Ms. Nelson leads a team of more than 470 IT and medical informatics professionals at Boston Children’s Hospital, having guided the organization through its Epic go-live in June 2024. Her work helped the system earn the prestigious 10 “Gold Stars” designation. She also helped Boston Children’s become the first pediatric institution to leverage a private 5G cellular distributed antenna system model to support clinical mobility. Ms. Nelson is now leading the hospital’s enterprise resource planning journey to Workday, as well as overseeing an enterprise AI governance framework to ensure that AI is implemented thoughtfully and responsibly in a healthcare setting. She has led a multi-year transformation of the IT organization, including restructuring teams, strengthening strategic vendor partnerships and reducing technical debt. Before Boston Children’s, she served as senior vice president and CIO at UChicago Medicine, where she oversaw enterprise IT strategy and operations supporting clinical innovation and large-scale organizational transformation. Boston Children’s was ranked No. 1 in U.S. News & World Report‘s 2025-26 “Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll.”
