Cynthia spent her career in executive positions at top academic health systems, including as the executive leader of two nationally ranked children’s hospitals. Her expertise includes strategy, operations, business formation, growth and communications and she has had extensive experience in philanthropy, health policy, advocacy and community relations. She also has maintained a deep commitment throughout her career to mentoring, education and advancing gender equity. Early on she was hired on a Robert Wood Johnson grant at Columbia University to help design systems of care for children, work that continued at Case Western School of Medicine and led to her first executive position at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. After 10 years she returned East where she broadened her experience with community teaching hospitals and health system development in NJ. She was recruited to join the new executive team at the launch of New York Presbyterian, where she oversaw the fund raising, design and development of Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and was named COO responsible for Children’s, Women’s, Network Development and Community Health. In 2010 she was recruited to Yale New Haven to lead its Children’s Hospital and Women’s Health. Her role expanded to include multiple service lines and operational areas, and she became executive vice president and president of ambulatory until her retirement in 2024. She continues her work as a consultant as president of Sparer Advisors, LLC and serves on several boards, including her graduate program at NYU and the Ronald McDonald House of CT/MA.