Lindsay Flaherty

Lindsay has over 20 years of experience working with academic and health system executive leaders to implement strategic initiatives, drive system growth, and lead change management endeavors. She excels at building strong internal and external relationships with academic and clinical faculty and business leaders across complex healthcare organizations and driving integration initiatives at health systems of various sizes and stages of growth.

As the vice president of network development and affiliations at Beth Israel Lahey Health, Lindsay oversaw and grew clinical programs with partners ranging from safety net affiliates and community hospitals to large physician groups. In this role, Lindsay regularly collaborated with the hospital’s strategy and business development, marketing, finance, and operations teams to organize and drive new-program development and build strong community physician relationships for strategic service line growth. Before that, at Stanford Health Care, Lindsay partnered with health system and school of medicine executives to drive high-acuity hospital case growth. Her accomplishments included launching the telestroke program and managing complex contract negotiations for traditional and nontraditional strategic partnerships. She also led the development and implementation of critical community service lines, including neurosciences. Lindsay worked alongside hospital executives and neurosurgery and neurology chairs to grow the service line, support recruitment, and develop business plans.