Board of Trustees

The CHA Board of Trustees is the principal policy-making body for the Association. Its members are elected by the CHA Assembly at the Annual Meeting. About two-thirds of the members are healthcare institution chief executive officers. The balance includes hospital trustees, physicians, and other senior healthcare leaders.

Executive Committee

Chairman
Patrick Charmel
President and Chief Executive Officer
Griffin Health
Term Expires: 06/2026

Vice Chairman
Jeffrey Flaks
President and CEO
Hartford HealthCare
Term Expires: 06/2026

Immediate Past Chairman and DNS Board Chairman
Christopher O’Connor
Chief Executive Officer
Yale New Haven Health
Term Expires: 06/2026

President
Jennifer Jackson
CEO
Connecticut Hospital Association

Treasurer
Vincent Capece
President and CEO
Middlesex Health
Term Expires: 06/2026

Secretary
Kathleen Silard
President & CEO
Stamford Health
Term Expires: 06/2026

At Large
D. Montez Carter
President and CEO
Trinity Health Of New England
Term Expires: 06/2026

At Large
Donna Handley
President
Hartford HealthCare East Region
Term Expires: 06/2026

At Large
John Murphy, MD
President and CEO
Nuvance Health, part of Northwell Health
Term Expires: 06/2026

At Large
Pamela Sutton-Wallace
President
Yale New Haven Health
Term Expires: 06/2026

 

Trustees

Andrew Agwunobi, MD
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
UConn Health
Term Expires: 06/2028

Thomas Balcezak, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer
Yale New Haven Health
Term Expires: 06/2027

Kurt Barwis
President and Chief Executive Officer
Bristol Health
Term Expires: 06/2027

Judith Carey, RSM, PhD
(Unaffiliated)
Term Expires: 06/2026

Anne Diamond, DBA, JD
Executive Vice President
Yale New Haven Health
President
Bridgeport Hospital
Term Expires: 12/2027

Katherine Heilpern, MD
Executive Vice President
Yale New Haven Health
President
Yale New Haven Hospital
Term Expires: 06/2027

William Jennings
President
Hartford HealthCare Fairfield Region
Term Expires: 06/2026

MaryEllen Kosturko, DNP
Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer
Hartford HealthCare
Term Expires: 06/2028

R. Kyle Kramer
Chief Executive Officer
Day Kimball Health
Term Expires: 06/2028

Bimal Patel
Executive Vice President, COO
Hartford HealthCare
President
Hartford HealthCare Northwest Region
Term Expires: 06/2026

Valerie Powell-Stafford, FACHE
Hartford Market President
Trinity Health
Term Expires: 06/2028

Michelle Robertson
Chief Operating Officer
Nuvance Health, part of Northwell Health
Term Expires: 06/2027

James Shmerling, DHA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Connecticut Children’s
Term Expires: 06/2026