Jill Kalman

Dr Jill Kalman
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer & Deputy Physician-in-Chief
Northwell Health, USA
 

Dr. Kalman received her bachelor’s degree in history and art history from the University of Pennsylvania and medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She performed all her clinical training (internal medicine residency, chief medical residency, clinical cardiology, advanced heart failure) at Mount Sinai, New York. She has also completed a physician leadership course at the Health Management Academy and a health care delivery executive program at the Harvard University School of Business. Dr. Kalman began her professional career as an academic cardiologist, directing clinical and research heart failure programs at Beth Israel Medical Center, Tisch Hospital at New York University, and Mount Sinai Medical Center. In addition to her outstanding clinical skills and dedication to patients, Dr. Kalman was tremendously effective in organizing and galvanizing clinical, research, and administrative programs focused on the needs of complex patients with advanced heart failure. 

She came to Northwell Health in 2014 as associate medical director of Long Island Jewish Medical Center and the Northwell Health System. She then moved to Lenox Hill Hospital as medical director (2015-2018) and was also the health system’s medical director of patient experience (2016-2021). In 2018, Dr. Kalman became executive director of Lenox Hill Hospital and showed exemplary leadership during the pandemic. 

In 2021, she was appointed chief medical officer and deputy physician-in-chief at Northwell Health. Dr. Kalman is truly a visionary leader, a champion of excellence, innovator, and a strategic mind. She is a professor of cardiology and the endowed Victoria and Lloyd Goldman Professor and Chief Medical Officer at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. 

She is a well-recognized, highly respected national health care trailblazer and has helped put Northwell on the national map in many areas, including innovation, AI, patient experience, women’s health, physician wellness, crisis management, and effective change. 

Dr. Kalman has received Modern Healthcare Top Women Leaders Award, the Long Island Herald Excellence in Healthcare Award, chaired the American Heart Association's Go Red Campaign, and been recognized by Becker's as a Chief Medical Officer to Know and by Reuters as one of Healthcare's Trailblazing Women.

Presentation Synopsis
HM 12 - International Leadership Panel

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