Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, is CEO of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. Harbor-UCLA is one of only five Level I trauma centers in Los Angeles County, and its 300 full-time faculty hold academic appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen School of Medicine. Approximately 500 residents and fellows are completing their graduate medical education at the facility, and it serves as a major training site for medical students from UCLA and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute is also housed at Harbor-UCLA.Mr. Finley started his professional career with the San Francisco Department of Public Health in 2003. He then joined the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as an administrator in its hematology and oncology division and, soon after, added to his responsibilities the management of the university's occupational and environmental medicine division. In 2005, Mr. Finley became administrative director of the organtization's HIV/AIDS division, and in 2006, he was named associate administrator at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. In 2010, he became vice president of operations, support, and professional services at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and in 2011, he was named CEO of HarborUCLA Medical Center.A member of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems board of directors and the Hospital Association of Southern California, Mr. Finley is also active in Health Care Executives of Southern California, his local ACHE chapter, for which he served as secretary in 2013. From 2007 to 2008, he was president of the California Association of Healthcare Leaders. He is a recipient of the ACHE Service Award, the ACHE Distinguished Service Award, and the Regent's Award. In 2014, he received ACHE's Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year, which recognizes early careerists for outstanding achievements in the field of healthcare management.Mr. Finley earned an undergraduate degree from Emory University and a master's degree in public policy from Duke University.Dr. O'Connor: Congratulations on winning the Hudgens Award! Within several years of beginning your career in healthcare management, you became director of the well-known HIV/AIDS division at UCSF. Comment on your rapid rise as an early careerist and how prepared you felt for that responsibility. When you transitioned from UCSF to assume the post of associate administrator of San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, what prompted you to see this as a stepping stone for advancing your career?Mr. Finley: Prior to becoming the director of the HIV/AIDS division at UCSF, I had managed small and medium-sized divisions within the Department of Medicine, all based at San Francisco General. These were great training grounds for preparing me to eventually run the HIV/AIDS division. The first of these was a newly created hematology and oncology division, which at the time had three physicians and a staff of about five individuals. It had the traditional tripartite mission of patient care delivery, research, and teaching. This was a small division, and a year later I was asked to also assume oversight of a division for occupational and environmental medicine, which was larger in size, with more complex fiscal and personnel responsibilities, particularly with respect to its research activities. This larger division conducted a lot of research on musculoskeletal disorders, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive stress injuries and disorders of the upper airway. Because of my experience with the large research component, I was well prepared to direct the HIV/AIDS division. That division-one of the oldest in the country-offered numerous clinical services and operated a huge research department that included both domestic and international clinical trials. …