Cynthia Ambres

Biography

"As President and founder of Ambres Healthcare Consulting, Cynthia facilitated merger discussions between two multibillion-dollar health plans and the restructuring of large provider systems. As Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of a large Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) plan in New York, she led a cardiac surgical care evaluation program that challenged the physicians to think differently about the care process, driving major improvements in the quality of these services for more than two million people.

"Cynthia’s turnaround skills were in evidence when, as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Kaleida Health, ...Under Cynthia’s leadership, Lifetime Health Medical Group made the leap to an incentive-based compensation model. Coordination of care and patient satisfaction greatly increased with the introduction of innovations such as group visits, in-clinic pharmacist education, an EHR, acupuncture and other complementary medicine modalities.

"A regular speaker and panelist, she recently presented at the Harvard Business School Health Industry Alumni Annual Meeting. Cynthia has a MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, an MS from NYU Wagner School of Public Health and is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. She served as Chairman of the department of emergency services at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City."