Christopher A. Chekouras is president and chief executive officer at St. Mary’s Health System in Lewiston, Maine, having joined the organization in 2015. Prior to St. Mary’s, Chris served as Senior Vice President of Post-Acute and Community-Based Services at Virtua, a comprehensive Marlton, New Jersey healthcare system with three hospitals. Prior to his work at Virtua, Chris held several senior leadership positions at Harbor Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, as part of the MedStar Health System, a 10 hospital health system in the Washington, DC and Maryland region. Before joining MedStar, Chris spent nearly fourteen years with the bio-medical division of the American Red Cross in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD areas. Chris received his Bachelor of Science degree in child and adolescent development from Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. He earned a Master of Business Administration at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland.