Join us for an enlightening virtual lunch session with two distinguished healthcare leaders, Lisa Abbott, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Paula Marchetta, MD, MBA, SVP Western Region Physician Executive and President, Concorde Medical Group at Northwell Health, as they explore how innovations have reshaped their healthcare institutions.
Healthcare organizations run on the tightest of margins and must always be improving patient outcomes to stay competitive. Lisa and Paula will share how they are encouraging their institutions, in both care delivery and organizational management, to be open to innovation and change.
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Length: 1 hour
Location: Virtual; held via Zoom
Who should attend:
- Healthcare leaders and managers
- Individuals interested in healthcare careers
- Organizational development (OD) professionals
Cost: Free
Meet the speakers
Lisa Abbott is the Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, a comprehensive, pediatric teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Ms. Abbott is a transformational leader responsible for all facets of human capital strategy and HR operations for the enterprise and is charged with creating a world-class human resources organization.
Prior to taking this role in 2023, Ms. Abbott was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Community Affairs at Lifespan Corporation, an academic health system affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the largest employer in the state of Rhode Island. With her transformative leadership approach, she created synergy across the system by centralizing service delivery, focusing on superior customer service and keeping the patient at the center of the change agenda.
Ms. Abbott holds a Masters of Business Administration from Binghamton University with a concentration in International Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Cortland State University. She is SPHR credentialed and is a graduate of the Michigan Business School Executive Human Resources Program.
Paula Marchetta, MD, MBA is SVP Western Region Physician Executive, Northwell Health & President, Concorde Medical Group, Northwell Health. She also leads Concorde Medical Group, Northwell’s largest multi-specialty practice in Manhattan, with 39 physicians and more than 90 staff members across 11 locations. Dr. Marchetta is also a professor at the Zucker School of Medicine.
A nationally recognized rheumatologist, Dr. Marchetta has held several leadership positions at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), including President in 2019. She has been named as an ACR Master, one of the highest honors the College bestows on its members. During her long clinical career, she has also been consistently listed as a top doctor by Castle Connolly and New York Magazine. Dr. Marchetta has been listed in Super Doctors® for 17 consecutive years and is a Legacy Hall of Fame physician.
Dr. Marchetta graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English from Fordham University where she also completed her master’s degree in English. She went on to earn her MD from New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She completed her Internal Medicine internship and residency at NYU-Bellevue Hospital, where she served as chief medical resident. She went on to fellowship in rheumatology at the combined Bellevue/Hospital for Joint Diseases program, where she also was selected as chief fellow. Following fellowship, Dr. Marchetta stayed on at NYU as a voluntary physician, first in solo private practice and then as a partner in the newly formed Concorde Medical Group, where she later became the managing partner and chief executive officer. During this time, she also served as a member of the executive committee of the Medical Board at NYU Langone, as president of the board of directors of NYU’s Clinically Integrated Network, and as a member of the executive committee and board of University Physicians Network (UPN), the NYU IPA. Dr. Marchetta received her MBA from The George Washington University School of Business and later completed an intensive executive education program in health care management at Harvard Business School.
Administrative Titles
Senior Vice President and Physician Executive, Western Region, Northwell Health President, Concorde Medical Group
Academic Titles
Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Senior Vice President and Physician Executive, Western Region, Northwell Health President, Concorde Medical Group
Meet the facilitator: Laura Freebairn-Smith is a Partner and co-founder at OPG. Her specialty is assisting leaders in realizing the full potential of their organizations through humanistic and analytical practices, while offering guidance in the redesign of infrastructure, the creation of strategic plans, and with organizational development.
