Since joining WittKieffer in 1999, Donna Padilla has participated in over 500 search assignments for healthcare executives. As Healthcare Practice leader, she is cultivating the next generation of WittKieffer’s subject matter experts for a new era of healthcare service delivery while maintaining an extensive search practice in support of her clients’ high-profile engagements for visionary CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CNOs and other senior leaders.
Routinely working closely with governing body members and senior leadership teams, Donna has achieved market prominence serving faith-based providers, complex health systems, academic medical centers, medical groups, related professional associations, and other not-for-profit organizations.
Clients value her thoughtful and thorough approach, sophisticated industry knowledge, and ability to deliver candidates with the traits and skills necessary for success within today’s prominent healthcare organizations. She ensures her clients recruit senior leaders who match the organization’s mission, vision, culture and values. In her time at WittKieffer, Donna has received nine of the firm’s annual quality awards, rewarded for outstanding performance, and based on client satisfaction ratings, candidate satisfaction ratings, team play, and firm knowledge contribution.
Prior to joining the firm, Donna served in a national marketing role with a large, Minnesota-based managed care corporation. She previously served on the board of NALHE (National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives). She writes and speaks frequently to health system trustees, CEOs, Faith-Based and other professional organizations on values-based leadership and career management topics. Donna serves on the WittKieffer board of directors.
Education
M.L.I.S., Dominican University, River Forest, IL
B.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Contact Donna at:
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Joyce De Leo, Ph.D. (she/her) applies the knowledge, experience and dedication to proven research techniques gained during a distinguished career in academia to her role as a principal in WittKieffer’s Academic Medicine and Health Sciences Practice. With an appreciation for the unique qualities needed in today’s leaders, Joyce recruits senior executives, clinician leaders, and senior scientists on behalf of prominent academic medical centers, hospitals and health systems, research institutes, faculty group practices, health sciences universities, colleges and universities, public health organizations and not-for-profit institutions.
Based in the Boston area as well as Charleston, South Carolina, Joyce has more than 25 years of experience in research, academic program building, strategic planning, mentoring and teaching. Prior to joining WittKieffer, Joyce served as Vice President of Academic Affairs for Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. In this role, she oversaw undergraduate and graduate academic programs, faculty and community research and education partnerships in the Boston area. Before this, Joyce held several leadership positions in more than 20 years with Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH, including Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology and founding Director of the Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth. Joyce was Dartmouth’s first ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine) fellow and currently serves as faculty for the annual ELAM meeting. Federally- and industry-funded for over 20 years, her laboratory investigated novel drug targets for the treatment and prevention of chronic pain.
Joyce completed the Fulbright Scholar Program at Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Martinsried, West Germany and completed postdoctoral training at Dartmouth Medical School and Harvard Medical School. She is a widely published author, having written more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed publications, and frequently speaks, both nationally and internationally.
Education
Ph.D., Pharmacology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
B.S., Biology and Chemistry, University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY
Contact Joyce at: [email protected]