Joyce Murphy moderates Women Business Leaders panel 
Panelists talk of leading health care through change
Joyce Murphy, MPA, vice chancellor and chief operating officer of Commonwealth Medicine, moderated “A Conversation with Boston Women Board Members: Leading a Health Care Company through a Time of Change” on Thursday, July 21, for a delegation of 40 senior executive health care leaders who traveled to Boston to learn about health care and life sciences innovation in the city. The panel discussion is sponsored by Women Business Leaders (WBL) of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation.
WBL is a non-profit national organization established in 2001 to help senior executive women in the health care industry improve their businesses and continue to grow professionally. WBL is the only organization comprising a cross-section of the senior-most executive women in the health care industry.
The panel included women who serve as board members of health care organizations in the Boston area. They spoke about their roles on these boards and how they are managing change as health care board members from a governance perspective.
Panelists included Sandi Fenwick, president and chief operating officer of Children’s Hospital Boston, who currently serves on the boards of Acusphere, Inc.; the Medical, Academic and Scientific Community Organization, Inc.; A Better City, Inc.; the Belmont Hill School; and Simmons College corporation. She also chairs the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Also on the panel was Alison Taunton-Rigby, founder, president and CEO of the biotechnology company RiboNovix, Inc., who currently sits on the boards of Healthways, Inc.; Abt Associates; the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council; the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Children’s Hospital Boston.