The Boston University Health Sector Questrom School of Business Alumni Association (“the Association”) is an informal association of alumni of the Health Sector Program of the Boston University Questrom School of Business who have graduated from the Health Sector Management Program or work within the health sector. The health sector is broadly defined as including all of health service delivery, bio-pharma, medical device and diagnostic companies, and all elements of insurance, consulting and other activities related to the sector.
Any alumni of Questrom who fall within this description shall be considered members of the Association. Such membership carries no formal role in the governance of the Association, but entitles such individuals to attend and take part in activities developed by the Board of Directors for members.
The HSM Alumni community is vibrant and active. Each year alumni participate in the alumni mentoring program as well as attend speed networking events, the Health & Life Sciences Conference and other opportunities to connect current students to the greater HSM community. Alumni go on to work at a variety of employers included athena health, Biogen, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Genzyme, Philips, Tufts Health Plan and the World Health Organization. With the help of the Health Sector Alumni Association Board of Directors, our alumni leadership team, alumni are active participants in the student experience.
Alumni Spotlight
The Health Sector Management Distinguished Alumni Award is special recognition for alumni of the Health Sector Management Program at the Questrom School of Business for significant contributions and achievements in the health sector. The recipient is nominated and selected by Questrom’s health sector faculty.
Tonya Hongsermeier
VP and Chief Medical Information Officer, Lahey Health
2019 Health Sector Management
Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient
Tonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA, currently serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer at Lahey Health, an integrated healthcare system serving New England. Formerly, she was a Principal Informatician in Clinical Informatics R&D at Partners Healthcare System and has served as a Team Lead on both the AHRQ-funded Clinical Decision Support Consortium project and the ONC-funded Advancing Clinical Decision Support project. Prior to this, she served for five years as Senior Corporate Manager for Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support. In this capacity, she built a knowledge management team and led implementation of a collaboration, CDS authoring, and content management platform for enterprise Clinical Decision Support. She also served as a co-chair for the Semantic Web Healthcare-Life Sciences Special Interest Group for the World Wide Web Consortium as well as Initiative Coordinator for the Health eDecisions S&I Framework project to promote interoperability of Clinical Decision Support. She received her MD from Boston University and completed her Residency in Medicine and Fellowship in Clinical Nutrition at the Deaconess Hospital. She received an MBA in Healthcare Management from BU School of Management in 1995 and has held several positions in industry leading a variety of informatics efforts. Prior to joining Partners Healthcare System, she was VP for Knowledge Management Solutions and Patient Safety at Cerner Corporation.
HSM Alumni Webinars
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