Chief Exec of Stony Brook University Hospital to Take Over at Univ. Of Colorado Hospital

By Claude Solnik

Bruce Schroffel, chief executive officer of Stony Brook University Hospital, is leaving to take over as president and CEO at the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver.Schroffel, who took the helm at the hospital in February 2001, launched a $300 million revamp of the facility, which had opened in 1980.He presided over the construction of a cardiology center and the expansion of an emergency room. A new cancer and imaging center is slated to open next year.This represents a unique opportunity for me, Schroffel said of his new post. It is a brand new hospital and a brand new health science campus.Prior to joining Stony Brook, Schroffel was CEO of the San Francisco campus of the University of California-San Francisco/Stanford Health Care.