Chief Operating Officer
Mark J. Chastang, MPA, MBA, FACHE

Mark Chastang has more than 25 years of experience in senior management healthcare administration and comes to Grady from the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he served as Vice President of Operations and Transplant Services. He is the former CEO of Ohio’s University of Toledo Medical Center and once served as assistant director at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

At 23, Chastang began his career as executive director of a rural 50 bed hospital in Mississippi, making him the nation’s youngest hospital CEO at the time.

Executive Vice President / Operations
Denise Williams

Denise Williams joins Grady as Executive Vice President of Operations. Williams was formerly senior vice president of Community Hospital Management Services for American Healthcare Solutions in Pittsburgh, Penn. She spent five years as president and CEO of Memorial Hospital of Salem County in Salem, N.J., where she administered direction and operational matters for the hospital and its affiliated organizations.

Williams was also president and CEO of Roseland Community Hospital Association in Chicago, Ill. for 11 years, and has served as administrator for several healthcare organizations in Indiana and Virginia.

She has served on a vast number of boards and organizations and has received numerous awards and recognitions, including "25 Chicagoans Who Are Making a Difference," published in Crane's Chicago Business, "Emerging Leaders in Healthcare" from Korn Ferry International and "Young Healthcare Executive of the Year" from the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Williams earned a master of health administration degree from the Medical College of Virginia and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Norfolk State University.

President / Grady Health Foundation
Lisa Borders, MHA

Lisa Borders is President of the Grady Health Foundation. The Grady Health Foundation is a philanthropic institution whose mission it is to maximize donations for the benefit of the health system while upholding public accountability and institutional integrity. As President, Borders will help lead the Greater Grady capital campaign and guide the system’s fund-raising efforts during the most important period of Grady’s history.

Formerly, Borders served as President of the Atlanta City Council from Aug. 10, 2004 until Jan. 1, 2010. Borders was elected in a citywide special election on Aug. 10, 2004. She was re-elected by an overwhelming margin in 2005’s normal citywide election cycle. Her duties included presiding over Council meetings, appointing committee chairs and participants for Council and maintaining relationships with the Executive branch of government. Her community initiatives included increasing the availability of affordable housing, uncovering transportation solutions to address our region’s traffic challenges and promoting neighborhood safety and preservation.

Formerly, Borders was CEO of LMB LLC, a consulting company advising clients on community reinvestment, external affairs, marketing and communications. Borders also served as a Senior Vice President of Marketing and External Affairs with Cousins Properties Incorporated, an Atlanta-based Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).

Prior to joining Cousins, Borders worked in the health care arena for over 15 years. She served as the Chief Administrator for Atlanta Women’s Specialists and also served as VP-Operations for Healthcap Atlanta (a Physician Practice Management Company acquired by FPA Medical Management).

Borders has worked in her community primarily focusing on family issues in the areas of education, healthcare and housing. She serves as a trustee at the Westminster Schools, a board member at Clark Atlanta University. She is a member of Leadership Georgia and recruits and interviews students for her alma mater, Duke University, where she also serves on the Board of Visitors. She has recently resigned from the boards of Saint Joseph’s Healthcare System Research, Atlanta, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Teach For America, Great Schools Atlanta and The Salvation Army in an effort to devote time to the City.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Duke University (Durham, NC) and a Masters of Science in Health Administration from the University of Colorado (Denver, CO).

Chief Information Officer
Deborah Cancilla

Deborah Cancilla served the last 14 years at the Erie County Medical Center, Corp. (ECMC) in Buffalo, N.Y. in various capacities in the IT department, including seven years as CIO. During her tenure at ECMC, Cancilla was recognized as a leading expert in health information technology. Through her efforts, the department received a first place institutional ranking for excellence in service and support, and she positioned ECMC within the top 10 percent of national healthcare systems for use of technology and clinical systems. She also played a lead role in development of the WNYHealthenet RHIO (regional health information office) for sharing patient clinical and financial data.

Most recently, in her SVP, CIO role at Grady Health System, Cancilla has completed a wholesale replacement of the Health System’s network, transitioned the facility to Voip, updated the desktop computing platform, and completed installation of EPIC’s clinical and revenue software in a big bang go-live. Grady now is positioned with few facilities nationwide who have achieved HIMSS level 6 recognition.

Cancilla also implemented a wireless network and Internet café at ECMC, facilitated a major PBX upgrade and implemented a bar code and wireless transmission technology on nursing units for EKG, bedside medication administration and Alaris pump updates to assist with proper patient identification and safety.

Cancilla has worked in the banking industry and for the Internal Revenue Service. She earned a master's degree in global business and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, both from Daemen College in Buffalo.

