Ms. Kowal is Delaware Valley president for Nemours Children’s Health, overseeing operations at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, a 220-bed pediatric hospital in Wilmington, along with 24 primary care locations, nine specialty care locations across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland, 17 school-based health centers, and collaborating programs with 10 regional hospitals. Before entering health law, she spent more than a decade as a practicing physical therapist and certified wound care specialist in hospital, outpatient and post-acute settings, then practiced in the health law group at Ballard Spahr, focusing on corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory matters. She joined Nemours in 2014 and advanced through roles of increasing scope, serving as general counsel and chief legal officer beginning in 2020 before assuming her current role in 2025. Under her leadership, Nemours opened the Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders outpatient services and day hospital in December 2025, as well as the Institute for Maternal Fetal Health, which will include Delaware’s first surgical fetal care center. She also played a critical role in Nemours’ groundbreaking pediatric global budget agreement with the state of Delaware, a first-of-its-kind model linking reimbursement to health outcomes rather than volume. Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, has eight specialties ranked nationally by U.S. News & World Report and ranks as the No. 1 pediatric hospital in the state.
