Senior Advisor, Centers of Excellence

Charles Rosen, MD served as the Medical Director for Contracting and Payer Relations for Mayo Clinic (2012 – 2022) during which time he focused on direct-to-employer relationships and value-based healthcare. He was a senior clinician involved in creating national centers of excellence between Walmart and the Mayo Clinic.  He played a major role in the development and implementation of Mayo Clinic’s Complex Care and Serious Illness program which is a key component of Mayo Clinic’s direct-to-employer agreements.

Dr. Rosen was also the Director of the William J. von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Clinic Regeneration at Mayo Clinic Rochester (2017 – 2019), Chair of the Division of Transplantation Surgery (2009 – 2017) and Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation at Mayo Clinic (1998 – 2008).  His clinical areas of interest included liver transplantation, living donor liver transplantation, transplantation for cholangiocarcinoma and other hepatobiliary tumors, and deceased donor organ utilization and procurement.  He was the President of the Board of Directors and Medical Director for LifeSource (2007 – 2008), the organ procurement organization serving Minnesota, North and South Dakota.  He served as faculty co-chair for the HRSA Transplant Center Growth and Management Collaborative 2007 – 2008 and was a member of the faculty of the HRSA Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaborative 2005 – 2006. 

He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1977 and received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1980.  He received his medical degree from Mayo Medical School in 1984.  He completed a residency in general surgery in 1989 and a fellowship in transplantation surgery in 1991 at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine.