Anne Marie Pendo MD

Summary

• Dr. Anne Pendo, MD, FACP is an internal medicine physician with a specialty in geriatrics and more than 30 years of experience caring for patients, supporting clinicians, and developing healthcare leaders.
  
  
  Throughout her career, Dr. Pendo has been a strong advocate for physician and advanced practice provider well-being. In senior clinical and system leadership roles, she helped build cultures where engagement, satisfaction, and professional fulfillment were prioritized—grounded in her belief that when clinicians are supported, patients receive better care. Under her leadership, provider engagement and satisfaction improved consistently year over year.
  
  
  Beyond clinical practice, Dr. Pendo is a certified executive coach who works with physicians and healthcare leaders through one-on-one and team coaching. Her work focuses on leadership development, communication, resilience, and helping clinicians navigate the complexity of modern healthcare while maintaining alignment with their values and lives outside of medicine. She is known for a coaching approach that integrates insight, empathy, and practical action.
  
  
  Dr. Pendo earned her MD from the University of Southern California and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she also served as chief resident. She practiced internal medicine and geriatrics for over three decades in California and Utah and held system and regional leadership roles at Intermountain Health, including work in value-based care, patient experience, leadership development, and provider well-being.
  
  Outside of work, she enjoys time with her husband, Duncan, and their therapy two dogs, Olive and Ollie.