Ellen Zane is a nationally renowned health-care leader who retired as president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center and Tufts Children’s Hospital (formerly Floating Hospital for Children) in late 2011. She was the first woman to run the hospital in its over 200-year history. The hospital employs more than 6,000 doctors, nurses, researchers, and other health-care workers. Ellen holds two faculty appointments at Tufts University School of Medicine: assistant professor in the department of medicine, division of clinical care research and assistant professor of public health and community medicine. Additionally, Ellen holds a faculty appointment as adjunct assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Ellen is currently the Distinguished Global Leader in Residence at High Point University in North Carolina. From 2011 to 2013, she was a Distinguished Guest Lecturer in Healthcare Administration at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University.

From 1994 to 2004, Ellen was network president for Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare System Inc.) in Boston. In this capacity, she was responsible for the development of a provider network featuring the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The network encompassed 5,600 physicians and represented over $800 million of managed care revenue. Today, this entity represents one of the largest physician networks in America. Prior to that, Ellen was CEO at Quincy Hospital in Quincy, Massachusetts. In this capacity, Ellen was an employee of HCA and then Quorum Health Resources.

Ellen has a bachelor of arts degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC (1973) and has a master of arts degree from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC (1975). She holds the following honorary degrees: doctorate of humane letters from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, doctorate of commercial science from Bentley University, doctorate of business administration from Stonehill College, and doctorate of humane letters from Curry College.

Ellen is currently a director of Boston Scientific Corp. (New York Stock Exchange (NYSE): BSX), a director of and chair of the board of Haemonetics Corp. (NYSE: HAE), and a director of Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF). She is a director of AgNovos Healthcare LLC in New York City, a director of Savista (formerly nThrive) in Alpharetta, Georgia, the lead director of the Fiduciary Trust Co. in Boston, a director of the New England Chapter of NACD, and chair of the board of George Washington University-Medical Faculty Associates Board, Washington, DC. Ellen is also a trustee of Hebrew Senior Life in Roslindale, Massachusetts.

Ellen is a former director of Azenta Life Sciences (Nasdaq: AZTA); director of Parexel International (Nasdaq: PRXL); a former director of Press Ganey (NYSE: PGND); a former director of Lincare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LNCR); a former director of Variagenics Inc. (Nasdaq: VGNX); a Cambridge, Massachusetts, biotech public company focused on pharmacogenomics; a former member of the advisory board for National Grid New England (NYSE: NGG); a former senior healthcare advisor for Vestar Capital; and a former chair of the board of Minuteman Health (a health plan focused on individual and small group insurance in Massachusetts and New Hampshire). She was the founding chair of the board of Tufts Medicine (parent board of Tufts Medical Center as well as a system of community hospitals and physician organizations); the former vice chair of the board of Tufts Medical Center and Tufts Children’s Hospital; a former member of the board of overseers at the Tufts University School of Medicine; the former vice chair of the Board of Trustees at George Washington University; a former member of the Board of Massachusetts Development Finance Agency; a former chair of the board of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association; an emeritus trustee of Northeastern University; and a former director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. From 1996 to 2001, Ellen was a member of the board of governors at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center (national hospital) at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC.