TACOMA — Michael Marshall, M.D., has been named the new president and chief medical officer for Franciscan Medical Group, CHI Franciscan Health’s regional network of clinics, physicians and other providers.

Marshall will join CHI Franciscan Health on Feb. 23 and will serve on the system’s senior executive team. He succeeds Stephen Spare, M.D., who retired last year.

The medical group has more than 100 clinics and approximately 600 physicians in Pierce, King and Kitsap counties. Its physicians and other providers represent more than 100 medical specialties.

Marshall is board certified in Family Medicine and most recently served as the president of Allina Health Clinics and senior vice president of Allina Health, a large nonprofit health system located in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota.

Marshall previously served as the vice president of Medical Operations for the Aurora Medical Group in Wisconsin and as the medical director for the Foundation Medical Partners Medical Group, New Hampshire.

Marshall has worked as a Family Medicine and Urgent Care physician in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Canada for 17 years.

Marshall received his undergraduate and medical degrees from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his board certification in Family Medicine in Canada through the College of Family Physicians of Canada and in the United States, through the American Board of Family Medicine.

He has also completed a Master of Medical Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg and is currently completing a Master of Finance degree through the University of Southern New Hampshire.