Senior Vice President / Planning and Marketing
Lindsay Caulfield

Lindsay Caulfield joined the executive team in January 2012. Before coming to Grady, Caulfield served as Executive Vice President at the Atlanta office of global public relations agency Cohn & Wolfe. Her work there included developing and leading fully integrated marketing communications programs, public relations initiatives and strategic planning for Fortune 500 companies as well as several local brands.

Caulfield received a Bachelor of Science in English from Northeastern University in Boston and earned a Master of Science in Health Communication from Tufts University School of Medicine.

Senior Vice President / Operations
Sue Green

Sue Green joins Grady as a Senior Vice President of Operations. Green has service line responsibility for oncology, cardiology, mental health services, and the developing Neuroscience Center at Grady. Rehabilitation, the sickle cell program and respiratory services are also under her direction. She joined Grady from St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System – The Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas.

Green has a BSN in nursing from the University of Delaware, an MSW from the University of Houston, and an MBA from Rice University. She is certified by the University of Michigan, School of Engineering in Lean Management in Healthcare, a performance improvement methodology pioneered by Toyota. She is a member of both FMHA and ACHE.

Green has experience in developing new and profitable programs. She has led large change initiatives including a charge capture program that netted $8M. She has started and operated a centralized call center for two organizations. She has worked with clinical areas and also managed the revenue cycle and the supply chain in her last position. She has extensive experience with benchmarking and operations analysis.

Deputy Senior Vice President / Medical Affairs
Leon L. Haley Jr., MD

Leon L. Haley Jr., MD, is the Deputy Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief of Emergency Medicine for the Grady Health System and Vice-Chairman for Grady Clinical Affairs and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University.

A Pittsburgh native, Dr. Haley holds degrees from Brown University and the Universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan. Dr. Haley is Board-Certified in Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American College of Physician Executives. He is a member of the IOM Committee on Health and Insurance Status.

Dr. Haley has several honors and awards including the Atlanta Business Chronicles’ Healthcare Heroes and "Up and Comers Awards", Georgia Trend Magazine’s "40 Leaders Under 40" and Georgia Association of Physician Assistants Physician of the Year Award.

Dr. Haley volunteers with Leadership Georgia, Leadership Atlanta, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Camp Twin Lakes, Girls on the Run Inc., the Junior League of Atlanta Community Advisory Board, the Griffith Leadership Center and a member of the Omega Psi Phi and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternities.

Deputy Senior Vice President / Medical Affairs
Kelvin J. Holloway, MD, MBA

Kelvin J. Holloway is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine, and Deputy Senior Vice President/Deputy Chief of Staff of Medical Affairs at Grady Health System. Major responsibilities in this role include leadership and direction of the organization’s performance improvement/patient safety efforts and the identification of opportunities to enhance patient outcomes through the proactive evaluation and transformation of processes and systems.

Dr. Holloway is a native Atlantan and a product of the Atlanta Public School System. He completed his undergraduate work at Georgia Institute of Technology and received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics in 1981 and his fellowship in Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in 1983. Following his residency training, Dr. Holloway served as an instructor of Pediatrics’ at Howard University. He went on to private practice in the metropolitan Atlanta area (DeKalb County) for seven years, prior to joining Morehouse School of Medicine as a full-time faculty member. He received his M.B.A. degree from Kennesaw State University in 2003.

Dr. Holloway is a member of several boards, including the Southeastern Chapter of the American Lung Association, National Center for Healthy Housing, Howard University Medical Alumni Association, Atlanta Children’s Shelter and the Coalition for a Healthy and Responsible Georgia (CHARGE). He is the current chair of the Allergy, Asthma and Immunology section of the National Medical Association. He is the recipient of several awards and honors, including recognition as one of America’s Leading Physicians by Black Enterprise Magazine in 2003 and 2008, featured in Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Who’s Who in Atlanta Health Care, induction in the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, and received the Project Catalyst Service Award from the City of Atlanta.

He is a member of various national and local professional organizations, including the American College of Physician Executives, National Association of Public Hospitals, the Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, National Medical Association and the Atlanta Medical Association. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American Board of Pediatrics.

Senior Vice President / Legal Affairs
Timothy Jefferson, Esq.

A senior healthcare executive with more than 25 years of health-related experience, Timothy Jefferson holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a juris doctorate from Columbia University Law School; in addition to his general counsel role, Jefferson also served as Grady's chief operating officer from 2001 - 2003 and interim president and CEO in 2007; prior to joining Grady in 1998, Jefferson served in various leadership roles, including senior vice president/general counsel at D.C. Health & Hospital Public Benefit Corp., senior associate general counsel at Howard University and senior attorney for the Department of Health & Human Services/National Institutes of Health; Jefferson is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta (class of 2002) and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, National Association of Public Hospitals, National Association of Health Services Executives and American Health Lawyers Association.

