Lee Erickson, MD
Dr. Lee Erickson is a physician executive and nationally respected leader in healthcare quality, safety, and systems improvement. Trained as a primary care physician, she has held senior leadership roles across major academic and community health systems, including leading large-scale system change initiatives within the Allegheny Health System in Pennsylvania, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and Tufts Medicine in Boston. At MSKCC, she served as Deputy Physician-in-Chief for Operations, where she helped redesign inpatient flow and discharge processes at scale, producing durable improvements in capacity, patient experience, and staff workflow. Dr. Erickson is known for integrating Lean thinking, scientific problem-solving, and coaching-based leadership into healthcare management. She is currently the CEO and co-founder of Adaptient, where she works with health systems to build leadership capability, learning systems, and sustainable improvement cultures.