Paul Levy

Paul F. Levy is the former President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston and a resident of Newton, Massachusetts. A graduate of McBurney School in New York City, class of 1968, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1972.

Levy assumed the position as President and CEO of BIDMC in 2002.[1] Levy was previously Executive Director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, where he was famous for leading the "Boston Harbor Cleanup". He published a description of conditions that led to sewage treatment facilities failures he dubbed the Nut Island effect in 2001.[2] Levy also served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and Executive Dean for Administration of Harvard Medical School.[3] He was a member of the MIT Corporation[4] is a member of the Board of ISO New England.[5] He is the co-author of Negotiating Environmental Agreements, 1999.[6]

In 2012, Levy published Goal Play! Leadership Lessons from the Soccer Field, a book that offers insights from sports, health care, business and government to help leaders get better outcomes. As a practical guide to improved leadership, the book highlights unconventional thinking and actions that can be used to bring about outstanding results.

In 2013, Levy published How A Blog Held Off the Most Powerful Union in America, presenting the story of how he used social media to fend off a corporate campaign by the Service Employees International Union.

Levy is often invited by health care organizations throughout the world to give speeches on eliminating preventable harm, transparency of clinical outcomes, and front-line driven process improvement.

Blogger[edit]

As CEO of BIDMC, Levy became one of the earliest hospital CEOs to write his own blog, which started in August 2006.[7] Via this blog he led the first blog rally on end of life matters, and he has taken very public positions on topics such as the transparency of clinical outcomes and the corporate...