Mr. Fields leads Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s enterprise strategy team, as well as several programs focused on innovation and growth. In partnership with the system’s physician-in-chief and chief scientific officer, he has overseen the rapid and successful expansion of the system’s Frontier Programs, which focus on accelerating some of the system’s unique clinical and research programs. There are now more than 25 Frontier Programs, and they have cared for patients from nearly every state and more than 20 countries, offering solutions for complex medical conditions that often aren’t available anywhere else in the world. He has similarly partnered to expand the system’s precision medicine programs in both cell and gene therapy and omics and big data. These efforts have led to significant growth in the number of patients being cared for through these programs, the number of clinical trials hosted at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the number of faculty pioneering new breakthroughs using these technologies. In addition, over the past year, Mr. Fields guided the organization through the development of its next enterprise strategic plan, ensuring that the system continues to have an outsized impact on improving child health in a sustainable way.
