Maria Megdal

Biography: Maria joined Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as Vice President for Facilities Management and Real Estate (FMRE) in November 2008. In that role, Maria was responsible for the provision of facilities operations; facilities planning, design and construction; safety; security; emergency management; environmental health; housekeeping; energy management; parking and transportation; and real estate portfolio administration. In 2012, Maria was named Senior Vice President of Institute Operations expanding her portfolio of responsibilities to include Imaging, Radiation Oncology, Clinical Laboratories, Supply Chain Management, Food Services, and the Friends of Dana-Farber fundraising program. In 2014, Maria assumed oversight of the Cell Manipulation Core Facility. In 2016, Maria was appointed the oversight of Hospital Administration; and in 2017 oversight of Telecommunications/AV. Maria is an active member of several management committees with DFCI: Capital Management Committee (co-chair), Position Control Committee, Compliance Committee, Executive Patient Safety Oversight Group, and the DF/BW Operating Cabinet. Additionally, she serves as an operations advisor to Dana-Farber Community Cancer Care, the Policy Control Committee, and the Friends of Dana-Farber Executive Committee. Externally, she represents DFCI as chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization (MASCO), as a director of the Longwood Medical Energy Collaborative (LMEC), and a board member of Ronald McDonald House Boston. Maria earned a bachelor’s degree in paleoanthropology from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ and a master’s degree in healthcare administration from the Sloan Program at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Maria has served in a variety of leadership roles in the alumni board and advisory councils for Cornell’s College of Human Ecology over the past 20 years. For the past 14 years, she has co-taught a popular graduate schoo