Board of Trustees, Officers and Administration

Nita Ahuja, MD
William J. Aseltyne, Esq., Associate Secretary
Thomas Balcezak, MD
Marna P. Borgstrom, CEO
Nancy J. Brown, MD
Vincent A. Calarco
Keith Churchwell, MD, President
Erik M. Clemons
Jocelyn Cunningham
Karen DuBois-Walton
James L. Elrod Jr.
Mary C. Farrell, Chair
William W. Ginsberg

Joni Hansson, MD
Aaron P. Hollander
Thomas B. Ketchum
Ann Kurth
Marvin K. Lender
Linda Koch Lorimer, Secretary
Julia M. McNamara, Vice Chair
Sister Rosemary Moynihan
Stephen C. Murphy
Peter Salovey
Michael E. Sproule
Vincent Tammaro, Treasurer
James P. Torgerson
Eugenia M. Vining, MD

 

Marna P. Borgstrom

Chief Executive Officer

Marna Borgstrom began her career at Yale New Haven Hospital over 37 years ago. Her varied roles have taken her from a post-graduate fellowship, to various staff and management roles, to her promotion in 1994 to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Yale New Haven Hospital. In 2005, she assumed the position of CEO of Yale New Haven Hospital and President & CEO of Yale New Haven Health and now serves as the CEO of both organizations.

Ms. Borgstrom chairs the boards of the Healthcare Institute and the Coalition to Protect America’s Healthcare and is the past chair of Vizient, a Dallas, Texas-based health care company. She serves on several other boards including the Connecticut Hospital Association and New Haven Promise.

Ms. Borgstrom has been the recipient of several awards recognizing her advocacy and community involvement including the AHA Grassroots Champion Award, the Anti-Defamation League Torch of Liberty Award, The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Award and Business New Haven Business Person of the Year. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Quinnipiac University and Sacred Heart University and a Doctor of Business Administration by the University of New Haven.

Ms. Borgstrom received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and was awarded a Master’s of Public Health by Yale School of Public Health. She and her husband, Eric, have two grown sons.

 

Keith B. Churchwell, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP

President

Dr. Churchwell joined Yale New Haven Hospital in 2015 as senior vice president of heart and vascular services before assuming the role of chief operating officer and executive vice president for the hospital in 2020. He previously served as executive director and chief medical officer of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Churchwell completed his postgraduate training in cardiovascular disease and nuclear cardiology at Emory School of Medicine.

Board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease, he is associate clinical professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. He serves on the National Board of the American Heart Association and is chair of the National Advocacy Committee for AHA through 2021. He sits on a number of local boards in the New Haven area including the New Haven Symphony, Columbus House and New England Donor Services.

 

Thomas Balcezak, MD*

Executive Vice President
Chief Clinical Officer

 

Michael D. Holmes

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

 

William J. Aseltyne, Esq.*

Senior Vice President
Chief of Staff and General Counsel

 

Richard Lisitano

Senior Vice President, Operations

 

Michael Loftus

Senior Vice President, Operations
Executive Director, Neurosciences, Musculoskeletal, Surgical and Anesthesiology Services

 

Francine LoRusso, RN

Senior Vice President, Operations
Executive Director, Heart and Vascular, Transplant, Medicine and Radiology Services

 

Patrick McCabe*

Senior Vice President, Finance

 

Kevin A. Myatt*

Senior Vice President
Chief Human Resources Officer

 

Vincent Petrini*

Senior Vice President, Public Affairs
Chief Policy and Communications Officer

 

Lori Pickens

Senior Vice President & Executive Director, Oncology Services

 

Ian Schwartz, MD*

Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations
Chief Clinical Operations Officer, Yale New Haven Health

 

Cynthia Sparer*

Senior Vice President, Ambulatory Services
Executive Director, Women’s and Children’s Services

 

Lisa Stump*

Senior Vice President, Technology Services
Chief Information Officer

 

Vincent Tammaro*

Executive Vice President, Finance
Chief Financial Officer

 

Ena Williams

Senior Vice President, Patient Services
Chief Nursing Officer

 

Michael Angelini*

Chief Investment Officer
Treasurer, Yale New Haven Health

 

Angel A. Bruno

Vice President, Total Rewards, Compensation & Benefits

 

Stephen Carbery*

Vice President, Facilities Design, Construction

 

Thomas Donohue, MD

Vice President, Medicine Services

 

Robert B. Hutchison III*

Vice President, Marketing and Communications

 

Maxwell Laurans, MD

Vice President, Surgical Services

 

Susan Maxwell, RN

Vice President, Digestive Health Services

 

Deborah Rhodes, MD

Vice President, Care Signature

 

Michael Schaffer

Vice President, Ambulatory Care

 

Mark Sevilla, RN

Vice President, Patient Services, Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital and Emergency Medicine

 

Kim Slusser, MSN, RN

Vice President, Smilow Cancer Hospital Patient Services, Smilow Cancer Hospital

 

Melissa Turner*

Vice President, Human Resources

 

Kevin F. Walsh

Vice President, Development