Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care Names Nic Nguyen, MD, as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President
BOSTON – Today, Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care (BILHPC) announced the appointment of Nic Nguyen, MD, as chief medical officer (CMO) and senior vice president. BILHPC consists of 600 clinicians, who annually provide care to 420,000 patients.
In this newly created role, Nguyen will oversee all aspects of BILHPC’s clinical enterprise, including leading consistent care delivery systems, supporting teams through care model evolution, and developing sustainable strategies for growth and experience.
“Nic is a collaborative and respected family medicine physician leader committed to organizational excellence,” said Betsy Johnson, MD, MS, president of BILHPC. “In his new position, Nic will help support BILH Primary Care as we further our goals of delivering superior access, service and patient experience.”
“I am excited to take on this new role for BILH Primary Care, and am honored by the privilege of partnering with our very talented care team members and clinicians,” said Nguyen. “Our focus will be on supporting and growing our primary care teams to sustainably deliver high quality access to the communities we serve.”
Prior to being named CMO, Nguyen served as BILHPC’s associate chief medical officer for the south, overseeing BILHPC’s practices in the southern part of Massachusetts. Before that, Nguyen held several leadership positions at Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare, a primary care network with 150 providers and 400 care team members. Nguyen also served as residency core faculty and director of the inpatient teaching service for Cambridge Health Alliance’s Whidden Campus.
Nguyen is a graduate of both Tufts University and Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his residency training at Cambridge Health Alliance. He is also a graduate of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Linde Fellowship in leadership training. Nguyen will continue to see patients at BILHPC - Brookline Family Medicine.
About Beth Israel Lahey Health
Beth Israel Lahey Health is a health care system that brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, more than 4,700 physicians and 39,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access to great care and advance the science and practice of medicine through groundbreaking research and education.
