boards of the Delaware Center for Health Innovation, the Delaware Health Information Network, the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Sub-Committee and others. He has been involved in leading Bayhealth initiatives in Capacity Management, Primary and Specialty Care Access, TeleHealth, Patient Safety and High Reliability, Quality Improvement, and reducing racial disparities in healthcare in our community.
Dr. Siegelman is passionate about the work he is part of at Bayhealth. He finds significant satisfaction in helping a team build some of the many new and/or improved programs that have been added in the last 15 years.
A certified physician executive, Dr. Siegelman earned his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Harvard University, his MSc at the University of Wisconsin, and his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where he was a James Scholar, engaging in research in both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. In addition, he completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
In his time away from work Dr. Siegelman loves to spend time with family both across the US and overseas. He is an avid pilot, hiker and scull and sweep rower.