Senior Vice President / Chief of Staff
Curtis Lewis, MD, MBA

Noted as one of America's best doctors in Castle Connolly's book, "America's Top Doctors," Dr. Lewis is an interventional radiologist and serves as Grady's senior vice president of medical affairs/chief of staff; Lewis received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and his master's in business administration from Kennesaw State University; he is a cardiovascular healthcare fellow, a Society of Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology fellow and a member of the National Hispanic Medical Association and the Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiological Society of Europe; Lewis has served as an associate editor for the "Journal of Vascular & Interventional Radiology" and as chair of both the Committee on Standards of Practice for the American College of Radiology and the Standards Division for the National Society of Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology.

Senior Vice President / Chief Financial Officer
Sue McCarthy

Sue McCarthy most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York. She has a bachelor of science in accounting and is a certified public accountant. Prior to working at Erie County, McCarthy was CFO and Vice President of Financial and Administrative Services at Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

In October 2008, McCarthy received the Business First 2008 CFO of the Year Award, Nonprofit Healthcare.

Senior Vice President / Chief Nursing Officer
Rhonda A. Scott, PhD, RN, CS

Holding a bachelor's and a master's degree in nursing, as well as a PhD in nursing science, Rhonda A. Scott's diverse healthcare background includes leadership roles as an administrator, clinical nurse specialist, consultant, educator, researcher, author and entrepreneur; she joined Grady in 2004 and has over 20 years of nursing experience at some of the finest healthcare institutions in the U.S., including the University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Alabama Medical Center, Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta - and others; Scott is a member of several professional nursing associations and has served as president of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists; she was awarded Tenet's "Outstanding Chief Nursing Officer Award" and received the "Up and Comers Award" from Modern Healthcare magazine for rising stars in healthcare management; Scott is often credited for successfully eliminating nurse contract labor, improving nursing, patient and physician satisfaction and enhancing nurse recruitment and retention; she is a nurse executive fellow at the Wharton School of Business, widely published in leading nursing journals and an internationally sought-after speaker.

Senior Vice President / Operations & Facilities
Craig J. Tindall, MBA, MHA

An executive healthcare leader with an extensive background in project management, hospital operations and team facilitation, Tindall holds a bachelor of arts degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a master's degree in both business and hospital administration from Georgia State University. Tindall has been with Grady for 21 years, beginning as an administrative resident in 1988, and has skillfully handled a variety of roles and responsibilities, including interim executive vice president/COO, vice president of general and ancillary services and director of facilities planning. Tindall is a graduate of Leadership Georgia Hospital Association and Leadership North Fulton (class of 2002), is a Fellow of the American college of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and member of the Georgia Association of Healthcare Executives.

Senior Vice President / Operations
Michael Wright, MBA, FACHE

Michael Wright is the former chief operating officer for Provena Saint Joseph Hospital in Elgin, Illinois. Wright has also served as the vice president of operations at WakeMed in Raleigh, North Carolina and regional director of operations for Johns Hopkins Community Physicians.

Wright is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and an active member of the National Association of Health Services Executives. He received a bachelor’s degree in health administration from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Baltimore.

Vice President / Government Relations
Matthew Hicks

As Vice President of Government Relations, Matthew Hicks is responsible for managing the vital relationships between Grady and its government partners.

Hicks brings more than a decade of experience in public policy to the health system, including work at the local, state and federal levels. He most recently served as Associate Legislative Director for the Association County Commissioners of Georgia. In addition, Hicks managed public affairs efforts and special projects for the organization.

Earlier in his career, Hicks worked on social services and healthcare matters for United States Senator Zell Miller. He also served as a healthcare provider, working as an emergency medical technician throughout and after college. Hicks is a graduate of Emory University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.

Vice President / Patient Satisfaction
Raven Carter

Raven Carter is the Vice President of Patient Satisfaction where she has service line responsibility for the Burn Center, Telecommunications, and Patient Satisfaction and Customer Service. Prior to her current role, she completed a two year Administrative Fellowship Program at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Ga. Before joining Emory Healthcare, Carter was a Manager and Team Lead for the Tissue Division of DCI Donor Services (DCIDS), the nonprofit, independent organ and tissue donor network of Dialysis Clinic, Inc. in Nashville, Tenn.

Carter has a BS in Biology from Ohio State University and an MBA from Tulane University. She is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).