Atrius Health Leadership Team

Dr. Lindsey has been President and CEO of Atrius Health and also of its largest affiliate, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, since February 2008. Previously he was Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atrius Health and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. Dr. Lindsey joined Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in 1975 and practiced cardiology and internal medicine at the Kenmore, Wellesley and West Roxbury Harvard Vanguard practices. He served on the board of Harvard Community Health Plan/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care from 1991 to 2000. Dr. Lindsey received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Lindsey is a sought-after speaker on the healthcare topics of payment reform, accountable care organizations, practice innovation, quality and efficiency.

Edward W. Nalband, M.D. is Chairman of the Atrius Health Board of Trustees, and Medical Director at South Shore Medical Center. Dr. Nalband has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Atrius Health since its inception, and also spent four years serving on the Board of Directors of South Shore Hospital as their Medical Staff President. Dr. Nalband has been a practicing internist for 24 years and currently practices in Weymouth. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and his medical degree from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Nalband completed his internship and residency at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, and his Chief Residency at the University of Minnesota/VAMC Program. He is Board certified in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Richard Lopez, a physician at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, was appointed Chief Medical Officer in January 2009. In this position, Dr. Lopez works collaboratively with the Chief Medical Officers and Chief Executive Officers of the five Atrius Health medical groups across a wide range of clinical and quality initiatives. Specifically, Dr. Lopez’s focus includes clinical program and regional project development, clinical aspects of payer/provider contracting, clinical informatics, medical management, and safety and quality, as well as collaborating to develop quality standards and the outcome reporting measures and clinical dashboards that support the medical groups in meeting those standards. More than a 25-year veteran of Harvard Vanguard, Dr. Lopez has made many significant contributions to the organization and was recently the recipient of Harvard Vanguard’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Lopez received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency and internship at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Dr. Lopez received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University and is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. As a board certified internist, Dr. Lopez has practiced primary care internal medicine at Harvard Vanguard’s Medford practice since 1982. Dr. Lopez serves on several committees including the performance measurement expert panel of the Massachusetts Healthcare Quality and Cost Council, the Neighborhood Health Plan Patient Care Assessment Committee, and is an advisor to the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Quality of Medical Practice.  In addition, Dr. Lopez is also on the Board of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors.

Dan Moriarty joined Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health in January 2010 as Chief Information Officer.  Previously, Dan was at Harvard University since 1995,  most recently as University CIO for the past 10 years and as CIO of Harvard Medical School for the preceding 6 years. In this most recent position, Dan was responsible for managing enterprise-wide information technology initiatives, including administrative systems, academic computing, and IT infrastructure in the areas of networking, telecommunications, data center operations, and core user services.  Dan has taught at Harvard for 15 years in graduate degree and executive programs in HealthCare IT and Strategy.  In previous positions, Dan was director of the information technology practice at APM in New York  and  president of the John Snow, Inc.-Software Division in Boston. Dan holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and an MBA from Clark University. He has numerous publications and has lectured nationally on topics such as strategic planning, information systems management, information technology assessment, health care management, and software development.

Kathy Gardner brings a unique perspective to our organization, combining more than twenty-four years of health care experience in various clinical, operations management and business development roles within the Atrius Health family. Kathy began her career as a surgical staff nurse at Harvard Vanguard (then part of Harvard Community Health Plan) and went on to become a clinical supervisor at Harvard Vanguard’s Medford practice. Over the next fifteen years, Kathy worked in various management positions within Medical Specialties including serving as the program Administrator for four years. In 1995 Kathy created a new data analysis and reporting department for the Medical Director’s Office and later served as Director of Case Management. In 2002, Kathy led the business development effort that expanded Harvard Vanguard’s Kenmore practice to offer MRI, CT, Nuclear Imaging and Endoscopy Services. In 2004, Kathy was appointed Executive Director of Atrius Health to help design and facilitate the development of new collaborative clinical programs across the Atrius Health medical groups, including the launch of the shared electronic medical record, and the opening of the Commonwealth Atrius Cancer Center and the Atrius Health Women’s Center in Weymouth.

Kathy received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Salem State College in 1982 and her Masters in Business Administration from Suffolk University in 1989.

Tom Denberg, MD, PhD, FACP has been Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety for Harvard Vanguard since July, 2010. Previously, Dr. Denberg was Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where he served as the medical director for several programs including the Center for Health Promotion, the Hospital Quality Improvement Program, and the Internal Medicine Primary Care Residency Research Program. In his role for Harvard Vanguard, Dr. Denberg is the organizational leader in the design, development, and implementation of quality and safety initiatives, and is a champion of organizational excellence in clinical care and patient experience. He creates and maintains an integrated strategic and tactical plan to organize and coordinate work throughout Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health around quality and safety improvement.

Tom received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and an MD and PhD at the University of Illinois. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago and a general internal medicine health services research fellowship at UCSF. He has published numerous articles related to evidence-based and patient-centered medicine, practice redesign, and clinical quality improvement.

Mr. Aikman joined the Atrius Health as President & CEO of the Atrius Health Foundation in 2009. William was previously President and CEO of Gryphon Management Company, Inc., a venture capital and corporate finance advisory firm headquartered in Boston. William founded Gryphon in 1984. Prior to founding Gryphon, William served as: President of Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation, the nation’s first publicly-financed venture capital firm. (MTDC specialized in assisting high-tech companies located in economically-distressed areas); President and Co-founder of the Massachusetts Center for Public Interest Law, a not-for-profit legal research and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of members of various disadvantaged communities; Undersecretary of Economic Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (under two successive Governors of Massachusetts). William started his career as Staff Attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of poor people.

William serves on the Board of Trustees of various not-for-profit organizations, including: The Museum of Science, Boston; Schepens Eye Research Institute of Harvard Medical School, and New England Certified Development Corporation (an organization which makes loans to small companies in economically-distressed areas). Previous Board memberships include Federation for Children with Special Needs, Task Force on Capital Formation, Advisory Council on Technology and Innovation and a variety of other educational, charitable and economic development groups.

An attorney by training, William was educated at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Harvard University Law School.