That early work shaped how he thinks about pressure, teamwork, and staying calm when something goes wrong.
Reight studied psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, then trained as a doctor at the Medical University of the Americas. Over the course of his career he has taken on several leadership posts alongside his surgical work: medical staff president, chief of surgery, and medical director of a breast centre and of a wound care and hyperbaric programme. He has also led as a robotic surgery surgeon, a role that sits at the newer end of general surgery.
Ian’s path has never run in a straight line from operating theatre to boardroom and back. He has treated leadership as part of the job, not separate from it, which is why he has moved between clinical roles and administrative ones without seeing much of a divide. Now based in Mount Vernon, Maine, he continues that pattern: seeing patients, running a surgical practice, and keeping an eye on how the systems around care actually work.
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