Elizabeth B. Concordia ’81 serves as president and chief executive officer of UCHealth, a nationally recognized, nonprofit health care system with operating revenue of $9 billion and a workforce of more than 35,000 people. Elizabeth joined UCHealth in September 2014 and is responsible for the strategic direction, clinical operations, and financial success of the system.

UCHealth includes 14 Colorado hospitals, including the state’s only academic medical center, with over 2,500 inpatient beds and more than 200 clinic locations in Colorado, southern Wyoming, and western Nebraska.

Under Elizabeth’s leadership, UCHealth is focused on strategic partnerships, expansion of the system’s footprint in the region, developing new models of care, improving patient access and experience, and supporting the academic mission. UCHealth is fostering new innovations and technologies to support the care of individual patients and to improve the overall health of our population.

Before joining UCHealth, Elizabeth served as executive vice president for UPMC and president of its Hospital and Community Services Division. In previous positions, she was the executive vice president and chief operating officer for Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, as well as an associate director at the Montefiore Medical Center’s Jack D. Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, NY, and a manager and senior consultant for Ernst & Young in Washington, DC.