Nancy Farrell

Board Chair

Nancy is the retired Chief Administrative Officer of the Weill Cornell Physician Organization. She held senior healthcare management positions at several academic medical centers in New York during her almost 40-year professional career. Nancy is an active volunteer with nonprofit organizations primarily in the public health sector.

Nancy was a Board member of Fountain House, a mental illness recovery organization with a national network of replica clubhouses, from 2010 until 2021 and was Board Chair for five years from 2014-2019. At present, Nancy is board chair of Life Story Club, a nonprofit that uses social connections to improve health and reduce loneliness and social isolation.

A graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, she received graduate degrees in public and business administration from New York University and served as a visiting scholar in health care management at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service. Nancy is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Nancy joined the board in December 2021.