Lucy Xenophon, MD

Lucy Xenophon, MD, joined the executive team at Mount Sinai Morningside in May 2014 as the Chief Transformation Officer. In addition to her senior leadership responsibilities, Dr. Xenophon also directs a team of facilitators and industrial engineers in the Mount Sinai Morningside Lean Learning Lab, the first such lab in the Mount Sinai Health System. Her team works with leadership, middle managers and frontline staff to design healthcare delivery workflows and processes that remove waste and improve value for patients and staff. Dr. Xenophon also leads the first Daily Management and Incident Command Center for the Mount Sinai Health System—a space where real-time electronic dashboards drive daily collaborative decision making, enable resource sharing across the health system and provide key information for emergency management teams.

Dr. Xenophon began her medical career as a diagnostic radiologist. She trained and worked as an attending in the Northwell Health System and served as the director of performance improvement for the Department of Radiology at Long Island Jewish Hospital. Immediately prior to her arrival at Morningside, Dr. Xenophon directed the first Lean Lab at NuHealth, a safety net hospital on Long Island.

Dr. Xenophon graduated summa cum laude from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education and earned her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. She is board certified in both internal medicine and diagnostic radiology and holds a master’s degree in health management and policy from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.