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Dr. Reid Ponte is an associate professor of the practice at both the ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ College William F. Connell School of ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ and The Woods College of Advanced Studies, Master of Health Administration Program. She has an appointment as a Professor of Practice at Simmons University, College of Natural, Behavioral and Health Sciences where she teaches in the DNP Nurse Executive Leadership Program.

She is a member of the board of trustee at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, MA and a member of the Beth Israel Lahey Health System Quality Committee.

Before her appointments as a faculty member at ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ College in 2018, Dr. Reid Ponte served as Chief ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ Officer and Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Executive Director of Oncology ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ and Clinical Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥, Massachusetts for 17 years. During that time she served as a project co-pi of an NCI U54 and U56 grant establishing an accelerated BSN to Ph.D. Program and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Oncology and Health Disparities with the University of MA, ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥.

Dr. Reid Ponte also held clinical and leadership positions at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Tufts-New England Medical Center, where she began her nursing career in 1976. 

She received a research intensive Doctor of ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ Science degree in 1989, and a Masters of ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ Science degree in 1979 both from ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ University and a Bachelor of Science in ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was a 2001 Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow and is an active member of the American Academy of ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥. Her scholarly work focuses on health care quality, patient and family centered care, and health system leadership.