Mr. Dontes serves as CFO for Yale New Haven Health, where he leads systemwide financial strategy, budgeting, capital planning and performance oversight, partnering with executive, clinical and operational leaders to strengthen long-term financial sustainability and align financial decision-making with strategic and clinical priorities. He was a critical collaborator in creating the joint funds flow model, which has been essential in driving clinical growth across the health system while strengthening the teaching and research missions that distinguish the Yale School of Medicine locally and nationally. Mr. Dontes also played a key role in advancing the enterprise balanced scorecard, a central tool for measuring performance against strategic objectives. He joined the health system from the Yale School of Medicine, where for five years he served as deputy dean for finance and administration, overseeing the school’s $3 billion operating budget and leading its financial, budgetary, human resources, capital planning, IT and administrative functions. Earlier, Mr. Dontes was executive vice president for business affairs at the Dallas-based University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from 2011 to 2021, directing more than 15 administrative departments, and before that held senior leadership roles at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, including vice dean for administration. He has contributed nationally to academic medicine as chair and immediate past chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges group on business affairs.
