As chief medical officer of Metropolitan Hospital, a 338-bed acute care facility within the NYC Health + Hospitals system, Dr. Srinivasan provides executive leadership for all clinical operations and medical staff, overseeing more than 300 attending physicians across 18 departments. Her portfolio includes clinical quality, patient safety, risk management, infection prevention, credentialing and medical staff performance evaluation. She also leads graduate medical education in partnership with academic affiliates including New York Medical College, Columbia University and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with 26 residency and fellowship programs serving 408 residents and fellows. She directs operational initiatives spanning perioperative services, specialty care expansion and digital transformation through Epic EHR implementation, and she leads strategic planning for capital projects such as emergency department and operating room modernization. She founded the nationally accredited breast health center in 2017 and drove operational gains including doubling surgical productivity through perioperative redesign, block optimization and workflow standardization, alongside expanding minimally invasive, robotic and advanced surgical procedures. She has led major capital projects totaling $130 million and directed crisis response efforts including pandemic surge capacity, staffing redeployment, and asylum seeker and refugee healthcare. Currently, she also serves as vice dean for New York Medical College at Metropolitan and as designated institutional officer for graduate medical education. She is the hospital’s first woman chief medical officer.
