AbhaAgrawalMDFACP FACHE

Summary

• Dr. Abha Agrawal is an experienced healthcare executive and a practicing physician. She has served in numerous impactful roles in diverse sectors in healthcare including non-profit hospitals, public hospitals, and for-profit health IT industry. She has a successful track record of transformational leadership including turn-around of a financially distressed hospital in Chicago.
  
  Her professional strengths include leadership and cultural transformation, strategic direction and planning, clinical operations, P&L responsibility, health IT / informatics, quality transformation, hospital -physician alignment and integration, community outreach and relations, board-management relationship management, leadership in community, social and professional organizations, and superb communication and interpersonal skills.
  
  In recognition of her role as a rising healthcare leader, she was invited to the White House in 2011 to meet with President Obama’s health and economic policy advisor and to provide testimony at the US Senate.
  
  
  Her board / leadership roles include:
  - Board of Trustees, American College of Medical Quality
  - Board of Governors, The Institute of Medicine Chicago
  - President of the Board, Chicago Physicians for Social Responsibility
  - Member, Governor’s Council, the American College of Physicians
  - National Medical Leadership Committee, America’s Essential Hospitals
  - Member, Medical Executives Forum, Illinois Hospital Association
  - Commissioner, CCHIT

Why I took on a major challenge.
Dr. Abha Agrawal, Chief Medical Officer and COO of Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago, IL answers a question from PayPal founding team member Sanjay Bhargav