Dr. Bell oversees Boston Medical Center Health System, whose flagship, Boston Medical Center, serves as the principal teaching affiliate of Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and operates 67 residency training programs with 679 resident and fellowship positions. Dr. Bell led one of the region’s most significant hospital integrations, more than doubling the health system’s bed capacity from 511 to 1,026 after it assumed operations of two community hospitals, now known as BMC Brighton (Mass.) and Brockton, Mass.-based BMC South, in October 2024. He simultaneously guided the system’s workforce expansion from roughly 10,000 to 15,000 employees while integrating 10 clinical departments across the three hospitals to improve care coordination. In fall 2025, Dr. Bell oversaw a complex Epic EHR integration across the system that established a single patient record to strengthen data continuity and clinical decision-making. He has also prioritized expanding primary care in neighborhoods facing housing instability, food insecurity and high chronic disease burden, including the November 2025 launch of a new primary care practice in Brighton and the 2026 acquisition of a primary care practice in Whitman, Mass. Dr. Bell previously led McKinsey’s North American payer and provider practice.
