Primary Job Title Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Primary Organization Sierra Healthcare
Gender Male
Dr. Marlon was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Sierra Health Services, Inc. (“Sierra”), a publicly traded healthcare company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Founded in 1984, Sierra was a diversified managed healthcare company that provided and/or administered benefit plans for employers, government programs and
individuals predominately in Nevada. Sierra was comprised of a family of health-related subsidiaries including Health Plan of Nevada, Nevada’s largest health maintenance organization (HMO). In February of 2008, Sierra and its subsidiaries became part of United Healthcare where he was asked to serve as a consultant through February of 2009.
Dr. Marlon was a member of the Board of Directors of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and remains a Board Member of the Nevada Development Authority and the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Foundation. In 1992, Dr. Marlon was appointed to the Federal Task Force on Long Term Health Care Policies. For thirteen years, Dr. Marlon’s leadership skills were called on as a member of the Government Affairs Committee of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Marlon was born in New York City. He attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1963. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at State University of New York in 1967. At Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, California, he served as a medical intern from 1967-1968; as an internal medicine resident from 1968-1970; and as a Cardiology Fellow from 1970-1972. Dr. Marlon moved to Las Vegas in July of 1972 and was affiliated with University Medical Center as Chief of the Division of Cardiology. Dr. Marlon has been a speaker for various medical institutions, universities, and health groups and has written numerous cardiology related articles for medical publications.
