About Dianna
Dianna is a consultant in Caldwell’s Life Sciences and Healthcare Practice and a member of the New York office. With more than 20 years of experience as a healthcare executive in academic health systems, she has extensive experience in leadership development and recruitment of top talent into hospital C-suite roles, both clinical and non-clinical, as well as medical school deans and administration. She has the unique experience of leading the department chair search process, including implementing process improvements to increase the quality and efficiency of the searches.
Experience
Dianna joined Caldwell after serving as chief operating officer at NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, where she led the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic, opened a new 11-story hospital in 2023, and successfully recruited a new chief quality officer, chief medical information officer and associate executive director for operations.
She began her career as a physician assistant in orthopedic surgery at Montefiore Medical Center. Subsequently she served as vice president for education, faculty and academic affairs at NYU School of Medicine, where she was responsible for faculty affairs, including departmental chair searches, undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, continuing medical education. Dianna then rejoined Montefiore as vice president/executive director of the Wakefield Campus, a 325-bed acute care hospital, where she led strategic and operational planning, patient safety, quality, and fiscal management. In 2018 she took a year off and traveled abroad solo to over 24 countries throughout Africa, the Middle East, Scandinavia and Asia. Upon her return, she served as partnership executive at a digital health startup prior to joining NYC Health + Hospitals.
Education
Dianna earned her bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University, graduating magna cum laude. She received her certification as a Physician Assistant from St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center followed by her master’s in business administration with a focus on healthcare administration.
More About Dianna
Dianna is passionate about equity, social/racial justice and health and wellness. She serves on the board of EAC Network, a social services nonprofit, as well as on the growth council of South Asian Soar, a nonprofit working to end gender-based violence in the South Asian diaspora in the US. She is also an executive coach for women in leadership focused on social impact.
