Leah heads ECG’s Boston office and leads the firm’s Academic Healthcare Division. She has spent the past 20 years helping academic healthcare organizations fulfill their missions through her expertise in university–health system affiliations; strategic planning; retreat facilitation; medical education programming across the continuum, including undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education; and organizational design that supports the integration of learning, discovery, and care delivery. Clients appreciate how Leah takes a genuine interest in getting to know them and their organizations in order to develop partnerships grounded in mutual understanding and respect. She is a self-aware communicator who appreciates the importance of both how she listens and what she contributes.
Since joining ECG’s Academic Healthcare Division in 2006, Leah has facilitated complex projects for AMCs and their component entities. Recent examples of projects led by Leah include assisting one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the Southwest select a top-ranked medical school partner and negotiate a major academic-clinical affiliation; designing the necessary organizational structure to successfully integrate a major health system and university within a newly established academic health system; and advising on the transformation of a large community hospital into a major teaching hospital. In addition, Leah has renegotiated multiple long-standing university–health system affiliations and developed strategic plans for numerous highly ranked medical schools across the country.
