His wife of 37 years, Mary, doesn’t remember it, but Tom Sadvary first met her in an ambulance in Pittsburgh, he a paramedic, she an ICU nurse. “She was so focused on the patient,” he recalls. “Fortunately we had another opportunity to meet.” Today, Sadvary, 60, is a more visible member of the healthcare team as president and CEO of Scottsdale Lincoln Health Network, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based five-hospital integrated health system. He was born in Olean in western New York near the Pennsylvania border where his father taught at St. Bonaventure University but moved to Pittsburgh at an early age. After earning an undergraduate degree in political science and economics at Allegheny College he returned to Pittsburgh where he trained as a paramedic. Initially eyeing law school, Sadvary was inspired to pursue healthcare by his best friend’s dad who ran a nearby city hospital. In 1976 he started graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health where he earned a master’s in healthcare administration. He did his residency at UPMC and then spent seven years in administrative roles at Barberton Citizens Hospital in Akron, Ohio. After joining Scottsdale Healthcare in 1986 as a hospital administrator, Sadvary moved up and assumed the top job in 2005. He is a member of the board of directors of the Scottsdale Institute. He and Mary have an adult son and daughter.