An Advertising An Advertising Supplement to Crain’s New York Business Supplement to Crain’s New York Business Read more about this year’s honorees inside: An Advertising Supplement to Crain’s New York Business INDEX OF HONOREES PAGE S10 PAGE S14 PAGE S16 PAGE S20 Machelle Allen, MD Ruth Browne Lisa David Valerie Grey Dianne Aroh Suzanne Brundage Emme Deland Caren Heller, MD Barbara Barnett, MD Palmira Cataliotti Angela Diaz, MD Elizabeth Howell, MD Mary Bassett, MD Sohini Chowdhury Deborah Estrin Daphne Hsu, MD Alicia Beardsley Louise Cohen Marki Flannery Karen Ignagni Mitra Behroozi Nancy Corcoran-Davidoff Laura Forese, MD Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD PAGE S12 PAGE S18 PAGE S22 IN 2017, 50.7% OF Elisabeth Ryden Benjamin MATRICULANTS IN U.S. Susan Fox Feygele Jacobs Phoebe Boyer MEDICAL SCHOOLS WERE Linda Fried, MD Merin Joseph WOMEN AND 49.3% WERE Linda Brady, MD MEN. TEN YEARS AGO, Kathleen Gallo Jill Kalman, MD WOMEN REPRESENTED 48% Tracy Breen, MD OF MATRICULANTS, AND MEN Kimberly Glassman Manmeet Kaur Susan Bressman, MD ACCOUNTED FOR 52%. Lisa Goldstein Rainu Kaushal, MD SOURCE: ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LaRay Brown MEDICAL COLLEGES Maria Gotsch Marla Koroly , MD the administration, Board of trustees and Staff of Burke rehabilitation Hospital Congratulate the 2018 Crain’s Notable Women in Healthcare, Including Our Very Own MOOyeON OH-Park, MD Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer 785 MaMarONeCk aVe. WHIte PlaINS, Ny 10605 888-99-Burke WWW.Burke.Org S2 Untitled-7 1 7/30/18 2:07 PM WOMEN MAKE UP 76% OF THE PAGE S34 HOSPITAL WORKFORCE AND Donna Montalto Claritza Rios, MD 78.5% OF ALL NON-HOSPITAL Alina Moran Nancy Thornberry HEALTH SERVICES JOBS. PAGE S31 Andrea Vambutas, MD SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR Jaclyn Mucaria STATISTICS, 2017 Navarra Rodriguez, MD Barbara Murphy, MD Pat Wang Judith Salerno, MD PAGE S24 PAGE S28 Calie Santana, MD NATIONALLY, 34.6% OF ALL Claire Levitt ACTIVE PHYSICIANS IN 2016 Karen Nelson, MD WERE WOMEN. NEW YORK PAGE S32 Vicki LoPachin, MD Gwen Nichols, MD RANKED SIXTH HIGHEST Monica Santoro AMONG THE STATES IN Catherine MacLean, MD Chris Norwood PERCENTAGE OF FEMALE Caryn Schwab DOCTORS, AT 37.9%. Kathryn Martin Mooyeon Oh-Park, MD Beth Shaz, MD SOURCE: ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN Susan Mascitelli Paula Panzer, MD MEDICAL COLLEGES Allison McGuire Margaret Pastuszko PAGE S33 PAGE S35 Susan Solomon PAGE S26 PAGE S30 Patricia Winston Bonita Stanton, MD Vicki McKinney Stacey Petrower Cyndi Zagieboylo Stacey Stewart Jennifer Mieres, MD Hollis Potter, MD Michelle Zettergren Congratulations, Val! 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S3 Untitled-1 1 7/30/18 2:01 PM An Advertising Supplement to Crain’s New York Business INDEX OF ADVERTISERS S2 Burke Rehabilitation Hospital S23 Ronald McDonald House New York S3 New York eHealth Collaborative S25 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East S4 Maimonides Medical Center S27 Healthfirst S5 The New York Academy of Medicine S29 SUNY Downstate Medical Center S7 Mount Sinai S30 Children’s Aid S9 Northwell Health S31 Greater New York Health Care Facilities Association S11 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society S32 NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan S13 Hackensack Meridian Health S33 NYU Langone Health S15 NYU Winthrop Hospital S34 NYC Health + Hospitals S17 White Plains Hospital S35 Weill Cornell Medicine S19 Hospital for Special Surgery S36 Westmed Practice Partners S21 Montefiore S38 Crain’s New York Business S4 Untitled-2 1 7/30/18 2:02 PM CONTENTS Meet health care’s leading women Talent abounds in this female- dominated sector Tales from the A different kind trenches of health care Women weigh reform in on gender Institutions inequity Mission- tackle gender motivated: inequity and nonprofit cultivate female leaders make leaders a difference The New York Academy of Medicine Board of Trustees congratulates President Judith A. Salerno, MD, MS on being recognized as one of Crain’s Notable Women in Health Care for her distinguished career in health and her visionary leadership of the Academy. Judith A. Salerno, MD, MS President 1216 5th Avenue | New York, NY | nyam.org S5 Untitled-5 1 7/30/18 2:05 PM An Advertising Supplement to Crain’s New York Business Meet health care’s leading women Talent abounds in this female-dominated sector Crain’s Custom is honored to present this inaugural section on Notable Women in Health Care to celebrate a history uniquely shaped by women. The health care sector has long had a workforce of so-called