Dr. Leffler leads overall management and operations for Vermont’s leading academic medical center, aligning strategy, quality, financial performance and service excellence across clinical, nursing, facilities and administrative domains in partnership with UVM Health Network. He has guided the academic medical center through the pandemic, launched major capital initiatives including a $130 million outpatient surgical center to meet rising regional demand, advanced system integration, operational reliability and safety, and championed multi-year inclusivity, sustainability and community-health efforts. A longtime clinician-leader and educator, he builds trust with teams and strengthens the academic enterprise. Under his leadership, UVMMC has been ranked Vermont’s No. 1 hospital by U.S. News & World Report and earned Practice Greenhealth’s “Emerald Award”. Previously chief population health and quality officer for UVM Health Network and CMO for the medical center, he has also held roles as emergency department medical director, medical staff president, Vermont Medical Society president, OneCare ACO board chair and member of the governor’s prescription drug monitoring task force.
