Speaker Profile

Linda Chin
Linda Chin brings over two decades of management and consulting experience to her new role. She is known nationally for her work in healthcare, most recently as Senior Vice President for Planning, Marketing, and Public Relations at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), an academic public health system and one of the ten largest healthcare systems in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. While there, Linda facilitated the annual strategic planning process, directed the marketing and public relations functions, developed new programs and service lines, helped the organization garner awards, grants, and additional sources of funding, and fostered collaborations with academic institutions, community organizations, and other healthcare systems, including one in Nagoya, Japan.

Linda has also held senior leadership roles at New England Medical Center (now Tufts Medical Center) and The Cambridge Hospital. At New England Medical Center she led network development activities and designed health programs for the Asian community. Linda was instrumental in helping The Cambridge Hospital garner the prestigious Foster G. McGaw Prize for Hospital Excellence in Community Service for innovative programs, including a Domestic Violence-Free Zone in the City of Cambridge. Her consulting work with The Burlington Group, with Arthur D. Little, and as an independent consultant focused on strategy development and implementation for hospitals, schools, and other non-profit organizations. As Community Science Liaison for the Cambridge Public Schools, she built partnerships between the school department and area academic and scientific institutions to expand opportunities for students to learn science and pursue careers in the growing life sciences field.

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