Becker's Hospital Review

28 WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP POPULATION HEALTH Allscripts appoints 9 female leaders By Jackie Drees C hicago-based Allscripts tapped nine women as executive leaders in 2020. Leah Jones, who joined Allscripts in 2009 in finance and sales operations, was promoted to lead its ambulatory business unit, which oversees development and deployment of ambulato- ry-focused EHRs and financial systems as well as revenue cycle management services and population health tools for indepen- dent physicians. As Allscripts' vice president of client development, Nicole Fau- cher leads the execution and strategy for client acquisition in the U.S. for hospitals and health systems. Her role expanded in 2020 to include delivery, implementation and professional services op- erations such as quoting, reporting and resource management. Jennifer MacGregor was promoted to vice president of inter- national operations to oversee international solution manage- ment, strategic sales, tech strategy, delivery and sales operations at Allscripts. Ms. MacGregor previously served as the company's managing director of the Americas (non-U.S.) region. Allscripts welcomed Erikka Buracchio as its senior vice presi- dent of human resources. She brings more than 20 years of man- agement experience at tech companies including Bayer and NTT to her new role. Having been with Allscripts for more than nine years, Tejal Vakharia was promoted to senior vice president and general counsel. In her new role, Ms. Vakharia leads the company's dai- ly legal and compliance affairs as well as its government affairs group and marketing organization. Rebecca Whaley was appointed to Allscripts' vice president of marketing; she now oversees managing strategy and execution of corporate branding, marketing communications, content mar- keting, digital marketing and engagement. She has held leader- ship roles at Allscripts for 15 years across multiple teams, includ- ing services and sales. Allscripts promoted Courtney Yeakel to co-president of the Ve- radigm Payer Business, Pulse8 and eChart Courier. In her role, Ms. Yeakel leads product strategy, innovation, industry develop- ment and business administration. Meg Christman's role at Allscripts was expanded to vice presi- dent of global customer experience and success. She and her team provide executive and technical support as part of client engage- ments, building relationships and delivering soware to clients. Jenna Date joined the EHR vendor as its new business unit chief product strategist, a role in which she oversees the design, in- novation and education team for Allscripts' hospitals and health systems business unit. She brings more than 20 years of design experience to the position and has worked with organizations in- cluding Pittsburgh-based UPMC and GE Healthcare. n Women may be better at leading through crises, research suggests By Iain Carlos F emale leaders may be more qualified to lead organiza- tions through crises, two leadership experts wrote in an article published in Harvard Business Review. Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, founders of the leadership development firm Zenger Folkman, analyzed the leadership efficacy of 454 men and 366 women between March and June of 2020. They found women were rated "significantly more positively" by their co-workers than men on their lead- ership effectiveness and outscored their male peers on 13 of 19 leadership competencies, including "takes initiative," "in- spires and motivates others" and "displays high integrity and honesty." These results are consistent with a 2019 analysis finding that female leaders were ranked more positively than men. As the analysis was conducted during COVID-19's tumul- tuous impact on many organizations, it could indicate that female leaders are more qualified to guide organizations through crises, the researchers said. n Spectrum Health appoints first female director of heart transplant program By Mackenzie Bean M arzia Leacche, MD, began her role Jan. 1 as sur- gical director of Spectrum Health's heart trans- plant and ventricular assist device programs, reported Mlive. Dr. Leacche is the first woman to serve as the Richard De- Vos Endowed Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist De- vice Surgical Director at the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based health system. She has been a member of Spectrum Health's transplant team since 2016, having previously served as a staff car- diac and associate transplant surgeon at Nashville, Tenn.- based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Leacche replaced Theodore Boeve, MD, who's overseen the heart transplant program since 2017. Dr. Boeve will contin- ue to practice as a transplant surgeon at Spectrum Health until summer 2022. n

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