Dr. D’Angelo, an emergency physician by training, serves as the CEO of Northwell Health, the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in New York State and one of the most comprehensive in the nation. Northwell Health functions as an academic health system, partnering with Hofstra University to operate the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine. With more than 25 years of leadership experience at the health system prior to becoming CEO, Dr. D’Angelo has been instrumental in transforming clinical operations, driving innovation and advancing large-scale integration across the system’s 28 hospitals and 1,000 outpatient facilities. He previously served as chief of integrated operations, where he co-led the creation of real-time actionable data, a groundbreaking operational visibility platform, and spearheaded nationally studied initiatives in sepsis prevention. He played a central role in Northwell’s merger with Danbury, Conn.-based NuVance Health, expanding the system’s reach to serve more than 13 million people across New York and Connecticut. A decisive and compassionate leader shaped by his emergency medicine background, Dr. D’Angelo was also pivotal in Northwell’s pandemic response, rapidly deploying remote care, automated results management and telehealth innovations still in use today. Dr. D’Angelo is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and board member of the Healthcare Association of New York State.