pink-collar jobs: nurses, social workers, home health aides and the like. Nationally, women accounted for 76% of the hospital workforce in 2017, and 78.5% of all non-hospital health services jobs. Women dominate an industry that is a crit- “Nurses are the largest single group of pro- Discrimination defined Blackwell’s early ca- ical economic driver both in New York and viders,” said NYU Langone’s Glassman. “There reer. When New York City’s hospitals refused nationally. Health care accounts for 10.3% of are a lot of us, and so a lot of opportunities to hire her, she opened her own hospital employment in New York State. Nationally, can open for us.” instead. In 1857, she founded the New York the sector is a job growth engine that added Infirmary for Women and Children, staffed Glassman also points out that nurses have 156,000 new positions in the first half of 2018 entirely by women; the facility at 64 Bleecker the advantage of learning leadership skills alone. Women also shape the health care in- Street eventually evolved into what is today on the job because that is the nature of their dustry in another profound way—they make New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan profession. Doctors in private practice, in 80% of the health care decisions for their Hospital. Some 10 years later she opened contrast, traditionally do not work as part of families, according to federal data. a medical college for women, now part of a team as they diagnose and treat patients. Weill Cornell Medicine. By choice—and somewhat breaking with the “Nurses learn at an early age how to man- tradition of other top-of-their-industry lists— Nearly 170 years after Blackwell became a age many tasks at once. You have a group of Crain’s has not restricted this inaugural list to doctor, female physicians still share anec- assigned patients, so you have to manage care cancer-curing clinicians or C-suite superstars. dotes about discrimination and bias. But for a group and prioritize and sequence,” said they also are part of a new chapter in history: We omitted some well-known names in ar- Glassman. “And nurses spend a lot of time with women who lead major institutions, presti- eas—including law, finance, communications, patients, so they have good people skills.” development and human resources—that his- gious departments and research teams. torically have been career paths for women. Nurses, she adds, “just have a good blend of We hope the stories of the 78 women on our And so absent from this first-year list are such operational skills, and we know what it takes inaugural list will inspire the next generation trailblazers as New York-Presbyterian’s long- to take good care of patients.” of female health care leaders. Crain’s also time general counsel Maxine Frank and chief White Plains Hospital’s Susan Fox is a former asked our health care luminaries about their financial officer Phyllis Lantos, or Hospital for pediatric intensive care nurse who knows first- experiences with gender bias, pay equity, Special Surgery’s finance wiz Stacey Malakoff. hand how passionate nurses feel about high mentoring and outright gender discrimination. Instead, Crain’s list of notable women is quality of care. But it is a leader’s job to instill On these pages Crain’s chronicles their career inclusive and more reflective of the thou- that passion into the broader hospital culture. war stories, tales of achievement, inspiration sands of talented women in all corners of “As a nurse, I had a unique vantage point,” and leadership advice, all through the lens of the industry. Health care is populated by said Fox. “What motivated me to be a leader extraordinary women in health care. lesser-known department chairs, ground- was the ability to be in a position to influ- breaking researchers and women who lead ence and change the culture, priorities and charities that change the lives of millions of how people worked together.” “As a nurse, I had a unique vantage patients. We celebrate them all. point. What motivated me to be The physicians on the Crain’s list also have a leader was the ability to be in a Just as women have shaped the health care used their clinical backgrounds to advance position to influence and change the industry, the industry has presented unique up the career ladder. Many are chief medical career paths for women. For previous gen- officers or department heads. One is a former culture, priorities and how people erations, nursing, hospital worker or home hospital president, another the head of a ma- worked together.” health attendant jobs propelled women into jor nonprofit, two lead schools, while another the workforce.