Our mission at ASU Health is to transform how health care is designed, delivered and measured while also producing new physicians, nurses, scientists — all the groups that we need to be focused every day on helping people across Arizona to live healthy lives.
Executive Vice President of ASU Health
Dr. Gabriel leads the ASU Health team, leveraging her vast experience in health care. Dr. Gabriel is a physician-scientist who was the dean of the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, the dean of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, and was president of Rush University in Chicago, a noted academic medical center that includes a medical college, college of nursing, college of health sciences and graduate college. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Vice President, Operations and Integration
Bautista Young leads key ASU Health initiatives, ensuring line of sight, coordination, and integration of health-related work cross ASU. She has more than two decades of experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining ASU Health, she held various healthcare leadership positions at Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic.
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Schwartz leads the ASU Health effort for clinical partnerships, ASU Clinics, health entrepreneurship and innovation. He brings more than two decades of health strategy, venture and corporate development leadership experience to ASU Health. Previously, he led strategy and business development at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and has consulted for start-up, growth stage and industry-leading companies on health innovation initiatives.
Vice President, Innovation
Burd serves as Vice President for Innovation across ASU Health, where he provides strategic leadership to advance innovation in health education, research, and academic partnerships. As a senior academic leader and executive, Burd has led large-scale initiatives that drive institutional transformation. His work focuses on shaping innovation strategy, leading implementation, and scaling academic and solutions-based programs that address complex education, health and societal challenges on a global scale.
Executive Director of Development, ASU Health
Nieri serves as Executive Director of Development, overseeing fundraising for all of ASU Health, including the new John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering and the School of Technology and Public Health. She also leads a team of fundraisers dedicated to the College of Health Solutions, the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, and the Biodesign Institute. Together, the focus is to raise philanthropic funding that advances the health outcomes and wellbeing of the communities in Arizona, and around the world.
ASU Health will build upon our current relationships with leading health care organizations to create top-tier training for medical students, develop new research opportunities and pioneer innovative solutions to create a healthier future for all.
The alliance brings together the #1 hospital in the U.S. and the #1 ranked university for innovation. Its mission is to improve the science of health care delivery and practice while advancing patient care.
