Kathleen “Kate” E. Walsh, a Class C Director, is the president and chief executive officer of Boston Medical Center. Prior to her appointment at Boston Medical Center in 2010, Walsh was the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital for five years. She served previously as the chief operating officer for Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. She serves on several boards of directors, including the Pine Street Inn, the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals, the Boston Public Health Commission, the Yale Corporation Committee on the School of Medicine and is an alumni fellow, the Greater Boston YMCA Board of Overseers, and the Massachusetts Hospital Association.