Ms. Pastuszko serves as president and COO of Mount Sinai Health System, responsible for establishing, achieving and exceeding short- and long-term objectives, maintaining the overall viability of the health system, and directing operations and corporate services across one of the nation’s most respected academic medical institutions. She joined Mount Sinai in 2000 as director of strategic planning and implementation for the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and has held positions of increasing responsibility spanning analytics, operations, strategy and system integration over more than two decades. Her uniquely comprehensive institutional knowledge now informs her leadership at the enterprise level. As executive vice president, COO and chief strategy officer, she led Mount Sinai’s agile operational response to the unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. She has worked to improve access and throughput, optimize resource allocation, and advance new technologies to enhance care and operations. As the economics of healthcare shift from growth mode to efficiency and value creation, Ms. Pastuszko has been a driving force in Mount Sinai’s identification of opportunities for investment and resource optimization, spearheading large investments in population health and reinforcing the health system’s commitment to the well-being of its surrounding communities. She holds a professorship in population health science and policy, and serves as faculty at the Institute for Health Equity Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, she worked as a consultant at APM Management Consultants and CSC Healthcare Consulting, specializing in strategic planning.
